http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxkslwy8byu&feature=related.
you probably never developed skills like this 12 year old.... .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyyxnjgruro&feature=player_embedded#at=129.
Fantastic skill shown in the second video.
I wouldn't completely knock the boy giving a talk though.
I know when I was a witness I became a lot more confident when speaking to people, and in front of people on a platform.
When I later went to college and then took a job as manager, I was able to use the skills learnt in the Ministry school.
For instance this lad in his next talk could work on audience contact, as for most of the time he was just reading a script.
answer: greediness for control.
answer: greediness for money.
3 :15) answer: greediness for domination of others.
I noticed in the latest June Watchtower, there is a section about baptising young ones. They have an example of a 12 year old. Then they showed a series of pictures again showing a lad who I would say looks about 12.
They actually confronted what some say about getting baptised too young. Needless to say they said it is better to get baptised as soon as possable because of the coming of the great tribulation, and it would not be good to be an unsure person at that time.
So yes it is about power. They want everyone to think and act as they do.
from 2010 service year.
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There was an email going round the witnesses about a talk given by Jack Barr of the governing body several months before he died.
He said quite openly there that half the world have not heard the JW message.
The society say that the fact that JWs have a small presense in nearly every land is the important thing.
Hi Kristi, yes many of us on here find this site addictive. It is because it is so open and regularly shows us how we used to be deceived by the Watchtower.
I was wandering what the JWs would be saying about the earthquake.
We have been having interesting discussions on the JW topics website.
We have shown the JWs that the experts say that earthquakes have been constant since they could be measured accurately.
Even the society begrudgingly admit this now after all the years when they assured witnesses that earthquakes were much more frequent theses days.
Interesting link I found to the experts. Checkout earthquake myths.
jws in japan has had no increase for several years.
now with the disaster i expect there will be some increase or maybe a lot?.
I believe there was a slight increase in JWs after 9/11. The same could be true here. But as stated there will possably be deaths of witnesses as well because of the earthquake. According to figures I have there has been no increase there since 1997.
so i attended a funeral for a jw who passed away (non-"annointed) and i would have to state that although i have heard the standard funeral talk outline for dozens of funerals i've attended, i never really took the time to listen.
and my god, i was cringing.
the outline is essentially broken down like this:.
If you really want to hear a funeral service that talks about the individual, then the humanist funeral is hard to beat. The speaker takes time before the service to find out all the good things about the deceased from family members. Also any funny stories that can be remembered.
It really is very good. I've got my name down for one!
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'okm_march_2011_britain_and_ireland_ocrd.pdf'.
http://www.box.net/shared/lgn925z4j6.
Yes thankyou fokyc I always appreciate you taking the trouble to scan it for us.
I'm with Gayle. Where are the highlights. Surely they would have been there if there were any. Be interesting to see what they show in April.
talking with a friend, yesterday.. he said asked if the jws attitude had changed on attending meetings.. it seems that while browsing the internet on his phone.. he came across a website that said, "that missing meetings was not wrong , as jehovah knows whats in your heart.".
he couldn't remember the websites title, just that it had "watchtower" in the address.. has anyone else come across this?.
i find it odd that the watchtower would say such a thing, considering the way they are are the moment.. seemingly more strict on meeting attendance.. .
They would never say that officially. It was probably someone that goes on the internet regularly, with much of their own ideas, rather than the societies.
so, i'm sitting at my desk one morning, about a week ago.
the desk is right beside my sliding glass door in my new ground floor suite.
the drapes are wide open and i'm sitting in full view of anyone coming up the driveway.
I remember I did a post last year I think about JWs looking like they are going to a funeral. That is still true today. If they are doing door to door work it just not enter their mind that they should do incidental witnessing.
It will be interesting to hear from you guys that are still connected with JWs how the earthquake in Japan has affected their ministry. I'm thinking that this weekend all over the world they have been pointing to it, to show the end is really near.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/4jwscom/103711993042510?v=info#info_edit_sections.
i think we should all support them...:-).
http://www.4jws.com/.
Yes, in UK recently a christian couple who own a guest house would not let a gay couple stay there in one room in one bed. They lost their case as you can no longer discriminate against gay people.
