if the jws follow proverbs 27:17 they should not be afraid of any tension or friction.. in order for iron to sharpen iron you need pressure, tension friction and a bit of heated debate..
Its like a person with no legs debating the benefits of jogging on cardiovascular health.
Debate and conversation are two different things. For JW's every conversation with an alternate (not even neccesarily critical) viewpoint on scripture or a particular teaching, is like having a political conversation about Hilary clinton or a conversation with a proponent of gun deregulation.
In otherwords, its highly charged and emotional before you even get there!
so while 99% of the closing prayer i did not hear, what i did was the elder say "we need to encourage our young ones to get baptised.
we can't let the world take anymore of them away" .
i found this very strange and looked up in disbelief.
So....the symbolic act of dedication representing a commitment one seems to have already made can now be done prepubescent, is enforceable through a code of conduct and communal shunning policy, and this is going to keep the world from taking them?
So in this guys prayer he might as well say, get them in young, so they can fear loosing their social structure and stick around.
for example, if a married couple had fertility issues relating to the male partner's sperm, could they use a donor?.
is it frowned upon in a more general sense because people should be preaching rather than procreating?.
Disfellowshipping offense. Its considered immoral. also because several eggs could be fertilized to make them viable, they would consider the aborted fertilized eggs to be wrong as well.
So IVF. You thought it was using modern science to help have a child when you need a little extra help in order to bring life and love into the world right?
Nope. Its an immoral, masturbatory act of murder most foul.
the english woman who has been awarded 275,000 compensation for being abused by the ministerial servant paedophile, will now have to wait while the org fights to keep hold of its precious money, by appealing the court's decision.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33201010.
i was told there was new light by a former jw.
i wanted to verify if it was true.
the new light claims the annointed class/144k is always male.
Anointed (144K) = Men and women.
Faithful and discreet slave = Only men, but also anointed.
it came today, the dreaded envelope containing my personal copy of "return to jehovah" from my elderly, desperate mother.
it included a small note asking me to read it over and to let her know what i think.
she got it at her assembly.. firstly, i'm angry that she continues to push her religion on me, given that i stopped attending meetings over thirty years ago, and very offended that she assumes that i still want to be a witness, which is her choice of religion, not mine.
If your mother is really elderly and desperate....and you have this relationship with Jesus and are happy......then why are you even letting it get to you? Give you elderly mother a break. Its coming from a place of love. She isn't the watchtower brand. She is just your mom.
If you want you can call her, thank her for thinking of you, but let her know that you won't read it. I offered my mom a deal once. I'll read whatever you want sincerely and with an open mind, if I can send you some critical literature I already have verified isn't full of misquotes and untruths, and she can do the same.
We already know where that goes. then change the subject. Talk about life, your family....the things her authentic self want to really talk about anyways. I find the conversations always go JW when there is nothing else to talk about!
the way society today is become more and more sensitive about social wrongs like child abuse, mistreatment of gay people, discrimination and things that cause psychological harm etc....to me spell doom for the wt corporation in the courts as the record is clear to judges and juries that the wt corporation is an abusive cult that needs the law systems to bring them to accounts $$$$ for their cruel treatments to minors and anyone they deem "mentally diseased" and avoided because they found out the wt corporation is a web of lies and deceit.. i feel we are in the very beginning of the end and the lawsuits will pile up to the point of bankruptcy for these abusive crooks..
Fox news does all of those things....and they thrive!
No but really. In the end people shun their family because they are taught that is what God wants them to do. It isn't a crime, and isn't something that can be sued over. We have been down that road before. It would only feed into the persecution complex and fulfillment of the "doing away with religion" thing. JW's will exist, and varying degrees of success, and are trying to re-write their history.
I don't think we are at a tipping point. Not at all.
i'm not judging these poor young people, if this is how they are coping with the trauma of losing their mum i can only wish them well.
i have to admit though that my jaw dropped when i first saw this interview, i couldn't square their reaction with what i understand as 'normal' human grief.. is this religiously motivated form of forgiveness a positive thing?
should i acknowledge this as something to be said in favour of religion?.
kill me.... it's hard to put into words just how badly i do no want to sit through this 3 days of bull $hit.
i will appreciate any and all words of condolence, humorous, serious, or otherwise.
Make a game. Take a shot everytime you hear something bat shit crazy.
mr. shannon farmer, the jw who is currently working with axel hoffman to implement blood management programs in europe, is the subject of a radio show in australia that aired on june 1, 2015.. http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/content/s4249605.htm.
controversy over blood management and blood transfusionsgovernments manage potential conflicts of interest all the time, but they seldom concern the very stuff running through our veins.the national blood authority's expert panel on blood transfusions includes one member who doesn't believe in blood transfusions at all.moreover, shannon farmer has a commercial interest in alternatives to blood transfusions.
newsradio's clive hunton reports from canberra.. listen to radio broadcast (8:55 min):.
