Posts by Faithful Witness

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Please read! Breaking News....

by Newly Enlightened in

http://www.mcalesternews.com/breakingnews/x409169231/da-jehovah-witness-church-concealed-molestation-crimes.

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governing body being accused of covering it up!.

Faithful Witness

They have already got this covered in this week's Watchtower study article (December 2013). It starts out:

"HOAXES, scams, and deception are all too common in the present system of things. This should not surprise us. The Bible makes it plain that Satan the Devil is an accomplished deceiver, and he is the ruler of this system. (1 Tim. 2:14; 1 John 5:19) As we approach the end of this wicked system, Satan’s anger grows because he has only “a short period of time” left. (Rev. 12:12) So we can expect increased duplicity on the part of those who are influenced by the Devil, especially toward those who promote true worship.

2 Misleading statements and outright lies about Jehovah’s servants and their beliefs are sometimes featured in the media. Newspaper headlines, television documentaries, and Internet Web pages are used to propagate untruths. As a result, some people become disturbed, gullibly believing such lies."

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The devil's media is lying about the GB again! The article ends with a reminder that "You will obey our instructions."

The scriptures to be read aloud include 3 passages from Thessalonians, which mention "letters from us."

I read this news story this morning, got a glimmer of hope that someone might have to answer some questions, and that maybe some JW's would acutally wake up as a result of this new scandal... but after reading this article (and the cherry-picked scripture references that are supposed to support their claims), I really lost hope.

Who will a JW listen to? The Governing Body, who answers to no one but Jehovah, or the devil's media, that actually has to prove what they publish about other people?

If they are innocent, why do they refuse to answer questions? Oh, it must be so nice to live above reproach and accountability!

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Watching Amish Shunned on PBS...very deja vu if you are/were a JW!

by tenyearsafter in

this is a very interesting documentary...the similarities are so close, you could substitute jw for amish!

anyone else watching this?.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/shunned-introduction/.

Faithful Witness

I have a good friend who was raised Amish. Her mother took all 6 of her kids and left when my friend was in 6th grade. She ended up "corrupting" a very nice Amish man, so they deal with issues very similar to what my family faces. She is one of the few people who understand what I'm talking about.

She is funny sometimes too. She has some remnants of her upbringing, like her vocabulary and resistance to modern medicine. But she has taught me a lot about canning, and she does not waste ANYTHING! Haha.

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Nobody Is Following The Governing Body's Directives On Shunning, Cognitive Dissonance In Over Drive!

by frankiespeakin in

well wouldn't that be nice!

the governing body speaking and ain't nobody listening.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kngnikudmi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srayrzs-ohg.

Faithful Witness

Don't worry, the FDS has this covered. Their Watchtower study article this week warns:

Avoid Being "Quickly Shaken From Your Reason!"

"HOAXES, scams, and deception are all too common in the present system of things. This should not surprise us. The Bible makes it plain that Satan the Devil is an accomplished deceiver, and he is the ruler of this system. (1 Tim. 2:14; 1 John 5:19) As we approach the end of this wicked system, Satan’s anger grows because he has only “a short period of time” left. (Rev. 12:12) So we can expect increased duplicity on the part of those who are influenced by the Devil, especially toward those who promote true worship.

2 Misleading statements and outright lies about Jehovah’s servants and their beliefs are sometimes featured in the media. Newspaper headlines, television documentaries, and Internet Web pages are used to propagate untruths. As a result, some people become disturbed, gullibly believing such lies."

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The article starts out by saying how the media is lying about them, goes on to warn you who you associate with, and ends with another reminder that you are going to obey what "we" say in our letters.

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What is a Blessing?

by Suspicious in

being a born in, this question got me thinking.

what really is a blessing?

i read so much and hear so much about it in the kingdom halls.

Faithful Witness

That is not unique to the JW's. I know people who like to give God credit for everything that happens, even getting diagnosed with a disease. Praise God! Now we know how to treat your symptoms!

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They have got to be making this stuff up!

by Atlantis in

they have got to be making this stuff up!

posted here: .

http://www.jw-archive.org/ .

Faithful Witness

re JW.org apparel: If an R&F laborer wears that ski cap to work, and customers see it... that does count as field service time?

