has anyone read this?
i am going from memory because i don't have the rnwt with me.
if someone wants to post it, great.
Spot on.
Also, even the oldest "complete" manuscript copies are hundreds of years separated from the originals - at best they are probably copies of copies of copies, maybe.
Even then, there are probably some parts of the bible that only have 2 or 3 ancient, "independant" sources to compare - and those copies might still be sourced from the same defective document down the line.
...at least that's what the sunday study said:.
"at the same time, we need to understand that our salvation is not jesus' primary concern.
his main purpose from the beginning to the end of his earthly ministry was to work for the sanctification and glory of his father's name".
There was also all that B.S. about Jesus using the name "Jehovah" freely, and again no scripture to really support it
i had a lovely mirrored windchime in my house.
my study conductor told me it attracted deemunz and i threw it in the trash.
i've since bought another.. what's the reasoning behind that idiocy??
If I remember correctly it's from a Questions From Readers in the 70s/80s about wind chimes being to ward off evil spirits.
is it okay to play as a jehovah's witness?
or is it just a conscience thing?.
I think it's terrible...
...that they haven't released a PC version yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-vymdlw83c.
I'd read the written transcript of this before, but wasn't aware there was the actual audio available. Interesting to actually hear it.
do you prepare for meetings?
if i go i spend a few minutes underlinging my books/watchtower.. i have noticed that those who do the micks especially notice when your stuff is not underlined, and comments are made after the meeting, not so gentle hints, about study and preperation!
in other words i am being told off, its usually the ones who are highly critical of everything i do, sometimes their whole family seems to be straining to see if my stuff is underlined, i know this because i heard the daughter to family wisper her watchtower is not underlined!.
"highlight the sh!t out every WT, KM, brochure"
- Billy the Ex-Bethelite
That would involve a LOT of highlighting...
i've been lurking for a while,but figured i'd introduce myself.
i was born in, and i'm 30 years old.
it's hard to just read as a guest, and not share with anyone eventually.
i had an idea for coming up with a standard(ish) set of interview questions which members of the ex-jw community could use to provide insights into their lives as a kind of series (yeah, i was thinking of "interview with a vampire", lol).. anyway, this is the result to show the sort of thing i'm thinking of (applied to myself) and i'd like feedback on the format and the questions as well as who you'd also like to see "interviewed".. feel free to provide your own life story as a separate topic or ask any additional questions that i've missed.
it's not meant to be rigid so questions / themes can be adapted as needed and split / joined as appropriate.
the common questions will hopefully apply to everyone for some consistency and to guide the writing process with additional questions asked that make sense to each subject.. well, here goes .... tell us a little about yourself and your family.. im an independent software developer who grew up in manchester (uk) but now lives in calgary (canada) with my wife angharad and two boys, liam and dylan.
My favourite type of question has always been “is there anything that would ever convince you that the WTS wasn’t the truth?”
Really loved this point. I was with a pompous pioneer sister in field service not long ago, when I was starting to wake up to TTATT. It was her turn at the door and this householder really knew his stuff on evolution - he was shooting down the sister's classicly flawed arguments so easily - I didn't attempt to help her! It came down to the question you mentioned, but he turned it back on her. I was actually quite shocked when she said she "knew" she had "the truth" and nothing could convince her otherwise. He then called the sister on her hypocrisy: "how can you knock on my door asking me to have an open mind when you don't have one yourself?" The sister was very sheepish and the conversation then ended pretty quickly.
It was quite a shame actually as I would love to have asked him a bit more about his thoughts on evolution as he was a really interesting guy to speak to.
i've noticed how on newbie threads everyone jumps in to say hello, even other newbies.. it got me wondering.. when you were in, were you the type to greet all the newcomers and visiting bros and siss, or would you stay in the background and wait a few meetings to manage to go over to say hello?.
i'm not particularly anti-social, but as a foreigner, meeting new people meant they felt they had the right to interrogate me on my life story in the first five minutes of the acquaintance just because they could see i wasn't one of them.
being assigned to preach with a newcomer was torturous and i would shut my eyes waiting for the interrogation to start.. so anyway, that's what made me fall into the latter group.
I would also class myself as an introvert. I find a lot of the "meeting and greeting" quite contrived and uncomfortable when you realise you have very little in common once you run out of small talk.
there is field service territory, letter writing territory, and telephone territory.
but what do they title it when they are setting up their kiosks and tables in the public squares?.
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Initially I saw it informally called "The Manhattan Project" by some JWs, due to the pilot projects for it starting there. Nowadays it's usually referred to as "metropolitan witnessing", though sometimes is informally called "cart/trolley-cart witnessing".
