c.dawn

Joined

• started 4 topics
• posted 8 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Topics Started by c.dawn

• 
  8

  JW's and Patriotism?

  by c.dawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i posted this earlier but can't find the post.

  don't know if it got lost in cyber space or i'm just blind.

  but, i can't find it.. my sister is a jw from around 1985. i was studying on and off with them, at the same time, but asked to many probing questions and wasn't getting satisfactory answers.then felt god led me elsewhere, where i have continued to grow in biblical knowledge.in my church you are encouraged to prove everything the minister says to you.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 
  9

  JW's view on patriotism

  by c.dawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my sister is a jw .

  i studied with the witnesses at the same time as she but i questioned too many of thier belkifs that didn't make sence to me so they gave up on me.. my christian church does allow patriotism.

  we feel god gave us this land( america) and are forever grateful to him.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 
  6

  what is jdubs & other questions

  by c.dawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm not a jw but my sister and her kids are.

  can you tell me what jdubs means?

  i see it referred here often.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 
  32

  JW's and interracial marriage?

  by c.dawn in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  my nephew a jw who is white is dating another jw who is black with the intent to announce their engagement soon.. i had been reading about the past history of the jw's opinion of the black race.

  old writings that said they were gods people too, but not intelligent as white etc and not qualified intellectually to go door to door to teach etc.that all people would be white in the new system.. i had read of a rope being run down the pews of the fellowship halls to separate the races during services during the 50's early 60's at the halls that did allow intergrated services... this was supposed to have taken place even up to a few years after de-segregation in the schools and other public places took effect.. that in some areas they had their own hall to meet at and the whites had theirs.

  at one point the members of the black hall had asked to meet at the white hall as their building was being repaired or soemthing and they were told no, that some of the members of the white hall wouldn't understand or approve.. and i read that even up into the late 90's, many black members still weren't being given postions or responsibilities that whites had held since the beginning of the jw's.. i was just wondering how far they've come along to improve this image and if anyone knows thier opinion of interracial marriages.

  1. 
  2. 
  3.