i know the society is against higher education and the pursuit of careers but in my experience the elders in the various congregations i attended had good careers.
in fact most had their own businesses.
thinking back of the boe when i was a teenager this is what they had as a career: two were respected carpenters who owned a construction business, one a high school teacher(he was the po), one sold insurance and was a lawyer, one owned a landscaping business and also hired sisters to clean office buildings and other accounts he had, one was retired, and the last was a janitor for the school board.
While all the above comments might well be true wherever YOU guys are, here in the UK it's not a nominal or symbolic thing at all. I'm one, 4 of the elders in my cong are, and in my city I would estimate between a quarter and a third of the elders are too.
It's a real thing here, decent money to be made for little startup investment, with flexible hours. Great for coffee shops, I mean ministry...
i heard that on sat the jws released a new book at the convention god's kingdom rules.
is it a verse by verse of ezekiel or daniel?
does it mention the "overlapping generation"?
Ah, but I speak as an insider!
So what would happen if I was to say, "I just don't understand why we say the bible students didn't know what was going to happen when THIS old wt shows they were very specific about what they thought was going to occur " incontrovertible right?
Actually, I just released the inner jw from his apostabox into my mind for a second, and he came up with the argument that" yes, they THOUGHT they knew what was going to happen, but they had it wrong, as we can see in retrospect "
There's no winning..
i heard that on sat the jws released a new book at the convention god's kingdom rules.
is it a verse by verse of ezekiel or daniel?
does it mention the "overlapping generation"?
What dya reckon would happen if one were to call out the society on the above points, using the society's own literature to prove it?
If it's incontrovertible, what could they say? How could they deny it?
there is an excellent new article at jehovah's trumpet.... friends, the following article is not about masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, or homosexuality so it may not be appropriate for children.
please use godly wisdom when deciding if your child is mature enough to consider this material.
we are going to have a frank discussion about the theory of evolution.... .
AHaaHaHAaaaAaaaaaAAAaa!!!
Richard Dawkins.... admits in his book, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution that “Genesis … must be said … to be … fact” (pages 29,30,59,82)
Genius!
And the comment from Louis somebody or other after the article... HahaaAa!
an old jw friend of mine died on saturday, and i used to be best friends with her jw husband.
we were close friends for 14 years.
i was like his daughter.
Bear in mind also that in grief he may not have worded that as he would if not in grief. That, combined with the conditioning we all received, makes for many a thoughtless comment.. But still..
me and the spouse decided to not go to the dc and it takes place tommorow.
all our jw friends are headed down there tonight.
feeling lonely and left out but know this is the right choice.
Hey tigersuit, welcome!
And that idea texting ttatt is mint! Maybe even slipping it into a sentence as if predictive text had altered it instead of typing that or twat or something, seeing if they pick up on it....
Plausible deniability.
Now where did I learn that trickery from...
we are up for a new kind of persecution in the future.
a new form that was unheard of for us.
in australia, disfellowshipped and dissasociated are planning on suing jw for emotional and mental hardship for being cast out completely.
Berry gerry, it was a comment some one put on someone else's Facebook timeline. I'm hesitant to put a link on here as it could possibly be tracked back to me, sorry..
i had my first real birthday party yesterday.
call me an irredeemable pagan, but i was massively excited about this, the whole thing was very special, i got a little emotional and i think my friends must have found it a little strange but it was just nice to be creature worshipped.
when i was a child my parents always used to tell people i didn't miss out by not celebrating my birthday but i did miss out.
Happy birthday laika!
Not only have I never celebrated a birthday (mine or anyone else's) but that's the first time I've ever wished anyone a happy birthday! Glad for you mate!
nazi ss chief himmler was an admirer of the jehovah's witnesses:.
according to rudolf hoess, commandant of auschwitz, ss chief heinrich himmler often used the 'fanatical faith" of jehovah's witnesses as an example to his own ss troops.
* described negroes as degenerate, degraded, servile {wt jul 15 1902 p215}.
I only marked it for the original content of the thread, not the posturing and ego bashing arguments that followed.
But thanks for elucidating.
nazi ss chief himmler was an admirer of the jehovah's witnesses:.
according to rudolf hoess, commandant of auschwitz, ss chief heinrich himmler often used the 'fanatical faith" of jehovah's witnesses as an example to his own ss troops.
* described negroes as degenerate, degraded, servile {wt jul 15 1902 p215}.
Marking....
