a month ago i sent a letter to the us branch about 607. my purpose for sending it was because i wanted to show to my parents through the letters the truth behind the date system.
two days ago, i received a response from them.
i think this is gonna be the first of many.
Debates about 587/607 have been going on longer than I can remember and both sides are still entrenched in their views. All I know is that such dates are debatable , to say the least, and no basis for Christian faith or hopes for an imminent New World.
Anyway it is good to see Doug Mason back, and Scholar too, this board has missed your level of discussions.
........so far to date.
you've been warned....https://youtu.be/jjjnt5l5ts0.
Oh come on....... you have to see this for what it is, an AMATEUR production by a local congo.
They have a sense of humour at least. I am sure they fell about laughing when it was played. I thought it was funny.
The worst videos are the monthly official " Big Brother" broadcasts.... Yuk!
what would it be?.
mine would be "rocket man" by elton john.
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Ian Dury...." What A Waste"....
'the watchtower november 2019 study articles quoted below can be summed up as follows:.
the great tribulation is near, so become more entrenched in the cult by strengthening friendships with other jw's, by revealing your thoughts to them, by doing more for the org, and by refusing to listen to any upsetting reports about the org in the media or on the internet.. par.
19, page 7 - we must be determined to build and maintain strong relationships with our brothers and sisters now.
FedupJW........
What donation arrangement is this ?
I have never heard of dubs being given a set amount that they had to donate.
"YOU RECIEVED FREE, GIVE FREE"
so i have a question about a not so spoken subject.
so if you feel inappropriate please feel free to ignore me!
has anyone given a thought about what they would like for their funeral one day?.
I really don't care what the family does. I won't be able to know, will I?
I always say that funerals are for the benefit of the living, not the dead. They can say what they like over my bones.....if it makes them feel better.
dear friends.
i didn't post for a while, but i still enjoy the great jwn community.. just wanted to share a "gem" from the november 2019 study watchtower.. paragraph 8 from the article "are you maintaining your large shield of faith?".
satan, “the father of the lie,” uses those under his control to spread lies about jehovah and about our brothers and sisters.
Watchtower said, in the 80's:
"Thus not only were they open-minded, but they were wanting to have this “good news” proved true. In fact, for a person to acquire faith he must have “the will to believe.”
An ancient Greek, Demosthenes, is known for saying that what a man wishes to be true ,he will readily believe.....
We must not kid ourselves by being too willing to believe. That gives birth to fake news and Watchtower mistaken doctrines.
there really is no privacy if you own alexa.
there is a report of alexa hearing a couple having sex.
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Alexa wants to talk to your elders
"I wonder when watchtower will get a 'special deal's for all dubs with Alexa so that they can get the *daily text,"
Actually, there is an optional skill that enables Alexa to read you todays Daytext. ...... I guess it was created by some enterprising dub.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201907251076353864-jehovahs-witnesses-caught-showing-illegal-kids-movies-in-sweden/.
using phrase " jehovah's witnesses admittedly run a multi-million dollar film industry.. interesting, since wt was a multi-million 'printing' industry for decades.
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Would you believe a Russian news source if it was criticizing your country or anything close to you?
The illegal material seems to be the same videos as are shown in U.S. and Europe........
Move on.There's nothing here
there really is no privacy if you own alexa.
there is a report of alexa hearing a couple having sex.
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I love Alexa.... she wakes me up, reminds me of important things, tells me the news and weather, if I needed would check the trains and road situation. That’s without playing radio, music , and reading an audio book. Etc etc.......
No, I have no concerns about her listening to me.....I do not use the “drop in” feature or make calls through it
comment in today's wt, was about dr spock, and his book "that every parent in the world read" apparently (!).
if it wasn't for the wt's obsessions with the guy i would have no idea who he was, neither i suspect would the vast majority of the congregation.
there has been a mass of parenting books written since and yet they keep harking back to this one.. do they have no idea how out of touch this makes them seem?.
WT article writers quote other quotes made by WT writers in the past. They have neither the time or inclination to read the books for themselves. It is lazy writing and following the ‘ party line’
Dubs go shopping and see a kid acting up to his Mum and say “ See, that’s where the wisdom of the world gets you”.
I noted the selective quotes they made from self-help books, which missed the point of the assertion technique entirely.
