so i am sure if you are at bethel and have the flu you just get time or what ever to recover, but what about serious sickness.
say you get cancer or some possible terminal illness?
what happens?.
If a "standard Bethelite" you get sent packing.
If you're a "Bethel heavy", they might send you packing but as a "special pioneer" so you get the monthly stipend & a few other perks.
If you are a GB member, or helper, or head of a department, or a Bethel lifer aged 80+, or a spouse of such, they may accommodate you within Bethel, allow you to stay and take up a bed in the infirmary.
ancient 'outlaw temple' discovered in israel.
the famous first temple was not alone.. a bird's-eye view of the temple, taken at the end of the 2013 excavation season.. (image: © p. partouche/skyview).
image 1 of 6. one of the two human-shaped figurines.
I often fantasize about time travel being somehow possible, then kidnapping GB members and various other obnoxious "Bethel heavies", and taking them back to Israel in, say, 1000 BC, or 500 BC, or 30 AD, just to watch their horrified expressions when they realize that the perfectly preposterous ideas they espouse about "pure worship" and what life was like in "ancient Israel" whatnot was all a bunch of complete & utter hooey.
I need to work on developing better fantasies, I know.
because he voiced his opinion on roger stone’s recommended sentencing as being grossly unfair, the democrats are talking about impeachment.. do they really think that impeaching him will mean that a democrat will get into the white house??.
it is crazy!!
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Only in the U.S. could someone like this president be elected.
Brazil: Hold my beer.....
i was looking at my children's watch history on youtube when i saw that they were watching atheist content!!!
what should i do?
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Watch it yourself? You might learn something.
this week's, 2-10- 2020 jesus lesson 103, parables of the fig tree, prematurely spreading leafs, cursed because of raising false expectations.
what a perfectly fitting facsimile for the fruitless fiction that the wt corporation has produced during "christ's presence" .
!8xy, 1914, 1925, 1975, 2000, 2075. by their [prophetic] fruits you will know them, or the figurative fig leafs, not even covering the bare wt facts.
Wt got only number 1914 right,
What did the WTS get right about 1914? Exactly and verifiably? What did they predict would happen in 1914, and what did happen?
the watchtower has taught for over a century that plague is part of jesus’ sign letting earth know he’s lurkin’.... combined with the recent acceleration by the chinese gubmint of ejecting jws from china, it’s no surprise that dubs are of the belief that ‘jehovah is punishing china’.. dubs must be expecting a few large earthquakes to strike china in the next weeks with possibly a war or two, to round out the pain of jesus’ sign to these wicked jehovah haters..
He didn’t believe me.
I would love to show him the studies.
Wouldn't make a difference.
"Studies? From the world controlled by Satan? You don't think he can influence scientists to lie? Or even manipulate the results of their experiments so that it works out to make Jehovah look like a liar?"
Seriously - it would be more productive and less painful to have someone drop cinder blocks on your head.
i was thinking about this recently.
the society owns all the kingdom halls and with desperate need of money, their closing down and selling off properties.
consolidating congregations seems to be the order of the day.
I think it is the amount of money that we donate.
Well, yes, but...
Those who have faded don't contribute.
Step 1: Control control control - keep them in the fold.
Step 2: Once in the fold, guilt them into donate, donate, donate.
i was thinking about this recently.
the society owns all the kingdom halls and with desperate need of money, their closing down and selling off properties.
consolidating congregations seems to be the order of the day.
The larger the congregation, the easier it is to slip thru the cracks and fade.
Congregations are kept small, and field service groups are kept very small, on purpose. It's all about control, control, control.
Mega-congregations? Would never happen.
i just had this flashback when commenting on another thread about how they used to announce reproof or dfing from the platform.
at least in our congregation, it was a dramatic event (this is what i can remember from back in the mid-late 60's or early 70's when i was a kid).. at the end of the service meeting, just before singing the final song, the brother would announce, "we have a letter that must be read.
the "congregation servant" (my grandfather or later my father) would then slowly walk from the back of the kh to the platform.
Did the "publicly announce the sin of the guilty one" thing last into the 80s? I definitely remember it, but I thought it had stopped some time in the 70s.
i found out just last night that back in 2015 scientists discovered a piece of amber estimated to be over 15 million years old.
inside the amber was a flea, very similar to the size and kind that attack and eat our blood today.
whats even more astonishing is in the mouth they found bacteria that has the same make up as bubonic plague.
Do they ever explain what happened to all the heat produced by collapsing a few hundred million years worth of
radioactive decay into just the last few thousand years? Why wasn't Noah boiled alive bobbing about in his coffin
on a boiling sea?
Excellent questions.
And you know what the JW answer would be to such a question, don't you?
"Where are you getting these ideas? That sounds like apostate reasoning. Are you an apostate?"
If they are especially mild, you might get a "let me do some research and get back to you", and from that point on you will never hear from them again.
As I noted earlier: If you are looking for an intelligent conversation, your better bet is to talk to the gravel.
