just spent 8 hours in a 1 day elders school last weekend.
clarification given: "moving forward any elder, ms, or pioneer who themselves or someone under their roof enrolls in higher education, may no longer qualify for privileges in the congregation.
their qualifications will have to be reviewed by their boe.".
This is a frekin joke right? The grape juice keeps getting more purple.
Not only it's not a joke, the most pathetic part of the whole thing is that that's what they call progress. Before it was "no, no , no". Now that added a "maybe". In their minds they are being flexible.
Here's their most pathetic joke about it: That's how they expect to make money from their people.
hello everyone, i haven't posted anything on here for a while and today i just really felt like i needed to get my thoughts together.
(if you don't know me please read some of my previous posts).
so pretty much not much has changed in my life, i'm still living with my parents and going to all the meetings and service.
Hello, and good to hear from you. I remember your previous posts. I don't like giving advise since I know that I may not know all the details, but something that I notice in your post is that it makes several statements about what your parents think immobilizing you from taking action. Though you want to be respectful to your parents, you cannot make good decisions for yourself always considering what they think. If they want to force you to remain JW, obviously they are not thinking about what is bet for you, as much as the JW thing works for them.
Removing from your parents may help you feel less depressed. If your situation with your non-JW aunt helps you feel less depressed, it sounds like a good option. Nothing worse than looking for work while under pressure and depressed.
Whatever your parents make of your move, if they don't believe it when you tell then what your reasons are, and if they take the position of accusing family of manipulating you, that's their issue, their nonsense, and any action they take over their misinterpretation of the facts is their responsibility, not yours.
Try staying with your aunt for a week, a month or some time (if possible). You can get a better sense of what that move will look like to you, and if you feel that it may work for you to be there in a longer term, then make the move. Just in case, make sure that when/if you move with your aunt, you have a very good grasp of what living with her is.
I hope this helps.
so why do we have a decline in religion..if god would wipe these militants groups off the face of the earth i might believe there is a god.....so they (sufis) practice some strange things, veneration of tombs, the sacrificial slaughter of animals and what is termed sorcery and soothsaying, that is no reason to kill 25 children and 280 adults.
i don't give a damn if they worships rats, what is the harm...what the hell is with this group, the islamic state and other sunni extremist groups deem sufis group heretical..stupid a---holes.
I don't give a damn if they worships rats, what is the harm...What the hell is with this group, the Islamic State and other Sunni extremist groups deem Sufis group heretical..Stupid A---holes
I know, just like those Christians that open fire in a Christian church in Texas. I don't give a damn if they worship their Jesus. Stupid A-holes indeed.
i typed into google jehovahs-witness and the first four hits were borg sites.
this site was not even on the first page .
I typed into google jehovahs-witness and the first four hits were borg sites. This site was not even on the first page
And? It's a common practice for organizations, companies and people, as well as the media, to pay for search engine optimization services. There are companies dedicated to that, and Google has nothing to do with any of it.
Also, your search results may be influenced by websites the you yourself have visited, and the WT has nothing to do with any of it.
what's the official teaching on celebrating this jewish festival?.
The best way to find out information about what JWs do and don't do is by asking JWs directly and/or by going to their official website.
Just sayin'
i'm sure that a top secret security clearance not very high up the chain of command would show a ton of information, .
i mean everything that happens on the internet and on computers i'm sure is assessable to the us intelligence community, why would the government not pass up an opportunity to spy on it's population and run all internet data through homeland security to protect it's interest both home and abroad, realistically thinking that is.. so with this in mind what would a highly classified report look like?
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What Do You Think A CIA Or NSA Security File On The Watchtower And Tract Society And It's Governing Body Would Say?
Bunch of wackos!
Seriously, I think ti has some kind of summary about them, an overview of what they are, and some kind of scale that measures the level of relevance that they have to the work that they do. Nothing fascinating.
The WT is a mediocre, irrelevant, vapid organization. I doubt that they (if at all) have any relevant information on them for their purposes.
so my question to them is why have they continually failed to report incidents of child sexual abuse of child members in their congregations to the appropriate authorities ,either police or child protection agency`s, when they are holding judicial committees into these allegations in their congregations when they occur or even some time after ?.
they have consistently failed to do so.. and this failure to do so is not confined to one country ,it is a pattern that is repeated worldwide ,in one country after another country .
(worldwide where they operate in ).
The answer to your question is in you question. They CLAIM that they abhor child sexual abuse, the same way that they claim that they are going to live forever in paradise on Earth, and that they are not part of the world, and that... ok, I don't have to give a list of their stupid, ridiculous claims.
Just because they say something, it doesn't mean that they are being truthful. They are just lying.
Can we make that a mural next to every KH?
i was in my old stomping ground a couple of months ago and happened to be walking past the home of an old family friend.
word is in the hall that i used to go to is that "i am one of them" meaning apostate.
no one from my old hall has contacted me to find out what happened.
No one from my old hall has contacted me to find out what happened.
That's how you know you made the right decision.
i often wondered how far back the witnesses had been involved with my family.
my grandmother died at the end of 2013 and while going through her photos we found some of my great-grandmother, dora, who was born in 1901 and died in 1994. there is a photo of dora dated 1946 standing outside her house in east riding, yorkshire.
on the back of the photo her husband had written "in a human moment before jehovah grabbed her".. my great grandfather, who died before i was born, did not like the witnesses.
Those are lovely photos. To find out the right time when the family started involved with the WT, you might need some accurate family history.
What your great grandfather wrote in the photo may have been written at any time. It may not difficult to verify with the right documentation and tools.
