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  Feeling very sick!

  by msconcerned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well as you all may or not know i am an m.s and trying to figure all these feeling out.

  but i have a dilemma, i will be going on a shepherding call with an elder to "help" a family who is discouraged with the people in the hall.

  i have to admit i feel the same way they do so how can i "encourage" them when i feel the same?

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  msconcerned

  Well as you all may or not know i am an M.S and trying to figure all these feeling out. But i have a dilemma, i will be going on a shepherding call with an elder to "help" a family who is discouraged with the people in the hall. I have to admit i feel the same way they do so how can i "encourage" them when i feel the same? Talk about hypocritical.
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  "Worldly people don't love the same as Jehovah's Witnesses"

  by Comatose in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in a conversation with my mum she said, "son the friends love you and care about you so much.

  they would die for you.

  that's something you don't find in the world.

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  msconcerned

  For the last 6 months people in the hall know something is up with me, they just dont know what. I am still serving as an M.S but miss many meetings and have low service hrs. I go to the meetings when i have a part. So in all this time one person actually came to my home to "see how i was doing" but i was at work and that person has not said anything since. I am sure this person did this because i would visit him when few others did. He was old school elder, nothing bothered him, or so he made people think.

  So for all the talks and scriptures read about fellow feeling and love, it is an understatement that it needs to be worked on in the organization.
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  Wow did not see that coming.

  by msconcerned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so for a while now i have had some doubts and i have slowly started and had conversations with my wife.

  she has kind of conceded very minor points in our conversations, but what i have been seeing is that she is starting to use her brain.

  im not insulting my wife, but she is starting to think critically.

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  msconcerned

  I remember not long ago she was so upset that the body wanted her to wait for 3 months before regular pioneering. She had been doing it for 1.5 years until health issues and surgury needed to happen. This conversation was basically when she had suspicions about my doubts. I told her as she was crying about not pioneering and feeling like she let God down, that i was sick of the pressure that is put on the bro's and sis's that we are only "spiritual people" if we have some sort of position. I flat out told her i was glad she was not pioneering, and that God appreciates 5, 8, 10hrs or whatever we can give.

  Its funny cause now she will look at me when someone makes a comment that she thinks i disagree with and smiles. That just tells me she is using her thinking abilities.
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  Wow did not see that coming.

  by msconcerned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so for a while now i have had some doubts and i have slowly started and had conversations with my wife.

  she has kind of conceded very minor points in our conversations, but what i have been seeing is that she is starting to use her brain.

  im not insulting my wife, but she is starting to think critically.

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  msconcerned

  I have been very careful not to "scare" her, and i do ask her why she has certain thoughts. It's cool to see her really thinking. I myself have never thought about the religion as i have for the last year.
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  Wow did not see that coming.

  by msconcerned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so for a while now i have had some doubts and i have slowly started and had conversations with my wife.

  she has kind of conceded very minor points in our conversations, but what i have been seeing is that she is starting to use her brain.

  im not insulting my wife, but she is starting to think critically.

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  msconcerned

  So for a while now i have had some doubts and i have slowly started and had conversations with my wife. She has kind of conceded very minor points in our conversations, but what i have been seeing is that she is starting to use her brain. Im not insulting my wife, but she is starting to think critically. She just said this to me....."what would anyone say J.W's are known for? Witnessing right? But what did Jesus say his followers wiuld be identified by? Love among themselves. Hmmm"

  That is awsome. Im not really into bashing the W/T but to think about what we do and follow is important.
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  Mic issues

  by msconcerned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so on friday all day, the mic guy did a bang up job.....until david splane got to the podium.

  it looked like he discussed how the mic should be set up for him, then finally when the mic guy was walking away david says " well im glad we got that settled".

  then today same thing, he got the mic guy to readjust the mic for him again.

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  msconcerned

  so on friday all day, the mic guy did a bang up job.....until david splane got to the podium. it looked like he discussed how the mic should be set up for him, then finally when the mic guy was walking away david says " well im glad we got that settled". then today same thing, he got the mic guy to readjust the mic for him again. why is the mic guy doing a good enough job for everyone else but him?
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  Question for the married guys

  by TweetieBird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is it possible to be friends with a woman, text her, call her, etc and not be physically attracted to her?.

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  msconcerned

  From what i have seen and experienced, it is very difficult to just stay friends.
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  The beroeans....listening to antichrists?

  by msconcerned in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  w06 12/1 pp.

  4-7 - testtheinspiredexpressionsconsider the good example of certain noble-minded people who lived in the city of beroea in the first century.

  they received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the scriptures daily as to whether these things [spoken by paul and silas] were so.

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• w06 12/1 pp. 4-7 -
• “ Test the Inspired Expressions” Consider the good example of certain “noble-minded” people who lived in the city of Beroea in the first century. They “received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things [spoken by Paul and Silas] were so.” (Acts 17:10, 11) Yes, while eager to learn, the Beroeans made sure that what they heard and accepted was firmly rooted in the Scriptures.

  Today, too, genuine Christians are not influenced by the ebb and flow of popular views but cling firmly to Bible truth. Wrote the apostle Paul: “This is what I continue praying, that your love may abound yet more and more with accurate knowledge and full discernment.”—Philippians 1:9.

  If you have not already done so, make it your aim to acquire “accurate knowledge and full discernment” by learning what the Bible really teaches. Those who imitate the Beroeans are not deceived by the “counterfeit words” of antichrists. (2 Peter 2:3) Instead, they are set free by the spiritual truth of the real Christ and his true followers.—John 8:32, 36.

  I dont understand this, the scripture clearly shows the beroeans became believers when they examined the teachings of paul and silas. So why is the reference made to words of antichrists?