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i'd have loved to have a gran as cool as mouthy (grace) ... surfing the net and stuff!.
what do you think?
Grace, the amazing one,
I will always remember you!
You woke up and came outside the camp
way, way back,
when those, now called apostates
were few in number
isolated from each other
walking and standing each alone
in the wilderness, crying out,
relying on Heaven
for strength, solace and comfort.
Who dared to hope, way back then,
that the one would become a thousand.
belbab
i guess this is more of a usa thing, but in the spirit of international friendship we have decided to put some effort into things this year.
he he ... this house is round the corner from angharad's parents and he raises money for charity.
the picture doesn't really do justice to just how bright it is (you can see the glow before you get there).
BC Hydro has a number of experimental displays of Christmas lights called SLED, that is Seasonal Light Emission Diode . They have shown them on TV and the public has rushed in to enquire about them, but they will not be available to the public until next year. The lights are beautiful, and and the cost is peanuts compared to conventional Xmas lights. Has anyone heard of these elsewhere?
we all know that bethelites don't make squat.
i have also heard that the governing body, and others with authority at bethel, live pretty well.. anyone know exactly what their benefits are whether money, housing, vacations, or whatever?
maybe a couple of comments on their power, and how they throw it around.
I learned that members of the GB fly all over to give talks in distant congregations etc. They collect the air miles.
Then on their vacation, they fly wherever they want using the air miles.
Another thing I learned from some decades ago. At a court case in Quebec, one that involved Covington and Glen How as lawyers, Canadian branch servant, some others and Anton Koerber. I ran errands for them to the outside when required. They were staying in a luxurious suite at the best hotel in Quebec City. The branch servant, Percy Chapman, made a point of telling me , that Anton Koerber was paying for all this.
Now if any old timers remember who Anton Koerber was, he was a millionaire (?) who made his money in real estate. He handled big real estate deals for the Society and probably collected a big fee for it.
I have always wondered if kickbacks came back to the the powers that be. All for the Kingdom, of course.
belbab
i now have a sample of an even 50 respondents.
i have just e-mailed my collegue about getting the data analyzed.
now, there are are a couple of concepts regarding samples i thought i would mention.
I started to reply, but couldn't figure out how to paste the questions to the reply box. and
did not have time to figure it out. Does that count as a reply?
belbab
this morning before work, i was reading a thread that included a post rebutting the "two witnesses" policy of wt.
it included the second part of deut.
that refers to the two witnesses, but says since a virgin was raped in the field and no one could hear her scream, that it was like murder--there weren't two witnesses, but the guilty party should be executed.
Patio,
I wrote an article two witnesses a while back. There is a case in the Bible where only one witness gave evidence. Go to: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=24050&site=3
belbab
i noticed quite a few former elders commenting on the thread:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=37801&site=3&page=1
i thought it was amusing that about 20 percent of the bethelites in my department at bethel have left the organization.
Before they were called elders they were known as congregation servants. I was a congregation servant for ten years or more, before 1970.
belbab
yesterday i was at the book store and picked up a book titled recovering from sexual abuse, addictions, and compulsive behaviors.
i thought it would be great for my job.
i was sitting in the tub earlier reading the preface, acknowledgemetns and introduction (yes i read those).
Lady Lee,
Cast your bread upon the waters,
And after many days it will return to you.
belbab
i don't know if anyone has posted similar thoughts to this, but i've been thinking about this off and on over the past year.. i understand that a dozen or so jw's lost their lives in the 9/11 massacre.
since then, i've often wondered to myself what may have been going through their minds during these frightful moments (if they weren't among the lucky ones who died instantly).
did they think armageddon had come, and, as they lay dying in the smoke and ashes and chaos, did they think that they were dying at jah's hand, because they hadn't done enough?
I, too wondered about this,
Others witnesses have expressed reactions to natural events, such as thunder storms as if it was Armageddon that was starting, then after realized it was just a storm.
We also know on 9/11 some Witnesses expressed their initial reaction to the terrorist attacks as the start of Armageddon. At Bethel they pulled all the curtains shut, which I believe was their interpretation of the Scripture to 'go into your interiour rooms until the trouble has past'.
So I imagine that those who died in the towers who were witnesses must have thought that they had been rejected by God as unfaithful. What a terrible thought to have as one is dying.
belbab
i read crisis of c, now what?
actually doesn't have to be about the dubs - i think i may over-load on dub-doom if i read anymore witness business.
anyone recommend something else.
The Power of Now, by Echart Tolle
This book has been mentionned a number of times on this board in the last year or so.
I've read thousands of books, this one tops them all. I went out and bought ten copies, never ever did that in my life before, I still have three left. E-mail me, and may be I can send you one.
belbab
i posted a thread on bill bowen's disfellowshipping thread and the sentences ran off the screen.
this bugs me no end when i see it on other posts.
and i have been wondering for a long time why it .
On Bill's My Disfellowshipping thread, the editing feature does not show up only on page three.
What hoppen? Can anyone fix this, this thread going to get lots of more replies, to me it is one one of the most important threads ever published here.
belbab
