1.)O.K So last night I made a vow of celibacy to God. An official promise in prayer to not fornicate so that maybe I too can have a special wedding night. (my boyfriend was surprisingly supportive) I remember reading a scripture that says a promise made to God should be taken very serious. Anyone have any suggestions in how I can keep it?
If God wants you to keep that vow, he won't let you fail. He's a bit picky, though, about what vows he listens to. You might be able to slide out - but you wouldn't feel good about it. Why not just keep it? You've made your bed, now lie in it. Alone, of course.
2.) Last night at my theocratic meeting the bro. was giving a talk on main points from the district convention so nautrally everyone pulled out their notes. But I noticed that many people had all the same exact notebook with the same cover sheet and notes inside. I've realized that during WT studies and bookstudies many have all the ansewrs including additional ansewrs taken apparently from some type of website. I've heard rumors about websites that give out WT comments as if you're really saying them in your own words and even all ready written up talks. Anybody know of these websites?
Heard of them. Couldn't see the point. Who is so stupid they can't pick the answer out a WT, even without studying it ahead of time? the answers are the same tired crap they've been spouting for at least fifty years.
3.) Besides your field service history what else is on a publishers card? I heard that when you move to a new congregation (like I myself did 2 years ago but still haven't joined the school) all the problems you had, elder meetings and so on are all recorded on that card. Is that true?
I don't think they are on the "card" per se, but they do send a letter from your old congregation to the new about what you did. Also, all JC's are filed in Brooklyn somewhere, I hear. I wish I could see mine - I've forgotten some of the sordid details!
4.) In my old congreagation the elders found out about my boyfriend at the time (I denied everything) and also I was accused of asking too many unnecessary questions and was in risk of "independant thinking" and not "conforming to Jehovah's standards" (this was due to my relentless research and the more I found out about like organ transplants, inconsistincies in the wt and failed prohecies; the more I wanted to speak up ) well it proved uselss but I am suspecting that all this is on my publishers card. The reason I say all this is b/c next week I plan to finally join the school to get my mom off my back. Can I be told that I cannot join b/c of what may be on my publishers card or can I just put on that stepford smile and pretend I'm that perfect angel that the elders want me to be?
Depends on the elders. It's possible you could get in. Some elders won't care, others will get real uptight. You can bet that it is somewhere in your file, though.
5.) Where do you draw the line between being a follower of God and not being one? Is it your actions or faith or both. Can you be an ax murderer and bank robber but at the same time have faith in God and still be considered a follower of God?
King David was an axe murderer - and he was apparently favored of God. And what's so wrong about robbing a bank? God picks his followers as He sees fit. It's his opinion that matters, right? Jesus was widely considered a usurper, blasphemer, and a charlatan. Screw the opinions of men.
6.) Am I still that generation that "may never get old" that I was always told when I was younger or has that changed? I don't hear that expression used anymore?
Whoever is young in the WT is the generation that may never get old. That's how they keep you from going to college, saving your money, or getting a real job.
7.) So why is their crime, violence and everything else bad? Is it b/c God's sovereignty was tested like the WT teaching explains? What is your explanation.
Why does it need explaining? It is self-evident. God's sovreignty has nothing to do with it. People decide to do bad things to each other, they decide not to help each other, and the rest is just that we are made of animal flesh and condemned to all of its plagues and ills. We evolved from brutish beasts, and while I think at some point a divine spark was given to our particular species, in the end, the flesh is animal and will go where and whence it pleases.
CZAR
