does anybody remember when the wtbts ask all the congregations to bring back all the old outdated books.
i think it was in the late eighties.
there was an announcement from the podium, return old books so they could be returned to new york.. i was too lazy to go through my books and take them in.
""The books were ordered destroyed for a good reason: to avoid confusion!""
Ordered destroyed? That is about the DUMBEST comment I have seen here. Almost all of the publications are in somebody's library, if not in a Kingdom Hall library then in a personal one.
My parents did not return any older publications and have a library going back to the early Fifty's
why is there no thread on this???
omfg that was an awesome game!!!!.
first time ever a 6th seed team has won the first two games of the playoffs.
I just wish I had money on the games. 4 - 0, what a weekend.
Let's go Steelers. Hope the Seahawks can win next week too.
i know this might sound like a question from "la-la" land but as a black ex-jws most of the white jw's that i did have contact with were really nice.
i was talking to a hispanic ex-jws the other day and he was telling me of some of the racist experiences he had as a jw.
i did not contradict him but i never experienced racism from caucasian jw's.
Are there Witnesses that are racists? Most likely. Is there a large number of Witnesses that are racists? Not in my experience.
Disfellowshipped for being racist, tough call would not be in keeping with "Loving your neighbor." I could see being talked to about it though.
the other night i was listening to npr on the radio while driving home and i heard a very interesting piece of information... the "57" in the heinz 57 brand came from occult sources!
the container says "heinz 57 varieties" but the number was never meant to literally mean they had 57 varieties of products, instead the numbers 5 and 7 have occult meaning.. i looked around on the internet and found these articles:.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_195.
""The slogan was invented by the company's founder, Henry J. Heinz, in 1892 while he was cruising around on the elevated in New York one day. Whilst reading the car cards on the ceiling, his eye alighted on the slogan "21 styles of shoes." To pedestrian minds such as our own, R.B., this probably does not sound like one of your landmark advertising mottoes, but that's why we're not millionaire ketchup barons. Heinz, on the other hand, could recognize genius when he saw it. Cogitating briefly, he soon conceived the immortal words "57 varieties," whereupon he got off the train and set about plastering the nation with the now-famous pickle-plus-number logo. The one problem with this scheme was that at the time the company was manufacturing more than 60 varieties. However, Heinz stuck with 57, for what his biographer describes as "occult reasons." ""
Strange reasoning. Heinz' biographer says it "occult reasons". Nothing to attribute it to H.J. Heinz himself.
Good for a laugh though.
an old jw friend just e-mailed this to me...
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/business-1/1136560817146830.xml?sanews?bug&coll=9
group to set thedow bustling
""I was at the Silverdome in '78.... like most venues it was the pits.""
That wasn't the impression I got in 1983. I thought it was a great place. The pits are the outdoor stadiums, Veteran's, Three Rivers, and Riverfront come to mind
if you would preach him simple and plain "your wt teaching is leading you to the hell where you will burn thernally even if you do not believe in hell?
you do not believe that you have salvation, you have no guaranty of that, so you are not saved and never be!
" this is simply with big dirty boots over their tomatos?
They would probably thank you for your time and walk away. And then LAUGH!
It wouldn't be very effective at all.
today i was chatting with one of the jehovah witness men from work.
he is like a big guy in the hall who can marry other jehovah's.
anyhow i am wondering if i should ask him if the people at the hall give to the homeless or have an outreach program for the poor.
Dave, if you would have asked me that question I would have pointed you to Matthew 6:1-4.
"6 "Take good care not to practice YOUR righteousness in front of men in order to be observed by them; otherwise YOU will have no reward with YOUR Father who is in the heavens. 2 Hence when you go making gifts of mercy, do not blow a trumpet ahead of you, just as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to YOU, They are having their reward in full. 3 But you, when making gifts of mercy, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, 4 that your gifts of mercy may be in secret; then your Father who is looking on in secret will repay you."That is the ONLY reply to your question. I don't ask others whether they support a given charity or not. It's none of my business.
as i grew up as a jw it seemed that we accepted genesis was a literal account with the only question being how long a creative day was.
for the longest time, as best as i can recall, a creative day was considered a thousand years long, based on the ole "a thousand years is as a day to jehovah" rule.. somewhere though, it seems that there was some waffling on how long a creative day was.
especially since science was showing that the earth was millions of years old.. since i've faded i wonder, do jws today consider genesis as a literal account of how things were created, even if they can't explain the exact length of a creative day?.
Literal, how ?
As written there is nothing in Genesis to make me think that a literal 24 hour day is being spoken of. The physical evidence would rule out both a literal 24 hour 'day' and a mere 1000 year 'day'.
these are from a book called: disorder in the american courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment pf staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.. attorney: are you sexually active?.
witness: no, i just lie there.. .
attorney: what is your date of birth?.
Just remember what Abraham Lincoln is credited with saying while in a hotel lobby with a huge fireplace. He was supposedly asked what hell was like and he replied " I imagine it's a lot like this with all the lawyers closest to the fire"
And of course the line from Shakespeare "Kill all the lawyers"
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i know someone here must know about the letter and there is a thread somewhere.
can someone link me to that thread either in pm or here on the new letter posted in all the kingdom halls about them admitting they are not inspired etc ... thank you!
4 : an effective or leading spokesman for a cause, doctrine, or group
The above, from the Marion Webster Dictionary, does NOT require one to be inspired. It is in this sense that "prophet" is used. Actually, from the very beginning C.T. Russell publicly declared that the Watchtower magazine was NOT inspired.
