yes, last week the number of bethel layoffs was confirmed from 90 to 125. .
and those going in thinking they may be there for some time have been told.
that they may be there for two months rather than 3 years depending on .
With the Sydney real estate market being what it is, they could make some serious money selling the Australia branch and surrounding land off to a developer or an investor.
Although the surrounding suburbs are low class, Bethel is in Denham Court, which is one of the most affluent suburbs in the area. 500sqm blocks of land sell for $500,000. They could subdivide and sell off all the land which surrounds Bethel and make tens of millions.
I've never known a JW to talk to Jesus. They are so devoted to Jehovah that it is to him alone they would ever talk or pray. Not that they would not be allowed to talk to Jesus, they just don't.
Prayer is generally considered an request of a deity with the concept of worship, so Jehovah's witnesses refer to speaking and not praying the Jesus. Even when Stephen prayed to Jesus is Acts 7:59, the NWT changes the word from "prayed" to "appealed." See http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/worship-jesus.php.
jehovah`s witnesses place great emphasis on the importance of god`s name as jehovah .so much so that they are often accused by christendom`s religions as substituting jehovah for christ.. the old testament ( hebrew scriptures identify god as the tetragrammaton four hebrew consanants yhwh and not jhvh.
as mistakenly believed by a 13th century spanish monk .. modern scholars including the j.w.`s agree that the more accurate pronunciation of gods name would be more nearer to yahweh than the name jehovah .. so why do j.w.`s insist on the name ?
jehovah ?
If they wanted to follow the Christian example, they would be called Jesus' Witnesses.
Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, in all Ju·de′a and Sa·mar′i·a, and to the most distant part of the earth.”
It was quite a backflip when they took the name, since Russell said no name but Jesus' should be used .
All true teachers are not only sent by Christ but receive their instructions from him; and any man who attempts to put his own or any other name upon all or any portion of the church is an opponent, an adversary to the true and only Lord and Head of the church." Zion's Watch Tower Oct 1888 p.3
Russell expressed that salvation is through Jesus, which is the core message of the New Testament. It certainly was not Jehovah, which is not a name that appears in the New Testament.
"The correct Scriptural conviction that the only name by which any can be saved is the name of Jesus: - faith in his sacrifice, and obedience and devotion to him."Zion's Watchtower 1901 Aug 15 p.264
my mum is doing kemo and i have gone to many meetings at my old hall and brothers have said how they remember my old talks how good they were (ass kiss) and i still feel emotional even though i know 100% it is lies, funny human mind did i do it all for personal pats on the back and self esteem....yes i did i was a loser who needed some luv.
mommyfirstandalwaysa day ago
I cried last nite in the dark as my children said their prayers asking God to bring paradise so that they can lTouch the animals. It made me sad to know that won't happen
That is something you can provide them with now. JWs often let life slip through their fingers, putting it off till the new system. But you can take them to a zoo, or buy them a pet. I recently rode an elephant with my son, and then fed a baby tiger. It was wonderful, and real.
so i sat thru another brain mushing session for the sake of family.
it is no myth by now that the more time you spend awake the harder it is the accept that people just take all of this in without asking.
a computer has more reasoning abilities than your average jw at this point.
That paragraph is so ignorant. A couple of additional logical failures:
Under those conditions, even skeptics would likely feel compelled too admit bible prophecy was undergoing fulfillment.
No, those conditions are things that have always happened. Think back to early man in the ice age. It would just be considered by skeptics to be the cycle of life.
From the simplified version.
But if that happened, it would be obvious to everyone that Bible prophecy was being fulfilled. It would be clear even to people who are not interested in what the Bible says.
No, most of the world does not follow they Bible. Bad conditions would lead them to their own religion for answers. As an example, I was speaking to a Muslim once, who was saying earthquakes were a sign of Allah's return. He would not see it as a sign to join Jehovah's Witnesses.
that darn satan keeps confusing those horsies in apocalypse - they seem to be going in reverse.. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-hunger-calamitous-famine-eradicated-last-50-years.
They are phenomenal statistics. 27 million famine related deaths the decade before 1914. 1.5 million the decade before 2014. Throw in that the population is ten times larger and famine is only about 1% of what it used to be.
I find it irritating that people (JWs in particular) harp on about how terrible the world is, when we have seen such monumental advancements in the last century.
i have published a new article at watchtower corporal punishment, as a response to the testimony that geoff jackson gave at the royal commission.
it includes the relevant part of the transcript, along with a string of watchtower quotes to show that what he presented was not accurate, and that watchtower translates rod as a literal implement to hit children with.
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Thank you for all the comments.
Good catch Splash, I have updated the rogue sentence.
i have published a new article at watchtower corporal punishment, as a response to the testimony that geoff jackson gave at the royal commission.
it includes the relevant part of the transcript, along with a string of watchtower quotes to show that what he presented was not accurate, and that watchtower translates rod as a literal implement to hit children with.
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I would like to do an article on Jackson's comments about the GB. Alternatively, it may be about the misinformation spread throughout the JC. I am looking forward to the recommendations that the RC provide. They felt that of the groups involved in the hearing, Watchtower was the organization with the most flawed child abuse policies, and their recommendations should contain so excellent information to publish.
deaf aotearoa flooded with complaints about jehovah's witness churchkashka tunstalllast updated 15:22, october 6 2015deaf aotearoa has asked the jehovah's witness church to respond to claims of a deaf information database.new zealand's deaf community is fed up with unsolicited house calls, claiming the jehovah's witness church is targeting deaf households.deaf aotearoa has received multiple complaints from around the country and says church members visited certain homes because they were aware a deaf person lived there.
the organisation released a statement on monday, saying it was looking into the possibility the church holds a database listing the details of members of the deaf community.jehovah witness spokesman rod spinks said there was no such database and deaf people were not being targeted.the deaf aotearoa statement was posted on the group's facebook page, and received a flood of comments from frustrated people.one woman said a group of jehovah's witnesses had come to her house and asked "for the deaf person who lives here.
" she said they refused to explain how they had her details and didn't visit her neighbours.another said church members had turned up at her work and asked for her by name.hamilton man royce flynn said he had been visited six times over the last nine months, despite repeatedly saying he was uninterested in the house calls.he said the church members were always able to sign and also brought deaf people along, which lead him to believe he was being singled out.flynn said contacted local police, who told him it was a privacy issue and referred him on to the office of the privacy commissioner.he said he had been been in contact with local labour member of parliament sue moroney.deaf aotearoa acting chief executive jill dean said complaints about the church were a recurring issue.
This is priceless. Their own website http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/202011167#h=1:0-4:278 states that a form should be filled out, "regardless of whether he demonstrates interest," after which it is held by the congregation or sent to Bethel to forward to the appropriate congregation.
hi everybody, does anybody know if geof jacksons father is still alive?.
i wonder if he would dare return to australia again, maybe for his funeral?.
Brokeback Watchtoweran hour ago
When older it takes some type of upheaval in order for neural plasticity to take place and one change one's whole mode of thinking. Lets hope people that this man will change for the destruction of the Watchtower Organization!!
I doubt it. He strategically became anointed whilst married to one of the sweetest women I have had the pleasure to know. When she died a few years ago, I had hoped it may trigger some emotion in him. Yet since then he has still shown himself to be fully supportive of the new direction the Governing Body is taking. Maybe he has suffered internal turmoil since his wife, and now father have died, but there has been nothing to indicate this is the case. In the RC, he came across conceited and dismissive.
