i rarely post here, but i often check in.
i used to post on h2o as well.
i think i once posted some of this on h2o, but there are many new ones who have joined since then.. i first encountered jw's at the age of 9. it wasn't in the door-to-door work, however.
I rarely post here, but I often check in. I used to post on H2O as well. I think I once posted some of this on H2O
Well G’day Mum ! I remember you from h2o days. So much has happened since those ‘early days’!
Good to ‘hear’ from you again. As we say Downunder, owyergoin ? I hope life has been good for you these past years. I’m sure your story will help many.
Cheers,
Ozzie 🍷 (still of the shiraz class)
for those of you who still respect the bible, which translation/s are you using now?
why?.
ESV which we irreverently refer to downunder as the “Eastern Suburbs Version”!
At church we, like most here Downunder, use the NIV
so, we had this meeting with 3 elders ( larry, moe and curly) my uncle who is the lawyer sat in the room and stayed quiet, and fact for 40 minutes we let them talk.
we would just sit there.
they went into along winded monolog about how the world is in bad shape and getting worst.
Hi Sea Breeze,
i looked at that pic and thought why’s no empty seats ?
and, hey,
why’s the guy with the mike got his hand up ?
What a hoot them Kingdumb Hall meetings have become !
click the image to enlarge.. sister carrying microphone at kingdom hall in pants!.
https://postimg.cc/jdjysmgt.
brother in blue jeans out in service.. https://postimg.cc/z36bj89h .
Pharisees, Pharisees, wherefore art thou, Pharisees !
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15 years ago there were 5 congregations now there is only one and it is still struggling.
congregations closing their doors doesn’t mean business is good.
it looks like this last one to fold had no young witnesses, they either left the religion or moved.
- The one thing the Hateful Eight has always lacked is love for their own people. How ironic that the only mark of a Christian is love. Not faith. Not obedience. Love
An insightful comment. So true.
why do you think many jws are hostile and rude?
or is that just my imagination?.
mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.
My thoughts are that their leadership has taken GRACE out of their bible and replaced it with Undeserved Kindmess, and this alone perverts their attitude toward forgiveness
I agree and it’s what I would have liked to convey a couple of pages back.
see: https://7news.com.au/news/crime/senior-jehovahs-witnesses-member-charged-with-rape-torture-and-assault-of-teenage-boys-c-8044666.
"senior jehovah’s witnesses member charged with rape, torture and assault of teenage boys...".
the 61 year-old man "faces 21 counts of rape, 17 counts of sexual assault, 13 counts of procuring sexual acts by false pretence and one count each of incest, torture and common assault.".
he is not currently an ElderI
JW`s trying to soften the blow and distance themselves from him after it becomes public knowledge.
In other words he was an Elder when he committed the alleged offences.
All part of “theocratic warfare” !!
BTW anyone want to describe what that is, that is apart from outright lying?
original reddit post (removed).
He’d need an Organisation(TM) to run it
why do you think many jws are hostile and rude?
or is that just my imagination?.
mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.
Why do you think many JWs are hostile and rude? Or is that just my imagination?
Isn’t the simple answer, that they have never been taught grace.
Sure they’re taught rules and regulations, but just like their forebears, the Pharisees in Jesus’ day they have been taught no concept of grace.
thesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.
Can we think of anyone who does this today?
Ooh, that’s a hard question,
Let me see, could it be………?
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