i remember going out with other jws after the memorial.. small gatherings.. picnics at some local landmark.. the feeling of closeness, camaraderie, friendship with like minded people you could trust.. haven't experienced it since i left.. really miss that..
d4g: You may not end up with as many "friends" in the end, but the quality of those new relationships will doubtless be better overall, since your friendship will not compete with loyalty to an organization.
Well said.
I would rather have a few people that really love me for WHO I am rather than many superficial and conditional relationships based on WHAT I (pretend to) believe.
my name is eric hendrickson.
i have been on a journey led by the holy spirit which has brought to this point that has allowed for me to open the seventh seal and understand god's master plan.
i am the lion from the lost tribe of judah who has come to the world and be the messiah king.
Eric, did you mean to post this in "Jokes & Humour"?
if not, then seek the help of a qualified mental health professional, and do it soon!
request for research help: .
several recent threads have gotten me started on an essay and i need some research help.
does anyone have access to anything the wt has ever published on intersex people (they might have used the now-outdated term: hermaphrodite)?
Interesting story Poppycat.
Why would your friend even want to be a JW?
Paragraph breaks would have been nice.
and the word is... .
canaanitelike!.
here it is in context, just in case you're curious about how to use this new word.. article: being faithful leads to god's approval.
That's better, 3rdgen.
Please don't let such a rookie-error happen again. Just listen, obey and be blessed as the thinkingest people on Earth (that somehow never think their own thoughts).
Now isn't that happifying?
http://m.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14168160.former_jehovah_witness_from_hartlepool_agrees_to_be_interviewed_as_part_of_nationwide_investigation_into_the_church/.
chris webber, reporter (stockton/hartlepool) / friday 25 december 2015.
a former jehovah's witness from hartlepool calling for changes in the way the church deals with victims of sex abuse has been interviewed as part of a major national investigation.
Nice post WTF, thanks for sharing!
and the word is... .
canaanitelike!.
here it is in context, just in case you're curious about how to use this new word.. article: being faithful leads to god's approval.
3rdgen: Would it have killed them to say, "Don't behave like the Canaanites." ?
Your prose is definitely an improvement over the clunky WT writing, much smoother.
Except the WT is not just interested in controlling behavior, they want to control thoughts. Read again the original quote:
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I find it equally odd that it says "from our lives" and not "from our minds."
request for research help: .
several recent threads have gotten me started on an essay and i need some research help.
does anyone have access to anything the wt has ever published on intersex people (they might have used the now-outdated term: hermaphrodite)?
i think it was gary and heather bottings' book the orwellian world of jehovah's wifnesses that noted the function of the habit of the watchtower organisation of changing organisational terminology periodically.
congregations became companies and then back to congregations again.
circuit overseers became circuit servants and then back again.
Don't forget the whole "district" and "circuit" nonsense came to us from ol' "Judge" Rutherford when he instituted the legalistic approach to "worship" into the IBS/JW "theology."
(Wow, what a lot of "scare quotes" I had to use there!)
and the word is... .
canaanitelike!.
here it is in context, just in case you're curious about how to use this new word.. article: being faithful leads to god's approval.
You're right Blondie.
I should have written: That means the WT writers have been reading and "researching" in books written by and for member of Babylon the Great, false religion!
recently, several comments have been made in various threads in reference to some of the recent changes to a few of the rules by which jehovah's witnesses must live their lives in unquestioning compliance.
the assertion has been made that these rules are a "relaxing" of previous restrictions.
the suggestion has been made that this somehow indicates a corresponding relaxing or loosening or lessening of the authority which the governing body (gb) holds over the rank and file (r&f) members of the religion.
