Anyone remember Stefano Giacobbe from Ontario,Canada? Last I heard was that he was very sick . He was married with a son named John Luke.
He was well liked at our congregation and hope he is doing well.
anyone remember stefano giacobbe from ontario,canada?
last i heard was that he was very sick .
he was married with a son named john luke.. he was well liked at our congregation and hope he is doing well..
Anyone remember Stefano Giacobbe from Ontario,Canada? Last I heard was that he was very sick . He was married with a son named John Luke.
He was well liked at our congregation and hope he is doing well.
remember the made up stories of witnesses in djibouti,africa where they had to walk 2 days in alligator infested waters with no shoes in the blazing sun to attend the meetings?
they made it to the meetings in these terrible conditions.. talk about made up stories!
here is a field service experience that was told at yesterday's public talk which would fall into the made up stories!.
Bangalore
Thank you the article!
How did you search it on the c.d.? Or,did you remember this made up experience?
it was thrilling to participate in the world wide protest, jan, 21-23 2011 exposing the watchtower organization for their policies on deliberately breaking up up families.
we thank all those involved this past weekend for their passion and commitment to help free those trapped in falsehood.
i am aware that many on this forum do not believe in protesting against the watchtower society,and i respect their position.
Rick
Keep up the good work on youtube and your protests! At least you put yourself on the frontlines. The rest of us (myself included ) will hide behind our computers and cry like a bunch of babies how the WTS should just go away! We will all wait for others to do the dirty work. One person can't defeat the WTS but doing nothing won't bring it down either.
Remember the easiest way a boxer wins a fight is by small body blows and not by knockout! The WTS will never fall but they can get hurt and retreat to their corner.
remember the made up stories of witnesses in djibouti,africa where they had to walk 2 days in alligator infested waters with no shoes in the blazing sun to attend the meetings?
they made it to the meetings in these terrible conditions.. talk about made up stories!
here is a field service experience that was told at yesterday's public talk which would fall into the made up stories!.
Remember the made up stories of Witnesses in Djibouti,Africa where they had to walk 2 days in alligator infested waters with no shoes in the blazing sun to attend the meetings? They made it to the meetings in these terrible conditions.
Talk about made up stories! Here is a field service experience that was told at yesterday's Public Talk which would fall into the made up stories!
A man in Italy was called on a monthly basis by Jehovah's Witnesses. He repeated to them that he had no interest in their religion since he had his own and was quite happy being Catholic. They came no matter what. They left magazines at his door and he would throw them out without ever reading the material.
One day his company transfers him to Singapore,South Asia because of work. Now he can finally get away from the Witnesses.
One morning there is a knock on the door and it's the Jehovah's Witnesses . He just can't get away from them. So,he decides to buy 2 dogs. Now that should stop the Witnesses from entering his yard.
Two sisters show up one day and enter the yard. The two dogs chase the 2 sisters. One sister makes it out of the yard but the other sister is cornered by one of the dogs. She takes the Watchtower magazine and Awake magazine and it puts it by the dogs mouth to protect herself.The dog walks away with the magazines in his mouth.(Did Jehovah's angel protect the sister?)The dog walks back in the house where the owner is standing. He decides to read them,has a Bible study and 6 months later he is baptized member.
1, 2. for you to be successful as you grow toward.
trail, you might want to take along a. map and a compass.
a reliable map and a compass.
BluesBrother said:
Now he has grown up..He has no part of J W's. Lets hope he has a regular life, but of course his mother still has nothing to do with him. She has lost her son and why?.............Because he was baptized as a boy when things meant little and he was too immature to think of the long term. If he had never been baptized at least his mother might still have a son!
There have been over 10 baptized teens in our congregation who have been disfellowshipped due to drinking,smoking,and sexual matters. Today,they are nowhere to be seen. Almost all the parents have disowned them.
The WTS want young kids and teens to get baptized so they can control them. Instead of parents being in control,the WTS can eliminate all teen problems in the home and congregation by disfellowshipping them. Then, the parents will agree with the WTS that they had good reason to disfellowship their kids because they were all baptized and should of known better.
SHAME ON ALL THE PARENTS WHO LET THE WTS DICTATE THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR CHILDREN!
last year the 3 congregations that share our kingdom hall decided to add a fourth congregation to join .
that means that our sunday meeting was pushed back to a 6:00 p.m. start and end around 7:45 p.m. not only is that too late of a start but all of our sunday's will be wasted.
you will now need to leave around 5:00 p.m. and get home around 8:30 p.m.. i hardly attend now and find it even harder too make this new time slot.
