Tonights book study in part is about Jesus throwing out the merchants and money lenders in the temple... How do they manage to tally that up with asking for funds for all their various projects? It seems hardly a meeting goes by without some kind of money plea? Don't they realise that they are doing the same thing that Jesus got so angry about and threw out of the temple? Don't any of the brothers and sisters tally these two up and see that something is wrong??
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their beliefs and practice's don't tally- tonights book study
by purrpurr intonights book study in part is about jesus throwing out the merchants and money lenders in the temple... how do they manage to tally that up with asking for funds for all their various projects?
it seems hardly a meeting goes by without some kind of money plea?
don't they realise that they are doing the same thing that jesus got so angry about and threw out of the temple?
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can anyone tell me how to fly under the radar of the elders?
by purrpurr ini have all my family in the cult and was brought up in it myself.
although mentally i'm out if i leave i loose all my family and that would break my heart.
i've somehow got to fly under the radar and not be detected.
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I have all my family in the cult and was brought up in it myself. Although mentally I'm out if I leave I loose all my family and that would break my heart. I've somehow got to fly under the radar and not be detected. Not say anything that could give the game away either.
Can anyone give me any ideas of how best to do this?
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i thought all the embarssing books were supposed to be thrown out?
by purrpurr ini had a look in the library last meeting and my hall still has all the bound volumes going right back to the beginning.
including studies in the scriptures.
i thought the order from on high was that these were to be destroyed or taken away?
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I had a look in the library last meeting and my hall still has all the bound volumes going right back to the beginning. Including studies in the scriptures. I thought the order from on high was that these were to be destroyed or taken away? At least out of the reach from any unsuspecting studies who might read them and ask awkward questions!???
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new assembly experience... what do you reckon to this one?
by purrpurr inok so aparently there was this young girl who wanted to study with the jw's because she loved the bible so much.
she asked her fathers permission but he refused, after much nagging though he said she could have a study if she was prepared to have one of her fingers chopped off.
he thought the is would stop her but she was willing so he got a knife and cut off one of her fingers... a little while later she wanted to attend the meetings and he said no and again when nagged said she could attend meetings if she had another finger chopped off so she agreed and he chopped off a second finger.
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The thought occurred to me, how comes she didn't bleed to death? Cos she sure wouldn't have been allowed a blood transfusion (!)
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new assembly experience... what do you reckon to this one?
by purrpurr inok so aparently there was this young girl who wanted to study with the jw's because she loved the bible so much.
she asked her fathers permission but he refused, after much nagging though he said she could have a study if she was prepared to have one of her fingers chopped off.
he thought the is would stop her but she was willing so he got a knife and cut off one of her fingers... a little while later she wanted to attend the meetings and he said no and again when nagged said she could attend meetings if she had another finger chopped off so she agreed and he chopped off a second finger.
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OK so aparently there was this young girl who wanted to study with the jw's because she loved the bible so much. She asked her fathers permission but he refused, after much nagging though he said she could have a study if she was prepared to have one of her fingers chopped off. He thought the is would stop her but she was willing so he got a knife and cut off one of her fingers... A little while later she wanted to attend the meetings and he said no and again when nagged said she could attend meetings if she had another finger chopped off so she agreed and he chopped off a second finger. Then she wanted to get bapisted... And yes you've guessed lost another finger!
apparently she's telling this experience on the platform at an assembly and she then introduces the man sitting next to her, who is her father! He's now studying and this is his first assembly. The girl is so happy and says she dosnt mind being maimed for life because she got her father into the truth and all it cost was three fingers and she will get them back in the new system! Oh and of course everyone there is no crying because of this sisters fine example! And isn't it so faith strengthening!!???!
Thoughts anyone?
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why no one could hang on a stake
by sowhatnow inhas any one ever pondered the artists rendering of jesus and the 2 'criminals' beside him?
wth upright bodies?
no blood,.
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Prolongs you know what I mean, why not have Jesus leading by example as a husband and father etc? What about having him face real problems like earning a living to feed a family and also be a perfect servant of god?
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why no one could hang on a stake
by sowhatnow inhas any one ever pondered the artists rendering of jesus and the 2 'criminals' beside him?
wth upright bodies?
no blood,.
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Actually now that I come to think of it, what would be the point of giving Christ as an example for all to follow and then only giving edited high lights of three years of adult life??
Surely it would have been a better example to have Christ live a perfect life until dying of old age and then asending to heaven?
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why no one could hang on a stake
by sowhatnow inhas any one ever pondered the artists rendering of jesus and the 2 'criminals' beside him?
wth upright bodies?
no blood,.
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Yes very interesting point, I've often wondered that myself. And what would be the point of giving them a block of wood to support the feet?! I thought this was supposed to be an execution?
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I'm not wanting to be insulting or anything. But what has having a deep voice got to do with an ability to read the watchtower? I mean why chose a reader for that?
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Hi all
I just watched the new jw TV channel, mostly so I can say i have done so. It really creeped me out! The guy fronting it seems so weird? Like his voice is detached from his body or maybe he's mouthing the words? Also those gestures... Defiantly a work on there brother! Talk about over used hammy hands! It lacks any natural spontaneous reaction. I got the impression he had over rehearsed in the bathroom mirror perhaps!?
Also maybe it's just me but has anyone noticed they have changed the way they pronounce Jehovah these days? They are putting all the emphasis on the "hooo" sound.