I almost feel sorry for these people who gave their all thinking they would be taken care of for who-knows how many years. However they were let go in the blink of an eye.
Yeah, but Armageddon is sooooo close!
this new broadcast features interviews with bethelites from south africa that were fired reassigned to the ministry field.
i almost feel sorry for these people who gave their all thinking they would be taken care of for who-knows how many years.
however they were let go in the blink of an eye.
I almost feel sorry for these people who gave their all thinking they would be taken care of for who-knows how many years. However they were let go in the blink of an eye.
Yeah, but Armageddon is sooooo close!
would i?
i wouldn't mind if he slept through eternity (he sleeps most of the time anyway).
i'd just like to be able to move him around occasionally.
Cats don't need field service. They're doing YOU the favor by being resurrected and letting YOU feed them. They let YOU bask in their presence. Can't you tell that from the above photo? And am I going to be the only one posting photos of my cat?
What if one named their cat Jehovah? Would the elders appreciate the humor?
(You DO know God's real name was Yahweh?)
would i?
i wouldn't mind if he slept through eternity (he sleeps most of the time anyway).
i'd just like to be able to move him around occasionally.
In the resurrection, I believe you'll come back as you were in your prime. But you'll most likely be able to appear as any age you wish or even change your appearance. But I'd sure hate to be trapped in a crummy garden for eternity. I'd definitely want to be one of the anointed and to streak around the Universe at will and watch solar systems being created and others dying out. See black holes destroying massive stars. That would be better than going to a family reunion at the water fall for the 8,000th time!
So don't worry. You'll be a young 70! And it won't hurt when you pee.
would i?
i wouldn't mind if he slept through eternity (he sleeps most of the time anyway).
i'd just like to be able to move him around occasionally.
Well, how about the animals that are living on Paradise Earth? Do THEY die or do they live forever?
Now the GB had never revealed what our relationship with God and the anointed class is going to be on Paradise Earth after the Millennium. Will the great crowd be able to see Jehovah God? Will they be able to converse with the Heavenly Class? If the Heavenly Class are "like God" (1 John 3:2), how hard would it be to recreate a cat with the same memories, the same looks and a better attitude? (After all, everyone who is resurrected will be recreations of what they were. You won't be the same person you are now; you'll be an exact copy. The resurrected you will have the same memories, same thoughts, will look and sound the same. But in the end you'll only be a carbon copy. So just recompose my cat! 🐱)
Oh, and while you're at it, can you also put Meg Ryan back the way she was?
i realize that the anointed class inherits heaven while the great crowd inherits a renewed planet earth, but how and when are the anointed chosen?
are these people born with spirits or do they grow them as they live?
when they die, they don't sleep but go right to heaven, right?
I realize that the anointed class inherits Heaven while the great crowd inherits a renewed Planet Earth, but how and when are the anointed chosen? Are these people born with spirits or do they grow them as they live? When they die, they don't sleep but go right to Heaven, right? But what if an anointed person doesn't make it? What if he/she has lunch with a shunned person or commits some other grievous sin? Do they live on after death?
As for those who live on Earth, they live forever, but forever is a long time. I don't care if the climate was perfect, I never grew old, all my meals were made by Chi-Chi's and I never had to shower, shave or brush my teeth, forever is a long time -- one hell of a long time! I can't even conceive of five hundred years, much less a million or a trillion.
Do any of these questions come up at the old KH when people are sitting around just chewing the proverbial fat? I see the Paradise Earth pictures and it looks okay for a week's vacation, but trillions of years?? Do people evolve over that time?
What's the current thinking?
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For STAR TREK Voyager Fans: Remember the episode where they free the trapped Q? He was imprisoned because he was deemed a threat to his own life because, after experiencing it all, he wanted to commit suicide? Even though he was an omnipotent being, there was nothing new left for him to experience. And it was up to Captain Janeway to decide whether to let him. (She ultimately did.) I'd think that unless people could progress and grow that after awhile they'd go bonkers. (In the case of the suicidal Q, the answer was simple. Had I been the Continuum, I would have let him keep his powers, but I would have wiped his memory and merely let him start over!
I'm afraid I'd have to push for the same thing if I had to spend a long time on Paradise Earth!
would i?
i wouldn't mind if he slept through eternity (he sleeps most of the time anyway).
i'd just like to be able to move him around occasionally.
Ha...Jehovah hates cats! Love it.
