the longer i’m out the more i feel that disfellowshipping is cruel.
i understand the organization tells parents to not even accept emails or texts from their disfellowshipped children.
while i was a witness they tried to discourage families from association but there was some leeway if it was considered necessary business to interact.
Minimus said "Rattigan, are you supportive of the Watchtower??"
Watchtower? There is no Watchtower anymore. It is an irrelevant magazine and corporation name.
I'm in between the JW and apostate movement. I find both to be wrong and repugnant that is because both have the trait of not listening to others and are closed minded.
they can edit their own versions to conform to their doctrines but what's stopping people to hand flyers or glue posters with the actual quotes in contradiction to their statements?.
examples:.
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/what-is-the-holy-spirit/ - http://archive.is/778ch .
Just Fine, if you bring up CSA, it is claimed to not be an issue because it is not an issue reporting to the police or not. Misogyny? It is called following the direction and example from scripture. That's how religion works. Got a problem with that?
they can edit their own versions to conform to their doctrines but what's stopping people to hand flyers or glue posters with the actual quotes in contradiction to their statements?.
examples:.
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/what-is-the-holy-spirit/ - http://archive.is/778ch .
The NWT was not edited to conform to any doctrines except that was more accurate to the original meanings of the scriptures.
last night was the co's visit.
prior to his part, an elder had a part on following theocratic direction.
it was about our congregation being deleted (there are 2 sharing this hall) and the people and territory being divided up to the 4 other surrounding ones.. they say it is not about numbers but about making best use of resources.
DOC: "Are BOTH congregations that use your Hall being dispersed to other Congs and thus your Hall may be sold?"
A few weeks ago they just replaced the carpeting. And the Hall is not in a good area for a business to use it.
As for the other congregation, they have their meeting tonight and they don't know. But everything will go back to it was back in 2011 before they created this congregation.
last night was the co's visit.
prior to his part, an elder had a part on following theocratic direction.
it was about our congregation being deleted (there are 2 sharing this hall) and the people and territory being divided up to the 4 other surrounding ones.. they say it is not about numbers but about making best use of resources.
Last night was the CO's visit. Prior to his part, an elder had a part on following theocratic direction. It was about our congregation being deleted (there are 2 sharing this hall) and the people and territory being divided up to the 4 other surrounding ones.
They say it is not about numbers but about making best use of resources. They put this spin on how it is beneficial with more people, more elders, etc. The only thing that would benefit would be less utility bills on the Hall. The good thing is that it will be easier to be invisible and fall through the cracks and not be missed.
the longer i’m out the more i feel that disfellowshipping is cruel.
i understand the organization tells parents to not even accept emails or texts from their disfellowshipped children.
while i was a witness they tried to discourage families from association but there was some leeway if it was considered necessary business to interact.
No, it is not bad at all. Because you can choose to remedy that. It is up to you to get reinstated and the shunning will stop.
does anyone watch the cw show riverdale?.
do you see similarities between the current season's arc about "the farm" and jehovah's witnesses?
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Does anyone watch the CW show Riverdale?
Do you see similarities between the current season's arc about "The Farm" and Jehovah's witnesses?
so my husband who was not attending meetings for the last four months, went to the special talk, the memorial and the meeting today.
he said he feels jehovah’s spirit is back and that they are all being so kind.. i am just sick to my stomach.
he just refuses to see anything as a problem.
" He just refuses to see anything as a problem."
what is the problem?
The NGO thing is not a problem.
The problem is that religion is useless. It is just people focusing on God as a crutch to their problems and God is doing nothing to help.
The problem is the religion is too focused on the religion. The elders can not be marriage counselors because if the problem is because the religion then they focus on the person's spirituality and not the religion.
the apostate that hung around bethel back in the early 1970's.. i talk about "the frog" and "lady margret" in my book but knew nothing about "mr. coffee".
any help please.
new boy.
I remember him when I did temp work there in 1987. He yelled out at the women. Things like You have too much makeup and look like Tammy Faye Baker.
hilarious,enjoy.found on reddit.
this should set the mood for the weekend !.
zing.
But who is it and what does it have to do with here?