Last year the 3 congregations that share our Kingdom Hall decided to add a fourth congregation to join . That means that our Sunday meeting was pushed back to a 6:00 p.m. start and end around 7:45 p.m. Not only is that too late of a start but all of our Sunday's will be wasted. You will now need to leave around 5:00 p.m. and get home around 8:30 p.m.
I hardly attend now and find it even harder too make this new time slot. Don't the Elders care that their Sunday's are ruined and that maybe they don't need to add another congregation? Is it all about splitting the expenses? How many congregations are too many?
1, 2. for you to be successful as you grow toward.
trail, you might want to take along a. map and a compass.
a reliable map and a compass.
Jesus said:
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28:19-20)
The Watchtower Society says in PARAGRAPH 12:
You should get baptized when you are
fully aware of what being one of Jehovah’s
Witnesses involves and when you are sure
that you are ready and willing to take on this
responsibility.—Eccl. 5:4, 5
I wish someone would of explained this to me when I got baptized at 15 years old. The WTS told me 30 years ago that I was baptized in the name of Father,Son and Holy Spirit not the WTS. Now they give me no choice but to fade since they changed the rules. You can easily get in the organization but impossible to get out.
SHAME ON YOU WTS for changing the rules and for making it too easy for young ones to get baptized !
i think us gun laws are s-t-u-p-i-d ... and the legal system more so.
saw a very good suggestion yesterday though - force people who want to own a gun to require insurance (hey, you have to have it for a vehicle for gods sake).
single-shot hunting rifle?
The Right To Bear Arms
A distinguished citizen takes a stand on one of the most controversial issues in the nation
By Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (1969-86)
Parade Magazine, January 14, 1990, page 4Our metropolitan centers, and some suburban communities of America, are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Many of our large centers have up to 10 times the murder rate of all of Western Europe. In 1988, there were 9000 handgun murders in America. Last year, Washington, D.C., alone had more than 400 homicides -- setting a new record for our capital.
The Constitution of the United States, in its Second Amendment, guarantees a "right of the people to keep and bear arms." However, the meaning of this clause cannot be understood except by looking to the purpose, the setting and the objectives of the draftsmen. The first 10 amendments -- the Bill of Rights -- were not drafted at Philadelphia in 1787; that document came two years later than the Constitution. Most of the states already had bills of rights, but the Constitution might not have been ratified in 1788 if the states had not had assurances that a national Bill of Rights would soon be added.
People of that day were apprehensive about the new "monster" national government presented to them, and this helps explain the language and purpose of the Second Amendment. A few lines after the First Amendment's guarantees -- against "establishment of religion," "free exercise" of religion, free speech and free press -- came a guarantee that grew out of the deep-seated fear of a "national" or "standing" army. The same First Congress that approved the right to keep and bear arms also limited the national army to 840 men; Congress in the Second Amendment then provided:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."In the 1789 debate in Congress on James Madison's proposed Bill of Rights, Elbridge Gerry argued that a state militia was necessary:"to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia in order to raise and army upon their ruins."We see that the need for a state militia was the predicate of the "right" guaranteed; in short, it was declared "necessary" in order to have a state military force to protect the security of the state. That Second Amendment clause must be read as though the word "because" was the opening word of the guarantee. Today, of course, the "state militia" serves a very different purpose. A huge national defense establishment has taken over the role of the militia of 200 years ago.
Some have exploited these ancient concerns, blurring sporting guns -- rifles, shotguns and even machine pistols -- with all firearms, including what are now called "Saturday night specials." There is, of course, a great difference between sporting guns and handguns. Some regulation of handguns has long been accepted as imperative; laws relating to "concealed weapons" are common. That we may be "over-regulated" in some areas of life has never held us back from more regulation of automobiles, airplanes, motorboats and "concealed weapons."
Let's look at the history.
First, many of the 3.5 million people living in the 13 original Colonies depended on wild game for food, and a good many of them required firearms for their defense from marauding Indians -- and later from the French and English. Underlying all these needs was an important concept that each able-bodied man in each of the 133 independent states had to help or defend his state.
