<-----waving hands enthusiastically.........I volunteer to search him
You'd have to be careful mind, his kilt will give him a lot more hiding places......
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<-----waving hands enthusiastically.........I volunteer to search him
You'd have to be careful mind, his kilt will give him a lot more hiding places......
> is it wrong for a corporation to make revisions on a matter?
where as if a jehovah's witness elder does such a .
> be a collection of quotes defending what jehovah's witnesses believe today.
Thats one good letter. I wonder if he will respond.
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Will Little Toe be allowed into the USA?!
Depends how much whisky he brings to use as bribery.
have you ever had a secret online affair?
did it result in the breakup of your previous relationship?
was it worth it?.
perhaps this online business is me secretly looking for a way out -- she is addicted to the JWs
I know what you mean. I struggled for a while to find the way to tell my girlfriend that I didn't want to be reinstated, didn't want to be a jw anymore. In the end I got so stressed about it I told her everything, about posting here, the depth of my feelings about the wtbts, everything. I knew that when I told her she would dump me for it, and she did, but I felt such a relief to be free of the stress of it all.
they don't care
they enforce the rules without compassion, dogma without dignity and punish with glee - it keeps the others in line.
they have total control without guideline or being accountable to anyone.
It seems to escape the scrutiny of many that elders are human beings, capable of the full gamut of human experience and frailty. Some are loving and caring, others arrogant, some patient and merciful, others not. Some decent hard-working men, others not. In this they perhaps have something in common with the rest of the human race!
Yes elders are human beings. I personally know some elders who are the salt of the earth, and have done the things you describe. But how many elders do you know who have stepped down because they saw things they didn't like, or they were pressurised into doing so because they challanged another elder who they thought had acted wrong. Although I never held a position in a congregation I know where this has happened, how many more times would an ex-elder be aware of. If a lot of the nice elders end up standing down, or even on apostate sites like this because of the things they have learned, that doesn't leave very many nice elders still in the org while there are the still the same amount of not so nice ones.
hey guys, .
in light of our past shared watchtower delusions, especially relating to understanding women, i thought it would be interesting to see how well everyone scores compared to your real world counterparts in understanding women.. you can take the sexual aptitude test here: http://www.menshealth.com/cda/quizleadin/1,6927,s1-2-0-0-427,00.html.
no cheating now!
Doh!
You got 2 out of 12 correct!
Less than 4: We suspect that you enrolled in women's studies but were too enraptured with the eye candy to take notes. The bad news is that the moti-vations and machinations of half of the world's population make absolutely no sense to you. The good news is that free, private tutoring is available.
"traditionally, women in japan were to walk 10 paces behind a man.
that is much more appropriate than what is going on here, what with women thinking they are men's equals.".
(this from a 24 year old female pioneer)
said that witnesses don;t have to worry about that because they don't do crazy things that might cause them to get hurt, such as bungee jumping, etc, and that they drive slowly and obey all the traffic laws to avoid car accidents.
That woman mustn't of went to the same hall as me. We used to go go-kart racing, rallying etc. And that doesn't include all the street racing...
they don't care
they enforce the rules without compassion, dogma without dignity and punish with glee - it keeps the others in line.
they have total control without guideline or being accountable to anyone.
Are all elders unloving and uncaring?
No, but unless they toe the party line and fully enforce the rules, whatever their personal view, they don't stay as an elder for long.
have you ever had a secret online affair?
did it result in the breakup of your previous relationship?
was it worth it?.
It depends what you would class as an online affair. If you only talk online, I don't see how that could be viewed as an affair, although I could see why someones partner could be jealous about the amount of attention being given. My question is, how friendly can you get with someone, online or in person, before it is too much and would be classed as over familiar or an affair?
just wondering if anyone is aware of a clamp down coming down on internet use with the dubs?
just talking to my parents tonight and there was some mention that "big brother" wt organization will be shutting down any dub web sites.
i guess i wasn't to popular as i said, "god created us with a brain to think amd it would be the most divine thing if we used that brain to think for ourself".
it's not just porn and anti-JW stuff!
You mean theres more???
What they will do is continue to demonise it so that any information about the religion that comes from it is automatically treated as apostate lies.
My dad went ape when he found out I'd been on apostate sites, and wouldn't talk to me. My parting shot was to ask why he had looked up his illness on the internet, he said it was because he wanted to find out about it. I asked why because everything you read on the internet is lies...... When I went back up to see them yesterday, he was totally different, going out of his way to be nice to me. I could see the wtbts trying to ban the internet for obvious reasons, but I couldn't see it actually happening in practice. It could work out to be the 'straw that broke the camels back' for many people.