my lovely d.i.l.
heard of her fathers passing this morning.both her parents and siblings have shunned her for over 22 years.. about 1 week ago her mother notified her by e-mail that her father had cancer and was not expected to live much longer.of course they had known for a long time that he had terminal cancer.. last week my d.i.l.
did ring her father and spoke with him.. the only other time they contacted my d.i.l.
I can never get the shunning of people who have not actually been d/f'd . The Witnesses I know ard reluctant to shun and only do so if they are given no option by their faith. Even then, " necessary family business" should over ride that rule.
Her mother must be a real hard-ass super dub!
why i ask this is because the night before the memorial we had a phone call from a longtime friend who obviously is still indoctrinated ,to encourage us to log onto jw.org and view the proceedings ?.
she made a big deal about how this has never happened before and that even non jw`s could watch it .. she was going to ring us up on the night to help us log in if we had any problems or whatever .. this friend is a bit eccentric to say the least and speaks against the elders at times ,sometimes i even wondered whether she was df or not ?
so this ph.call surprised me somewhat ,and the wife`s attitude is she`s happy just let her be and don`t rock the boat ,she is about our age so just let her be ,we have had a lot of history with her and she still talks to us despite what the religion says.. but when the memorial was about to start no phone call and we haven`t heard from her since ?
Yes , each congregation meeting has its own unique Zoom log in code . I presume this the same for all Zoom users so discussions are private , as they can be on he net.
The talk on the website was intended as failsafe if anybody could not Zoom. Yesterday it was accessible from the home page, no log in required. I have not looked today
memorial talk from australia - .
https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodmemorialtalk2020/pub-mo-tk20r_16_video.
at 23 minutes 00 seconds, the speaker says who are god's sons/christ's brothers.. according to the bible, he's got it wrong:.
Well, we zoomed in to the local congregation. I sat through it respectfully, it meant a lot to my wife..
The speaker did not highlight so much Jesus and what he did, as much as speaking of the the dual destinies and showing Watchtower pics of a paradise earth .. .There was a lot about not taking the emblems ......
No, we did not have wine and unleavened bread to hand.....
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-06/covid19-blood-antibodies-recovered-show-promise.
i have heard of this , transfusing plasma from recovered covid 19 patients to give the recipients the antibodies to fight it off .
great !
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-06/covid19-blood-antibodies-recovered-show-promise
I have heard of this , transfusing plasma from recovered Covid 19 patients to give the recipients the antibodies to fight it off .
Great ! It seems except that plasma is one of the big four blood fractions that are forbidden to.JW’s
Is this going to cause problems for them if the treatment is universally accepted?
Of course if a way is found to just administer a “serum” containing the antibodies, all well and good... subject to their conscience.
cardinal george pell the australian catholic who was the 3rd most senior person in the vatican was acquitted by the high court of australia of all sex charges against him this morning.. after serving about 400 days behind bars he is now free to walk out of jail, to the shock of many.. this should make news headlines all around the world judging by past experience..
This news surprised me this morning. I don’t know,of course... but it must be hard to be specific about whether you saw him on one day 23 years ago
i suppose the world has to accept this as a final decision now.
this has been a horrible month.
my best friend’s wife just called to tell me that my friend had to be hospitalized due to severe coronavirus complications.
he has severe pneumonia, is put on a ventilator and is in a coma .
Tough news Min. The point that they had been isolating themselves shows that this (expletive) virus can find a way in despite our best efforts...
Give your friend our best wishes.
2020-04-03--support during coronavirus pandemic.
https://docdro.id/cvkzlpi.
2020-04-04--announcement.
Thanks Petra...
That stuff about shepherding is a joke... I said before, the only message my wife got was to ask if she had a report! ..... I guess really it is a coded way of telling them to get off their a$$ and do it. I heard of an Uber keen elder who is happily decorating his house these days.
hi need some help with the teachings regarding the 4type horsemen and the virus.
i'm 17 going to be 18 in six months.
i am a running start student and trying to find the best way to move out after i graduate next year to continue.
Individuals in the Witnesses may conclude that the Gt Tribulation is upon us but the Society do not say that. Responsible elders and mature Witnesses refute that. They know that,even according to their beliefs there is a hell of a lot to happen first.
Yes they relate this to the four horsemen of Rev. But they have been riding since 1914 , they say... As the expression goes “Don’t get your knickers in a twist over it”
i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.
i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.
who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.
I well remember plowing through the "Babylon" book on Tuesday nights back in the day. We met in this little basement flat , the group at that time had some odball characters and tbe rest of us had no great perception of things. The conductor had a hard job with it..
Later on ( 1969/70) we had that other delight "Then Is Finished The Mystery of God" discussing the rest of Revelation. ...
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?
