every year, around september, the meeting part "how did we do last year" is given.. this is a summary of how the congregation has done over the past service year and what needs improving.. what examples of commendation and/or improvement was given to your congregation?.
Every year, around September, the meeting part "How did we do last year" is given.
This is a summary of how the congregation has done over the past service year and what needs improving.
What examples of commendation and/or improvement was given to your congregation?
does anyone have any interesting observations since the book study arrangement in private homes finished?.
are jws happier with the extra night off?
do they miss the book study?
Yknot
Thanks for your observations - very astute.
Yes, I felt some would be discouraged - especially for bible students who could only answer up in small groups, and yes, you're right, the elders were generally more relaxed, especially if they conducted the book study in their own home.
The after the study cake, tea etc was the only interaction for many, especially the older ones. I know that not all groups had refreshments after the meeting.
You know, it makes me wonder, how on earth do dubs socialize other than the fleeting minutes they spend with each other at the hall?
Truthseeker
this is not an essay or "my story".
these are just a few personal observations from someone who lived, breathed and.
slept the jw religion for over 50 years.
TMS
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Although my situation is different, I can relate somewhat, having been a born in and leaving after 30 years.
The longer you are in the harder it is to leave and recover. For many of us, being a JW was part of our identity for a very long time. We were encouraged to be witnesses 24 hours a day. We ate, swallowed and digested their "spiritual food at the proper time" for years. For many of us, our entire childhood and teen years were influence by the Watchtower.
Those of us born in the truth accept that this is/was our life - it is part of our past, our history, our culture. Our lives centered around meetings, ministry, assemblies, conventions, memorials etc.
I found that after I left, I had lost continuity with the past. I can't ever go back there; I wouldn't want to go back there. I have friends and family still in.
It feels like I have been reincarnated as myself, with a new life while still retaining memories of my old life.
The only thing we can do is move on as best we can, find new interests and hobbies and try to help those who want to be helped out the organization.
does anyone have any interesting observations since the book study arrangement in private homes finished?.
are jws happier with the extra night off?
do they miss the book study?
Does anyone have any interesting observations since the book study arrangement in private homes finished?
Are JWs happier with the extra night off? Do they miss the book study? For some, that was the only social interaction they got with other dubs.
hi guys,.
sadly some of them had been in bethel for 5 - 10 years and were still cleaning toilets.. after about 2 years of it i couldn't do it anymore.
i always knew something wasn't quite right with this organization.
Brotherdan,
check your pm
Truthseeker
yes instead of striking them dead he decided to flood the entire planet killing every living plant and animal {sorry peta members} which only afew years before he created declaring it "good.
" then he made a "rainbow" as a sign that never again will he destroy every living thing.. wasn't this over the top?.
too bad they forgot the poor unicorns and dinosuars though!.
designs,
You make an interesting observation, but the problem remains - which Biblical accounts do we pick and choose to believe and how do we know? Is the flood more likely to dismissed than Jesus' miracles?
yes instead of striking them dead he decided to flood the entire planet killing every living plant and animal {sorry peta members} which only afew years before he created declaring it "good.
" then he made a "rainbow" as a sign that never again will he destroy every living thing.. wasn't this over the top?.
too bad they forgot the poor unicorns and dinosuars though!.
yes instead of striking them dead he decided to flood the entire planet killing every living plant and animal {sorry peta members} which only afew years before he created declaring it "good.
" then he made a "rainbow" as a sign that never again will he destroy every living thing.. wasn't this over the top?.
too bad they forgot the poor unicorns and dinosuars though!.
designs,
I have no idea. I don't think you have to be a dub or a fundie to believe the flood account.
yes instead of striking them dead he decided to flood the entire planet killing every living plant and animal {sorry peta members} which only afew years before he created declaring it "good.
" then he made a "rainbow" as a sign that never again will he destroy every living thing.. wasn't this over the top?.
too bad they forgot the poor unicorns and dinosuars though!.
The flood served two purposes because it was also a judgment for those living on the planet. Once the fallen angels dissolved their fleshly containers and were back in the spirit realm, they were stripped of the power to materialize again.
As mankind grew in numbers, Satan tempted some of the angels away from God's organization. They materialized on this planet and married human women. They told the people of the preflood days what secrets they knew of heaven. The marriages between the angels and humans did not please God. Noah and his family were righteous in God’s eyes, so they found favor with him. They were the only humans to survive the flood. The waters of that flood not only drowned all living things that resided on previous dry ground, but it also took with them the secrets divulged by those fallen angels.
The flesh the angels materialized was not what God had started the first human pair from. It was a counterfeit flesh that doomed the offspring to a judgment of destruction, as well as the wives of both the fallen angels and the Nephilim offspring. The angels that materialized in human form were not of mankind’s "one flesh". They materialized a counterfeit flesh that did not represent God's original creation, and the union between these counterfeit humans and the female offspring of Adam and Eve produced their own hybrid offspring.
The fallen angels kept some of their superior attributes while taking fleshly form, and this produced the Nephilim sons that became "mighty ones." Something else that made them stronger and mightier was that they ate animal flesh, which was not on mankind’s menu back then.
It was God's will that none of them should survive the deluge, but, he also wanted the disobedient angels to return to the spirit realm. The flood accomplished that. For their transgression, the fallen angels were put under Satan’s control, because he was the first of his kind to sin.
yes instead of striking them dead he decided to flood the entire planet killing every living plant and animal {sorry peta members} which only afew years before he created declaring it "good.
" then he made a "rainbow" as a sign that never again will he destroy every living thing.. wasn't this over the top?.
too bad they forgot the poor unicorns and dinosuars though!.
I think a lot is buried in the oceans from the preflood world. The receding of the waters were not to their original boundaries. Many of the land masses under went change from caverns, rising land masses and trenches that were created from God's hand being involved, which altered the original water boundaries and created new ones.
