this is the third elder that tells me that the body of elders will recommend me as an elder in the next visit of the co.. what do you think i should do?
some facts:.
i am still 'in' because of my family.i am ms.i am doing 10+ fake hours (well, some months it is fake), so they see my "spiritual" progress.-ootb.
Skeeter1 writes:
But, what will you do when it comes to a serious issue like pedophilia & blood?
I am unwilling to give you advice on this subject -- except: Do NOT accept an appointment as Elder if you will be unable to do the right thing when push comes to shove.
http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/auxiliary/psychology/frank/thirdwave.html.
this is a fairly long read.
please read it.
there was another one where people were instructed to give electric shocks to people to the point of (as far as they knew) killing the subject and most followed the instructions of their superior.
Right; documented in Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram. Scary stuff.
it's a little-known fact that stingrays like foreplay, as i will show you here.... .
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"I'm dead, Jim." -- Dr. Leonard McCoy (Star Trek)
The nurse reached in under the covers to feel the patient's feet: "He is yet alive. No one ever died with warm feet." The man opened his eyes, briefly. "Joan of Arc did..." (true story)
"I sure hope I don't have another night like that one..." -- Humphrey Bogart (and he didn't!)
in another thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/147300/2.ashx .
don cameron quotes ray franz:.
"it would be an insult to christ jesus to say that he selected this organization on the basis of what it had been teaching as of 1919.. to which teachings would you say he was referring?
(Recycled old post [23. Oct. 2006]:)
W 01. April 1986 QfR:Do we have Scriptural precedent for taking such a strict position? Indeed we do! Paul wrote about some in his day: "Their word will spread like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of that number. These very men have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they are subverting the faith of some." (2 Timothy 2:17, 18; see also Matthew 18:6.) There is nothing to indicate that these men did not believe in God, in the Bible, in Jesus’ sacrifice. Yet, on this one basic point, what they were teaching as to the time of the resurrection, Paul rightly branded them as apostates, with whom faithful Christians would not fellowship.
This is most fascinating. When the F&DS was supposedly appointed in 1919, the Watch Tower Society was still teaching that the Resurrection had begun in 1878 -- a teaching not altered until 1927 -- and which teaching the WTS now rejects as false. Does it not bugger the imagination to believe the Lord appointed over all his belongings an organisation that (by its own published standard) would be 'rightly branded apostate, with whom faithful Christians would not fellowship'?
it's your decision to make.
it would be as wrong of this community to insist everyone donate blood as it is of the cult to insist otherwise.
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That is the case; however:
On May 28, 2002, the United StatesFood and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least 6 months in certain Western European countries, (or 3 months in the United Kingdom), from 1980 to 1996. (wiki).
i was talking to gumby today and he told me that one elder that he knows said: "...he heard a gb mention of some new light about the "generation".
he said the gb member said they now believe that scripture applied to only the annointed...".
have we had any discussions on jwd about this?
The first thread regarding this "New Light" is here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/143678/1.ashx
The rebuttal to their new light is here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/143844/1.ashx
Hope this helps!
They should at least have the guts to go amish and not be hypocrites.
This would not have worked in at least one of my former congregations -- I took a lot of flak from some of the "Brothers" over the horse-drawn vehicle I owned back in the 1990's. (Even when there was no horse to go with it!!!)
fresh cut hay in may?.
spring rainshowers?.
a creek with active marine life?.
Sweaty horses and harness oil. Freshly mown hay drying in full sun.
Well -- maybe not actually sob... but eyeball-filling:
Field of Dreams Das Boot Casablanca My Girl
bonnzo wrote: any movie where animals, esp. dogs, die
Black Beauty (who doesn't actually die)
True Grit (not an especially good film) Curiously, although it is not troublesome when the dozen people get killed, I am verklemmt when John Wayne kills the little girl's horse (i.e. rides him to death).
anointed cutoff --- 1935.. |.
you cannot become a gb member without being one of the anointed.. |.
1995 comes and this generation now means the great crowd living during our time is part of it, no time cap.. |.
Quite honestly, I really did not think the Watch Tower Society would junk the 1935 doctrine as soon as they did. I thought they would announce that the increase in the number of (recognized) partakers was because the "Anointed" who became members of the "Evil Slave Class" when the Dawn Bible Students departed the WTS were now (seventy-five years later) beginning to die off in large numbers, and that the newly anointed were merely their replacements. That could have pushed off that 01. May QfR for another ten or fifteen years...and allowed a number of forceful WT articles on the importance of remaining with the Society.
