as many of you know my brother an elder was called on to sit in a "judicial committee" re-instatement.. the brother has in the past done all he can to prove he is repentant but this time the co was here and apparently had a few things to say to the cobe when they were discussing the process.
the co asked why the poor guy had four re-instatement hearings and why the co had received a letter from him detailing that he "did not think he could do anymore".. anyway, long story short, the co sat in the hearing and hey presto the brother was re-instated.
my brother and the co spoke with the brother and the co said that he had done well and was sorry that the process has taken so long and shook his hand.. now he mentioned the latest letter about confidentiality and said that the society is being hit left right and center with civil lawsuits and are scared as the have no way of defending them.
Compensation comes in many forms... money, benefits, power, status, etc...
For JWs, compensation comes in the form of status... Turn in at least 15 minutes a month and your status is REGULAR... Fail to do so and you status becomes IRREGULAR or INACTIVE.
JWs, therefore, are NOT volunteers.
i'm on page 90 right now...the info is definitely new and gives me a totally diff view as to how i used to think of faithful and discreet slave.
i was thoroughly disgusted with the way the brothers handled the oral sex and leadership problem and the insight on the scriptures book...... still have alot of questions though.
there's no easy way to leave... you just have to do it and get it over with... that's just my opinion
this week, the service meeting will have an oral review of the dvd faith in action which was distributed in the 2010 district assembly worldwide... as many of you probably know, the intent of this dvd is to present a "white-washed" version of the history of the watchtower by omitting all the scandals and cover-ups.... i no longer go to meetings, but i would have loved to raise my hand and answer question #9 which reads: "what did the bible students expect would happen in 1914?".
my response would have been the following:.
even though the geoffrey jackson admits that the bible students expected a "heavenly reward", the dvd avoids mentioning that russell categorically predicted armageddon would come in october of 1914. what's even worse is the fact that the narrator lied on two occasions by saying that the bible students expected or reasoned that jesus would take the throne in 1914. this is completely false.
Sheep2Slaughter... I think that sister was a bit off herself... thanks for sharing
i asked a jw in an email to do a google image search of these words-.
"1914 , the generation that will not pass away"- and guess what?.
they emailed me back a couple days later and accused me of sharing apostate material!
Are the Steimans still alive?
if yes, would you buy it?
what would be the suggested topic for the book?
any idea are welcome.. .
I would buy it...
I'd buy it quicker if it were about Rutherford, Knorr or whacky Freddy...
let's hope between steven unthanks crusade for justice in helping sexually abused jw children, along with more people speaking out, there will be a ripple affect to other countries!
pastors daniel and laura mccluskey from the church on the word in phoenix have been arrested.
the pastors were both arrested tuesday and booked on one count each of failure to report sexual abuse.
Interesting... What ever happened to their "ecclesiatical" privileges? (hope i spelled that correctly)
this week, the service meeting will have an oral review of the dvd faith in action which was distributed in the 2010 district assembly worldwide... as many of you probably know, the intent of this dvd is to present a "white-washed" version of the history of the watchtower by omitting all the scandals and cover-ups.... i no longer go to meetings, but i would have loved to raise my hand and answer question #9 which reads: "what did the bible students expect would happen in 1914?".
my response would have been the following:.
even though the geoffrey jackson admits that the bible students expected a "heavenly reward", the dvd avoids mentioning that russell categorically predicted armageddon would come in october of 1914. what's even worse is the fact that the narrator lied on two occasions by saying that the bible students expected or reasoned that jesus would take the throne in 1914. this is completely false.
By now, about 2/3 of congregations have had their Service Meeting this week...
For those who attended, please share...
thanks
" god raised up bold champions for his word, among whom were luther, zwingli, melanchthon, wycliffe, knox and others.
" (divine plan of the ages) um...hello??
bold champions for his word?
excellent thread
very few people actually know this but the watchtower dvd faith in action is actually a tribute to freemasonry.
this dvd presents illustrations of several famous freemasons such as john coustos (a portuguese grand master from lisbon circa 1740).
the dvd actually presents two illustrations of coustos being tortured by the clergy while the anonymous narrator denounces historic abuse from the clergy.
bumping due to this week's review of this DVD in Kingdom Halls around the globe...
in case you didn't notice, there are a couple of illustrations of the famous freemason john coustos being tortured in the dvd faith in action.
one picture has him tied to a torture wheel and the other illustration shows him being tortured by an arm-stretchting torture device.... no.... i'm not saying that the freemasons are taking over the world... so please don't get excited.... by the way, the dvd also mentions john calvin, the freemason who invented the deity "great architect of the universe" (also used by jws)....
For more details about the Freemasonry content in the Watchtower DVD "Faith In Action" Part I (2010), see this thread...
again... I'm not saying that JWs are Freemasons or that the Freemasons are taking over the world... but the info in this thread is worth looking into if anyone is interested in digging further...
