the awesome power of god
if you are willing to put faith in jah, the only true god, then i am willing to share my experiences with you.
jehovah is able to humble any man, no matter how strong or powerful he thinks he is..........in a microsecond.
Wow Brownboy,
I had this same experience in 1966 when I had a bad dose of LSD.
The radiance, along with the strength is overwhelming beyond anyone's imagination. You feel a strong radiance present before you that would strike fear in any man. I felt powerless, and became weakened in my own strength, in fear.HappyDad
i wish everyone here a holiday filled with love, happiness, warm memories and good times.
so many of us have gone through really rough times with things that have happened in our lives, and i hope that everyone here can one day be fully healed from our pasts, so that we can go into the future happily, with full, rewarding lives, with our pasts and obstacles we have faced only being distant memories of days gone by.. i wish for a time when families join together, and not become separated or influenced by an organization, or anyone else.
this is a season of hope, and all things are possible.. wishing everyone the bestest of the best!!!.
Ohio Cowboy,
That was beautiful and from the heart. Thank you so much. I wish the same for you.
MERRY CHRISTMASS
P.S. What's with all the snow in your neighborhood?
HappyDad
i remember one time at an assembly these two "brothers" were actually arguing over thier seats.
i thought they were going to go to blows.
isn't it funny how during the regular meeting nobody wants to set in the front rows, but boy at an assembly everyone wants to have that "showy means of display" by being in the front rows to be seen by all?
SOJ,
I was a ministerial servant and elder for decades and as others here, I have earned the right to be critical because I now know the REAL truth.......and the REAL truth is that I was deceived for all those decades of being a faithful "suck up". But at least I knew how to spell "ASSEMBLY" because I went to dozens and dozens of them and even gave talks at stadiums and arenas.
Your comments seem extemely critical and negative. I personally like to sit near the platform in assamblys
Yeah.......I'm being petty about this but you need to get an open mind of the type you preach to every person you meet at a door.
HappyDad
the inventor of the harley davidson motorcycle corporation, arther davidson, died and went to heaven.
at the gates, st peter told arthur, "since you've been a good man and your motorcycles have changed the world, your reward is, you can hang out with anyone you want in heaven.
arthur thought about it for a minute and then said, "i want to hang out with god.
Hey upside/down,
They're doing the same thing here in southwest Florida in Naples. The Harley dealership there is HUGE and a brand new Hooters is going up right next door.
The management of Hooters is smart. They will really bring in the bucks doing that. But I see a problem down the road. Not everbody is a biker but most normal men like hooters (not necessarily the resteraunt). Could be some nasty times down the road.
HappyDad
i have to ask- what's a gallon of gas where you live?
i just talked to my folks in socal and they said it was around $2.25 per gallon for regular unleaded.. i just noticed today gas hit $1.59 p/g (northern colorado) at sam's club!!
what's up it was $1.99 just a few weeks ago?
Here in Fort Myers, Florida.................$1.94 per gallon compared to $2.07 per gallon last month.
HappyDad
did you ever go out on the service christmas day.
i always refused to, i mean even sinners deserved a day off from us calling.lol seriously i was too embarressed to.
my husband got "forced" one year and said never again.
When I was a MS from the beginning of that arrangement until I was an elder from 1986 to 1991, it seemed that I was always on the schedule to take the lead in the fs on holidays. I felt like it was a conspiracy against me since I didn't fit in with the servant click of our cong. Other "don't fit in bros. had the same problem. The PO we had from about 1985 and I hear he is still the PO insisted that fs be done 7 days a week from the KH. He believed that if someone led....others would follow. (kind of like the blind leading the blind). Once I got enough smarts, I always figured a way out of leading on these days.
To me.....it was bad enough antagonizing people on ordinary days......but to bother them on THEIR holidays was taboo to me.
There were a few times that when I was on the hot seat as an elder and took heat from the Holy Trinity of the cong. (the PO, secretary and fs overseer) I said.........."you want me to step down"? When I said this......the tongues of the Trinity stumbled all over the place. Then in 1991......I finally said......."I step down" and gave them my written resignation. It took more years for me to finally get "real smart" and leave altogether.
HappyDad
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-----------someone was going to an assembly to picket, and asked you to write an slogan which would really make a witness think or question what would you write?
All the sayings are good but I like this one the best.
An open Bible and an open mind are often closed by an open Watchtower.
But I really wonder if the average dub would get it?
HappyDad
i'm sure i would not have taken blood or given permission to my child if she "needed" it.
my, my, how things have changed!
I felt the same as Euph,
I don't know. I remember thinking about this a a JW and doubting myself, not being sure if my "faith" would be strong enough to endure that "test".
When my daughter was little, my wife and I talked about this and even though she was raised in the "truth", she was stubborn enough to "probably" tell them to chuck it for the obligatory "one year" of shunning for the two of us because we felt that if our precious baby needed blood to live, then we "probably" would have consented.
HappyDad
i was reading a book on early church fathers and early christian doctrines.
i could not put the book down.
i noticed that some of the early church fathers "denounced" war frowned upon celebrating holidays and also "birthdays" some of their arguments sounded exactly like jw's and if you did not know you would have thought you were talking to some jw's.
XQ,
Could you please explain this.................
The problem is since JWs are born again christians they are putting themselves in a bad light too.
This makes no sense at all unless you are refering to the "annointed" who say they are born again but do not make a big deal by using said term.
HappyDad
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041206/home_solutions_air_force_1.html.
i don't know the capital structure but as the 8-k says the wts of pennsylvania owns a lot of this small company.. .
metatron
And they had the nerve to tell us over the years not to invest money into a failing system. The only system I want to see fall it the WT.
HappyDad
