anyone got any idea what's going on with the wtbts legal department these days?.
witnesses are now told to leave the territory if told by a law enforcement office to do so.. how does this square with harold king?.
and can someone remind me of the name of the woman (in china?
I remember in the early 60's when a trailer park manager asked us to leave the territory. The elder (then called assistant congregation servant) that was leading our group stood up to him and the manager called the police. I was greatly relieved that he didn't take us in.
Yes, things have changed....
wifey attends the spanish cong, so when we ran late in our errands, she started to get upset that she was going to miss the special talk.
i told her again, and i reminded her that we already talked about this topic.
the special talk is just a new outline.
Just making sure - Sunday's talk was from a manuscript wasn't it?
The reason I ask... Clyde's friend called to say how bombastic their speaker was--as if he was using his own words. If it was a manuscript, I would think he couldn't have deviated from the script, could he?
i told my son that the society is reducing the size of their public edition from 32 pages to 16 pages.
he asked if they will now call it "half awake!".
of course, it could be "half asleep!
I told my son that the Society is reducing the size of their public edition from 32 pages to 16 pages. He asked if they will now call it "Half Awake!"
Of course, it could be "Half Asleep!"
http://failblog.org/2012/03/29/homework-class-test-school-of-fail-lets-not-insult-people-who-dont-believe-in-birthdays-or-anyone-ever-about-anything/#comment-1635032.
this guy makes a valid point:.
if they dont want to offend anyone then i suggest a few more words to be removed:.
I would have thought that stupid even when I was a believing JW.
i've been giving some thought to the society's latest decision to reduce the size of the awake, and relaunch jw.org as a revamped site - intended for bringing in yet more converts.
for those who missed it, here is the relevant part of the leaked letter to elders discussing these changes.... the internet is a technology that jehovahs organization is using to good advantage to spread the good news to all corners of the earth.
consider the impact our web sites are having.
Do you think there are very many witnesses who are using tablets right now at the meetings? My son's father-in-law told me that there was a young man at his hall who had an ipad, had downloaded the study Watchtower, and that's what he was using instead of a printed Watchtower. Said he could even click a link and open up the scriptures that were cited. He thought it was great and might get one for himself.
if any of you lurkers listen to a rant by the society against college, remember one thing:.
the brother giving the talk is probably an utter hypocrite.. there are a few exceptions but consider that many elders are financially secure - which allows them to be elders.
while they talk about not planning for the future because armageddon 'is so close', they have pensions, ira's, roth accounts and investments.
Whether or not a person goes to college is none of the Watchtower's business. It's a personal decision, and that's the end of the matter.
hello, i am doing some research on 1975 again, and i came across this on a couple different sites:.
are we to assume from this study that the battle of armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of christ will begin by then?
possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man's existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of christ.
The part that is in bold was in the original bound volume. I'm looking at a copy right now.
i know he somehow tricked his way in.
i thought him and russell had some sort of falling out???
what the heck happened??
I think James Penton had a lot to say about it in the book, "Apocalyse Delayed," as to exactly what happened when he took over. Russell intended that the president was to be MacMillan.
i'm interested to know common phrases jehovah's witnesses use, but don't actually apear in the bible (even the nwt).
especially phrases most jw's would assume are in the bible.
e.g.. "paradise earth".
Jehovah God
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261598/christian-longos-latest-con-wesley-j-smith .
after 10 years i decided to find out if he was still alive.
this is the guy who strangled his wife and baby and threw his other two children into the bay (oregon).
Doesn't anyone remember when this happened about 10 years ago? Longo was raised a witness, married a nice witness girl, and they had three children. He was also a ministerial servant in the Ypsilanti, Michigan, congregation but disfellowshipped when the elders found out he had been involved in credit card fraud. The murders were shocking beyond belief. He even tied pillowcases to his children's legs and filled them with stone so they would sink when he threw them alive into the bay in Oregon.
