This is a very interesting video.
I wonder, where is the information that he is still a JW? Because his comment along the lines “they call themselves brothers and sisters” indicates to me he may no longer consider himself a JW. Although confusingly, he also says he’s a minister, presumably meaning a JW publisher. I think his status is unclear from this video alone. Is there more information to go on?
my judicial committee was set for monday.
the message says to call back asap and that he loves me, but he said it like "i love ya, girl" he never has said that to me like that.
so, i call back and he says i have been a hard person to get a hold of and that confused me because i had not received any calls from him.
Anna Marina is it really necessary to use this posters traumatic experience and plea for understanding to promote your personal ideology?
Iriddle80 explained her experience in terms of her Christian faith and Anna Marina responded by agreeing with Iriddle80’s use of scripture.
It is you who is insisting and promoting your ideology by demanding others not explain their experiences with reference to their faith, stating it is as a “traumatic experience” that many have been through. The demand to leave faith out of it is an ideological position. What’s more, Anna Maria’s perspective is in line with the original poster, and it is you who are using the thread to promote your alternative secular perspective.
are all of the governing .body .members american citizens ?
shouldn`t they at least represent a greater proportion of nations in light of jesus being a saviour of all the world ?.
god loved the world of mankind right ?
Thanks George, that’s interesting. It would be interesting to find out more about Leo Greenlees’ background.
are all of the governing .body .members american citizens ?
shouldn`t they at least represent a greater proportion of nations in light of jesus being a saviour of all the world ?.
god loved the world of mankind right ?
Not all caucasian because of Samuel Herd, of course. Plus there is a pretty funny chapter in Firpo Carr’s book arguing that William Jackson was black even though he looked white.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/222072/background-william-k-jackson
What's pretty amazing is the lack of Hispanic GB members, despite large numbers of Hispanic JWs in the US. I wonder if there are Hispanic members of the US branch committee.
A lot of it may simply be down to the fact that white western JWs make up the majority of memorial partakers that the GB are still selected from.
are all of the governing .body .members american citizens ?
shouldn`t they at least represent a greater proportion of nations in light of jesus being a saviour of all the world ?.
god loved the world of mankind right ?
Well from a historical theological perspective, Jehovah used mainly Jewish leaders throughout the OT and NT, and Romans 9 says that Jehovah chooses whoever he wishes to fulfil his purpose. Even Acts 10 that extends God’s message to all ethnicities, is followed by chapter 15 where Jews are still in leadership roles. So it’s not necessarily wrong from a biblical perspective that God should use people from one culture for leadership. It’s objectionable from a liberal non-biblical perspective. Not only does the GB fail to be democratic or representative of the people they lead, but their teaching makes a virtue of this fact. In particular their interpretation of the statue of Daniel deplores the weakness of democracy as a system of government because it is responsive the views of ordinary people. The GB believe they comprise a theocracy and are accountable to Jehovah alone, not to a worldwide membership with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
on april 15, 2019, total of 18 jehovah's witnesses in china were arrested and charged with indictable offences relating to, "using an evil religion organization" to "incite the obstruction of law enforcement," and one charge relating to, "obstructing law enforcement by organizing and using an evil religious organization.".
since the arrests, the governing body of jehovah's witnesses have remained silent on the plight of these 18 jehovah's witnesses in china.. link to translation of indictment:.
https://jwleaks.org/2019/07/09/china-crisis-for-jehovahs-witnesses-18-members-indicted/.
Yes it’s not consistent. I can only imagine they reckon they have started reporting on Russia, so they will continue. Whereas there’s a longstanding policy of not commenting on China, or other countries including many in the Middle East.
are all of the governing .body .members american citizens ?
shouldn`t they at least represent a greater proportion of nations in light of jesus being a saviour of all the world ?.
god loved the world of mankind right ?
Leo Greenlees was Scottish? I thought he was Canadian. You may be confusing him with a different Greenlees family.
I didn’t realise Karl Klein was born in Germany
I think Ewart Chitty was English
Martin Poetzinger was German
Wasn't Lloyd Barry Australian? No google says born in New Zealand
Did George Gangas grow up in Greece? His bio says born in the Ottoman Empire, he was that old.
John Barr was Scottish, as mentioned
Geoffrey Jackson is Australian
Gerrit Loesch was born in Austria
And Stephen Lett, a badly kept secret, is from the planet Neptune
on april 15, 2019, total of 18 jehovah's witnesses in china were arrested and charged with indictable offences relating to, "using an evil religion organization" to "incite the obstruction of law enforcement," and one charge relating to, "obstructing law enforcement by organizing and using an evil religious organization.".
since the arrests, the governing body of jehovah's witnesses have remained silent on the plight of these 18 jehovah's witnesses in china.. link to translation of indictment:.
https://jwleaks.org/2019/07/09/china-crisis-for-jehovahs-witnesses-18-members-indicted/.
Watchtower doesn't report on activity in banned countries in their annual reports, or in the text of the old yearbooks, as I recall. Russia was a different situation because it started out as a campaign to retain legal recognition where they had an established presence. So I don’t know if Watchtower will make any statements about the developments in China or go into any detail in their news releases. It’s not necessarily about size either, because there was a news blackout on Cuba for decades, yet when Cuba emerged from under ban they had around 100,000 JWs in that country.
on saturday i received my first donation as a pimo.
can you guess how i'm going to spend it?.
by the way, i didn't ask for the donation.
I suggest you should give the money to wherever the person thought they were giving it, or refuse to take it. Although householders giving money to JWs at the door may be such a rare occurrence these days that you were caught off guard by the situation.
i was just wondering if there is any official rules on dealing with this.
a sister in the congregation is planning to divorce her husband who is also a witness so she can marry a different brother in the same hall!
yes this is a huge scandal!
I knew a convoluted version of this scenario where a married sister had an affair with a married brother and both were disfellowshipped. Both got divorced and later got reinstated separately. But soon after both got reinstated they got married to one another. (I guess the other spouses must have moved on too, for this to be allowed) For some reason it was very important that they insisted they did not plan to get married after being reinstated, but it just “turned out that way”. I’m not sure why that was deemed so important, but it seems it was very important that it wasn’t “premeditated”, to the point that many voiced the opinion that if the marriage was “premeditated” that they would likely die at Armageddon. I didn’t fully understand the issues involved here, since they presumably could have got married while they were disfellowshipped. But it was considered especially egregious, for some reason, that they should be reinstated separately and later decide to marry.
