hi there everyone, looking for some advice on helping my sister who is studying the bible with a jehovahs witnesses to escape.
shes been studying for over a year now and attends meetings occasionally.
i have been looking for a way to help her for a while now and the answer fell into my lap last week, during her study last week she mentioned that her son was going to a birthday party.
Hi Ed,
Keep on the subject of the child. As mentioned, "If JW's can get so upset over children's birthday parties...what else?" We'll tell you.
If the son EVER wants to:
join a club, play a sport, go to college, go to dances, (among many things) it will be looked upon in the same manner. They are needless rules to keep control of the congregation. But it will strangle the life out of a childhood.
Make sure she understands this...the birthday conversation is JUST the beginning. Seriously.
peacefully after a short bout with leukemia.
she was 88 years old and the foundation of my life.
she will be sadly missed by me and everyone whose lives she has touched.. .
So sorry for your loss.
ok i cannot believe that no one has mentioned this series.
does anyone watch?
did you see sundays masterpiece and have you read the books?
That was a helluva wedding!!! Yikes!!!!
so i txt my in law who works at the printing facility in the us regarding why there were no bibles in so many congregations.
they never answered for either text.
i would say someting is going on with the nwt..
Maybe they are removing the name "Jehovah" the thousands of times it's been inserted erroneously.
one of the first songs mick jagger and keith richards wrote was recorded by then girlfriend of mick, marianne faithful, in 1964.. nearly 50 years later the rolling stones bring back a chestnut with taylor swift on their concert tour in chicago.
enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhuqud7zzyg.
Love Marianne. Thanks d.
does anyone else find it funny that the circuit overseers and district overseers go to a new congregation every week, have all their bills paid and then for some odd reason the elders always find a way to give them extra money.
on top of that there are atleast 10 families in every hall that give them a green handshake.
then the people who give them expensive gifts (i am ashamed to say i participated in this) like watches etc... yet these guys still act like they are giving up so much.... .
Alonzo and Jewel Hawkins were serving in a hall I moved into. Most people liked them a lot. Me not so much. He wouldn't start the meeting until everybody moved forward to fill all the seats in the front. I knew what he was getting at, but many people like me had worked all day, barely made it to the meeting, and didn't like being talked to like we were 3 years old.
There were a few professional musicians in our hall who contributed songs in the song book. Perhaps Alonzo collaborated on that song.
Back to the OT. I figured most CO's in metropolitan areas at least will bank $20K or so in untaxed gift income per year. That is on top of the car, housing and other freebies they receive.
It's a nice gig if you can get it...except not a great retirement plan.
lucky, luck, magic, fortune, etc...do you also know some of them that just shrugged it off and still went there to eat?.
I had European JW friends who went to Hooters because they "had good fish." () They also went to full on company Xmas parties.
My parents let me watch The Adams Family and I Dream of Jeannie, but not Bewitched or The Munsters, and absolutely NO Lucky Charms.
question: how does the leadership of jehovah's witnesses instruct its members to prepare for the eventual elder care of its members?.
answer: it pretends it will never happen!.
is this responsible leadership or some kind of cognitive dissonant malfeasance?.
At one of my last DC's I ended up sitting next to an exCO and his wife. They had just come out of the service and were plunked down into congregation. They were visibly shaken and very worried about how things would play out. Their monthly stipends attached to the "Special Pioneer" label given to them was not nearly enough for them to live on. The congregation was expected to fill in with the rest. They had only been there a few weeks and they were so worried. I felt so bad for them. I gave them some "gas" money. I'll never forget them.
The WTBS is such an arrogant, greedy organization. Even the greed of the RCC is surpassed by them. At least the RCC has charities.
w13 3/15 p. 28 par.
"first, we must proclaim that name to others, recognizing that only those who 'call on the name of jehovah will be saved.
' (rom.
Funny how JW's look for ways to show exclusivity, thereby emphasizing their own importance, rather than to looking forward to salvation for all.
They do love their little flocks and groups.
mcmillan & wife with rock hudson is what i just saw on tv.
watching rock hudson kiss his wife while smoking a cigarette is pretty funny.
and he solved a murder case as he lit up another cigarette at some wealthy person's party.....good stuff!.
"Weeel-bur!"
Aaaa...horse is horse of course of course,
and no one can talk to a horse, of course
That is of course unless the horse
Is the famous Mr Ed.
Mork and Mindy was pretty silly.
