You Know,
What about you Fatal Ass ump tion?
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jesus further related in the 15th chapter of john: "nevertheless, i have spoken these things to you that, when the hour for them arrives, you may remember i told them to you.
these things, however, i did not tell you at first, because i was with you.
so, the point is that jesus has not told his anointed ones certain things yet because the hour for them has not arrived.
You Know,
What about you Fatal Ass ump tion?
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jesus further related in the 15th chapter of john: "nevertheless, i have spoken these things to you that, when the hour for them arrives, you may remember i told them to you.
these things, however, i did not tell you at first, because i was with you.
so, the point is that jesus has not told his anointed ones certain things yet because the hour for them has not arrived.
You Know,
Do you think by a strange coincidence you picked this topic "Fatal assumptions".
I mean it just dawned on me You K. your the one who has made the Fatal Ass..
What does the Bible say about Judging?
What will happen to us if we Judge some one as a Apostate and they are not?
Could that be a Fatal Ass. Could it be? Think You Know!
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jesus further related in the 15th chapter of john: "nevertheless, i have spoken these things to you that, when the hour for them arrives, you may remember i told them to you.
these things, however, i did not tell you at first, because i was with you.
so, the point is that jesus has not told his anointed ones certain things yet because the hour for them has not arrived.
You Know,
You assume way too much.
ass you me.(assume)
Why not reavailuate your stand on what an apostate really is from the Bible, not some made up unbiblical rule(arbitrary).
So much hot air we should be able to get our balloon airborne now.
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being raised a jw sometimes you feel you only know conditional love.
you are only loved if you tow the line.
i only have one thing to say,.
Dave,
My deepest sympathy.
I beleive in what goes around comes around.
People who teach these things(shunning) must have a terrible veiw of family relationships.
What else can we expect from a bunch of old men so removed from society and real family life, they must not be very happy themselves and so make decisions that rob others of normal happiness.
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jesus further related in the 15th chapter of john: "nevertheless, i have spoken these things to you that, when the hour for them arrives, you may remember i told them to you.
these things, however, i did not tell you at first, because i was with you.
so, the point is that jesus has not told his anointed ones certain things yet because the hour for them has not arrived.
You Know,
You speak in such generalities and base you assumptioms on nonexistent facts.
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The definition of an apostate is one who falls away from devotion to Jehovah.
I'm not on the same page as you.
Obviously you are not on the same page as Jehovah either. That's indicative of your own apostasy.
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All assumption based on a wrong premise!
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jesus further related in the 15th chapter of john: "nevertheless, i have spoken these things to you that, when the hour for them arrives, you may remember i told them to you.
these things, however, i did not tell you at first, because i was with you.
so, the point is that jesus has not told his anointed ones certain things yet because the hour for them has not arrived.
God rules,
So are all us apostates going to hell in a wicker basket.
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jesus further related in the 15th chapter of john: "nevertheless, i have spoken these things to you that, when the hour for them arrives, you may remember i told them to you.
these things, however, i did not tell you at first, because i was with you.
so, the point is that jesus has not told his anointed ones certain things yet because the hour for them has not arrived.
You Know,
Please tell me what is your definition of an apostate?
I'm not on the same page as you.
Another words what does one have to do to become an apostate, so I can avoid being destoyed. Please be very clear my life is in your hands.
Make it clear so clear that we will all repent.
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when someone comes across something in the "truth" that disterbs them should they write to the society or is this pointless?.
i think they should write for several reasons.. 1.you must give them at least a chance to present their side of the story.it is no good just relying for others for your information you can not be shure what the society really belive until you hear it from them yourself.. wasn't just relying on the judgement of others part of what got you in in the first place.. its good for us to try and advance in our way of thinking during life and part of this involves doing our own research which is not complete until we go to the source of our conflict.. also if you bring up the point with someone it gives more weight to your argument if mention you wrote to the society and this was their answer.. 2. the more poeple that write in with the same points the more difficult it will be for them to hold to an erroneous stand.. the more different people that write the more ways of expresing the point will be heared different ways will make sence to different people.. remember its not just the same person answering all letters but different people who will have to do research an answer your point, which could make them think.. (this assumes that the society is genuinely mistaken and not corupt, although it could be a bit of both).
of cource if you do not want hassle off your elders dont tell the society you are a brother/sister or just give a different name ,prehaps you could give the address of your place of work or somewhere else if you don't want to be traced easily.. in my case i just made it sound like i was an intrested person.. or you could make out that you need some help in presenting the societies case to an intrested person who has quetions.
I would be willing to bet that before the Society uses a brother or sister for the job of reading and answering these letters that they must put them thru a special coarse to teach them how to read these letters and not get deprogrammed.
I wounder how many who have this job still feel it's the truth, and how many have eventually left the ORG.
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when someone comes across something in the "truth" that disterbs them should they write to the society or is this pointless?.
i think they should write for several reasons.. 1.you must give them at least a chance to present their side of the story.it is no good just relying for others for your information you can not be shure what the society really belive until you hear it from them yourself.. wasn't just relying on the judgement of others part of what got you in in the first place.. its good for us to try and advance in our way of thinking during life and part of this involves doing our own research which is not complete until we go to the source of our conflict.. also if you bring up the point with someone it gives more weight to your argument if mention you wrote to the society and this was their answer.. 2. the more poeple that write in with the same points the more difficult it will be for them to hold to an erroneous stand.. the more different people that write the more ways of expresing the point will be heared different ways will make sence to different people.. remember its not just the same person answering all letters but different people who will have to do research an answer your point, which could make them think.. (this assumes that the society is genuinely mistaken and not corupt, although it could be a bit of both).
of cource if you do not want hassle off your elders dont tell the society you are a brother/sister or just give a different name ,prehaps you could give the address of your place of work or somewhere else if you don't want to be traced easily.. in my case i just made it sound like i was an intrested person.. or you could make out that you need some help in presenting the societies case to an intrested person who has quetions.
When I was a JW I wrote the Society and got a run around for an anwer.
They will give you some council to do things their way.
More than 5 yrs ago I was on a tour in Paterson Bethel and because my wife had kinda influencial freind their we got a special tour of the writting dept(for answering letters).
If I remember correctly they had several sister that would work under one brother and these sisters would read the letters and put them in certain catagories. We got to see and read some of the letters even though we were not supposed to. There were several brother with several sisters working under each brother, in this dept.
If I remember correctly, I asked if they had standard form letters for certain types of topics, and the sister said yes. I think the sister do alot of the answering of the letters and the brothers just check up on them.
Anyway that my $.02.
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being raised a jw sometimes you feel you only know conditional love.
you are only loved if you tow the line.
i only have one thing to say,.
Thank Noidea for not taking me the wrong way.
Yes I do have children or should I say raise two children of which I am not the natural father.
And I agree with you as to how a parent should raise their child and that shunning is something evil as done in the Org. I have a sister(fleshly) who got preagnant at 14 and was not even baptized, but in those days they would disassociate you anyway, and she was.
It was not a good thing, it didn't help her, it only made things worse for her.
I guess when I hear people talking about unconditional Love I won't take it to mean it in the absolute sense because thats what I think they really mean(not total absolute unconditional).
Anyway I have learned over the years that people that talk about how great their love is, well lets just say "it's only words" so I don't put much stock in those type of words.
I find that the people who are really loving have joy in doing it and don't need to tell every they are, it's to self severing.
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