JWs say animals were not made to live forever and the resurrection hope doesn't apply to them.
Actually, in all seriousness I strongly believe cats (and even dogs as much as I'm loathe to admit it) have immortal spirits and are covered under Christ's atonement. When I look into their eyes I see an intelligence that can't be just snuffed out. Each had a personality and when they die their bodies look every bit as empty as a human shell.
I've had many friends in law enforcement over the years and one thing I'm amazed to hear is that people, when they've been dead for awhile, look more like manikans than actual people. Cops hear it all the time when visiting crime sites, from witnesses and other cops. Yet no one compares people on the beach to manikans. In fact, when I was a kid I was both fascinated and repelled by funeral parlors and bodies of people I had known. Anyway, there's just this absence of something that's difficult to describe. The animating force early Christians believed was the spirit within man was certainly not a Greek idea that became embedded in Christian dogma three centuries after the apostles vanished, but it's a popular theory amongst adventist sects.
Anyway, I've never been clear on the whole Paradise Earth thing to begin with. Do animals born then die or are they immortal? And if they're immortal, isn't that unfair to the animals that came before? If they're not immortal and die, then Jesus did not exactly defeat death. But then, if an animal is born and is subject to death and if it fails to receive it back again, it could be argued that Jesus failed to redeem that animal from the fall. (And if you don't think a cat isn't self aware, just try not feeding it!)
"Imagine a cat. Now take away its independence, its cleanliness and intelligence. What you have left is basically a dog."
From 'Dear Kitten'
would i?
i wouldn't mind if he slept through eternity (he sleeps most of the time anyway).
i'd just like to be able to move him around occasionally.
Would I? Could I? I wouldn't mind if he slept through eternity (he sleeps most of the time anyway). I'd just like to be able to move him around occasionally.
1,400 investigated in child sex abuse inquiry, including politicians .
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/20/1400-suspects-operation-hydrant-politician-and-celebrity-child-sex-abuse-inquiry.
sandra laville.
Police across the country are investigating more than 1,400 men – including 261 high-profile individuals – over allegations of child abuse in the past, a senior officer running the national operation has revealed.
Are you sure they're not looking for 144,000? Because I think I know where they are.
does anyone know anything about the luscious elaine?
is she a professional actress or just a member of the r&f recruited to be a member of the cast of this video?
the pout,olive skin stunning looks make my heart miss a beat every time i see this beauty.
I couldn't get you a date with Elaine, but I did get her stand-in, her cousin Emilio, to agree to have a beer with you one afternoon. But he told me to tell you he doesn't fool around on the first date. You might like him. He has a lot of war stories from fighting in the jungles of Mexico. Against who I have no idea.
You can thank me later.
i raised an issue with a co once about an elders qualifications, he visited my house and in no uncertain terms said don't touch ark of covenant ( referring to elder as ark ) , i was gob smacked then he said to wife and i that if we pursued such an avenue we could be grieving gods holy spirit.
so ther you go elder are on par with god ..
It's interesting, but the entire point of the story about the steadying the ark is all about divine authority and following divine procedure. There were proscribed ways of moving with and carrying the ark just as there are for appointing and ordaining elders. The Israelites had grown careless in these procedures and had not followed the Lord's commandments. The ark, like most everything else in Hebrew worship, was symbolic and represented the bond, or connection, between Heaven and Earth. That it was covered with a veil represented the veil that existed between the two abodes. And while it was covered, no man could touch it -- not even the high priest. Uzzah was no priest and he should have known to just let the ark go, for there was nothing forbidding the ark from touching the ground.
Now pertaining to the appointment of elders, it's a fair question to ask how, according to the dictates of scripture, they are chosen and how they receive their authority from On High. We know the rules regarding the ark because it was given by God and carefully recorded. But Uzzah's sin wasn't against the priests and rulers of the people, it was against God, so I don't understand your CO's point. There is no connection or correlation between Heaven and the elders of the Jehovah's Witnesses that I know of. The dos and don'ts of the ark are well documented by the Lord himself; however, the same cannot be said about the qualifications of a JW elder.
So what was his beef? Probably that you were questioning your leaders who have been called and instructed by Jehovah like Moses. Only what leaders would those be?? None of the current or past JW leaders, as far as I know, have heard even a word from God. Even in 1919 God never spoke to the presiding body to announce His momentous decision to choose them as His spokesmen forever, based on his inspection of the world's religions and their leaders.