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i was just thinking it will be interesting to see how the wts emergency relief fund will operate in the philippines.
ok it worked well with the storm in florida, with cashing in on the insurance cheques.
sorry to generalize, but americans have the disposable income, and the insurance polices for things like this - a thing the wtbts finds very attractive.
emeth:
And i think the JW's did a good job since this article speaks about 10,000 witnesses and in last years yearbook the average nr of publishers was 17,403 and 6% growth so in just a few years the number of JW's almost doubled in size there
No. The article said in the disaster area, not in the country. And how the hell did your brain rationalise "6% growth" with "almost doubled in size"?!
i was just thinking it will be interesting to see how the wts emergency relief fund will operate in the philippines.
ok it worked well with the storm in florida, with cashing in on the insurance cheques.
sorry to generalize, but americans have the disposable income, and the insurance polices for things like this - a thing the wtbts finds very attractive.
emeth:
However i consider witnesses as my family so that is why i mentioned them.
you would also look after your own family, mom,...dad... grandma,..brothers and sisters first like anybody else.
emeth, who would you look after first: a disfellowshipped blood relative, or a JW?
in emergency situations all do no matter what a family member believes
Why? Do you help them, then go back to shunning them?
Is Armageddon an emergency? What if Armageddon starts, but you don't know yet that it's actually Armageddon? You might be 'grieving the holy spirit' by helping a 'worldly person', or even 'worse', a 'disfellowshipped relative'.
it's interesting how superstitious people point the finger and laugh at other people's superstitions.. the only honest thing is to reject all of them.
here is a handy checklist to see if you have missed any.
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What about oneiromancy (dream divination)??
the latest edition of the free in christ ministries journal contains a very interesting article entitled the watchtower and masons.. drawing upon material from the book the watchtower & the masons by fritz springmeier, it gives the following parallels between the things that c t russell believed and those taught by the masons:.
* both believe jehovah is the most important word being the basis of their dogma, and the name of their god.
* both believe god yielded power to a lesser god.
ozziepost:
The latest edition of the Free in Christ Ministries Journal
Sounds like a credible source...
if so or he did at anytime before or after his death please if you can provide scriptures.
i may need these for ammo when two elders come to my home this week.
thanks.
blondie:
(Daniel 9:27) 27 “And he must keep [the] covenant in force for the many for one week; and at the half of the week he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease.. . .
That has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus at all. It relates to a period about 200 years earlier. It was only later co-opted by Christians as a so-called 'messianic prophecy' about 'Jesus'.
(Matthew 27:50, 51) 50 Again Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and yielded up [his] spirit. 51 And, look! the curtain of the sanctuary was rent in two, from top to bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rock-masses were split.
There's no evidence that ever actually happened.
i ask this respectfully, and do so after watching a favorite show of mine's season opener which had a new years storyline.
hollywood tends to make movies and television show episodes centered around holiday themes appear warm and blissful.
while i'm thankful to have never participated in such holidays, i can't deny my curiosity about ex-jws that do celebrate.
Finkelstein:
When I left I never took it upon myself to make traditional holidays a big thing
It's one thing to choose not to celebrate any particular thing. But it's quite another thing to (claim to) 'not understand' that people enjoy celebrations. That's just stupid, and a bit sad.
friends,.
who was in any doubt that our jw believe is a marketing model, see this pictures of the still existing hq of jw at columbia heights.. earlier comments on jwn that something is going to change in the organisation, these comments are true.. in a few years we will not talk about the watchtower society, we wil talk about jw.org.
i think the current leadership will make a transfer to a new start.
Violia:
That was in the Rutherford era.
Yes. But so was the subject of steve2's comment.
friends,.
who was in any doubt that our jw believe is a marketing model, see this pictures of the still existing hq of jw at columbia heights.. earlier comments on jwn that something is going to change in the organisation, these comments are true.. in a few years we will not talk about the watchtower society, we wil talk about jw.org.
i think the current leadership will make a transfer to a new start.
Violia:
No, Steve I mean the literal expression JW, not Jehovah's witnesses, the words J and W.
That is exactly what was on the banners in 1931. The letters - J & W.
i ask this respectfully, and do so after watching a favorite show of mine's season opener which had a new years storyline.
hollywood tends to make movies and television show episodes centered around holiday themes appear warm and blissful.
while i'm thankful to have never participated in such holidays, i can't deny my curiosity about ex-jws that do celebrate.
Stand for Pure Worship:
Jeffro, you know Jethro?
'Jeffro' is a not uncommon nickname for Jeffrey, and has an entirely different etymology to Jethro.
I thought it was ironic anyway and not a slight towards you.
It might have been ironic if I'd misspelled my username. You should probably get a better understanding of what "irony" means.
Doing calls yesterday, a sister who is a pioneer raised the question about what do worldly people get out of holidays, especially Christmas. None of us in the car group were able to answer as it's all foreign to us. One brother who came into the truth later in life couldn't answer either and his wife celebrates with his sons and extended family.
You're all either lying (masking envy) or a bit simple. There's nothing fundamentally unusual about people experiencing enjoyment, and no good reason why even someone who doesn't celebrate a particular holiday wouldn't understand why others enjoy celebrations generically.
