so i am not officially da/do yet and my family has shunned me hard.
today crying my mother calls me to beg to see my children... should i let her?
i feel that if you can speak abusive of your own son and wife and shun the.
The way I was able to have some association with my parents was to allow them access to my son when I was with him.
My mother wants me to leave my 6yo son with her for a few days. If she asks again, I will ask if I can spend a few days looking after my JW nephew and neice. I am sure the feeling of horror that overwhelms her will help her clearly understand why I do not want her alone with my son.
the recent topics addressing the shamefully bigoted talk by jw gb member, anthony morris, on the subject of homosexuality got me thinking.
what the heck is up with the gb's obsession with this subject?.
as far as i can determine, jesus never said a single thing in reference to homosexuality.
well, another poster mentioned an elder that used to constantly harp about fornication who ended up being guilty of that himself.
I had an elder in Bethel tell me off for having a classical CD with a very romantic picture of a man and woman kissing on it. He was shortly after disfellowshipped for having a 7 year affair. One of my room mates in Bethel used to regularly berate gays, yet later told me he had been in a homosexual relationship a couple of years prior to coming to Bethel. People can make a big deal over things they have a personal struggle with.
Another reason they fear homosexuality, is that it is a great threat to numbers. Homosexuality cannot be "cured", as much as they argue otherwise, and they know that if a person is disfellowshipped for homosexuality it is very unlikely they will return.
i few moments ago i received a strange text message.
it read:.
russian government is opening a case on banning our jw.org website in russia.
She initiated contact, which basically constituted spam. You had every right to question her over her actions.
I doubt she will contact you again, but if she does, in order to gloat how Jehovah intervened, since the court decided the ban was not legal, ask why Jehovah has not bothered to intervene in China, where jw.org is blocked and unaccessible to one fifth of the world's population.
umbertoecho Welcome, I'm from Sydney.
now playing at kdfc.com.
interesting that dvorak's symphony no.
9 was voted to the number two spot .
No live music is just as bad.
I used to play a clarinet in the kingdom hall band.
now playing at kdfc.com.
interesting that dvorak's symphony no.
9 was voted to the number two spot .
Dis-member - I have a music collection of over 170,000 albums and have been collecting for over 30 years.
That is remarkable. How do you get time listen to each album, let alone remember them. There was a collector in Hobart congregation, though he specialised in soundtracks. He had two room filled wall to wall with vinyl records. I am not sure what will happen to them, as he must in his 90s and in a home now.
This topic fooled me, as it is just limited to Classical music, and it would be impossible to pick a list spanning all genre's. How is "greatest music" judged. Most intricate, highest IQ of listeners, highest IQ of composer, most popular, most sold, most listened to, oldest still being listened to?
You also make a good point about Eminem. Eminem's Love the way you Lie has had 650 million views on youtube alone, not counting radio plays and albums sold. In his song Rap God, he raps 97 words in 15 seconds, or 6.5 words per second. Genius. In hundreds of years, I think there will still be some of the classics from the 20th century being played. I was at a very cool bar in Sydney last week filled with mostly alternate 20 year olds, and they were dancing to rock songs that spanned the 50's to the 90's. I was impressed that several generations on, people are still listening to the best rock of those eras.
i recently got an unsolicited lecture from a well-intentioned but nevertheless misguided jw friend.
the gist of it was that i needed to go to all the meetings or i would miss out on "everlasting life.".
i responded that i do not need to go to meetings to have a relationship with god.
Good points. I came to a similar conclusion about Hebrews when I started examining Watchtower doctrine. Growing up I would never miss any of the meetings because of that Scripture, and never noticed that it says nothing about how often to attend. Amazing how easily people are controlled to read into scripture what they are told to.
fewer new zealand citizens affiliated as jws in 2013 than in 1996: over 15 years of successive decreases.
the first table shows the new zealand census from 1976 to 2013. typically, numbers of citizens affiliated with the witnesses are higher than the number of active publishers because it includes children and those who are affiliated with the witnesses but who may not be active publishers.. of note, more citizens were recorded as affiliated with the witnesses in 1996 (19,527) than in 2013 (17,931).
the decline in numbers affiliating with the witnesses in new zealand started in 2001 and has continued across two further census reports - so this is not just a temporary blip.
interesting. I have not seen the results for the latest Aussie census, but it has been the same trend over the last few years. Interesting how publishers continue to rise, but census figures are falling.
hi guys and gals,.
i have written an article that explains how the watchtower society gets from 607 bce to 1914 (http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/faqs/why-is-1914-important/) but i need some input so that i can write an article on how they get from 1914 to (via 1918) 1919.. are we talking about ezra, 1:2-4 when the persian king cyrus allows the israelites to go and rebuild the temple 3 and a half years after exiling them?
if so, how has the watchtower used this passage to get to 1919??.
Following are the steps required to arrive at 1919, which is based largely on Revelation 11. Each step is a failure in logic, as shown by bullet point.
one thing (among many) that always bothered me about jw teachings is what happens to the soul when we die.
sure god could be capable of creating a body and implanting it with all of our life experiences an memories.
but how would not be a just a clone instead of being actually us?
Good point, the Watchtower soul sleep doctrine is not nearly as satisfying as that of an eternal soul.
But how would not be a just a clone instead of being actually us?
It would be just a clone, which means there is nothing to stop God creating hundreds such clones whilst we are still alive.
