i remember reading it in a forum member's post, somewhere last year or so.
the poster said she (i think it's a she) quoted the scripture to one elder and told him that it applied to him.
could you please help me with this verse?.
I remember reading it in a forum member's post, somewhere last year or so. The poster said she (I think it's a she) quoted the scripture to one elder and told him that it applied to him. Could you please help me with this verse?
Many thanks in advance.
this very popular quote came back to my mind today when i was thinking about what jws in the third world country where i live would do if they should hear about the australian abuse story.
this has been the one explains-it-all, excuses-it-all phrase to respond to nasty things going on in "god's house".. if they should hear about the story, they would just nod, say that phrase and add the sentence that traditionally accompanies it: it is because he is well aware that there are rotten elements in his house, so we shouldn't be surprised...and then they will move on with merrily.
end of story.
This very popular quote came back to my mind today when I was thinking about what jws in the third world country where I live would do if they should hear about the australian abuse story. This has been the one explains-it-all, excuses-it-all phrase to respond to nasty things going on in "God's house".
if they should hear about the story, they would just nod, say that phrase and add the sentence that traditionally accompanies it: it is because he is well aware that there are rotten elements in his house, SO WE SHOULDN'T BE SURPRISED...And then they will move on with merrily. End of story.
worst day in the last ten years, was the day i hit 0.00 with one and a half years of university to go.
nobody to turn to, nobody to ask for help.
i was 32 and as an ex jw had two family members in contact with me.
when i conducted the wt study and the article was on marrying only in the lord, it seemed that the ones who commented the most were persons who married a non-jw.
in fact, they were the ones that always told the young single jw girls to pioneer and never marry a worldly person.
"because i know what its like and believe me it's no fun" .
I thought that it was what every single jw does: cherry picking. The bad becomes good when I am the one doing it.
i'll start the ball rolling .... .
coercive.
pretentious.
Obscurantist
Perfunctory
Intrusive
Scurvy
Overbearing
Snide
Toxic
Niggling
Backward
Small-minded
Picayune
Shoddy
Despotic
Shameless
i just remembered this thing this morning:.
sharing the same faith with the king of pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised.
we were not in america or anywhere close by.
Am I the only one here then?!
i just remembered this thing this morning:.
sharing the same faith with the king of pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised.
we were not in america or anywhere close by.
and there he is doing that.
I don't know what but there's something funny in how you say this. LOL!
i just remembered this thing this morning:.
sharing the same faith with the king of pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised.
we were not in america or anywhere close by.
i just remembered this thing this morning:.
sharing the same faith with the king of pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised.
we were not in america or anywhere close by.
I just remembered this thing this morning:
Sharing the same faith with the King of Pop made me feel important for belonging to this religion, even if he was never baptised. We were not in America or anywhere close by. So it came as a real shock to many that the Michael guy used to go to field service.
It kind of gave me some type of social importance.
It was always a hit with my high school mates and kind of kept them off my back or at least reduced the mockery. I anticipated and relished the effect on them. lol
Did you also experience the same feeling, or used it as a way of showing people that this was also the religion of some "important" people?
during the depression people committed suicide because everything they had invested in was gone overnight in an instant.
many people are very fragile creatures.
if by some freaking chance, (like enron, tiger woods, or the morning of august 1945 in hiroshima) the wts gets caught in a humongous scandal, say like links to human sex trafficking, (i can fantasize right) and the government steps in to investigate and finds them guilty and legally shuts them down permanently, will there be tons of suicides?
But...That'S all they're waiting for!!!
They will say that it's the great tribulation starting and they'll be more than ever united, even if they can't hear from their mother organisation!