The early opposition to the idea of national or standing armies was maintained under the Articles of Confederation; that confederation had no standing army and wanted none. The state militia -- essentially a part-time citizen army, as in Switzerland today -- was the only kind of "army" they wanted. From the time of the Declaration of Independence through the victory at Yorktown in 1781, George Washington, as the commander-in-chief of these volunteer-militia armies, had to depend upon the states to send those volunteers.
When a company of New Jersey militia volunteers reported for duty to Washington at Valley Forge, the men initially declined to take an oath to "the United States," maintaining, "Our country is New Jersey." Massachusetts Bay men, Virginians and others felt the same way. To the American of the 18th century, his state was his country, and his freedom was defended by his militia.
The victory at Yorktown -- and the ratification of the Bill of Rights a decade later -- did not change people's attitudes about a national army. They had lived for years under the notion that each state would maintain its own military establishment, and the seaboard states had their own navies as well. These people, and their fathers and grandfathers before them, remembered how monarchs had used standing armies to oppress their ancestors in Europe. Americans wanted no part of this. A state militia, like a rifle and powder horn, was as much a part of life as the automobile is today; pistols were largely for officers, aristocrats -- and dueling.
Against this background, it was not surprising that the provision concerning firearms emerged in very simple terms with the significant predicate -- basing the right on the necessity for a "well regulated militia," a state army.
In the two centuries since then -- with two world wars and some lesser ones -- it has become clear, sadly, that we have no choice but to maintain a standing national army while still maintaining a "militia" by way of the National Guard, which can be swiftly integrated into the national defense forces.
Americans also have a right to defend their homes, and we need not challenge that. Nor does anyone seriously question that the Constitution protects the right of hunters to own and keep sporting guns for hunting game any more than anyone would challenge the right to own and keep fishing rods and other equipment for fishing -- or to own automobiles. To "keep and bear arms" for hunting today is essentially a recreational activity and not an imperative of survival, as it was 200 years ago; "Saturday night specials" and machine guns are not recreational weapons and surely are as much in need of regulation as motor vehicles.
Americans should ask themselves a few questions. The Constitution does not mention automobiles or motorboats, but the right to keep and own an automobile is beyond question; equally beyond question is the power of the state to regulate the purchase or the transfer of such a vehicle and the right to license the vehicle and the driver with reasonable standards. In some places, even a bicycle must be registered, as must some household dogs.
If we are to stop this mindless homicidal carnage, is it unreasonable:
- to provide that, to acquire a firearm, an application be made reciting age, residence, employment and any prior criminal convictions?
- to required that this application lie on the table for 10 days (absent a showing for urgent need) before the license would be issued?
- that the transfer of a firearm be made essentially as with that of a motor vehicle?
- to have a "ballistic fingerprint" of the firearm made by the manufacturer and filed with the license record so that, if a bullet is found in a victim's body, law enforcement might be helped in finding the culprit?
These are the kind of questions the American people must answer if we are to preserve the "domestic tranquillity" promised in the Constitution.
i think us gun laws are s-t-u-p-i-d ... and the legal system more so.
saw a very good suggestion yesterday though - force people who want to own a gun to require insurance (hey, you have to have it for a vehicle for gods sake).
single-shot hunting rifle?
WIKIPEDIA : ''In colonial era Anglo-American usage, militia service was distinguished from military service in that the latter was normally a commitment for a fixed period of time of at least a year, for a salary, whereas militia was only to meet a threat, or prepare to meet a threat, for periods of time expected to be short. Militia persons were normally expected to provide their own weapons, equipment, or supplies, although they may later be compensated for losses or expenditures.''
''Because of manpower shortages the militia provided short-term support to the regulars in the field throughout the war.''
SIMON:
The National Rifle Association argues that individuals have the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment guaranteed ''the rights of states to form militias not for individuals to bear arms.'' They can't see the difference between the word ''militia'' and ''individual.''
Special interest groups control the USA. They control banking,energy,food prices,and pharmaceutical prices.
many people in positions of teaching others the doctrine of their particular religion do not actually believe the doctrine themselves.
this is a fascinating article from daniel dennett and linda lascola.
i could relate to some of the expressions made.. http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/non-believing-clergy.pdf.
Franklin Massey:
I haven't been out in service in years. I hated service and don't see how anyone would enjoy going out in service besides putting in time. What is the difference today out in field service than 10 years ago? What is the message today and what is the response from householders?
Today,my wife said that 2 brothers came to the door and handed her a tract and left. All they said was, '' We hope you'll find time and read it.''