http://www.jw-media.org/beliefs/beliefsfaq.htm
before july 2002. .
they are always welcome to return to the faith if they reject the improper course of conduct for which they were disfellowshipped.. today:do you shun former members?.
Hi Mary,
You've got to be kidding me ... do you mind posting the actual article title and date of the Watchtower?
If its not too much trouble, possibly the paragraph number and the text?
I'm busy composing a letter to my mother who's still a JW (I'm disfellowshipped); she's so curious, I know she'll read it and I'm trying to fill it with a lot of good stuff.
Someone remind me how the GB is so adept at dodging LOGIC? Oh that's right, 'ya can't bring those 'brains' in here!
isaac was still breast-feeding at 5. can you imagine him being old enough to get baptized?.
here is a quote from plnlast month as many know my 6yr old and 8 yr old nieces were baptized.
they will be giving their first assembly parts at the district convetion on 2 days june 8th and august 3rd...their father will also be in the part and he is also participating in the drama.
Tank oo Gumby!
the po of my congregation was screwing another elders wife- i have more, but i wanna hear yours!
kristine
The son of a pretty large family that occupied a few congregations here in NY was arrested as the primary suspect in a homicide. This information came courtesy of my mother from one of the queen gossips in my former congregation. This was roughly two years or so ago during a time when I couldn't have given a rat's arse -- but it did appear in a local rag.
i probably was the biggest slut in the kh- sex before baptized @ 13- sex after baptism when i was 17. oral sex about 5 times w/ different guys from the kh-- what can i say, i loved being a rebel, & love sex- i think the elders liked it to because i had to tell them the details (some guy always told), & they would probably get off later- never was disfellowshipped-- i am a good actress, but i thought the "holy spirit" guided them, well not because they believed my sobbing- --:-) kristine
Pfft ... I was DFed because my mother snitched that I was shacked up with my then boyfriend.
Mind you, they never asked if I actually had sex -- they just assumed.
having to knock on strangers doors, giving a talk in front of an audience, being questioned by the elders, having to go to 5 meetings???....etc.
and the winner is------------
Someone else said it -- going in field service and praying to Jehovah (hee hee) that you didn't run into a schoolmate.
Having my mother look at me whenever there was some righteous kid on the platform during assemblies/conventions like, "Are you listening?"
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we had one guy in our congregation, everytime he closed with prayer, it went on for 30 minutes or longer, i remember one occasion, i am not kidding 65 minutes, torture 101.. anyone else have this experience.
It's a shame that the brother who did was one of those ones you wish you could get out of the Borg.
But yeah, he used to 'get his prayer ON' and everyone would be snickering and looking around. He'd use all these pretentious phrases like 'flora and fauna'. TOO funny.
isaac was still breast-feeding at 5. can you imagine him being old enough to get baptized?.
here is a quote from plnlast month as many know my 6yr old and 8 yr old nieces were baptized.
they will be giving their first assembly parts at the district convetion on 2 days june 8th and august 3rd...their father will also be in the part and he is also participating in the drama.
Oh the fury.
I was baptized at 13 or 14 -- its VERY funny that I can't remember exactly. Actually, maybe I was fifteen by then. Who knows.
There was a clique of young sisters that were in the same grade that were pretty much in a race to get to the baptism pool before any of the others; literally 'last one in's a rotten egg.' I was the only one who didn't have an 'elder' as a father, much less a father in the truth.
Like others mentioned, if I can't drive, marry or enter the military until 18, how am I able to make a LIFE ALTERING decision, one that will deem me unfit to talk to or associate with if I don't fully understand the consequences of my actions?
Yet they allow it, and it's what has happened to me. The other 50% of my decision was made because I wanted to please my mother. She's a single mother in the 'truth' and I knew she'd be happy if I got baptized (considering my older and younger brother were too smart to get wrapped up in it).
Sickening, it really is. Isn't there a way to SUE for mental anguish or something? I'm dead serious. Do they tell these minors that if they should simply decide (or rather THINK, God forbid, pun not intended) it is no longer the life they want to lead that they will not be able to SPEAK to those members of their family in the 'truth'? Of course not.
Sick.
i know of very few people that helped bring people in the "truth".
even those who concentrated on their own families usually realize that their children do not want the "truth".
most publishers were disorganized with regard to their return visits and house-to-house records.
My 'door-to-door' years were spent mostly as a minor, at a time when everyone knows NO kid really WANTED to go in service and miss morning cartoons, esp. on Saturday. But I remember having to switch up partners with another pair in the field, so I could no longer hide behind my mom, and since I always faked properly preparing I would do this improv right at the door, and the older brothers/sisters were all impressed. I'd think, "If they only knew!"
But, getting back to the question, my antics never produced any 'fruit'. Hee hee.
in another thread, mini questioned why the wts does not see that the gb and elders are like the pharisees.
what do you all think are the "rules" jws have been given that smack of pharisaical (is that a word?
) burdening and/or hypocricy?.
"Ethnic hairdos"! LOL ... I am of an 'underrepresented ethnicity' and dreadlocks and 'natural hairstyles' were strongly discouraged. I have very kinky/coily hair and I used to wear it 'out', and would get off the wall comments from brothers/sisters.
when i was very young about 12 or 13 my brother [he's mad, not much older] sometimes used to do a cheeky magic trick during the watchtower[god, this was the most boring of them all, i think].
he used to put his hands by his side and miraculously the books on his lap would rise all by themselves [yeah, you guessed it ...morning glory], well it made me laugh my head off.
i bet people could see my shoulders bouncing up and down from the back row.
I vividly remember packing my father's binoculars to bring to District Conventions so I could see people way across the arena .. hee hee.
At meetings though, I would critique outfits, hairdos, check out who was sleeping and how long ... who came in late and who was hanging out in the bathroom ...
Actually there was a brother who, in a normal world would have been revered, as he was a world renowned ballet dancer and his comments always had this 'worldly' edge that would raise eyebrows in the rank and file; I always looked forward to them because they were actually sincere and not JW rhetoric.
