i just found out today (from my sister) that crooklyn will not be making any more bound volumes of the watchtower or awake magazines after this year------instead, they're all going to be on audio tape only.
she does not have a computer so i generously
i think this could very well be yet another tactic of the gb trying to keep a lid on their "embarassing" quotes of yesterday.
Why do they need a computer for audio???
MP3 CDs of the mags have been available for a while now. If they are continuing this format, many people may assume they need a computer to play them - most probably aren't familiar with the MP3 CD players available now, and the players in their cars likely aren't compatible.
the following statement was on the tort of misrepresentation essay with the credit being given to ajwrb.
vast quantities of blood must be donated by non jehovah's witnesses to provide all of the blood fractions and medicines used by jehovah's witnesses and their children.
please help replenish the supply - give blood.. i was lead to believe that this was a red cross campaign slogan, but i clicked on the red cross link in ajwrb and i could not find this statement made on their site.
It appears to be text added by the AJWRB site to the banner, not a statement supplied by the Red Cross. Asking the AJWRB site owners is a good idea.
memory is not my strong suit, and i found that i would invariably either forget on friday night to turn off my alarm, or forget on sunday night to turn it back on.
the only variance to this was when i forgot both -- which was frequent.. so i'd have both a disrupted weekend sleep-in, and a rushed or even late-to-work monday morning.. i finally bit the bullet and purchased the neverlate 7-day alarm clock, from http://www.americaninnovative.com/buy/.
it allows me to set a different alarm for every day of the week.
I love mine - got it from Overstock.com: Two alarms with 7-day select on each, nature sounds, radio, and corded phone.
144,000 a "theillogical" evaluation
revelationits grand climax at hand!.
chap.
I wonder if JWs still hold onto this number as literal because it's one of the few things of C. T. Russell's that they still agree with. Then again - Russell said the 144K were those who'd inherit the "divine nature", while the "great crowd" was still a heavenly class, just not gifted with divinity.
Or - perhaps it's another power-play. If the number wasn't literal, than any old JW could be anointed, have God's spirit, and have a right to question, challenge, and generally disobey the Org without any meaningful sanction. Who has a right to tell you how to worship God when you're as much of a spiritual heavyweight as they are?
my very best friend, casey, is a member of a local baptist church.
her church is similar to mine, known to be a very liberal baptist church, holding very loosely to the "baptist traditions" and holding more tightly to the life of christ and his example set for us.
the other day she invited me to an interfaith shabbat service held at a reformed jewish temple.
Thank you for sharing, Andi. Some of us may never have the opportunity to do something like this and reading your experience is the next-best-thing.
i would be interested to be able to look up references made from now unavailable literature, does anyone know of a library that contains them?
by the way i am in england.
its not that i doubt the many quotaions i have seen, but its frustrating to not see them in the flesh.
C. T. Russell's works and Zion's Watch Tower 1879 through 1916: http://www.ctrussell.us/
Works by Rutherford and some out-of-print Watchtower brochures: http://www.strictlygenteel.co.uk/
just a question: if you are still jws (for any reason, many just can`t leave because their entire families are wrapped around it, etc), but don`t believe in it, and lead a "double life", how do you cope with going door to door?
i just can`t imagine how it must feel like to go out there and try to tell people at the doors or in the streets things you know are just bs!
how do you deal with that?
I had a problem with this the last few years I was still "in." I still believed the Org taught The Truth, but was mightily ashamed of the behavior and lack of refinement (i.e, just plain laziness of thought) found at my Hall. Not to mention that many brothers were so ill-prepared when they gave talks that they didn't infrequently say things that were totally off and just plain wrong - not just by Society standards, but by anyone's standards. I didn't want to find someone in the field who was so interested that I'd have to start bringing them to my Hall. I talked it over with my elder Dad and, while he agreed, we concluded that there was no where else for people to go and that Jehovah would straighten it out in time - with a little help from me pulling my study aside after every meeting and straightening out anything that got screwed-up on the platform.
Insane! I was absolutely insane!
jehovah used many prophets...to warn...elijah was one such prophet.
jehovah's servants...god's people--only jws.
worshippers of jehovah.
I can think of a much clearer title: "Now is the Time for Decisive Acion: OBEY OR DIE!"
12 Sadly, some baptized Christians have become irregular or inactive in their
worship. (Hebrews 10:23-25; 13:15, 16) Some have lost their zeal because of fear
of persecution, the anxieties of making a living, efforts to get rich, or the
pursuit of selfish pleasures. Jesus warned that these very things would stumble,
choke, and ensnare some of his followers. (Matthew 10:28-33; 13:20-22; Luke
12:22-31; 21:34-36) Instead of `limping on two opinions,' as it were, such ones
should "be zealous and repent" by taking decisive action to carry out their
dedication to God.-Revelation 3:15-19.
Apprently, the only reasons to leave are laziness, cowardice, materialism and selfishness. Never, of course, because the Org is hypocritical and un-Chrisitian. And what makes them assume those who leave are weakly "limping on two opinions?" I have only one opinion when it comes to "The Society"!
damn her!!!
ok, sorry, i have to let some of this out before i start crying at my desk again.
my mom and dad told me that they would stop talking to me.
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during your time as jws were there times that you were in need for some help from the jw brotherhood but felt let down because no one cared to help you?
did you feel resentful and began to suspect that this org is heartless and hypocritical?
I never got a call, a card, a vist during the years I was struggling with depression and anxiety and would miss meetings, though I struggled to get to the ones I could. When I purposely stopped going, my folks "sicced" the elders on me and they thought the elders (actually, elder) who called was so loving to reach out to me in my "time of need".
A friend of mine knows a sister who was struggling financially to take care of medical bills. A brother suggested that, since the congregation had a few thousand just sitting in the bank, they might be able to help her. After the brothers talk, she gets a call from one of them saying she won't get a dime of the congregation's money. When she told him she'd be driven to using a local church's soup kitchen, he told her to by all means do so. That was the last straw for my friend and that's when he quit going to meetings.
