i don't know if it is me or if it is becauce i was taught so much false teachings growing up, or maybe that the watch tower publications are about a 10th grade level and when i read a thoughtful article i want to believe it.
but boy, television media seems to present the public with truths the same way the watchtower presents its truth.
with 10 minute sound bites, never getting to deep and really not explaining very well the history of some of the subjects.just a thought!
You want us to believe that fxxx-up governments that haven't been able to carry on successful wars in a backwater like Afghanistan (USSR first, and now the US and allies), yet they can work together to pull off "something" that is "being orchestrated at a global level and that all of the leaders of the major nations are part of it."
but thats all part of the deception man..its what they want us to believe
so last night, our cong asked us to pass a resolution.. what i noticed was, the elder reads the resoltion and then asks for everyone in favor, while he is looking down.. all of the dubs just raise their hands, and before even looking up, th elder says, ok, we'll approve this and send it off.. what a joke !!
why even bother.
just make the rules and tell them people, don't give them the illusion that they have a say in the matter.
Even saw a couple of elders vote against some resolutions.
hmmm poor show.
since it is the elders that are putting the resolution to the cong then there is no need for them to vote at that time. even if they disagreed with the decision then they would have had the oppurtunity to discuss this at an elders meeting and on being out-voted at that they ought to have then gone along with the decision..(according to jw rules)
i know of a cong that put a resolution to the hall that they purchase 2 antique chairs for the platform since they had the chance to do so at a reduced rate (altho still not cheap).... the cong voted against it on the grounds that the money being spent would be better used to fix the holes in the roof of the kh..at which point they were told that the chairs had already been bought. i was visiting the cong the following week and the watchtower reader refused to sit on them. bad form..but still funny.
although i'm pretty much an atheist, i still like reading the bible.
it's an amazing literary masterwork to say the least.. my question is, after discovering that the new world translation of the wts was poorly translated and altered in ways designed to support their various peculiar doctrines (see john 1:1, etc.
), what bible translation are you all the most fond of?.
wisdens
those packer backers sure didn't come out to support him did they!
more like backing away from the guy.
weird situation.
rofl
on the "c/os in the uk" thread, a newbie poster named "ernie" posted this:.
have the rumours about getting rid of cos been confirmed?
although not officially in the public domain , my understanding is that cos will not be given a new assignment after their existing one ends on aug 31st 2009. each co has been sworn to confidentiality on this matter.
I know of a couple that just got accepted into the circuit work here in the States,
well they will still need them till they dont need them any more.
bit like noah spending all that time building the ark even tho he only needed it once illustration
i was watching an interesting documentary called "sex with neandathals" last night, about the possibility that neandathal man could have been assimilated into the human gene pool by interbreeding.. it showed how modern man came from africa, whereas neandathal man came from europe.
at some points their paths crossed, but rather than modern human driving and forcing neandathal man into non existence they learned to co exist.. this is a developing theory amongst some scientists and anthropologists that seems to be getting a foothold.
it has been shown how similar species of animal have interbred, giving an example of two very different types of baboon.
yes please
question box, september km, 2009.. if both parents participate in child indoctrination sessions, they can each count one hour per week of field circus time.. hail the theocracy, ever increasing!.
om.
You meant September 2008, right?
is this a prophecy or a typo.? come to think of it is everything? if true, this might help to allow the appointment of bros as elders and ms who did not qualify due to their wive's low field service hours.
oh man!
i almost died reading this list from the private jw group on facebook.
usually the posts there are quite nauseating, but this topic was priceless.
It definitely is pathetic .... that she describes singing with no music as such a "fantastic" experience. Doesn't she realize that church choirs sing without music all the time? How sad.
you're wrong.
of course she doesn't know that church choirs sing without music all the time..she's never been to church...she may also never have experienced a huge sports crowd singing in unison or a crowd of concert goers doing similarly. but any crowd singing is an emotional experience a fantastic experience and if you begrudge her that experience then that is a little sad.
john blacks wife was liz..
gordon webbs wife was called honor.....she was on a study once and when the actual study conductor returned the next week and asked if the householder had enjoyed having the co's wife visit she siad yes she was nice but i thought it a bit strange that everytime you spoke to her you called her your honor. true story.
Actually I didn’t mind him. Someone told me that his wife Pauline died and that he was devastated……..Does anyone know if that is true…..????
he was so devasted that not long after he got married again to a girl who he had met just a couple of months earlier at a circuit assembly rehearsal and who was at least 30 years younger than him. her husband had ran off to london to be with his boyfriend. bethel was not impressed by the speed of the marraige so took him off circuit work. they were married a year when he died. poor girl.
keith gaydon also remarried as did cliff hensman (and he had to go to her husband to get him to divorce her)....do any widowered cos marry anyone older than them
ah yes brian scott...
liked him...when he stayed we would sit up late and discuss philosophical stuff....estimation went way down when he sided with my jc who had wrongly df-ed me...bygones (sided with tony boyland who was my jc chairman and brians temporary co)
ernie...welcome.....how do you know??? ( if true i am amazed that someone or two worked this out as soon as the group got cancelled - this will test the en masse humility of cos)
mike read remarried a sis from my old cong who wanted to marry a circuit overseer...and who now doesnt like circuit work - or him much allegedly...tijkmo
clive pitman
terry armstrong - he was well liked - not
anton irons - how could i forget - said a prayer at my wedding - whenever he visited he got me to play the guitar solo from rod stewarts i was only joking.
does anyone in london know if donald wilson did any temporary co work there. i heard a rumour.
david bingham
peter chipperfield
keith baker...one morning during his visit i was the only one at the fs group..and then i had him for calls all aft..and he was staying with us
ronnie hunter did a good bit of temp work but never got the fulltime call cos of his age..he did a wedding i was at recently and used the making a good name scripture usually used at funerals. i thought oh no he's brought the wrong outline. i liked him tho ninja feels differently.
david craig
