it has nothing to do about feeling chosen or ruling in heaven, but rather many feel it's a command for all christians, that by partaking you are accepting christ as their saviour!
john 6-.
Bobcat : I read the links you provided. It seems to me that the WT do frame their arguments well . This is the study WT for internal discussion by believers. They all believe in a Paradise earth and most want to live in it. The writers know their target audience.
An article in a public edition about who should partake would no doubt be different.
Or was that the point you were making and I am too thick to pick it up?
it has nothing to do about feeling chosen or ruling in heaven, but rather many feel it's a command for all christians, that by partaking you are accepting christ as their saviour!
john 6-.
I guess there are two answers .
Agreed , Mainstream Christians partake because Jesus said to, and they have no concept of "other sheep" and an earthly hope.
In the dubs, more are partaking because of delusions of grandeur, pride, thinking themselves special or better than the others. If they came in from a church perhaps they never lost their wating to go to heaven.
Whatever, it shows it has nothing to with the H.S. calling them
it’s cognac.
couldn’t sign-in for some reason so i created a new account.
just was wondering what’s going on with the memorial this year cause my kids father wants to have them during that time.
Hello Cog, nice to see you, hope you are well.
Memorial is to be virtual this year, congs using Zoom to log in from home. Alternatively it will be on their website to watch... No K H meetings.... what a gas !
....and you'll think about it every time you hear america singing, "a horse with no name.".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4lnc6b4jri.
Even made this old sober sides laugh out loud 😃
tired of listening to your local elders giving the "special" talk ever year after the memorial?
well don't worry, as of next year we will be spicing things up for your enjoyment.. not only will we be having the talk before the memorial (i know, wild huh), but we will be treating you to the talk via video starring our famous speakers from bethel so you can see how a talk should be given (after all bethel does boast the best speakers in any country, right?!).
here's a copy of the text from our latest letter as i'm sure that with so much excitement you won't believe it at first!.
“Whose Leadership Can You Trust?”....
Hmmmm. Can they really speak with a clear conscience on that subject ? After all they predicted:
“Millions now Living will Never Die (1920) ....now they are pretty much all dead.
” If you are a young person today you can be sure that you will never grow old” (1969, Awake -quote from memory).........Hey WT, we are getting old!
What they say about governments may be true, but they are no better...
you gotta listen to the first 60 seconds of the special talk drivel.. you'll immediately see why i've put this under jokes & humour.
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https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodspecialtalk2020/pub-sp-tk20r_1_video.
They seem to delight in selecting speakers with deadpan expressions and no enthusiasm...
the U k version was a strange old boy, but I would not mock the afflicted.
some people say this decade is the most advantage and so they are happiest in the present.
some long for the good old days before cell phones and computers.
if you could live in an era or decade , when would it be?.
I guess we all enjoy the time when we were young . My decade would span late sixties- early seventies. Wonderful music, long hair, we had the comforts of the modern world with less technology.
Hell, it we even fun being in what we called “the truth “ , for me anyway.
so this elder is super brainwashed, as is his wife.
she actually made a comment that she wished antmo 3 was her dad and that he is so cool.
oh my god, i threw up in my mouth.
I don’t think the instructions were to literally check in every day, but they have said that group leaders should stay in touch and ensure they are doing ok.. That seems a proper thing to do.
she should be grateful. All my wife has had is a text from elder asking if she had field service to report!
I told her to sarcastically reply saying “ Have they not told you that F/ministry is cancelled “
the witnesses teach that the "unrighteous" are brought back to life in order to learn about god during the 1000-year reign.
i don't think that's a bible teaching, for the following reason:.
1) no verse says that.
“ On a related note, they claim that all the "goats" who die at Armageddon are beyond repentance”
If the ‘goats’ were the really evil people of this world, that might make a bit of sense. However, to be a ‘goat’ in the WT teaching, one simply has not accepted the beliefs of the WTS. Think of all the selfless individuals who are right now serving the community in these Covid infested days. All of them are due to become “manure on the ground “ , unless they are dubs ,which is unlikely.
Back in the day they , me too I confess, used to love the scripture Zechariah 14 : 12 “ There will be a rotting away of their flesh, their eyes will rot in their sockets, their tongues will rot in their moths”
That was if they did not listen to us at the door.
Now, I don’t know where Zechariah was coming from, but I am sure it could not be that !
prudent decision even if the pandemic is over you are going to have people that.
lost jobs can't afford to go.
not allowed any vacation time rest of year.
“You may be right because the JW religion depended on these conventions to bring in money!“
I don’t know? In my experience it costs them a lot to hire the facilities.. Do they still have donation boxes? Or credit card donation desks?
I believe they cost more than they get in.
