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Hubby's been sent an invite to see the elders at the hall - my fault!
by dobbie ini posted the other day about being called on when i'm d'ad and that the elder refused to leave when i asked as i am not the head of the house!
so i wrote a letter saying what had happened and not to call again or i'd seek further action, i also got hubby (as head of the house lol) to sign it and sent a copy to the main branch as well.. we got a very polite reply this week saying that of course they'd 'respect' my wishes but wish to ascertain if hubby still wants to be a jw and have sent him an 'invitation' to join them one night next week!otherwise he can send in a d'a letter if he wishes!.
so far he's done nothing about it though i have talked him out of going, but if he doesn't send the letter or turn up will they automatically take that as him d'aing himself?just wondering if any ex elders here know as i think i ought to warn him in advance.
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JEHOVAH'S NAME IN NEW TESTAMENT
by dobbie inhi i've noticed in one of the posts that the jw bible put gods name into the new testament,and that it shouldn't be there.
i admit that i'm not the brightest pebble on the beach, but when i was studying they told me that the name jehovah was restored to where it was originally and that the nwt was the most accurately translated bible around.
just wondering how they have got away with doing that if they have blatantly inserted it where it bible scholars would immediately see it shouldn't be?also is there any such thing as the most accurate bible translation cos i'd like to try reading it my myself(without the aid of watchtower publications), but don't know now if i can trust nwt or not.
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On ebay
by dobbie inwas just browsing on ebay out of sheer boredom and typed in 'jehovahs witnesses' .one of the things i spotted was a no blood keyring for children, asking for their parents to be contacted, apparently from an ebay shop a pioneer couple run.
this made me feel really sick, fair enough to carry one if your'e an adult, but children?
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Is this a new thing?
by dobbie inforgive me if it isn't but i've felt too rough to post here lately so may have missed it.
hubby hasn't been to meetings for ages, he's fading.
anyway his mother rang him up and said that his elder step father wanted to know how he felt about the sign i have on our door which says no religious callers ( obviously trying to catch him out).
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You can tell an assemblies getting near when...
by dobbie inpeople and family who you haven't heard from in ages suddenly start phoning or popping round!the jws just had their district assembly and i said to hubby at the beginning of the month id bet him a fiver his mother would be in touch because the assembly was coming and they'd be told to get inactive ones there to swell the figures.
(hardly has anything to do with us usually).sure enough he had a loveydovey text from her saying she was still at the meetings and missed him, then two elders contact us(though it looks like after what i said they are trying to d'a me, and then my ex best friend calls round this weekend while i was out and then two sisters came round today but i got hubby to answer the door.think he owes me quite a few fivers now don't you!isn't it a bit false though to only bother when they are told to do so?had better find out when the next assembly is due so i can barricade the door and turn the answering machine on!maybe i am just getting too cynical and they are trying to help but just seems funny i was right about the timimg doesn't it?
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Why baptise young ones?
by dobbie injust had two months worth of mags shoved through my door(thank goodness i wasn't in but out with kids having fun!
)had a flick through them but what caught my attention was the july 1st watchtower 2nd study article "youths, make it your choice to serve jehovah".
it seems to be basically encouraging all the young ones to get baptised, and mentions one boy who was only thirteen!i was'nt born into the jws but i know that in my early teen years i would personally never have been emotionally ready for such a major commitment.
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Was there a recent post about jw kids not mixing with worldly ones?
by dobbie inor did i imagine it?i'm sure i saw this recently, that in one of the upcoming mags they were saying about after school activites and only associating with 'worldly' kids in school and not outside, but i can't find it anywhere!does anybody remember this only i wanted to mention it on another website where someone's asking re jws and having friends and i wanted to 'enlighten' them!
thanks
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Serves me right
by dobbie inlast week i had to go to my allotment in the evening to pick some stuff for my dad.i went past the house i used to attend for thursday night book study, it was thursday night and when i saw all the cars parked outside for it, i just had a huge grin on my face cos i felt so free and happy not to be there, it was the meeting i dreaded most, i used to hate it!no one used to talk to us - even my mother in law would'nt say hello not even to her grandchildren!
(the only times she spoke were on two occasions which really surprised me until i realised it was because she wanted her youngest son to sleep at ours both times, so they could go away), anyway i got to the allotment which was awful cos my little ones did not want to be there, my eldest shut the door on my 18mth old so i went and left a big bucket of produce lying in the middle of the car park.
on the way back theres a lane with a part where only one car can get through so after checking no one was conimg the other way i stated to drive up it, nearly at the bit where its wider and a boy racer appears out of nowhere making me stop.bearing in mind he only had to reverse back one car length i waited for him to go back.the git and his girlfriend just stayed there laughing at me, i had the little ones and didn't want trouble so i started to reverse(which i just can't do!
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where can i find address of jws London headquarters please?
by dobbie inits ridgeway nw7 1rn,methinks
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If you are thinking of counselling and unsure ..try it!
by dobbie inmay seem a strange topic but i know (myself included) that sometimes we feel like we have no one to openly talk to, we are full of anger, hate, sadness etc at how we have/are being treated by loved ones, until the pain gets too much.
there may come a point that you think about getting professional help but are unsure maybe because of not knowing what to expect, that it might make you worse not better, that you couldn't talk to a stranger etc.
just wanted to let you know my hubbys experience so far.