Topics Started by Laika
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JW prayers
by Laika inlisten, i know many of you saw the word 'prayer' in the thread title and are just itching to write a post about how prayer never works, sorry to disappoint, but whether or not prayer works is not the point of this post.. jws do believe that prayer works, and as such, what they tend to pray about is, i think, quite revealing about their general attitudes toward other people.. i have heard thousands of public prayers by jws, some of you may have heard tens of thousands.
i obviously cannot remember them all, but my experience tells me that never, or at least rarely (i guess there are always exceptions to the rule) would a jw pray for the solution of a general problem such as asking jehovah to help the homeless, asking jehovah to bring peace in a wartorn country, or asking jehovah to bring about fairness to the oppressed, except as such problems may effect other jws, or except by means of 'the kingdom', which is supposed to solve said problems by wiping out all those suffering them.
they may pray for direct help for members of the congregation going through major problems, but i rarely hear a jw offer to say a personal prayer for someone going through a hard time.
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Give Blood!
by Laika inlooking for a way to stick two fingers up to the watchtower and do something useful?.
well, ever considered giving blood?
if you're eligible to do so i would encourage everyone here to go for it, the world needs more blood donors, it's always nice to help out and given our history i find there's something very enjoyable about it.
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JW presence
by Laika inthe underground station i live next to in london is usually relatively quiet, however it is also the local station closest to the wimbledon tennis courts, so for about 2 weeks a year it really comes to life, starting today.
(yay wimbledon!
i saw no jws last year, but they seemed to have cottoned on to this opportunity and were out in force today.
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Promotion! Woo!
by Laika inpraise jah, my awake education must have finally paid off.
no more living from paycheck to paycheck for me!
what a relief.
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Dealing with JW family
by Laika ina little update on my life: a few months ago i was sure i was going to be disfellowshipped as my mum told me that my dad had reported my apostasy to the elders.
however, nothing has come of this so far in about 2 months and i am very relieved!
i am not sure if it was because the report to the elders was just an empty threat to scare me back in, or because they reported me to their local elders and now that i am a member of a new congregation those elders decided they couldn't be bothered to pursue me.
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Strange happenings
by Laika inwhen i was on the train this morning i spotted that the guy stood next to me in the rush hour crush was reading the daily text on the jw app.
i paid little attention and went back to reading my book (catch-22 - thanks frazzled .
i kid you not.
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Trying to understand JW behaviour?
by Laika ini know a girl who left the jws about 10 years ago, she was not disfellowshipped and this caused a bit of consternation in my jw community as other people who felt forced to shun their family thought it unfair.
some of the elders reacted to this by attempting to arrange a jc, but the girl's father, also an elder, got very angry and put a stop to it.
he has a fiery temper and the elders felt it best not to push him.. meanwhile this girl's family have always treated her as if she's never left, she moved to london and the family visits her on holiday weekends, her brothers would make us other jws visit her socially when we went to london for holidays, i was fine with this, never complained as i thought she was great fun.. a few years ago however, she got married to a nonjw, the family were excited and ready for the wedding but the other jealous jws complained to the co and he banned this family from the wedding, telling the father he would be removed as an elder and the sons as mss if any attended.
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JWs and War
by Laika inhere's the scene, you're out for a walk with a jw, and somehow discussion turns to religion.. the jw says: 'i know jws have the truth because we don't go to war, members of other churches will kill each other if their government asks them to, but the bible says 'do not kill' and we follow that.'.
how do you respond?.
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Jehovah's Witnesses, size, and the true religion
by Laika ina lot of the arguments jehovah's witnesses make in favour of their religion can only work because they are a very small religion and are spread so thin.
nowhere in the world do jws make up any kind of majority or even significant minority in any country or city.
considering how jws would have to work with larger populations exposes these arguments, for example:.
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Another JW in the news
by Laika inhttp://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/upper-norwood-paedophile-pretended-working/story-22927514-detail/story.html.
upper norwood paedophile who pretended to be working for crystal palace given sexual offences prevention order.
did anyone else know this guy?