i am still "in" the org (technically) and i have never got the same answer twice.
i have been told that if you don't report time for one month then your considered inactive for six months.
i have also been told that if you don't report for six months then your inactive.
"IRREGULAR" always made me think of a bowel movement.
LOL!! I am sorry but that is just too funny!!
I guess I would be considered "IRREGULAR". I suppose some Metamucil would do the trick!
Thanks for replies. Does anyone know how they try to back all of this up using the bible?
Regards,
I.W
i am still "in" the org (technically) and i have never got the same answer twice.
i have been told that if you don't report time for one month then your considered inactive for six months.
i have also been told that if you don't report for six months then your inactive.
I am still "in" the org (technically) and I have never got the same answer twice. I have been told that if you don't report time for one month then your considered inactive for six months. I have also been told that if you don't report for six months then your inactive. I am so confused. In any case how do they back this up Scripturally?
Thank You,
I.Wonder
P.S.- I find it amazing that all of you here know more about the org then the most witnesses.
were you ever stuck with a book study conductor that was outright boring, with no teaching abilities .
and there was nothing you could do about it but sit and fake it like you were spiritually fed and got stuck with him for years?
?.
We had a conductor that never varied his pitch everything was montone. When he would ask a question and someone would comment no matter how correct the comment was he would always say "well yes that is true, but I was looking for something else."
Well no one would raise their hand to try to give him what he wanted because he would just take exactly what the bro. or sis had just said and rephrase it into his own words. We had to hear the same answers over and over again in his boring monotone voice. It was just awful!!
I.Wonder
hello all.. although never a fully paid up, dunked member of the club, i was at times very keen on the whole jw thang.. when i was in, i thought all worldly people were lying, cheating, alcohol and drug addicted, sex obsessed gambling criminals who should be treated with ,at least a very high degree of suspicion.
as per the classic pictures in the 80's books - all women looked like hookers, all men were pictured smoking or with a whisky bottle.. did others here have similar opinions.. i remember being 8 or 9 and my idea of a worldly man was a picture in the pale blue (creation book) or the red one (dunno the name) - i'll try and scan the picture i mean one day, it's brilliant.
it is a chap with a black moustache and a white shirt sat at a circular table looking all forlorn.
I never totally subscribed to that view, although I didn't think the "world" had much to offer me when I became a dub.
I could never completely view "worldly" people as being "evil" or "bad" either. I think it was because I came from the "world" as well and had met some truly amazing people. People I much rather spend my time with than almost of the dubs I know. I also felt and still feel like I was never totally excepted as being a "real witness" because I came from the world.
All of my hubby's family were born and raised as witnesses. Some of his family members (including himself) married people who were not baptized yet and were viewed (by the rest of his family) as marrying "out of the Lord". I remember my hubby's parents not being at all happy about him and I getting married because I was not baptized. He was not baptized either! It was simply because he had been raised as one and I had not. To this day if problems arise it is quite often attributed to the fact that he didn't obey Jehovah or listen to his parents when he married me.
Makes me sick!
I.Wonder
this is so hilarious!!!.
http://www.ladyskylar.com/swffiles/brocolli.swf .
LOL!!
Thanks for the laugh.
I.Wonder
i am new to the site, although i have been a lurker for quite some time.
i was very nervous to create an account.
all of the people i work for and with are jw's and we are all family.
Thank You All So Much!!!
I am grateful for all of your ideas and encouragement. I feel as if I have recieved more care and concern here than I ever have at any Kingdom Hall.
Brightest Blessings,
I.Wonder
i am new to the site, although i have been a lurker for quite some time.
i was very nervous to create an account.
all of the people i work for and with are jw's and we are all family.
But you're lying to a publishing house, a glorified book club. There are worse things you could do.
I never really thought of it that way. You totally right!
Where does hubby stand? Is he still thinking JW's are God's Chosen People and what-not?
Yes he does. He knows that I have doubts, but he doesn't know that I think it's all a bunch of poop. We have had arguments and in most them he says that "I never loved the "truth" and that I did it all for him" In some ways that is true. However there was a time I was totally convinced that it was indeed the "truth". He has had some real bad crap happen to him (from the elders) and he still doesn't see it.
i am new to the site, although i have been a lurker for quite some time.
i was very nervous to create an account.
all of the people i work for and with are jw's and we are all family.
I was just turning in "informal time". Then an elder had a sheparding call with my husband and I saying "Jesus sent the apostles door to door, we also need to be doing the same" I told him I would make an effort to go out once a month and he hasn't bothered me since. I get a alot of pressure from people in the cong. to go out. I will surely put all of your suggestions to use.
Thanks Again,
I.W.
i am new to the site, although i have been a lurker for quite some time.
i was very nervous to create an account.
all of the people i work for and with are jw's and we are all family.
WOW!! What a nice warm welcome and some great advice. Thank you everyone.
I.W
i am new to the site, although i have been a lurker for quite some time.
i was very nervous to create an account.
all of the people i work for and with are jw's and we are all family.
Hello Everyone,
I am new to the site, although I have been a lurker for quite some time. I was very nervous to create an account. All of the people I work for and with are Jw's and we are all family. So I am a little afraid of getting "caught" on JWD.
I do not know how often I will be able to post. As I am at work and do not get much of a chance to go online. Before I ask my questions I will tell you a little about myself.
I was not raised as a witness. I came into the "truth" very slowly. I think 3 people studied with me over a period of seven years. During those years I got married, I was reproved publicly, my husband was df'd, we both went back to the "world", came back to the "truth", and after all that I still got baptized!! I was very reluctant to do so, but I felt very obilgated.
I have been baptized for about 3 years and my husband has been reinstated for about 3 1/2 years. I still attend meeting, comment at meetings once in while, and are still part of the Theocratic Ministry School. I really don't like just going through the motions of everything, but I am just not ready to DA or DF. I may have to face that some day, but I don not want to loose my family.
So I was wondering if any of you on here are still "active" witnesses? How do you manage going out in field service? What do you say?
I have no direct problem going to meetings, commenting, and being in TMS. I am really having a problem with going door to door. I feel like I am peddling the WTS wares and we have soooo many problems in our hall that I don't want to bring people into the "cess-pool". I just want to stay active to keep the elders off my back. If anyone has any ideas I thank you in advance!!
Thanks to all of you who make this site what it is. You have no idea how much you all have helped me through the past year.
Thank You,
I.Wonder
P.S.- Please forgive my grammar.
