...that their web site is the most translated in the world.. https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/most-translated-website.php.
do jw's genuinely believe that statistics prove divine backing?
you can fool some of the people some of the time...there are lies, damned lies, and statistics!.
Perhaps this information demonstrates why the text of their writing is so simplistic these days. It has to be easily translatable by an army of non scholarly translators.
Also, the message may be available in 1000 languages but how many people really know what JWs believe.?
the basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – the integrity of thought, emotion, and action.. .
ten years ago ( after 32 years as a jehovah's witness), i finally decided that my own mental sanity and being true to myself was more important than attending congregation meetings and serving the watchtower society.
i stopped (years before) field service, the ministry school, answering at the watchtower studies, missed numerous meetings and walked in minutes before the meetings started and left after the closing prayer, i knew it was time to leave.
Like others, The seeds were sown when the "generstion" prophecy was tampered with in the nineties. It seemed clear that were reacting to events rather than proactively telling things in advance. Some later, towards the end of the decade , I dared to think the unthinkable, and ask myself if it really was "The Truth" or just another religion of men.
That was it, scales fell from my eyes of perception and I have never doubted that conclusion. It took a while to back out ,fading gently , but here I am.... apostate, under the radar and happily still married to my dubby wife of many years .
lecture by walter remine:.
https://youtu.be/o2usdd_8eay.
Not having time or inclination to settle to a vid. I knew nothing about, I cut and pasted this...
"Walter J. ReMine, author of The Biotic Message, presents "A Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design," based upon eleven years of research into biological science and the potential of a biotic message purposely planted within life itself by an intelligent Creator.3 Nov 2015"
australia has in the last few years conducted a royal commission into child sexual abuse in institutions ,the banking industry , and now aged care facilities .. i think its about time they had a royal commission into organizations that claim charitable status and eligibility to receive benefits/funding whatever.. i`m sure that if they ever did wtb&ts/jehovah`s witnesses would never meet the criteria to receive it.. as they do no charitable work in the community.. if they do any charitable work at all it is only to benefit only jehovah`s witnesses who they consider are in good standing in the jw community.. and isn`t that discrimination ?
not only among their own people but also the whole community ?.
or is it just wishful thinking on my part ,and its not going to happen..
I quite agree Smiddy. A while back the. Charity Commission did look closely at them over the child abuse scandals but seemed satisfied when they issued the latest set of guidelines to elders.
When a Secretary, I recall filling in Charity tax refund forms and the reason for our charitable status was simply that we existed to teach the Gospel of The Bible. That was enough ,it seems.
i was only young but i do remember ken and his wife (valentina) being our co. he was a mountain of a man but it would appear from the bbc obituary he was a man of peace.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword.shtml .
olympic wrestler and actor who became the last of the men who struck the symbolic j. arthur rank movie gong has died aged 80. .
I well remember Ken Richmond. His fame as the banged the gong on screen eclipsed his wrestling prowess.
I worked as an attendant at Twickenham, London, District Convention one year and he was the Overseer of the department, so I had something to do with him . He seemed a decent guy and a good organiser.
I have not met any C.O’s with his prowess and life experience lately..
have you ever reinstate somebody even if they are not that repentant?.
What is “not that repentant”?
it is not displays of tears and chest beating, rather the changes they have made in their lives that determine it.
In reality , the committees I was on were quite keen to reinstate after a decent period of time had past, if they had stopped doing the ‘sin’ , attended meetings and said the right things. NB. I only encountered the run of the mill smoking, fornication and adultery cases.
asking 4 a friend.
I don't know the American system, but in the U K , when an elder ,we would not permit a dub to Regular Pioneer if he was on Unemployment Benefit because he had to sign that he was actively looking for work.
In the case of disability benefit they put you through the hoop before they grant the benefit. Personally I cant see how an honest claimant could cope with the physical life of a Pioneer.
at least this former kh in bradford will help house someone with a disability because it is all on the flat.
plans to convert former church in great horton into house are approved | bradford telegraph and argus.
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/18067836.plans-convert-former-church-great-horton-house-approved/.
"Although in the Great Horton Conservation Area, heritage officers said the 1970s build church made little contribution to the area’s heritage."
You can say that again!
holy shit!
i went to the meeting on thursday night to hear my grandson and my daughter give their "talk" on the misery school!.
the very first part on the next meeting that follows the misery school was a 15-20 minute part, with a video of course, on the many ways to donate money to the wt!
How to donate to WTS via the internet? Thanks but I don't think I will bother.
at this pace its going to take more than a thousand years to make earth a paradise .by my reckoning.. what have the g.b.
been saying about his kingdom reign now that its gone over 100 years ?
and what he has accomplished ?.
What has been accomplished? Sweet F A .......
