it seems some inactive ones and active jws are hardly ever bothered by the elders while others are constantly called, checked up on, etc...... what gives?.
Hubby and I faded with no questions asked many years ago despite both of us coming from quite prominent families within the borg. My father had been the PO of our congregation at one time! We have both kept very low profiles over the years and never ruffled any feathers so I guess that is why they have left us alone, yet others do the same and get hounded! Makes no sense!!
I have no doubt in my mind I would be df'd if they asked me how I really feel about "Jehovah's chosen Organisation' lol.
so at the convention, one of the talks was about how all people will speak a single language in the new system.
my ears perked up when i heard at the outset "now, we can't be dogmatic about this" because that immediately makes me think that they're backing away from a previously dogmatic stance.
he went on to say that everyone will be speaking hebrew in the new system because "evidently" (another word that gets my ears to perk up these days) that was what was spoken before the languages were confused at bable.
Everyone will speak like Anthony Morris III and dress in tee shirts bearing the image of Sparlock on the front and a trash can on the back.
Now excuse me while I nip out through the back of my wardrobe into my favourite land of make believe.
in some ways i just have to admire wt for the amount of crap they can take and despite this can keep it from the r&f, and still keep coming up smelling of roses.
you think about all the dramas they have had and can yet still keep showing an increase - all be it in internet deprived developing countries.
but even still an over all increase is still an increase.
Salute them for breaking up our families and stealing our lives plus all the things that jookbeard mentioned? NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have had over a century of free reign to use their clever propaganda and mind control tactics to build up such a huge international money making business using free labour, but now we have the internet to expose their lies. It won't happen overnight, but they are definitely starting to feel the pressure now otherwise they wouldn't be working so hard to get apostate youtube videos banned before the rank and file get a chance to see them!!!
i had my first real birthday party yesterday.
call me an irredeemable pagan, but i was massively excited about this, the whole thing was very special, i got a little emotional and i think my friends must have found it a little strange but it was just nice to be creature worshipped.
when i was a child my parents always used to tell people i didn't miss out by not celebrating my birthday but i did miss out.
Happy Birthday Laika, so glad you had a nice time.
I got a facebook reminder that it was my JW niece's birthday last week. She has a large family and loads of friends. I posted a carefully worded messages saying I was thinking about her and I hoped she had a nice day. No other messages whatsoever. I returned later to see if anyone else had posted a greeting of some sort to her. I sat looking at her empty page listening to the wind blowing the tumbleweeds around. So sad.
how's these comments in this weeks study?.
i understood that i had neglected my children when they most needed my guidance and affection, admits eduardo.
i had not been there to read them bible stories, to pray with them, to cuddle them, and to play with them.
Hmmmm yes, Andre isn't exactly your every day philippino name is it. I can just see them sitting round the board table thinking up a suitably apt philippino equivalent substitute for Andre for their hero father in this made up story.
"How many votes for Eduardo guys? ...... Ok, Eduardo it is"
how's these comments in this weeks study?.
i understood that i had neglected my children when they most needed my guidance and affection, admits eduardo.
i had not been there to read them bible stories, to pray with them, to cuddle them, and to play with them.
What Cantleave said with knobs on! Utter, utter rubbish!! At least they used a different made up name instead of "Andre"
i just got back from the district convention and watched the new video.
can't remember what it is called but the main family live in a million dollar home and there teenage daughter drives a red convertable sports car.
probably worth about 50000$.
I watched this video with total amazement. The story gave the impression that the parents, particularly the father, were long term JWs (possibly born ins) and not newly converted.Therefore, how did they manage a millionaire's lifestyle on a window washer and office cleaner's pay? I would sincerely like to ask the GB to answer this question for me as a former obedient sister who sacrificed a career for them and am now surviving on a basic state pension, all so that I could spend the best years of my youth peddling WT literature from door to door as required.
So, there is nothing wrong with being a millionaire rank and file J W? Please explain how this can be true unless there are rules for some and not for others.
Ahh maybe their fortunes were inherited I hear you cry! Well surely a true Christian should live a modest lifestyle and all excess money donated to the World Wide Funds?
Hmmmm
i was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.
i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.
i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.
Well it is no surprise that this sister should seek advice from the elders considering the fact that ALL jws are told to obey without question and they have their beliefs 'adjusted' every time New Light comes through from tbe GB. I bet there are many jws who arent exactly sure what the up to date teachings are regarding the overlapping generation, the GB being the FSD or what blood fractions are acceptable let alone if Jah is going to strike them dead for making wedding invites for people he might not approve of.
I know a young jw who was thinking about starting a cake making business until I pointed out that not all her customers would be jws and she might be required to make a cake for a celebration that went against her Watchtower trained concience, and she would not be able to discriminate without getting into problems. Needless to say she dropped that idea like a hot cake !
up until 5 years ago, the co used to work up their own parts for specfic congregations in their circuits.
everything is up to script, in other words, every co in the country are givings the same talks in the local congregations they visit.
what got me to cringe is when he said at the meeting, trying to encourage everyone to pioneer this august; he said :" you know this october it will be 100 years since gods kingdom began ruling, remember what happen when joshua told the israelites to march around jericho on the seventh day, and what happened when they let out a great war cry?
Same old carrot
Same old stick
When will the rank and file wake up and realise that the piece of string separating the two never gets any shorter?!
Sigh
Edited to say I think yadda's illustration of going round and round in a never ending circle sums it up perfectly!
exhibit a:.
awake!
"if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
Ooh if there was ever a quote guaranteed to send my blood pressure rocketing every time it's' mentioned it's this one from the 1969 Awake. Based on that article I was pressurised by my parents to get a part time cleaning job and pioneer for what was left of this wicked system of things. Now, as a pensioner surviving on a basic state pension, I see it side by side with the article from the March 2014 study edition of the WT stating that the trials that come with old age cannot be avoided. WHAT??! I am seething !! Yet the old timers still continue to lap it all up, all this wonderfulness spewing forth from the pages of God's own magazines. Give me strength!
Now where did I put my pills...........
