have you ever noticed this?
i mean it could be about something as simple as washing dishes, but they knew how to do it a better way.
has anyone else had an experience with a witness that just knew it all?
I think its because they REALLY believe that they are God's special people, and they are full of Holy Spirit, God's had chosen them from others in the world to be part of his organisation. They believe that because of this they are wiser then others and the WTS are very clever at selecting the right verse's to tickle their ears. Let's not forget that satan knows how to use the bible verse's to support his lies.
regards
what would/could happen if you and your wife decided that you needed to divorce?
lets say one of us screwed up and cheated, how do you think it would go over if you stonewalled the elders when they tried to get some info?
just told them "it is personal" or just told them that there was grounds to divorce ( even if you did not give any more info).
They will try and find out what has happened and why the divorce. IF you tell them nothing and both continue in the congregation neither of you can remarry, if one of you marry then it will be consider adultery on that persons part and he/she will be Dfed and then the remaining one can remarry and without being DFed.
But every BOE are a law to themselves.
I know of a couple personally who were married for 7 years , the husband realised that the woman could not have children and that she knew about this before they married but did not tell the husband that she couldn't have children, when the husband felt it was time to have children he discovered his wife's problem and that she knew about it before they married but did not tell him, he was so upset that she lied all those years that he left her, they divorced and then after about 2 years they both remarried to new partners and yet no one got DFed and both still to this day attend the kingdom Hall but at different congregations. Explain that one !
how do you feel about blood now?
the thought of taking a blood transfusion still gives me the creeps... but now i know that i'd take one if my life was on the line.
i'm thinking about giving blood too.
If I give blood or take blood it would be purely based on health reasons, nothing to do with spiritual reasons, like it once was.
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over half my cong.
members have mental issues and are taking prozac or some other medication for depression or other mental problems.many are going or have gone to therapists... anyone have a similar situation?
Even as a man, the more I get to know the women in the congo the more reveil to me that they are on anti-depressives, I don't know of any brother who is on anti-depressive but the achocol probably helps. It seems that its the older single women, over 30 that find if harder to cope, thats my observation.
i was wondering the other day when my neighbor(who is an jw elder) called me an "apostate" for refusing to return to jw's.
when i left the wt i never stopped loving jehovah and jesus i just could not stomach the wt society anymore.
there are alot of us ex-jw's who still love jehovah and jesus and still read our bibles.
go to www.dictionary.com
True meaning of the word is " One who has abandoned one's religious faith, a political party, ones principles, or a cause." So, I suppose you and most of us here are apostates, but then most of us were already apostates when we entered the watchtower, because we had abondoned our original religion or political views. Also, the Watchtower are not the only ones to use that word to discribe poeple they don't like, do a search on google using IRAN and APOSTATE and see how many entires you get. The Watchtower has changed the true meaning of the word to make it sound like we have left God rather then just changed our minds over which is the true religion, if any. So tell your Elder friend to look the word up in the dictionary and not the Watchtowers.
i am engaged to a wonderful man who is jw.
this wg has been bombarded by his mother.
father is pretty happy to us about us.
lots of aussie's on this post. come on aussie come on! hehe
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when you were still in the org, or when you had already left.. i read it when i was still in and it had a profound effect on me.. lets take a poll .
I was a big beleive in the WTS, was a pioneer, an MS and a MTS Grad, but then I had a bad experience with the BOE and a commitee, so I went on the net, I found out about the pyramids and 1914. I then brought and read the COC book, it was an eye opener! Best thing I ever done, if only I had known about it sooner I wouldn't have wasted 15 years preaching someone elses fasle theology.
this is a question for believers of the wts.
is there anything that the wts could do to make you not believe anymore?
what would it take for them to shatter your faith?
I understand your question and the replies you are getting are correct. I am still considered a JW as most on this board once were. I think if all JWs gave themselves a chance to listen ALL would change their minds, but it’s the mind control that the WTS has that stops them. If they applied Provs 18:13 “When anyone is replying to a matter before he hears [it], that is foolishness on his part and a humiliation.”, but they expect others to apply this and not themselves. But we know as we were once ourselves that if anyone comes with “discouraging“ news, or has “independed” thinking or worst still “apostate” thinking, then the JW blocks his ears and mind. But if you can get around this and actually get the oppounity to let a JW hear the false theology of the WTS and all their rotten deeds I’m sure ALL will change. My breaking point was when I read about 1914 and the pyramids, and then I read the COC book.
mathew 6:9. you must pray, then, this way: .
our father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified.
10 let your kingdom come.
I still do, its God and Jesus by way of the bible that promises the kingdom not the watchtower, but when the kingdom comes it won't be because the Watchtower said so. I stand stand in the middle of the desert and say "One day it will rain", when rain finally does come it won't mean I was a Prophet
has anyone lurked on the jw sites on myspace.com?
i was surprised to see how much partying goes on.
jw's nj, pa, ny.
In my time as a JW, I've come to learn that as soon as you start to really know a JW personnally, and they come to "trust' you, you find that they are just everyone else, when I lived in sydney, some JW's who were visiting Sydney and who wanted to see the sights asked me to take them to Kings cross, which is the Red Light area. One was a Mother and Daughter couple who asked me to show them Kings Cross, which i happerly did, of course they asked me not to tell others. take a look at kings cross. www.kxol.com.au Its an eye opener
