By the way please someone tells me what is the PTG?
Is it BTG? Babylon The Great?
okay everybody, grab your barf bag because i just got a steaming shovel full of craptastic notes from gerrit's zone visit to the land down under !!.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ read at your own risk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~puke.
zone overseer was losch and his side kick was a big black guy, quite a scolar, cant remember his name though.
By the way please someone tells me what is the PTG?
Is it BTG? Babylon The Great?
okay everybody, grab your barf bag because i just got a steaming shovel full of craptastic notes from gerrit's zone visit to the land down under !!.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ read at your own risk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~puke.
zone overseer was losch and his side kick was a big black guy, quite a scolar, cant remember his name though.
8. Matt 24:14- Now totally fulfilled!!!
So has the preaching work now stopped...? I was always taught that the preaching work cease just prior to Armageddon
40 years of door knocking for each Baptism? If Dubs stopped preaching tomorrow, I reckon 'growth rate' would be same.
Brilliant though!...
do you jehovahs witnesses know that none of your so called scholars who translated your bible had no hebrew or greek training whats so ever?
they didnt even have any university training whatsoever.
only fredrick franz went to college and left after 2 years without even an undergraduate degree.
All sorts on here, youngdemar, all welcome...but as the Watchtower tells its members they have the most accurate translation of the Bible, celebrated scholars etc, they regard the TRUTH (ie, what YOU said, and what we know) to be apostate lies...that's because they believe all the crap the Watchtower Org feeds them, and they're not allowed to question it or do any research - but you knew that
do you jehovahs witnesses know that none of your so called scholars who translated your bible had no hebrew or greek training whats so ever?
they didnt even have any university training whatsoever.
only fredrick franz went to college and left after 2 years without even an undergraduate degree.
Hello youngdemar - yep, we knew that - and from the crap they churn out in the Watchtower, it looks like they struggle with understanding English too, lol
we know that the a$$emblies have become more programmed every year.
they did away with food service.
they cut off the great outdoors.
Lol - collars like in the film 'Battle Royale'?
well, that's what my elder told me.
he said that satan was directing the magi to find jesus so they might.
report back to herod who wanted jesus killed.
That's what I was told as a dub-child.
i have noticed, and posted a little bit about all the buzz surrounding this year.
there is a little bit of a whisper campaign going around that armageddon is coming this year.
from other posts i notice im not the only one who is seeing this, there is alot of "reminders" that we need to be obedient and trusting of the fds ( which i am of course), along with reminders to stock up and prepare for disasters etc they are really pointing to something.
They NEED their dates...the WTBTS keep saying it's ''''''soon'''''', and the dubs try and work out a very close date by using random numbers, lol.
why does the average man or woman on the street only have a vague awareness of who jehovah's witnesses are and what they stand for?
isn't it weird they know next to nothing after over a hundred years of door to door work???.
ask yourself why this has been such an ineffective ministry.. one actor, tom cruise, has raised more awareness about his own religion (scientology) than all the watchtower magazines placed at a million households.
Which brings us back to the question: Why no TV ministry?
..... A TV ministry would dry up that money machine quickly by generating a high-profile examination on the part of the newly well-informed public. An actual full-frontal presentation of the weirdness behind JW thinking would kill the vague persona of citizen do-gooders who clean up after themselves at conventions. The scrutiny would become intensely focused on Brooklyn, NY and the actual men who are power brokers on the throne of power.
Publicity has served the corporate purpose when they can frame that publicity as Kingdom Work. Publicity of a different nature could destroy them!
Money/investment/storing up treasures on Earth is more important than the urgent message...as you say, JWs don't feature on TV - I think the only one I saw was Paul Gillies being interviewed after that young mother died giving birth to twins, he said that her refusing blood was her sole and personal decision as an adult - and he blatantly lied and said ''we only Baptise as adults'' - and would a 'Worldly' person question that?
What I'D like to see is a feature film made of the Watchtower - all factual, but directed by (maybe) Spielberg (he's thorough with those historical 'movies') - it would certainly be seen by millions...I think it would have a big impact too.....anyone got Spielberg's email addy...? lol
.."out of order"..no vending machine is complete at a jw assembly,without an "out of order" sign on it.....of course it`s not true..the machine works fine..it`s just one of the many lies jw`s are willing to accept from the wbt$.....although..this lie is extremely large and visible,it`s a frigg`n vending machine!..lol!
!.............does the management that rents the facilities to the wbt$,know the wbt$ is disabling them?....does the owners of the vending machines know the wbt$ is disabling them,and interfering with their right to do business in that facility?......could the wbt$ be sued for loss of vending machine business?.......wouldn`t it be fun to let the vending machine owners know their machines are being disabled,at jehovah`s witness assemblies?......it would mean more bad publicity for the wbt$ for lying and court cases they couldn`t win...................outlaw
The Convention I went to Summer 2007 had a 'visa/mastercard acceptpoint' for donations by bankcard. I think they've been doing this for a few years in the UK. Because the WTS is a registered charity you can even get a form when you donate that you can fill in and give to the Tax department, because in the UK you can get tax concessions when you give to charities. They even announce this to encourage people to donate.
Zico, it's always bothered me that 'Jehovah's people' are a charity, lol. What's that Scripture...? Matthew 6v26..? "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.....'' yet the WT begs for money, NOT just from its own members, but from 'Worldly' people too...why else would it ask for donations on the internet...