recently while at a witness gathering, i noticed that many "young ones" in their twenties and thirties are talking about buying or building a home.
buying or building a home is one of the most expensive commitments you could ever make.
in the usa, an average mortgage lasts 30 years.
But you never, EVER hear about the "new system" or "Armaggedon" in their conversations - even when at the Kingdom Hall.
It has been like that for decades. I always found it weird: we were learning so much about the urgency of the times in the KH and at the same time people NEVER talked about anything "theocratic" or about the end's proximity.
They simply don't care. It's perfunctory service - it doesn't make any real impact in most of them.
Neo
Leolaia, the Researcher!
when the wt was found out to have registered as a ngo with the un it was big news.
who was the person that first discovered the connection?
--vm44
The UN scandal popped up right here on JWD. Kent and MacHislopp were the first. And I think that someone else, perhaps an insider, first wrote to Kent about the WT partnership with the UN and showed him the link to the UN site. Then MacHislopp (BTW, where is he?) published the information on this board and the rest was history.
I'm still puzzled how it took 10 years for we exJW's to find out. Ciro Aulicino, for example, is a Bethelite who couldn't keep his mouth shut about his "privilege" of going to the UN on a weekly basis.
Neo
as the number of the 144000 was sealed in 1935 it is funny how the satistics of the bread eaters/wine drinkers for memorial day goes up and down.
i wonder how many of todays parttakers who started before 1935.. are any of you bad and evil apostates taking from the emblems on memorial day just to make a mess of their statistics?
or do you consider doing it on the upcoming memorial day?
What I find amazing is that so many professed "holy ones" have been arrested recently for various crimes ranging from petty theft up to murder.
Could you post some info on that?
Neo
have you ever watched a movie where, when the monster jumps out, the woman grunts and the man screams?.
have you ever walked a forest trail where, when you accidently step on a big old slug, the woman says "cool!
" and the guy goes "icky-poo!!".
Remember that evil Nazi screaming at the end of Raider's before his face melted?
Ha! Good memory, Leolaia!
Neo
does anyone know what russell and his interest in the pyramid was all about.
i no longer have wts literature and someone asked me (a non-jw or ex-jw) and i didn't know what to tell him.. i tried the search and it kept coming up "error.".
thanks, nick
IP_SEC,
I might add to this the memorial performed at KHes across the world on March 24 this year is a form of black Sabbath, a parody of the last supper in which the host is rejected by practically every Dub.
Could you add more?
the ministry school features the #4 talk "why hypnotism is not for christians".
first we learn the jw definition of hypnotism:
*** g03 7/8 p. 26 is hypnotism for christians?
Some say that the JW religion itself uses hypnotic techniques. Here's a huge article on that:
A Study of the Persuasion Techniques Used by Jehovah?s Witnesses and the Watchtower
The part specifically about hypnosis is down the page:
when i sent my da-letter i demanded that my data have to be deleted.
i got a reply that the "religious community of jw in germany" (like the ccjw this is different from the watchtower) keeps data on me like other churches, too.
well, in germany we have a governmental data protection office in each land.
Philip Brumley,
Excellent suggestion for future baptismal New Light!
On the basis of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, have you repented of your sins and dedicated yourself to Jehovah to do his will?
Do you understand that your dedication and baptism identify you as one of Jehovah?s Witnesses in association with God?s spirit-directed organization with no rights reserved?
IP_SEC:
Neo
when i sent my da-letter i demanded that my data have to be deleted.
i got a reply that the "religious community of jw in germany" (like the ccjw this is different from the watchtower) keeps data on me like other churches, too.
well, in germany we have a governmental data protection office in each land.
BTW, Brumley is the head of WT legal.
the march 2005 kingdom ministry brings up a full article about the awake only being published once a month, starting january 2006. .
but the fun thing is the roundabout way this change is announced.
knowing that the news would be a bitter pill to swallow (there should be a 'speeding up' of the preaching work, not a downsizing), the watchtower only announces the move to monthly publishing by the end of the article.
Download the entire March Kingdom Ministry! (3.5 MB, PDF file)
http://members.cox.net/captainschmideo/km-E_US_3-05-March%202005.pdf
Thanks, CaptainSchmideo!
Neo
