february 2016 study watchtower"prove yourself loyal to jehovah" - week of april 18th to 24th"15. if a brother treats us unfairly, how should we react?
15 in congregations of jehovah’s people today, it is very unlikely that we would be treated unjustly.
however, those taking the lead among us are imperfect men and could misinterpret our actions.
I am now very afraid that I will start physically harming any JW who tries to get heavy with me over the stance I now hold in life - I am already in anger management for aggression related Directly to this cult -
It was not good for me to read this - it has just triggered this maelstrom in my brain -
"put up or shut up" is what they advocate here right ?
the gb bit off more than they can chew.
they promised that the nwt revised would be available in so many languages by now, and they have failed miserably.. english stands alone.
as a result, they are in damage control mode.
i stopped attending meetings all together in january 2015. before that my attendance was irregular at best.
my husband followed suit a few months ago after months of research, agony, and indecision on his part.
from the very beginning i laid low and did not share with anyone what i found out about the witnesses because i did not want to be df'd.
We are sharing accommodation in our home so it is absolute hell being in the face of family that have shunned us [we are not "officially" Df'ed / DA'ed] - all the time and passing each other in the passageway and not speaking etc-
We have discovered they have snooped on our computers looking for "evidence" and of course as I am the BiL it has become convenient for them to accuse me of being the perp. of my wife's downfall from the JW - even though my beloved is "further out" than I am -
So I identify strongly with you atacrossroads
Nevertheless the emotions at play will wreak havoc on your psyche' -
You may find the info at these links helpful:
http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.co.za/2012/02/watchtower-shunning-deadly-by-design.html
And especially this link on preparing for a JC :
http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.co.za/2012/03/judicial-committee-preparation.html
before i start my subject post, i like to extend a warm welcome to all the new members that have joined the site.
i just can't keep up with all the new names.
nice to see all of you here.. i haven't posted anything in a while because of work, scheduling and everything else, but i do have some interesting thoughts that i would like to share with all of you in the coming months.
Betcha by Golly Wow - that how it was ............for the Stylistics ........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvEUFJtMw8&feature=player_detailpage#t=11
Love this song by the way !
wt's i. t. personnel have no shame putting this content into their website.
in the 'frequently asked questions about jehovah's witnesses' section of their website the following appears: .
how do you know how many are actively witnessing?.
oppostate - "Not turning in your service time is worse than watching extreme pornography."
Please tell me you approached him and asked him how he would know that !!!!!
You try to become a hounder with less than 10 hours a months .........................................You going no-where !
according to you tubers mike and kim and son of thunder, egyptian branch closing.
son of thunder is saying he has relatives that we're running bethel in egypt for years and they have been let go reassigned as special pioneers yet according to him this job no longer pays a wage.
he also states that 5000 total bethelites world wide are being let go.
One of the stresses you have when you run a blog / website [imho] is that you feel impelled to have to "feed" new info into it especially when you have a "following" -
I run a blog related to ESL /TEFL English teaching and its bloody exhausting trying to keep up with feeding in new information all the time - and then you still have to follow up with respondents.
So the danger of going after every little new "nugget' of info is there - Also trying to be "first" with the Breaking Story may prove a problem -
i have been doing the accounts for our local congregation now for 3 years.
i just thought, wow our local expenses total just $500 a month, yet we have an ongoing expense each month of $600 for the kh expansion work(ie:world wide work), $60 for the traveling overseer insurance and $54 for the local kingdom hall insurance, in addition to the operating committee expense of $525.. so, our one congregation sends $714 a month plus what the publishers contribute towards the world wide work usually between $600 to $700 per month.
in other words, we are at least sending, for our little congregation of 75 publishers, $1314 a month!
http://www.moneysense.ca/spend/real-estate/secrets-of-the-rich-use-other-peoples-money/
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" We got the wrong play, the wrong director[s], the wrong cast. Where did we go right? " - Max Bialystock in The Producers
according to you tubers mike and kim and son of thunder, egyptian branch closing.
son of thunder is saying he has relatives that we're running bethel in egypt for years and they have been let go reassigned as special pioneers yet according to him this job no longer pays a wage.
he also states that 5000 total bethelites world wide are being let go.
he delivered the most cultic piece of propaganda i've ever seen in an assembly.
wife typed up the whole thing.
i will be posting when i get a chance.
They way people attack one another here suggests that it is definitely NOT an OPEN forum where one can express oneself freely and that unless you tow a certain line whether openly suggested or implied you are going to get ostracized, torn apart and insulted ! [As many were when exiting / fading the JW .ORG etc ]
Which has all the hall-marks of the start of the next Cult following - right here on your favourite forum.
Lets ditch this behaviour man !
Some restraint and yielding and improved choice of words could go a long way !
Also make it a lot more inviting for others to feel comfortable visiting here !
this is interesting, jw's go to the door of a biblical scholar, a professor in theology i believe, and he invites them in and records the whole conversation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xpo43bgdbm.
