did every congregation have one or two self righteous suck ups?
you know the type.
the one who always has a platform assignment.
I have been associated with at least 5 different cong.`s in my 32 years as an active JW. And I would say that at least in 3 of those cong`s I would have struck at least one of them and maybe even 2 at any one time.
Maybe in the first 2 cong`s being then a newbie to the religion I was naive enough not to recognize them as such.?
posting for brother x. petra!.
if you were a child during the years of 1960 to 1970, the question isn't; do you remember these conventions?
the question is; how could you forget?
I thank the Cosmos I wasn`t dragged up into this religion as a child ,sadly though I brought up my own two boys in this religion and at least it was a lot more flexible and liberal congregation that they were subjected to .
And thankfully they are now well adjusted adults leading successful lives away from the religion.
as a young person who hasn't had lots of experience in the dating game, what would ex jws recommend with all these severed relationship ties from family.
what are the do's and dont's.
First of all how old are you? that info won`t give away your identity but would be helpful in giving you some advice .
driving by a kh yesterday we saw a for sale sign in front of the building.
it's on a beautiful piece of property off a main road outside the city limits.
the building can be no more than 10 years old and is very beautiful.
An interesting video by Mikey & Kim about the KH`s that are up for sale now and in the future that I just watched .
Quite staggering really .
cardinal george pell the australian catholic who was the 3rd most senior person in the vatican was acquitted by the high court of australia of all sex charges against him this morning.. after serving about 400 days behind bars he is now free to walk out of jail, to the shock of many.. this should make news headlines all around the world judging by past experience..
Do you know what episode Wg ? I couldn`t find it.
“jehovah's witnesses' ever-changing teachings: the most important changes in the doctrine of the watchtower society in the year 1879-2015” by włodzimierz bednarski and szymon matusiak..
https://www.amazon.com/dp/b084p2dxl1.
Looks like it could be a good read ,anybody here who has read it and can give a summary?
today a dutch judge ruled that jw elders and the jw branch cannot invoke clergy-penitent privilege when it comes to information used in a judicial committee.. jw had filed a complaint with the courts because the branch office, two kingdom halls and a few elders' homes were raided by police almost 2 years ago in search of evidence related to child abuse issues.. jw argued that the information that was taken by police is protected by clergy-penitent privilege.
today the judge ruled that 1) an organization doesn't haven't such a privilege, 2) jw elders don't always act as spiritual counselors.
their actions as judges in judicial committees aren't protected by privilege, and 3) conversations jw have with their elders are often not confidential at all (as per jw policy) so jw elders can't rightfully invoke clergy-penitent privilege to maintain absolute confidentiality, because there isn't absolute confidentiality in the first place.. jw are thinking about appealing the verdict..
I wish more judges would come to the same conclusions as he/she spoke the truth.
i was a witness from grade school ( 1976) until 2007. i seem to remember an important aspect that was always talked about at the hall as being a fact.they would say that "the rocks themselves would cry out" if the public preaching work was to stop,,,,, all i've seen and heard these past few months are the witnesses complaining about the witnessing work coming to a halt.but i've not heard one rock crying .. .
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Well i thought it was funny Vidiot ,so a like .
if you want to share a conspiracy video that is going to be removed by youtube, maybe sharing a link to a copy that is hosted on youtube isn't the best plan.. who knew?!.
social media is no longer the platform to use for controversial, alternative or "wrong think" opinions.. host it if you feel strongly about it, but don't keep posting "this video has been removed" links, it's a waste of everyone's time..
RubaDub ,
It`s probably like the same reason why people of the world travel to Jerusalem and Mecca isn`t it ?
A good money spinner for tourism and the economy ? As well as helping the religion along keeping the hamster wheel in motion.?
i apologise if this has already been posted.
i have been dealing with family issues and haven't been following every post for a couple of weeks.
do you remember about 6 years ago that kid in the uk whose jw parents took him out of a hospital for proton beam treatment for his cancer and ended up as the subject of an interpol police search?
A very interesting article lost, i do wish all of the best for her and her children especially Ashya king that no child should have to suffer with.
But apparently God has no problem sitting back on his throne watching the never ending suffering of young and old of his creation through the Centuries .
