i will start it off with-thetrueone.
"postulating religionists are really illusionists by using suggestive words to accomplish a state of believability.
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On his own thread at http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/208674/1/Dude-Memorial-on-Sunday-and-the-Battle-for-sd-7-Continues , sd-7 said:
"She expressed a hope that, when I 'get reinstated', there will be many people who will want to befriend and talk to me. Well, while I enjoy Instant Cocoa Mix, I do not enjoy Instant Friends. I can taste the difference."
I loved the highlighted part. Classic....and oh so true. Thanks sd-7.
CoC
like the question is jehovah witness the true religion?
is all others false, what do yall think?.
i am confuse and just wanting to know others thoughts??
Marked
hey i'm wondering if anyone can give some good advice on how to step down in the safest way.. i have served as an ms for a number of years, but can't do it anymore.
i know too much i want to fade in the future when i get some family things straightened out.
i can't move right now so that's out unfortunately.. what should i tell the body?
RayPublisher, Thanks for the update! I wish you the best. I currently "devote" about 4 hrs to the ministry per month, and as you already know, no longer a ministerial servant.
CoC
people become jws for a variety of reasons.
i just read an interesting passage in a novel that i think applies to many of us to some way.
the main character in the book is a retired military policeman.
I'm not a born-in, but close enough. I was about 6 or 7 when my parents took their studying seriously and were moved to baptism. I trusted my parents because they trusted other people that TOLD them this was the truth. Hey, I was a kid.
I know now that it is not the truth.
CoC
face persecution?.
helped to resist peer pressure.
(a) why can we expect to face trials and.
Thanks Blondie!!
Just to support the info in par. 16, I need to add this wonderful experience a brother told me about himself this weekend.
He was working full time and also serving as a regular pioneer. So he had a pretty full schedule. His long service days were on Saturday and Sunday, two days that he relied on dearly. Now he has two daughters from two different women and is currently married to another woman.
All of a sudden, the mothers that were giving him problems about seeing the girls regularly, began to allow him to have the girls on the weekend. (You guessed it, now affecting his service time.) So as a good father should do, he gave thought to keep working and quit pioneering so as to both care for his girls and see them. His wife proceeds to tell him not to stop pioneering, but rather to keep it in prayer.
A few weeks later, still pioneering, he looses his job; a layoff. How does he explain it? IT WAS AN ANSWER TO HIS PRAYERS!!
Alright everyone, calm down. Yes, yes, it's true. He hasn't worked for almost two years and is able to collect weekly. This is what Jehovah wants, him to live off the system, yes to abuse it, so that he can continue to give of himself and serve whole-souled. But now, since he doesn't have to go to a job daily, he can get his time during the week and see his girls on the weekend!
WTH !!
Hey, you don't have to believe me. I'm just recounting the twisted things that come out of people in this org and make you go .......... hmmmmmm.
CoC
the following highlighted info is taken from pg.
62 of steve hassan's combatting cult mind control:.
if information transmitted to a cult member is perceived as an attack on either the leader, the doctrine, or the group, a hostile wall goes up.
@ Ding - I haven't finished reading Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steve Hassan. But that could certainly be a start into understanding the mind and how to talk to people under this control.
CoC
though i no longer believe the fds is indeed appointed by god, i guess because of what has been taught to me all these years through the wtbts, i still make an effort to try and look at both sides.
and then i come across this number below, which is how i arrived at my title for this thread.
***w81 2/15 p.19 do we need help to understand the bible?***.
@ sizemik - Good point! JW's at times assume things about Jehovah or Jesus yet accept it as truth. How do we know? Wording, like apparently, evidently, etc.
But God forbid you do something that was not recorded in the Bible and voila! You're a sinner because then, and only then, evidently, it never happened.
CoC
what's wrong with you slackers?
huh?
enough with your excuses!!!
MLE - PM
CoC
though i no longer believe the fds is indeed appointed by god, i guess because of what has been taught to me all these years through the wtbts, i still make an effort to try and look at both sides.
and then i come across this number below, which is how i arrived at my title for this thread.
***w81 2/15 p.19 do we need help to understand the bible?***.
@ Mary - I want to thank you for those quotes and that fine research.
But where do you see that all that applies to JW's also? Aren't you reading between the lines, that hypnotic message - EXCEPT JW's!?
LOL Thanks again.
CoC
another wonderful part this week at the meeting.
and this is what the brother said.. he related examples, based on the om book, as to how jehovah kept records.
funny part is, they all applied to population, the amount of people.. is there any part of the bible that talks about how jehovah kept a log of hours on some occasion?
BTTT
