i saw this mentioned on reddit but no link - i found the article form this weeks bible study..... in the “congregation bible study” part of the meeting this week there was a part that said and i quote: “only jehovah god and his son can receive someone into the heavenly kingdom or the paradise on earth under that kingdom.
we should diligently cultivate friendship with them by using what material riches we have in supporting kingdom interests”.
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Every other Christian denomination: You are saved by faith / grace
JWs: You are saved by "cultivating friendship with God by giving us your money".
Actually, that's probably unfair - come to think of it, there are plenty more Christian denominations which tie their adherents' salvation to their generosity.
it's seems that even the revised edition of the book revelation: it's grand climax a hand was wrong again.. in the 2019 agm david splane "clarified our understanding of the prophecy recorded in joel 2".
clarified?
you mean he done a 180 reversal.. from revelation: it's grand climax a hand page 143, para.
Lovely.
10's or 100's of thousands of kids have been molested by 10's of thousands of JW child abusers, thousands of JWs are dying from lack of blood transfusions, thousands of JW families are broken up by the disfellowshipping practice....
...and the GB spends its time determining what exactly an iron-age goat-herder had in mind when he used the word "locust" in his writings.
i think this is not an unimportant observation.. with the move of the broadcasting channel to the library part of jw.org the broadcasting are away from the general public.
so the obscure gb video's about strange mathers are not out to the open anymore with a simple click to tv.jw.org.
only the rank and file will find them easily.. i think this was the objective of the change.. g..
since now tv.jw.org is offline and merged into a restyled jw.org.. the whole page has changed, and broadcasting is a small part of the jw.org page.. g..
Plus I tried to find the first ever broadcast and can’t find it. Is it no longer available?
It looks like all the old monthly broadcasts are here:
https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/categories/StudioMonthlyPrograms
admit it, we all have things that we reel off when people ask what our favourite music is, just the same as if people ask what our favourite movies are.
we're meant to say "citizen kane" and "casablanca" and not "battleship" or "pacific rim" but we know what we're going to watch if they are ever on tv at the same time (and which ones we've never actually seen).. so how about some confession time?
what do you listen to when no one else is in the house?.
Roger Whittaker
Marty Robbins
Pretty much anything that was ever on the US TV show "Hee Haw"
Basically, anything my parents listened to when I was a kid, which made me roll my eyes. Now, 40+ years later, it brings up powerful feelings of nostalgia.
I don't think I particularly "like" it now, per se, but to hear things that you used to hear 20 million times a week 40 years ago, that you haven't heard for 30-40 years, kind of brings back the whole experience of being a kid again, at least for the 3-4 minutes the song lasts. It's a bit of a rush.
so with the news that they are remodeling patterson and expanding warwick, where are the funds going to come from?.
could this be a ruse like the need for thousands of kingdom halls proclaimed a few years back only to be replaced with the we realized the halls were not at capacity and the great sell-off began?.
maybe the hope is going to be that the sheep will give give give and then all of the sudden, after prayerful consideration the gb have determined that the current resources are sufficient to create the needed media and content.. my bet is that in 10 years it will all be consolidated to warwick and walkill and patterson will be sold to who i have no idea, but they own a ton of property in upstate ny..
If we assume that WT has a billion in investable assets, (they have much more in total assets), and we assume
a realistic average return of 5% (they DO invest) that means they get at least $5 million in earned interest
every year
1,000,000,000 X 0.05 = $50 million per year
And if you've got $1 billion, and you're only getting 5%, it's time to look for a new investment manager.
you think the new building addition to warwick ,that will house 1000 audiovisual and art production volunteers is a push to go online with the meetings?
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Meetings and assemblies serve only one purpose that is to keep the rank and file in line.
Two purposes.
You forgot, that's where the contribution boxes are.
Old timers prefer dropping physical money in a slot, vs. contributing online. And old timers are pretty much the only ones who contribute nowadays.
is it true that in 1975 the watchtower falsely predicted the end of the world and a great number of the membership quit and just a few years later they turned disassociation into disfellowshipping?
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Yes on all counts.
former fbi deputy director mccabe confirms: there were discussions within the department of justice about invoking 25 th amendment to remove trump from office.... .
i mean the us democracy isn't a third world country, a least the people involved should be reprimanded, they acted like trying a coup d'etat..
I remember this! Back when the silver bullet was Cohen.
All in due time
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/politics/michael-cohen-new-york-interview/index.html
i was with my brother in law when we were in service and given this book.
i have posted on this before but it got me to thinking.
it was taken from us by the local elder we talk to about it.
There's tons of reviews of it on Amazon - that should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=thirty+years+a+watchtower+slave&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
