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  Scriptural Basis for Obedience to GB?

  by mrhhome in

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  i have a genuine question for the jw apologist.

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  what is your scriptural justification for your unquestioning obedience to the governing body and your unwillingness to question their intepretation of scripture?.

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  Without Fail...

  by mrhhome in

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  on a non-jw related note... my wife put up a bee hive on the back part of our property two weeks ago.

  her and my daughter are very proud of it.. there is an old dead tree that needed to come down.

  i meant to do it before she got the bees, but circumstance was that i didn't.

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  Reverse Shunning

  by mrhhome in

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  ok. now i find myself in an odd situation.

  my wife's family, who has let the witnesses walk all over her for 30 years, is trying to play nice.

  (mother-in-law is a witness.

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  Are you complicit if you stay in?

  by mrhhome in

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  i am going to throw down the gaunlet.

  those who know the truth but stay in anyways are complicit in actions of the jehovah witness organization.

  while i am sympathetic to the very difficult choices that they have to make, their unwillingness to confront the jw enables the organization.. some of you may remember my story.

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  Midday Vent

  by mrhhome in

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  i know that this is a statement of the obvious, but i am wasting my time trying to have an honest discussion with my in-law witnesses.. it is absolutely amazing.

  they are otherwise intelligent, rational, honest people.

  however if you get remotely close to a subject that requires that they evaluate their beliefs or challenge the witness policy, they will repeatedly dodge it, twist it, or otherwise ignore it.

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  Feedback on Letter

  by mrhhome in

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  looking for feedback.

  to bring you all back up to speed, wife is ex-jw.

  shunned by her brother and parts of her family at uncles jw funeral.

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  A different perspective

  by mrhhome in

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  not much new to report on the jw front.

  happily, i and my family have been able to avoid them for the most part.

  my ex-jw wife appears to be patching things up with her jw mother, and i am beginning to think that my non-jw father-in-law actually enjoyed watching me put his jw relations in their place.

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  Can anyone explain love?

  by mrhhome in

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  we have had a variety of theist vs atheist debates on this forum.

  usually, it devolves (or evolves?

  ) into a debate on what can or cannot be proven.. so let's step back a second.

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  What is your story?

  by mrhhome in

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  so what is your story?

  who did you leave behind?.

  we got some this in a previous thread, but i am always interested in hearing more about you all.. .

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  A good example

  by mrhhome in

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  to recap my story, i am married to a daed ex-jw.

  this last year, i had to deal with a bunch of jw nonsense at a funeral for one of my in-laws.

  even though i am a methodist, the whole thing really left me aghast and rattled my faith.

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