i applaud this great and holy man!
do you?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fstqepi9iu.
i got the impression a lot in the audience were unaware of what was going on. just sat there--switched off....so thats normal then. sit there--stupified..not taking anything in..till the closing prayer--then they know its over.
the hardest part for them is trying to stay awake. those chairs look too comfortable.
i picked the list below somewhere, and i would like to hear your opinions on it.
what would you keep or change?
18 definite ways women turn men off.
2 congregations met together attendance 355 which is close to exact number of combined publishers.
only saw a couple of new faces.
so it looks like once again the invitation work was a complete failure and relatives of jw's couldn't be talked into coming anymore!.
Quoting from 60 year old magazines!
2 congregations met together attendance 355 which is close to exact number of combined publishers.
only saw a couple of new faces.
so it looks like once again the invitation work was a complete failure and relatives of jw's couldn't be talked into coming anymore!.
I almost wonder just how many submarines there are? Do they consider themselves as jws? Its nothing new..i knew lots who only showed up for the nisan 14 bash..50 years ago.. wannabe armageddon survivors
so i went to the memorial the other night, there's a kingdom hall on the bus route back from a local college where i was doing some research and admiring the architecture.
i'm in my street clothes, i look nice but i stood out like a sore thumb.
i went in as it started and got a seat in the back.
Why attend if youre out of it?
i remember reading somewhere (perhaps on here?
) than an entire congregation disassociated and started their own congregation after decided that the gb were apostate.. was this an urban myth or is there any evidence of this?.
"Many years ago in the 60's, there was one particular guy who pretty much led his own cult. Half the Congregation eent off the rails and what was left was merged with Titchfield/ Fareham congregation."
Astonishing! I was actually attending the newly-formed Tichfield congregation back in 1968. It met in rooms above The Queen's Head pub. My dad was PO. He told me that there had been some problems with one of the congos with which we'd became amalgamated but I didn't make the connection with Bishops Waltham until just now.
snuggs--do you know cantleave ? if not--i can link you if you are on facebook.
it is all about how you have hurt Jehovah,
how utterly ridiculous.
as if a persons sexual misbehaviour could possibly hurt god almighty.
childish.
but then the whole thing is nonsense.
probably not a popular opinion on here....and haven't been actively attending meetings since 1988....(i know i know a submarine attender) however thoroughly enjoyed attending this evening...was good to see lots of people i remember whilst growing up in this faith, they were genuine and the whole atmosphere was one of love.
sure if i suddenly wanted to become active again and didn't change my lifestyle they would drop me like a bomb.....however i haven't and won't and they didn't and don't.
this works for me.. i cannot demonize the witnesses on what i have seen tonight.
And I am quite clear that being gay would never be acceptable to JWs.I have never said any different.
aah--i hadnt realised youre homosexual--maybe that explains it
does the congregation know?
the tetagrammaton 4 hebrew letters representing gods name in the hebrew scriptures as jhvh or more likely yhwh .. the name jehovah was unheard of before the 13th century simply because no one beforehand had added vowels to those four hebrew consonants representing gods name .. and then comes along a spanish catholic monk of the 13th century that adds vowels to those 4 hebrew consonants and he comes up with the name jehovah.. a name that the catholic church has used in and on churches since the 13th century throughout europe and elsewhere in the world.. and lo and behold the g.b.of jehovah`s witnesses in their wisdom stated in the first edition of the "aid to bible understanding" that they chose the name jehovah as the correct pronunciation of gods name because it was the most popular name in use in the world ?
logically by christendom `s religions ,who else ?.
then their is the bible cannon that all of the major christian religions have different books that they feel should make up the bible.. protestant religions .
yhwh...is actually spelt backwards--the hebrew scriptures were read from right to left. so it should be HWHY----pronounced HUWHY
so--HUWEE GOD from now on--ok?
dont you think that satan was a pomo ?
when you read in the genesis account : "at this the serpent said to the woman: 'you certainly will not die.
5 for god knows that in the very day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like god, knowing good and bad.'".
well--yes. wasnt there a whole pantheon of gods
jehovah god
jesus god
ohmy god
oooooh god
tony god
etc
