are df, da and apostates still shunned?
are each treated differently?
i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...
Azor:
Im not DA'd or DF'd and all my siblings ignored my invitation to come to my 8 year old son's end of chemo party. It truly is disgusting what this group brings people to.
Sorry to hear that Azor. It seems that no matter how many wretched examples I hear there is always one that is worse.
ignorance really is bliss and reality is harsh.
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just having a bad, emotional day i suppose.
Dystopia, they are the hatemongers. We simply respond to their hatred with or without hatred ourselves. Do you know what they've done to us?
i would pay a highly rated, very expensive advertising company to run a 1 minute ad that ran nationwide primetime every night of the week until i spent $75 million of it telling how the wt was covering over pedophiles and for people to go to jwfacts.com for the truth about the truth.
it would be done in very good taste, way better than political ads.
i would spare no expense.
And the things I would not get:
A huge mansion. They are so impersonal. A three to four bedroom house would be just fine.
Although I would get a quality automobile I would not get any luxury cars. I have no interest in showing off.
Ten thousand dollar watches. My twenty dollar one is just fine.
Toilets made of gold. I don't know if brown will match with it.
the wife and i went to the memorial strictly out of respect for my mother-in-law last night.
luckily our 20 month-old grand-baby was restless and making noise, so i quickly volunteered to take him in the back.
so i didn't have to listen to the presentation.
Tomato sauce is yummy. I'm going to anoint the Flying Spaghetti Monster with it.
i guess we can agree to differ, but i personally found the new memorial songs (147, 149) to be very good, at least from a musical perspective.
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rub a dub .
i don't want my wife recognizing me, but i feel like making an anti-jw scene.
i would pay a highly rated, very expensive advertising company to run a 1 minute ad that ran nationwide primetime every night of the week until i spent $75 million of it telling how the wt was covering over pedophiles and for people to go to jwfacts.com for the truth about the truth.
it would be done in very good taste, way better than political ads.
i would spare no expense.
Two houses, two cars and one village.
Then I would contribute a few million dollars to certain charities and organizations. A small amount to a little church that gave me free food when I needed it a large amount to a website dedicated to educating the public about global warming.
Then I would invest in stocks from companies that are at the cutting edge of advanced technology.
by no means is this a heartwarming "experience" illustrating how an ex-jw skillfully "reached the heart" of a current jw, moving them to re-examine their belief system.
that won't be my take on my half hour visit with an elder's wife last sunday.
no one scored points here as is almost always the case in these interactions.. we live at the extreme southern tip of texas, on the u.s.-mexico border in a city of about 200,000. twenty years ago there were 20 spanish language congregations, 2 english.
so i started a new job and take the train everyday into the downtown core to my office.i have noticed everyday right when you leave the station there is a display case with watchtower pamphlets and magazines for the public to take.
at first i didnt see the witnesses standing close by monitoring the display case but one day as i looked over a few feet away i saw a man and a woman dressed in their best field service attire chatting away.
i found this a bit odd as when i was a witness we always went door to door.
Leela1:
So for any of you have left recently is this form of witnessing a new thing? Do they still go Door to Door as often or is there new and improved ways of witnessing ?
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I think that the cart work is their new and improved way of witnessing. It's sure more peaceful than the bull horns on top of cars that they once used during Rutherford's reign.
