good afternoon , .
i have been having doubts for many years and as most jw's i have certainly not done myself a favor by suppressing all of my critical thinking.
i am married with 3 kids and my wife and i are inactive, but my wife has made it very clear in speech and action that she wants to go to all meetings, field service, and indoctrinate our kids.
Your wife claims to believe the Bible ? Assert your headship authority according to scriptures and call out her unscriptual behavior as a wife who should be in subjection to her husband .
Use theocratic warfare on her and the elders .Two can play at that game.
well i thought i had heard it all but, the mercury columns "will christians enjoy sex in heaven" just hurt my brain.
how can god allow sexual relations in heaven without marriage??
in heaven there is no need for anyone to belong exclusively to another(wow!!!
Obviously that explains why so many more JW`s are claiming to be of the Anointed Class
i have been meeting with member's of the kingdom hall, and i have attended a few times now on sundays.
i'd like to discuss experiences with this group since i'm new.
so far, i love it.
A previous President of the WTB&TS/Jehovah`s Witnesses stated that "Religion Is A Snare And A Racket"
Joseph. F.Rutherford
That definition fits the JW religion down to a tee.
A truer word was never said
is it vital for credibility to have the name of the writer of an article referenced?.
does this allow for honesty and accountability?
does this assist in ensuring that whatever is presented is as factual as possible, or not biased in some way toward the religion's ideas?.
If they don`t quote their sources maybe they feel they are then not accountable ?
However surely they are when they mis-represent someone they do quote and take them out of context giving an entirely different view to what the author intended .?
page 15 of awake!
2017 provides an image that shows hebrew writing with the statement: “the personal name of god written in ancient hebrew characters appears abundantly in early manuscripts of the bible”.. alongside that image, the awake!
provides a listing to show “the rendering of ‘god’s name’ in various languages”.. the facts do not support either assertion that the watchtower society makes:.
Alongside that image, the Awake! provides a listing to show “the rendering of ‘God’s Name’ in various languages”.
And the rendering of God`s name in all of these languages would be by Christendoms Scholars/clergy no doubt otherwise who else would be writing about such things.?
Does`nt that fact fly in the face of the claim by WT.Org that Christendom has been hiding Gods name and keeping it from the public ? Why is that name carved in stone on Churches throughout Europe and other parts of the world including Australia?
again with the pants... tony, if you can't stop looking at young men in tight pants don't take it out on the rest of us.
https://www.facebook.com/john.cedars.5/posts/868329653345317.
Tight pants tony thinks Jehovah is offended by men wearing tight pants ?
How come Jehovah never complained about men wearing dresses including his son/ Jesus ?
i was born january 15, 1947in mt.
carmel hospital, detroit, michigan.. within six months of my birth, my mother would bundle her baby boy into a blanket and board an american airlines propeller-driven plane--in effect, leaving my father behind--to return to her hometown, ft. worth, texas.. my dad had an excellent job working for cadillac as an inspector.
it was a union job.
Happy Birthday Terry,I always enjoy your contributions on this board ,welcome to the old mans club .
i believe that i have a good cause to sue the organization.
but i know that they have crafted themselves a legal loophole infinite loop.
so i was thinking that i should just sue the congregation that i know fucked me over.
So what exactly would you be suing the congregation for ? You say you were brought up in the religion ,however you stayed their and apparently believed it for a time and now you feel you have been lied to and want to sue the congregation ? is that it ?
Join the queue there are over 40,000 different christian sects with millions of people who have left dissatisfied with their chosen religion for one reason or another .
Do you honestly think the courts would listen to you or any of them with a complaint ? as to how they were treated ?
By the way dantoole87 welcome to the board and please do not take offence at any critics you can learn a lot by hanging out here.
imagine yourself still sitting at a kingdom hall meeting and turn to the book of mark 7: 21-23. the sayings of jesus are really profound.
the scripture makes you think, reflect, enters your heart and produces results.. today, you have your modern day governing body ( who supposedly are the mouthpiece for jesus and jehovah and provide spiritual food for the 8 million followers).
if jehovah really sends his holy spirit upon these seven men, is this silly and petty message they can come up with?
So if you know that someone has committed a juicy, serious sin, go and "talk to them" about it. Having "discussed" it, then tell them that they are compelled to confess to 3 elders via a Judicial Committee.
Sad to say TFG they don`t even do that ,they don`t approach the bro.or sis, at all but go straight to an elder themselves and make a complaint and then the elder goes to the person and says something like many have complained or observed such behaviour and it`s a cause for stumbling etc etc.
someone at my workplace, i don't know who, is a jw and has been leaving magazines in the cafeteria.
any suggestion as to what i could do?
i thought of writing up a note stating: "to whoever is bringing these magazine: jw have broken up my family, please don't bring religion to work.
I`m just wondering how your workplace employers would react to employees leaving religious tracts /mags around the workplace .
What would they tolerate next other employees leaving their preferred religious literature around the workplace ? next you could expect literature of all the political persuasions being left around .?
I think a quite word to management in a suggestion box if they have one or an anonymous note to management outlining the above scenarios that you don`t think this is the right place to be leaving such literature as it could compromise the Company you work for.
Then management could put up a notice that such practices are not tolerated by the company and whoever is responsible to desist from doing so.
Just a suggestion
