earlier this season i advised my retired father to ignore the use of a tablet during his kingdom hall congregational visits.
his response was hopefull, but between the lines i could hear he had no choice.. yesterday he showed me his new 600 euro 64 gb ipad air 2. he had no clue what he has to do with it, he told me one of the elders will install the jw.org apps.. so, i feel he had to deal with presure to buy this ipad and i think he is not the only one.. do you recognize this?.
gorby.
I love having my iPad at the meeting.
I text, read, browse the web, look at Social Media, get work done etc... All with a dim screen!
This is the best thing to ever have happened! I look like I'm super into what's being discussed from the platform while the meeting goes by 10x faster! I love it!
it has to be starting to fade somehow.
the very last time i went out in field service, hardly any were out.
maybe just about nine people were out and man if you could just see their faces.
Service in the US is dead, besides the few nut jobs that accept a study for someone to talk to. Only to stop the study when it comes time to be dunked.
A good experience anymore is someone taking the magazines or saying "they need god".
In the US service just keeps the R&F busy and talking to one another. I can't tell you how many times I've been out and we do a few calls, break, one more call and head back the hall. People calls are never home, they just take the magazine and that's it.
I know a few people with zeal and they stand out among the rest.
i have read in jw.org that the governing body affirms that judas has been eternally condemned:.
did judas iscariot commit an unforgivable sin?.
his greed moved him to steal money that had been donated for a sacred use.
Judas got the short end of the stick.
Jesus himself told them that one would betray him. That guy's future was set even before he was born. How is that fair? Better yet, where was his free will? If Jesus knew what he was going to do, why not talk to him and try and stop it? Why allow him to do something that would cause his eternal destruction? Better yet, he could have saved his life by never taking him on as an apostle.
Whole story is BS. If I knew someone close to me was going to do something dumb. I would do everything in my power to stop them from making a life changing mistake.
petra!
2015-12-17-boe already, you dear brothers have done so well, sending gifts both large and small.
for in-stance, two children, five and seven years old, sent their pocket money to help build our new bethel instead of going to the circus, writing, "this is much better than that!
They're not trying to get the children to donate. They're just trying to guilt parents/adults with that story. If a little kid can give up $5, surely you can put off that trip you've been saving for and give us $5,000.00.
I can't wait until they try and say they don't ask for donations like Christendom! I've heard more about donating this year then I have my whole life as JW. Everything other talk it's about giving of your physical things.
i have been a jw my whole life and i have never been able to get a clear answer on this question.
jw's do not believe that jehovah will intervene if someone is sick, dying or stopping a car crash.
they feel that jehovah is letting "this world" play out before he solves all of these problems.
Blondie - Now post all the articles, broadcasts, Year Book experiences and talks where they say that "Jehovah's hand provided!", "Clearly Jehovah had our backing" etc...
They want it both ways I've realized.
in this sunday's watchtower they proceeded to put this in the article, "distractions, said the watchtowerof september 15, 1958, will likely increase as this world nears its doom.
how true!
"are they really patting themselves on the back for this statement?
but many JWs are negative so they feel like it's true.
The past 2 years alone I realized how true this actually is. I am constantly around negative people. The people that are attracted to this religion thrive off of negativity and doom and gloom.
I can't put into words how true that small statement is.
in this sunday's watchtower they proceeded to put this in the article, "distractions, said the watchtowerof september 15, 1958, will likely increase as this world nears its doom.
how true!
"are they really patting themselves on the back for this statement?
My prophesy: moronic statements in Watchtower study articles will likely increase as time goes on.
I never realized how bad it was. Hope they don't lay off their writing department.
latest from a reliable source: .
"more news from the south-west of england.cinderford congregation has been terminated.
if you look on jw.org it hasn't disappeared yet (dec 20th 2015) but it's meeting time is shown as sunday at 10.00 am and that is not possible, as lydney who shared the same hall are listed as sunday at 10.30 am.cinderford and lydney shared a hall in parkend, lydney, gloucestershire.
in this sunday's watchtower they proceeded to put this in the article, "distractions, said the watchtowerof september 15, 1958, will likely increase as this world nears its doom.
how true!
"are they really patting themselves on the back for this statement?
Here's another golden nugget from that article, "Jesus was not burdened with material possessions; he did not own a house or land."
Do these guys think before writing these articles? They own thousand of properties! Yet they tell their members they shouldn't own land and even go as far as saying that Jesus did not own land.
So Jesus did not own land yet his only true organization does?
i have been a jw my whole life and i have never been able to get a clear answer on this question.
jw's do not believe that jehovah will intervene if someone is sick, dying or stopping a car crash.
they feel that jehovah is letting "this world" play out before he solves all of these problems.
If Jehovah didn't intervene to help you, it's because he's allowing things in this system to play out. If something gooddoes happen to you, though, it's because of Jehovah.
In short, anything good that happens to you is because of your involvement in the cult, and if anything bad happens it's either Satan's system testing you or because you're not having enough involvement in the cult.
I see what you are saying but it still doesn't explain why they say Jehovah intervenes for some things and yet when it comes to sickness/accidents that he stays completely out of it.
