apparently the .org site is getting 1200 bible study requests per day.
well that's what they claim anyway.
dos anyone think this is true?.
Since the metropolitan and university witnessing booths started, I was impressed with the volume of literature, interested ones, returning ones, other assembly-part-worthy experiences, etc.
However, I kept wondering where all the "bums in the seats" were with all of this hyper-activity.
i haven't been here in quite a while and thought i'd pop by.
i do lurk at times, i confess lol.
after reading the recent publications at the new golden calf (jw.org), my mind is kind of blown that jw's are still not seeing through the constant adjustments, clarifications, new light and reversals.
Ditto on the great phrase "thought eunuchs."
1 king david was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm.2 so his advisers told him, let us find a young virgin to wait on you and look after you, my lord.
she will lie in your arms and keep you warm.
3 so they searched throughout the land of israel for a beautiful girl, and they found abishag from shunem and brought her to the king.4 the girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the king and took care of him.
w 1984/05/01 p 8 ("Why Hesitate? Listen and Obey!")
Yeah, I lost my wife, but I listened and obeyed and got date-raped by my daughters. Gosh, I hated that so much that I almost forgot to have it recorded in the Bible.
Listen, obey, and ...
thought i am gonna introduce myself.
i am a girl from a country in europe, and not an english speaking one, so if i am writing strange or something, you know why.
anyway, have been reading here for a while now, the other day i thought it was time to register as a member.
factfinder: I love your old skit references.
i have many memories of skits in the 70's that made meetings tolerable.
Power girl - I love your bravity.
I have a daughter, awake, who is your age.
Rock on!
i have seen in my local area and while traveling a foreign country jw.borg booths at flea markets.
i remember about 8 or 9 years ago seeing a russellite table at a flea market, and a jw with me said how they were from russells time when those apostates left and the only preaching they do is setting up stands like that.
now jw's are doing the same thing.
If the postcards in Mike and Kim's videos take hold, then that's what will be left for witnessing.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ashya-kings-father-says-hell-4256798.
we've been following this story.
how can someone openly defy the governing body and yet avoid being disfellowshipped?
Interesting post.
No idea of the Mirror's credibility - but the story seems straightforward enough.
As one cannot be DF'd for accepting blood, but may be DA'd if not repentant - this makes for an interesting JW theological challenge when allowing your child to accept blood.
it's definitely on their minds.
i attended a funeral recently and a jw told me that the person who died almost made it to the 100 year anniversary of the birth of the kingdom.. curious what comments like this you've heard in your area?.
(and can't wait for november!).
Sorry, but did the Kingdom not originally begin ruling in 1799?
Hence, are we not celebrating 215 years?
this, in my opinion, is one of christopher hitchens' most concise statements about obsession with armageddon.. i'd love to have a transcript of this and just sit and memorize it:).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj2lehsa1dk.
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Thanks for the post.
Cult of death - too true.
i'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.
as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?
surely education should come first.
This, to me, (barring suicides and family disorders) is one of the saddest threads.
The absolute destruction of someone's life to pioneer for x number of years is irreprehensible.
It is vile to the n'th degree.
the most powerful and meaningful movie i've watched.. wts prefers suicides or deaths of dissidents.. absolute diabolical beings (not human beings - sub-humans).. .
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The most powerful and meaningful movie I've watched.
WTS prefers suicides or deaths of dissidents.
Absolute diabolical beings (not human beings - sub-humans).
