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It was being an elder that truly turned me off to many things within the religion. Prior to that, I was a star-struck JW who saw the organization through rose-colored classes. It was only after seeing how an elder body was just a bunch of guys trying not to screw things up did I realize what the rest of the organization was like.
though he is a typical wt slave, we are like david and jonathan.. in my most intimate conversation with him, i asked him:.
how do you manage serving an organization built on inherent contradictions?.
he said: organization helps people to grow spiritual, like any other religious organizations do.
I wonder if he was either referring to jw.org and accidentally called it .net, or if he's thinking of that jw board (the name escapes me at the moment) that consists of jws only?
In any case, I'm having trouble buying this, although I wouldn't dismiss it entirely as fiction. I mean, it is conceivable.
i was chatting today in the sauna, as one does if you don't go to meetings about dining out.
one pleasant fellow said he would never return food, he explained it was because he is convinced the staff would do something to the food.. do you agree?.
kate xx.
I returned a steak recently at a Longhorn Steak House. I ordered it medium, so I expected some rareness. But it was barely cooked at all and qualified as very rare, not medium. The baked potato was also sub-par, but I didn't complain.
Normally they're pretty good there, and I did go back and found the baked potato much more to my liking - a 'whiter' inside that kind of blooms when it's cut open. rather than a darker interior that kind of just 'chunks' when you open it.
i am just watching my neighbours across the road putting up christmas lights while their children run around bursting with excitement.
i am feeling all christmassy now.
can't wait for my daughter to come home from uni next weekend so we can go and buy a tree from the garden centre.
Christmas is my least favorite holiday. It's a holiday hijacked by retailers.
just asking for help from the vast number of very knowledgeable people here.
when was the "stake" doctrine adopted by jw's and what publication contains that information.
thank you..
"The JW's get hung up on these details" - pun intended, Faithful Witness?
i see people mentioning this and have visited the site looking at all posted wt's.......i see no paragraph's discussing 'generations'....does anyone have any direction?.
Doug Mason commented: "The anonymous people who wrote that Gospel and put the word "this generation" on to Jesus' lips were meaning their own generation, not some people living at some arbitary time in the future.
They got it wrong, just as Paul got it wrong (1 Thess), as did the writer of Revelation. They all thought the Coming was imminent, during their own time, the time of their generation."
This hints at the simplest way to understand it. Let's say that Jesus actually did say "this generation". The simplest way to understand it is that Jesus was referring to the people he was talking to and who lived at that time. And the destruction of Jersusalem in 70 A.D. fits that "generation" by any measure of the definition, since it occured only 37 years afterward.
Any other attempt to apply to some future time is problematic, which the folly of the WTS's speculations has born out.
2014 in jwlandia has begun with a tired embrace of the hoary 1914 doctrine.
any speculation they'd 'ignore' the centenary of this doctrinal embarrassment is thus shown to be if not wrong, then premature.
the wind-up watchtower toy prattles the same old nonsense.. look at the public edition watchtower for february 2014:.
And so it begins...2014 ought to be interesting as far as the Watchtower's handling (or lack thereof) of it is concerned.
if so, what is your experience?
i've seen only a few talks by gb members and would like to hear what they're like.
are they personable, aloof, humble, arrogant?
I met Fred Franz, briefly. A local elder brought him in for a visit, ad I walked up to the car he was riding in to say hello. He seemed pretty humble - seated in the back seat while the elder's wife rode shotgun, if that means anything.
the word hoax is thought to be derived from the magician's utterance of silly "hocus-pocus" so-called magic incantation.. this is jibberish, of course--a fake latin-sounding phrase mimmicking the priest's words in catholic mass changing wine into the "actual" blood of christ.. yeah.. only a conscious attempt to deceive separates a hoax from an otherwise mistake or urban myth.. according to folklorist jan brunvand, a 'hoax tends to indicate "relatively complex and large-scale fabrications" and includes deceptions that go beyond the merely playful and "cause material loss or harm to the victim".brunvand, jan h. (1998).
american folklore: an encyclopedia.
taylor & francis.
Very telling. It was from the minds of these idiots that this religion had (and still has) so many of its teachings.
jehovah's witnesses acquire peculiar ideas.. those peculiar ideas give rise to warped views.. the more warped a jw's outlook becomes the more the association with others whose thinking has twisted will conform and radicalize them.. .
consider this simple statement of scripture, first.. 1 timothy 5:8revised standard version (rsv).
8 if any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.. .
When Matthew 11:30 was read and/or considered at meetings, the question would always pop into my mind: 'Why, then, do I feel so burdened?' It's because, as Terry points out, the JW religion is burdensome. Any religion that expects its adherents to form their lives, goals, and dreams/aspirations around it is a burden, and that's exactly what the Watchtower expects from Jehovah's Witnesses.
Good post Terry.
