"BONUS QUESTION: Are you a nutter?"
haha, I like that one! short and to the point.
Posts by carla
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114JW Stumper Questions - List You Best Here
by pale.emperor inhi guys.
sooner or later we're going to get a jw knocking on our door.
just like when we were jw's doing the knocking, it's good to have a question prepared to get them thinking about their own beliefs.
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Parents who try to make you feel guilty.
by NJ501 inwhen parents say all the things we've done for you and your not doing anything for us in return like going to meetings, witnessing, answering up etc... how do you respond to parents?.
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carla
original question- "When parents say all the things we've done for you and your not doing anything for us in return like going to meetings, witnessing, answering up etc.."
How is going to meetings, going door to door, etc... 'doing' anything for the parent? the only way it would be 'doing' anything for the parent is the parents standing with the rest of the cong. That sounds pretty selfish to me that they are worried about their own reputation rather than the spiritual/mental/physical well being of their child.
What do normal non jw's 'do' for their parents? they help them with yard work, household chores/fixing things, they go to lunch or bring a meal over, they call them and check up on them on a regular basis, etc.... they actually help them in real tangible ways no matter what their beliefs are. They honor their parents by being there and loving them in person. The parents gratefully accept and love their child even when the child believes some goofy thing or does stupid things in life. They know, in their wisdom, that we all must make our own mistakes and in the end will be responsible for our own eternity whatever that may be.
But then they have what some call 'natural affection' for each other. Something the wt regulates and allows or disallows depending on the current wt rag. How many times has the policy flip flopped?
The jw parent could, if they wished, to have a normal relationship with their non jw children. If they put love before men. The jw parents could change the entire shunning policy if they had just a bit of courage.
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JW Stumper Questions - List You Best Here
by pale.emperor inhi guys.
sooner or later we're going to get a jw knocking on our door.
just like when we were jw's doing the knocking, it's good to have a question prepared to get them thinking about their own beliefs.
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carla
To my jw I would like to ask-
When the Catholic pedophile issue was in the news on a nearly daily basis for awhile you said the truth was coming out and how great it was. In fact you looked forward to each new story. When a pedophile jw story comes out you think it is a lie, an apostate trying to get publicity or money, and so on.
It upset you that the Catholic church would simply move a priest to another location without telling the church that he may be a problem, and rightly so. The jw's also allow known pedophiles to remain (as long as they cry and are sorry in a jc meeting) or move to new congregations without telling the congregations there may be a problem with the person. Tell me how are the two different?
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carla
As bad as it was for you when you were jw's not standing it was awful for me as a ubm standing next to my sitting jw during the anthem. One time there was a Korean Vet next to us, I felt terrible and tried to distance myself from my jw as if I wasn't with the guy! At the time the only other person sitting in the entire crowd was a person in a wheelchair.
I wonder how jw's view it now? With so many people sitting (or kneeing) does it water down their own 'protest' of not standing? They aren't as 'special' anymore?
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In the last 20 years How Many Changes Have Occurred in Watchtower Beliefs?
by minimus injehovah's witnesses say that they have the truth and the truth is constant.
they believe that what they teach is the truth that comes directly from jehovah god.
can you think of anything that has changed in the last 20 years to show a jehovah's witness that the truth is not necessarily the truth..
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carla
Thanks!
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youngest baptised.
by zeb inwhat is the youngest you have seen someone baptised?
i recall seeing a 9 yo girl baptised..
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carla
I thought someone here said 6 but it could have been elsewhere that I saw that.
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"The battle for your mind" july 17 WT
by Bad_Wolf inthis is such a strange article.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2017488.
notice the parts about one won't get truth if it's spoon fed.
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carla
Thank you Bad Wolf!
Good grief. Talk about speaking out of both sides! I could go on for quite some time about this particular article but it would just raise my blood pressure and get me annoyed. Bunch of dumb!@##@!
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Was there really a specific request for money in this week's meeting?
by stuckinarut2 ini have seen a few comments about this week's meeting.. was there actually a part that specified an actual per-publisher amount that should be donated regularly?.
can this be confirmed please?.
i truly cant believe just how brazen the society seems to be getting - and how desperate they are!.
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carla
Is the recommended amount per meeting (sun & mid week), weekly, monthly or what? thanks
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"The battle for your mind" july 17 WT
by Bad_Wolf inthis is such a strange article.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2017488.
notice the parts about one won't get truth if it's spoon fed.
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carla
"Use your God-given thinking abilities and power of reason to make the truth your own."--
If a jw did that wouldn't that be grounds for getting df'd? Say they decided to forgo the overlapping generation doctrine, making the 'truth' their own' and refused to teach it at the doors or actually said they didn't agree with it in front of a door and another jw. I think they would find themselves in the back room pretty quickly.
Every jw knows that if they make it the truth their own they will be out on their ass and lose their friends and family.
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"The battle for your mind" july 17 WT
by Bad_Wolf inthis is such a strange article.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2017488.
notice the parts about one won't get truth if it's spoon fed.
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carla
Can you give us a bit more info? Some here, like me, refuse to click on anything from the org. I refuse to give them anymore standing than they already get from google. Yeah, I know, makes no difference, just my personal stand against the org.