Elders should be sure that a person is guilty before being disfellowshipped, especially if the person strongly denies it......
Since when?
Beryl
berylblue
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JW Urban Legends
by Azalo indid any of you hear any of the urban legends that jw's used to scare people into being deathly afraid of demons?
for example i remeber hearing that a child brough a smurf doll to a meeting and upon hearing the name jehovah uttered it got up and walked out.
got any j-dub urban legends?
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berylblue
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What Do You Think About "Jehovah's" Organization?
by minimus inas witnesses, you are constantly bombarded with the expression,"jehovah's organization".... if we don't believe in jehovah's organization, we are doomed.
we must put faith in jehovah's organization.
jehovah's organization is the modern day "ark of survival"........these types of expressions have been drilled in the heads of jehovah's witnesses for decades.
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berylblue
I think it's really screwed. Sorry for the lack of eloquence. But that's what I think.
Beryl
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History of Head Covering for JW Women
by UnDisfellowshipped init is not a case of her being appointed to conduct a congregational meeting.
in such cases the dedicated brother should offer the prayer, and the sister may conduct the study with her head covered.
for if a woman does not cover herself, let her also be shorn.1 cor.
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berylblue
The woman ought to have a sign of authority upon her head because of the angels," wrote the apostle Paul. Yes, Christian sisters have the privilege of being good examples to the millions of angels who loyally continue to subject themselves to Jehovah.
Isn't it amazing that whenever women in particular, and Witnesses in general, have to do something which is basically demeaning, it's called a privilege?
Beryl
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Describe Yourself.
by SpannerintheWorks innot everyone feels comfortable revealing details of themselves on this forum, and i've never met anyone on this discussion board (but of course i hope i will one day!
) and i just thought that it would be fun and interesting for all of us to post a little about ourselves!.
i'm 40, own 3 businesses, married to a jw wife (wish i wasn't) and am addicted to a certain website..., .
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berylblue
I am a 47 year old, twice divorced mother of two daughters. DF in 1994. Living in sin with a man who doesn't know one thing about the bible. Nothing. Been sick; getting better slowly. Consequently, I have a painfully boring, low-paying job. I think this time could be pivotal in my life, if I have the courage to allow it to be. I am currently taking a class on stand up comedy and will be performing in a comedy club outside Philadelphia in April. And I am the most passionate ( and least intelligent) AL STEWART fan in the world.
Berylblue
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came
In the Year of the Cat".
Al Stewart, "Year of the Cat"
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New Date for Armagedon
by hippikon instand by for a nightmare end to the universe - a runaway expansion so violent that galaxies, planets and even atomic nuclei are literally ripped apart.
the scenario could play out as soon as 22 billion years from now.. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993461.
better repent now!
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berylblue
If you add up the numbers one,nine, one and four you get 15. one plus five = 6. If you add the 1914 years from Eves birth to the 1914 years to Noahs baptism plus the 1914 years to Nebucadnezzars madness then the 1914 years to Jesus turning wood into a twelve piece dining suite then take away the time lost for meal breaks and preaching .. then divide by the number of Popes with syphilis .. hang on let me start again .. $%#&$ never could ghet the hang o' this deep stuff
..You "milk" drinker, you.
I only bought that one because I shy away from anything mathematical to begin with.
So many of the WT teachings are such a stretch. When I voiced my confusion or disbelief, I was told that I did not have the intelligence or the education of the GB to understand such things, so I needed to just accept them.
Beryl
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So which of the JW Teachings did you never buy into?
by berylblue ini have so many, i don't know where to start.
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berylblue
I have so many, I don't know where to start.
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Please help me understand this one. I never "bought" it
by berylblue ini would love your thoughts on this one:.
life is sacred to jehovah.
(no problem there.).
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berylblue
I would love your thoughts on this one:
Life is sacred to Jehovah. (No problem there.)
The fetus is sacred to Jehovah.
It is devastating when a woman loses a child during pregnancy. However, that child will not be resurrected because it did not yet take the breath of life.
Abortion is murder.
However, this murdered child will not get resurrected because SHE did not take the "breath of life" either.
Only babies who are live births will be resurrected.
The way I see it (yes, mere me, I admit it), you can't have it both ways. Either a fetus IS a human worthy of resurrecting, or it isn't, in which case, why would it be wrong to abort?
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History of Head Covering for JW Women
by UnDisfellowshipped init is not a case of her being appointed to conduct a congregational meeting.
in such cases the dedicated brother should offer the prayer, and the sister may conduct the study with her head covered.
for if a woman does not cover herself, let her also be shorn.1 cor.
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berylblue
This always nauseated me.
Beryl
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sharring my secrets
by kls inyou all are so special, i just finished reading the thread i posted the other day and again you all made me cry(probably girl thing) not in a bad way but in a happy way,sometimes i think i found you guys just in time.so because of your caring i would like to share my life story,no i won,t drag it on.i was raised in a home with two sisters and a brother,i was the youngest ,i am three years younger then one sister ,ten years between my other sister and twelve years younger then my brother.father was a beater,belts,boards but his favorite was his fists,i went to school with plenty of black eyes and lying were they came from.my older sister and brother were married and out of the house and very seldom visited.as kids my brother and sister were beat also so there was alot of tenson when they did visit.so with my one sister and me we take the beatings for them and hide in our rooms hoping we didn,t do any thing to irritate our parents.my mother , i swear she would blow things out of perportion just to see us get beat , i think because she was beat so offen by my dad , i would hear them in my room at night or in the day , the shit would start to fly and we just hid.my parents were both drinkers but usually it was moderate until i was about ten years old and my sister was twelve, the drinking became out of control especially for my mom,fights got more intense till it was like living in a war zone.it got to the point that my mother never left her bedroom and was drunk twentyfour hrs.
a day, not even coming out to eat.my dad ,sister and me would do the shopping and cleaning and cooking.life was ,well for my sister and me was becoming normal .then one day coming home from school ,i see the police, my older sister and brother are there..odd, they are all crying and inform me dad killed himself and they just took his body.
well , we have funeral moms drunk at , and all of a sudden everyone is gone to their own lives while my sister and me are stealing food to live.
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berylblue
Oh, there are no words to express my sorrow for what you had to endure.
Write if you'd like.
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Are There Forums Like This For Mormons/Others ?
by m0nk3y ini'm just curious if there are other resources like this for the mormons and the other more popular religions.
i would really be interested to see them if they exist.
i guess to know that jw's arnt the only ones being pulled apart.
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berylblue
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/47439/1.ashx
Please see how some very caring persons answered this question.
Beryl