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10-15-07 WT - Shall I go to the wedding (or funeral) or shall I not go?

by Bonnie_Clyde in

page 27-29 (study article): both of these sisters, lois and ruth, have unbelieving husbands.

article explains that this can create challenges when there is a wedding or a funeral.

lois follows her "bible-trained" conscience and decides that she cannot attend with her husband because she doesn't want to be under pressure to break her integrity and certainly doesn't want to embarrass her husband.

Frequent_Fader_Miles

I know I could never explain to my "worldy" relatives why I couldn't attend a funeral or wedding at a church especially if they attended a JW funeral service or wedding at Kingdom Hall.

My sentiments exactly! How hypocritical can they get? Here it is that J-Dubs go traipsing all over the place under the pretense of "preaching", inviting people to their Kingdom Halls, entering people's homes for a "bible study" ... yet still they won't accept those same invitations from others. Why want for others what you don't want for yourself?

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Well - the New Secret Watchtower should arrive pretty soon.....

by AK - Jeff in

i hope someone opens a new secret watchtower website with all the pages scanned monthly.

wouldn't that be a hoot?

i forget nowadays - when should the dubs expect that january shipment?

Frequent_Fader_Miles

By the time they put something obviously crazy in there, some months down the line, people will already feel so special that they will suck it all in

I agree! They'd probably be viewing the Kool-Aid edition as the "Divine Oracle".

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Did all those refreshing moments/ideas make you cringe?

by Younglove1999 in

i have to admit- the idea of having to live forever and having to continue going to meetings 1,000 times a week and studying "the new scrolls" sounded so annoying and tiring and not at all refreshing and exciting!

i honestly did not look forward to "it" .

when discussing how exciting going to assemblies and conventions would be and how we'd always leave feeling rejuvinated and happy, i never did.

Frequent_Fader_Miles

Life in the so-called "New Order" seemed like high-apple-pie-in-the-sky to me. What's so refreshing about going to meetings every day of the week (since there wont be anyone to go out in field circus to convert).

Assemblies were just a way to lose a perfectly good weekend to a complete time-waster. Our poor dogs always suffered at Convention time ... even they were stressed out! It's sooooo great being able to do my own thing now.

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What happens to marriage partners in the 'New System'?

by ThomasCovenant in

scenario 1 ..................when one 'faithful' partner dies in this 'system' and is resurrected and the other survives through armageddon.

scenario 2...................both partners die and are resurrected into the 'new system'.

as members are now dying off this is the reality facing those longterm aged members of the borg.

Frequent_Fader_Miles

Once your partner dies, you are free to remarry. When the partner is resurrected, that person is not only no longer married, but is no longer free to marry ever again.
If both partners die and are resurrected, then both are single when resurrected. The marriage ends when the first partner dies, and if the other dies later, the marriage is already gone. When both are resurrected, they are "as the angels" and single. Worse, neither are free to get married in that "new" order

This explanation made no sense to me either! True, one may reason that the marriage ends when one (or both) partner/s die ... but why can't they be married again? After all, the earth would need to be repopulated, right? And with the "old" becoming "young" again, are they saying that someone in this circumstance has to "continue alone" in the same way Jehovah found that Adam shouldn't? Such reasoning defies all logic!

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Presiding Overseer's wife publically reproved.

by ThomasCovenant in

latest gossip round these here parts is that the wife of the presiding overseer has been 'publically reproved'.

nothing has filtered through about what the 'crime' was yet.. they are a young couple and he appears to me to be very conscientious in doing his best for the brothers.

i feel sorry for them as i have seen the pressure on them to juggle the demands of the cong with his wife who i think may suffer from depression.. thanks.

Frequent_Fader_Miles

I feel sorry for them as I have seen the pressure on them to juggle the demands of the cong with his wife who I think may suffer from depression.

My heart always went out to some WOPs (wives of position) in the congregation. They always had to share their husbands time and attention with everyone else, and I often wondered if they could be truly happy in such a situation. Theocratic activities simply leeched all "down-time" out of the relationship. I remember once a sister was wishing for a sheperding call ... from her elder husband!

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The Pecking Order of Jehovah's Witnesses

by minimus in

jw
friends

where were you in the pecking order??

jws pride themselves as being different from "worldly" organizations and other religions.

they claim to have no clergy/laity groups.

Frequent_Fader_Miles

Where were you in the pecking order??

Where was I? I was the one being pecked!

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DID`NEW LIGHT' EVER BOTHER YOU?

by badboy in

jw
friends

in the sence that they shoulknow what they should be preaching?

Frequent_Fader_Miles

Short answer is YES! I'd always wonder why people get penalized for things that would later be subject to "new light". That never made any sense to me. Light getting brighter in a room just illuminates what's already there ... not changing the contents of the room!

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Witness Brother had baptism voided after fornication= Not disfellowshiped??

by Witness 007 in

do you know about this loop hole rule?

a short time after baptism a young man i knew commited fornication but told the elders he didn't know it was a sin, he didn't have full knowledge when baptized.

his baptizm was voided and he had to study and be baptized again at a later date.

Frequent_Fader_Miles

That argument did not work for me when I DA'd :-\

kifoy

Maybe they didn't read the 1958/1960 Watchtowers.

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Witness Brother had baptism voided after fornication= Not disfellowshiped??

by Witness 007 in

do you know about this loop hole rule?

a short time after baptism a young man i knew commited fornication but told the elders he didn't know it was a sin, he didn't have full knowledge when baptized.

his baptizm was voided and he had to study and be baptized again at a later date.

Frequent_Fader_Miles

Maybe he convinced them that he wasn't "dedicated" before baptism (didn't dedicate himself in prayer first), thus making his actual baptism null and void.

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ATTN: Sign Language Jezebels! Get those hats back on! (BOE letter)

by BFD in

once again i have been selected as the "chosen channel" of commnuication by an paranoid elder apostate in waiting to spread this divinely inspired information: .

bfd.

a recent letter to all traveling overseers and bodies of elders in the u.s. contains an interesting "change in policy".

Frequent_Fader_Miles

if a sister is used to interpret any of the program talks, she is to wear a "modest and appropriate head covering as a sign of submission

What in heaven's name is a modest head covering supposed to look like?

Frequent_Fader_Miles

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