I see the artist formerly known as Prince in the back row, one seat to the left of the guy under the 3. My eyes keep going back to the guy picking his nose.

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Do JWs use the Baptizmal formula?

by Hortenzie in

do the elders say: "in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit" when they are immersing the one being baptized?.

Faithful Witness

They cite the following scripture in paragraph 15 of the Watchtower study article (Dec 2013) this week:

Matthew 28:19, 20

19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”

(Baptized ones are protected by Jesus, according to the paragraph... so I guess you're gonna want to do that!)

... Leading up to encouragement to be zealous, and spend part of your family worship time working on field ministry, and some of your family worship time for preparing for the meetings. (I guess it's just assumed that another portion of the time would be for reading the bible... if there's time left over).

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Planting seeds of thought with my JW doctor

by Faithful Witness in

i have hesitated to post anything about my recent encounters with our jw doctor, because i don't really want anyone to insult her or me, for continuing to rely on her for medical care.

our family doctor is a jehovah's witness.

we were referred to her by our former bs conductor.

Faithful Witness

You know, I'm really thinking about this now. (love that picture, Outlaw! haha)

Our BS conductor told us about her, and said "Our doctor is a JW." I guess we took his word for it. Is it possible she isn't actually a JW, but likes the connections she gets from them? I don't know where she lives, but her office is not near the territory where we live. Maybe she just pretends to be a JW, and allows them to leave the magazines there for her many JW patients.

I never asked her. I didn't really care one way or another, but we did mention to her that we were studying, and with whom. I don't know now.

I have seen WT literature at many different doctor's offices, and emergency rooms, etc. My sister works at an urgent care center, and she is throwing them away every week.

Maybe she is a JW fraud. So far, she has given us reasonable medical advice, and is good about referrals and helping us with special claims needs.

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Anyone else having a bad few weeks??

by quellycatface in

jw
friends

i seem to have a really crap couple of months with stuff going wrong.

people being nasty to me.

i saw a neighbour of mine today (who i fell out with 18 months ago), to whom i've since apologised for losing my temper with, but today, when i smiled at her, she looked at me daggers!!!

Faithful Witness

DOC: Great letter! I'm copying this to share. Thanks for the reminder that things can always be worse! Yow.

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Planting seeds of thought with my JW doctor

by Faithful Witness in

i have hesitated to post anything about my recent encounters with our jw doctor, because i don't really want anyone to insult her or me, for continuing to rely on her for medical care.

our family doctor is a jehovah's witness.

we were referred to her by our former bs conductor.

Faithful Witness

mynameislame: "BS conductor" couldn't be a more appropriate name for our elder "friend!"

We were a couple who asked a lot of questions that did not appear in the WT "Teach" book. After awhile, we noticed that any off topic question would cause our BS conductor to go off on a long tangent. We started calling it the "Joe Smith Show." It got very annoying, and we found our time with him becoming less and less useful.

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Planting seeds of thought with my JW doctor

by Faithful Witness in

i have hesitated to post anything about my recent encounters with our jw doctor, because i don't really want anyone to insult her or me, for continuing to rely on her for medical care.

our family doctor is a jehovah's witness.

we were referred to her by our former bs conductor.

Faithful Witness

I knew I would get criticized for trusting a JW. This is an interesting discussion!

I honestly have no interest in converting her, nor do I care what her spiritual "condition" is. She cares about us, and has always been a competent doctor. She is the only doctor in a very small family practice, is very kind, and has always seemed to have good ethics. We have access to specialists and large medical facilities when we need treatment and tests.

That said, I have a compassion for all JW people. I think that the majority of them honestly are trying to do what they think is right. I find it fascinating that she can juggle her religion with her profession. It was also interesting that she brought up politics. Her practice has been affected by the new health care laws, and being forced to put patient records into the health care database.

The experiences I have had in life, have given me a unique perspective on the world (as we each do). I don't have any kind of vendetta against JW's, but don't see any problem with giving anyone food for thought. I think it would be negligent to ignore a chance to at least toss a seed on the ground.

In the KH we attended here, the WT study conductor was an engineer. He was clearly better than everyone else in the congregation full of farmers, laborers and contractors. It was interesting to hear them be so condescending toward higher education, when the speaker on stage had a master's degree.