on the local news in miami on saturday, they reported that they were having funeral services for the two jw's killed in the bus accident at miami airport.
the reporter was standing outside the kh in the westchester area and you could clearly see the sign and the people entering.. they said approximately 750 people were in attendance which tells me that it must be a tri-plex kh like many others down here since there is no way you can put 750 people into a typical kh.
they likely had an audio or possibly an audio and video link into the other two kh's.. they showed the inside of the kh as people were entering.
I have seen a couple of halls that had them - I think they got them surplus from decommissioned churches and cleaned and restored them.
We had movie theatre seats from a closed movie house in the Kingdon Hall we built in Yukon, Okla.
I suppose they would rather have a non-religious source, given the choice, but cannot recall any particular rule about it.
weak people need big things in their life.. but, being weak....they can't do the heavy lifting.. .
scratch that!.....they won't do the heavy lifting.. .
instead, weak people puff up.
I think the Germans make some of the biggest words in all human language.
I had a big line camera in my printing shop that was made in Germany - it had a special word for the shutter/lens assembly release button in the manual.
It was all one word, and had about 24 letters.
i notice in ray's books he has a disdain for the more vocal dissidents of the watchtower organization.
with this being said, did ray franz go on shows like merv griffen, oprah and other "talk mediums" to attack the watchtower society?
i remember as a kid my mother running up and turning off shows apostates were to appear on, and i can't remember if ray was one of the 'bashers'?
I never heard of Ray going onto any kind of mainstream media programming. His preferred media was the printed page.
There were many false rumors popping up in the lat 70s, early 80s era of all this - one of the silliest was that Ed Dunlap had started his own religion on Colorado Springs...totally bogus.
Ed moved to Oklahoma City and led a quiet life there until his death.
i can only recall one occasion.
it was when my brother and future wife were dating.
they had dinner at my parents' house, along with her uber-zealous/borderline psychotic parents.
I once took a young witness lady to see the movie THX-1138 in a theatre.
She walked out when they showed TITS.
I stayed and let her cool her heels in the lobby and was rewarded by the great final chase scene with the McLaren Turbine Car and the Robot Police Motorcycles.
She would never go out with me again after that.
consider the implication of being a created human as opposed to an evolved human.. the nature a created human has is given due to intentionality.
the creator wills that nature upon the creature.. .
what escape from nature is there?.
However, none of that should be taken to prove the silly notion of "instant creation"
Who said creation was instant?
The witnesses.
consider the implication of being a created human as opposed to an evolved human.. the nature a created human has is given due to intentionality.
the creator wills that nature upon the creature.. .
what escape from nature is there?.
We are certainly taller, bigger, and stronger than our ancient ancestors. Much of that, however, can be put to better nutrition in modern times.
We live longer. Much of that can be attributed to medical advances.
Are we smarter? Difficult to say - certainly we have better technology, but that could be the result of decades upon decades of continuous development.
Can we paint better than Da Vinci? Can we compose music better than J.S. Bach? Do we have greater mathematical geniuses than Euler or Fermat?
It would be difficult to prove an "evolved improvement" in the biologically short time that man has recorded his history.
However, none of that should be taken to prove the silly notion of "instant creation".
http://www.businessinsider.com/catfish-have-learned-how-to-hunt-pigeons-2012-12.
it's that devil-inspired evo-lution at work, i tell ya!.
metatron.
Catfish are delicious.
from the source (ann nyland expert lexigrapher, greek scholar).
in the late 1880s and again in the mid 1970s, large amounts of papyri and inscriptions were discovered.
these impacted our knowledge of word meaning in the new testament dramatically.
Well, Ithought it was interesting.
I once knew a very pretty lady named Grace.
so the fds does not include the apostles.
what part of the gospels aren't food at the proper time?
or am i just mixed up on who the fds are..
I thought there was some wiggle room there a bit, like they mentioned annointed ones working at world headquarters or something similar.
They may have weaseled around it, but they meant Governing Body - and everybody in the JWs knew that was what they meant.
Maybe the cross is used for its ability to evoke vivid images in the mind...of a violent death..bringing up emotion.
I really don't think the average person seeing a cross necessarily thinks of violent death - today it is just a symbol of the christian religion...like the star of David is a symbol of judaism.
