am v. curious...jus wondering what a dub would be told about someone like me as my on/off b.f is studying.
if you were a j.w then what were you taught about ' worldly' people?!.
thanks guys your comments are muchos appreciated!!.
Ellie,
Do your best to keep him out......bombard him with the information about the watchtower you can find on this site. My guess is he is going through lots of guilt right now, just try to keep his mind open to the reality of the JWs. Its a terrible strain on any relationship when one party is in the borg and the other is free...
does the watchtower allow gambling if the winnings are returned?
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=15686serena returns money won in gambling .
new york: tennis star and tv actress serena williams returned her winnings in gambling recently as she is a jehovah's witness and it is against her faith to gamble.. .
Well she can just slip the members of her judicial committee 400 bucks a piece and all will be forgiven.
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that's not the mental image i have of jesus.
i don't think that jesus pested people, and i don't think he had to be dressed better or differently from those he preached to.. .
Jesus wasnt working for a multi-billion dollar publishing corporation.
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my favorite one was my father's statement to me after i enrolled in college: .
we can't drag your carcass into armageddon!
"How can you give this up....this is your CULTURE!!!!"
not joking....this was actually said to me.... I almost hurled....
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this one's definitely worth a listen.
http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/video/hondaservicecall.wma
oh my god thats hilarious...hope it doesnt happen at my Acura dealership!!
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image apathy, by the way.
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I believe in the greatest 'creator' of all time....its called the HUMAN MIND....and IT created god....many many aeons ago...
a few months, i had a bible study with an elder, and although i'm 45, and the elder was in his early 70's, the way the bible study went, i felt like a child being taught by his father or a teacher at school.
honestly, i felt like a 10 year old kid, being told when to read, what to read, and what to answer.
also, having to prepare and underline everything just to look like a good and obedient student.. i guess that all depending on what privileges a person had in the congregation, one either felt like a kid or a teacher.. even during assemblies, being told what hotel to sleep at , and what restaurant not to go to during the intermission, are all examples how as jw's, we were expected to act like obedient kids, without a word to say..
Yes, all the time. That is the secret of their power....most of the loyal dubs I know are extremely immature emotionally which makes them ideal dubs...The whole concept of Jehovah
as a really nasty father who will beat the crap out of you for disobedience is filtered down the entire power structure, from the GB, to the CO, to the PO, to the elders....
if someone held a gun to your head and threatened to blow your brains out unless you worshiped jesus and went to church, which christian church would you choose?
no pansy churches like the unitarians though.
it has to be a fundamentalist denomination.
"LATVIAN ORTHODOX" a la George Costanza.............
that's right kiddies, i miss the guy.
so i'm a gonna post about it.. defd is still nosing around here i'm sure.
who can deny the guy belonged here just as much as the chat function did.
I kinda miss old Grissom and myelaine, a couple of wing-nuts, but they were very entertaining....
do you believe the society will just stay on automatic pilot or do you think some "new lite" is in store for witnesses?
My guess would be they will revise the secret Elders manual and remove the "2 witness" requirement for reporting crimes like molestation, if these lawsuits succeed,
they may be legally forced to do this or suffer continued class action lawsuits from molestation survivors.
