hi everyone and happy new year!
i have an online petition to protest the wt's lawsuit against quotes: http://www.jwinfo.50megs.com/custom4.html .
there are currently 26 signatures from 6 different countries.
I signed it.
My other contribution is to 'study' with my JW friend and have her think she is preaching. This way I am taking her time and hours away for the unsuspecting she would have been preaching to otherwise. I have this website to keep my feet on the ground.
Am I really nasty for doing that?
ok, forgive me if this sounds silly but it came to me today.
people keep talking about the earth and its disasters and the fulfilling of prophecies and end times.
but is there a counter argument to these prophecies?
thank you all - i will try to get hold of those books.
ok, forgive me if this sounds silly but it came to me today.
people keep talking about the earth and its disasters and the fulfilling of prophecies and end times.
but is there a counter argument to these prophecies?
Ok, forgive me if this sounds silly but it came to me today. People keep talking about the earth and its disasters and the fulfilling of prophecies and end times. But is there a counter argument to these prophecies? Are they really right? as all i see on numerous Christian websites is that they are mostly proven and accurate to history.
So - is it a valid point that if people all those years ago liked the moral lessons in the Bible, they lived according to it, therefore bringing the prophecies true themselves as a result? For example, Israel is always talked about, people see it mentioned all the time in the Bible, then all generations put more emphasis on it than say if another, not so mentioned, nation was written in it. Has it all just been self fulfilling so really just a load of old bull?
The reason I write this is to make sure i remember it myself, i can be easily convinced of things and i feel being critical of everything is important. I mean its a very scary prospect for someone non religious like myself to read stuff like that. Its like mass hysteria everywhere and i used to be so sheltered to it. Ignorance is bliss I say.
(baylor university, waco, tx) an essay entitled, "jehovah's witnesses, blood transfusions, and the tort of misrepresentation," found in the autumn issue of baylor universitys prestigious journal of church and state, published december 13, 2005, exposes the vulnerability of jehovahs witnesses religious organization to massive claims for compensation because of the religions misrepresentation of the medical risks of blood transfusions.
this milestone essay critically examines one of the religions main publications for teaching their children and new recruits about their blood beliefs, how can blood save your life?
the peer-reviewed essay details many misrepresentations of medical facts, which the religion partly relies on to support its blood prohibition, thus denying its members from making fully informed medical decisions.
i just tried to view their blood info on their website and it has errors and won't open. coincidence? or are too many of us trying to do the same thing, i'm not very technical.
if i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?
have i ever misled you?
i'll answer that--no!
having never been a JW, and now being a friend of one i am very intrigued to know how this news affects her life. i am tempted to warn her of it but i think that she will get her defenses ready. i will wait and talk about it in passing with her, see her inital reaction. if she cannot handle the new 'truth' then i will be considering giving up on her - during a conversation with her the other week about her religion, i never mentioned the word 'cult', 'sect' etc. yet she still had her defenses ready and said to me three times, 'we are not brainwashed.' i never even told her i thought she was.
under74, you're right. i need an overview, i find that when i read on here and other sites there is a lot of contradiction. a lot of JW opinion derives from individual experience right? what i'm getting so far is that she will eventually not be able to be my friend anyway so don't worry about what happened with the two people giving me a leaflet and funny look.
i'm not wanting to be romantically involved with her, we had a very strong friendship when she was not actively 'into' it. we connect and have fun, we've gone from best friends, to seeing eachother once in 2 weeks for 2 hours. i cling on to people in my life, all of my friends are long term -- i value them all a lot. so to lose her because of this peculiar lifestyle and 'religion' bothers me,
i do want to be honest. so if i tell her that i will not ever become a jw, she will cut me out right? i just don't want to lose her friendship. what would you do in my situation?
ah - but i've just remembered. i do have some leaflets, my friend does think i have a quiet interest (which i really do not), would that be justifiable for her?
yep -- user error, i explained it on the other thread.
sorry
i pressed enter, oops.
will try again.
have i done wrong? a month or so ago i posted here about my friend who has been a JW since birth, had a bad year and became my friend, i am not a JW, and now she has gone back to it 100%. she maintains our friendship and people on this site advised me it will be difficult for her and she may not be as close as before.
i am finding that i don't see much of her cos she's always off door knocking or bible studying, she is quite open about it, says she wants to be my friend etc. but i am no fool, she probably doesn't want to hurt my feelings.
now...yesterday i was walking down the street and 2 JW's stopped me and gave me a leaflet. instead of just taking it with me, i looked at it, said are you JW's? they said yes and i said oh well my friend is one, they wanted to know the name of my friend and i just responded by saying well i'm late for work but its ok i've got all your leaflets. was that rude?
thing is i recognized one and i think she knew who i was, not too sure, she maybe saw me 6 months ago with my friend. they both looked at me really weird. i'm worried that i'll get my friend in trouble for being my friend.
also, i am having doubts about all this, i generally behave myself when i'm around my friend not cursing etc, but i feel like i should be myself and see what she does with it.
help, i'm a bit confused.
