on another thread a poster made the comment that the golden rule was garbage.
she said it was arrogant and made assumptions.. i didn't want to derail that thread so i started another wondering if this is a common thought about this belief on this forum.
i guess i naively thought the value of doing to others as you want them to do to you was generally accepted as positive.. i understand people have different opinions of jesus as a person but i don't want to get into that here.
Rather than assume people want the same thing you want, you could always ask them.
I think the Golden Rule doesn't omit this. I would want someone to ask me how I would like to be treated instead of just assuming. This is in line with the Golden rule.
"hey brother wasa, come on back to the meetings.
" (after 10 years) so i respond that the situation with pedophiles is out of hand.
they tell me "we" elders have received tons of training on the subject, its not like it was 10 years ago.
THREE elders? That's more than an investigation committee.
How would I react? I'd crack open a bottle of Bourbon and proceed to pour myself a stiff drink, and then tell them it's not a good time for encouragement as I'm just finishing up breakfast.
deborah relates her experiences of being a jw in this bbc radio 4 broadcast.. deborah frances white - rolls the dice.
very funny and by and large very accurate.. fruit based economy indeed!.
Man, that was EXCELLENT. It was almost therapeutic listening to her fearlessness.
Amazing she got out of the cult after that Biker gang incident. That could have been something that kept someone in the cult as a result of "confirmation bias" perceiving Jehovah helping them.
deborah relates her experiences of being a jw in this bbc radio 4 broadcast.. deborah frances white - rolls the dice.
very funny and by and large very accurate.. fruit based economy indeed!.
this is a phrase taken from the current wt magazine being studied.
someone already took it and ran with it, posting it as a banner in a pro-jw site called "i am proudly a jw".
it's in spanish, but you can look it up in the english version of the mag.
Here's how the English version of paragraph 9 reads:
Consider W. J. Thorn, who served as a pilgrim, or traveling overseer, starting in 1894. After many years in that work, he was called to Kingdom Farm in upstate New York and worked in the henhouse. He said: “Whenever I get to thinking a great deal of myself, I take myself into the corner, so to speak, and say: ‘You little speck of dust. What have you got to be proud of?’” (Read Isaiah 40:12-15.) A humble attitude indeed!
my wife is a jw, and is teaching our eight year old daughter jw beliefs.
i am trying to teach her about evolution and critical thinking skills.
here is a conversation we had today (as best i can remember it):daughter: "why do bad things happen?
This video may be above her head, but if she's as bright as she sounds, she may get something out of it:
has there been any official announcement made regarding the new kh design?
i am asking because i know some publishers on my cong that already seen the pics from elders who attended the presentation.
also made me wonder how long would it be before they have to dedicate a section of the meeting (local needs?
for the past three years, my husband and i have been watching these sermons by remarkable worldwide speakers.
the biblical truths we have learnt from their presentations, in such a short period of time most definitely tip the scales compared to the truth the jw.org led me to believe i had for over 20 plus years of my life.
thanks to these videos, we have now found the truth and the truth is jesus christ (john 14:6).
nicolaou and cofty, since you are so sure that God doesn't exist then why do you feel threatened?
I don't believe it's truly a matter of feeling threatened. It sounded to me like they were just pointing out the control tactics the Judeo-Christian God uses...
The God of the Bible is a God of threats, fear, obligation, guilt, manipulation.
billboard raising awareness of the dangers of the jehovah's witness cult.. short summary.
millions of people's lives are being adversely affected every day by jehovah's witnesses' (also known as jw.org) harmful teachings of shunning former members, refusal of certain kinds of medical treatment, social isolation, and harboring of child molesters.
the goal of this campaign is to sponsor a billboard that will be targeted to current members traveling to the belton, tx conventions july 31st - aug 9th 2015. these conventions attract thousands of current members and hundreds of prospective members.
KateWild: Yeah, I'm not sure why they chose a URL with a hyphen in it. Your experience is exactly why when someone asks me about what website address they should choose for their own site, I tell them to stay way from hyphens. People forget them.
(The actual website is jw-think.org)
i learned this past week that my wife is now awake.
i just shared the pbs newshour segment with her with no comment other than something along the lines of, "jw story on pbs.".
she is furious at the arrogance of these men.. thats what happens when you get a momma angry!.
Kairos: Any updates to report, Cap'?She likes reddit better for some reason. She lurked here for a while but lost interest. Haha
