i feel at the moment to keep posting on this site is doing me no good.
i used to post here many years ago and came across many things jw related that made me feel angry towards the way i was brought up.
in particular the 607 issue and the generation change.
Digderidoo,
My first thoughts are to wish you the best in your endeavour to overcome your drinking problem. As I can see it from various testimonies, it's not an easy task and a little encouragement, even from a stranger, won't harm. Good success to you and if some relationship to Jehovah remains with you, approach Him, He knows what we are made of.
Where is the problem , even to a JW ? Clovis died in 511 CE.
i came across this on another website.. problems in the watchtower.
we have a policy, the watchtower say.
that protects our children every day.
Thanks, Gordy, I keep it aside to let some friends read it. I assume, since there has been no reaction to this thread, that this poem is well known already. Thanks anyway .
i know, apostate practice, wish you the best, good health and please give us many wt comments, blondie.
I would happily have joined in AaG's thread about Blondie's birthday on the previous page but, for some mysterious reason, that latter page didn't appear on my screen, any more than this present one, for more than one day and all of a sudden they came out late yesterday evening. Funny technical phenomenon, indeed.
i know, apostate practice, wish you the best, good health and please give us many wt comments, blondie.
I know, apostate practice, wish you the best, good health and please give us many WT comments, Blondie
"the truth shall set you free" (cf.
john 8:32) is the kind of sentence that potentially transcends any contextual setting.
as we know only too well, it has been used over and over again in religious propaganda and is very easy to return against it (i.e.
Narkissos,
We may never know what Truth is, unless God, if He exists, let us know, maybe one day. For the time being Jesus' words assure us that there is a truth but He indeed doesn't tell us much about it. If I ever know anything, one of the best things I know is that, like pudding, I proved the veracity of at least some aspects of the JWs' teachings in the most practical way since I stopped smoking during the time I was *studying* with them, 30 years ago. I know all their shortcomings and yet I'm grateful to their truth for having set me free from tobacco addiction and being still here to bear witness to it. (between you and me : you know that the last volume issued next thursday with Le Monde is HUME, the empiricist, let's not miss it !)
i just realized that 5-28 was my 7th anniversary on jwd.
my participation has changed over time and most of what i do is the review each week.
people have come and gone, lots of new names, and some old-timers like me.
Happy 7th anniversary, Blondie. I like the access we have to new WTS information so, a hint of nostalgy ;-) ?
i know that some believe all jws are "weird".
but i'm not talking about that.. there are some real weird witnesses!
you know, the ones everyone had in their hall that everyone talked about or laughed at.. we had one 25 year old man who was pioneering and he used to go out to literally every neighborhood in the city.
We had a funny guy in a London congregation who would refuse to blow his nose and he explained to me that King David must have made sacrifices to please Jehovah, such as refraining from going to the toilet. He went to the district assembly running (londoners will appreciate) from Steatham to Twickenham.
somewhere in the new testament it lists grave sins that would prevent one from inheriting the kingdom.
"men kept for unnatural purposes" is listed.
are we talking prostitutes?
I read somewhere that it could refer to young men being kept by old lustful women that is, gigolos. It would tally with the phrase being different, in the text, from the previous one about homosexuals but you can hardly say that such purposes are unnatural.
comments you will not hear at the 5-25-08 wt study (march 15, 2008, pages 25-29)(view).
review comments will be in red.
quotes from other sources will be in quotes boxes.
...or question why others are making such an effort to preach to people from another country
I just found a discrepancy between the English and the French versions of this passage. Whereas the English version seems to be understood as meaning that we should not wonder what motives draw some JWs to learn a foreign language so as to preach to foreigners, the French versions reads "...ni mettre en doute l'utilité de prêcher à des personnes originaires d'un pays étranger". That sentence means that we shouldn't doubt the usefulness of such preaching , which is not quite the same thing. As I don't think that translators didn't see the difference, it implies that branches have a certain degree of freedom as to adapting the text to the local surrounding. Is it that the original text was less acceptable to the French readers because it carries the idea that JWs can be suspicious (oh dear..) as to others' motives and, consequently, that American JWs are more used to JWs being suspicious ? Unless I didn't get the right meaning of the English version.
