America missed out on this group from the UK in the 70s. I loved Smokie!!! I heard them when I lived in Saudi Arabia when I was a kid and used to have some of their tapes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EFRzuIJnbo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.
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America missed out on this group from the UK in the 70s. I loved Smokie!!! I heard them when I lived in Saudi Arabia when I was a kid and used to have some of their tapes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EFRzuIJnbo
LRG
watchtower article often introduce a point that has no merit with words such a "undeniably.".
for instance the watchtower 2014 august 15 page 10 says:.
"jehovah undeniably blesses the preaching work of christian women and supports them in times of trial.
Apparently the above points on this thread is indisputable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.
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i moved back to my hometown almost a year ago after being away for almost 20 years.
since that time it's gotten around to others in the area and my relatives how i view the organization, not to mention that my brother and sister have outed me to some people about my sexual orientation and that's all it takes.
so now i feel estranged somewhat from relatives i used to be close to even though i have not been outright shunned by them.
I moved back to my hometown almost a year ago after being away for almost 20 years. Since that time it's gotten around to others in the area and my relatives how I view the organization, not to mention that my brother and sister have outed me to some people about my sexual orientation and that's all it takes. So now I feel estranged somewhat from relatives I used to be close to even though I have not been outright shunned by them. Several have unfriended me on facebook and have been distant but would say hi and talk to me if I ran into them in a grocery store.
Back to topic of my post, I was at home yesterday and had been up all morning around the house. My mother had went out and done some shopping and came in the front door and had a memorial invitation she said she found in the door. I never heard the door knock and nobody rang the doorbell.
Is this what field service and tract placements are going to now? Just put one in the door and run? I live in a small town of about 10,000 which is the central marketing area for the surrounding rural area in every direction and there are 2 congregations for this area and years ago I went to the closer congregation even though I lived in the territory of the other congregation but I have relatives in both congregations. I just wonder if somebody I knew put it there or if it was from someone in that congregation that didn't know me or where I live.
"the way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end.
now you will have peace for eternity.
" -- maleva, the wolf man.
"What a dump. Hey! What's that from? What a DUMP"...
just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?
(perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).
with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.
No and don't plan to.
something occurred to me today.
quite randomly as i was working away at my desk i remembered an illustration from the bible teach book in which satan claimed he knew better than jehovah about ruling mankind.
here's the illustration from chapter 11 of that book:.
More to your point like Live Forever book mentioned on why has God permitted wickedness and God "universal sovereignty" being challenged it mentioned that God has allowed mankind all these years to rule himself without God being involved to settle the issue. However that is a lie because he stepped in during Noah's time regarding the flood, during Nimrod's time during the tower of Babel and during Lot's time during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah to name a few examples.
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can any one recommend any good books to read that have come out in the last few years?
i haven't read a good book in a long time and i'd like to get into reading again.
i'm not into autobiographies or sports books.
Just about anything by Taylor Caldwell! Though her books are not new. She was born in 1900 and died in 1985.
the other day i ran into a jw who just happened to be my very friend during my jw days (which were most of my life).
so for about 60 years we were each other’s very best friend.
we grew up together from about 8 years old and are the same age, now in our early 70’s.
I wouldn't have replied "cool" when he said, "we need to continue this dicussion at a later date". I probably would have replied, "why?" since he apparently didn't have a reply after you said what you said. He knows you are right and he knows he is perpetuating lie by staying in the so called "truth" for the sake of his social life and social networking.