so we all know that carey barber died recently.. i was wondering if most jw's know about this news.
do they make an announcement at the congregations?
have a moment of silence?.
So we all know that Carey Barber died recently.
I was wondering if most JW's know about this news.
Do they make an announcement at the congregations? Have a moment of silence?
Do they talk about what a good witness he was,...etc?
What about Bethel? They would all know,...I'm sure.
So do they make an official announcement and have a really large funeral memorial?
if i ever needed a blood transfusion would i have a right as a minor to choose a blood transfusion
Yet if you are unconscious and your family are JW's they could make that decision for you. You might want to carry a card in your wallet that says I ACCEPT BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS.
"jehovah's witness, such a presentable vegetable".
"jehovah's witness protection program: electrify your front door".
"freedom is the distance between jws and me".
The Governing Body is my co-pilot.
"jehovah's witness, such a presentable vegetable".
"jehovah's witness protection program: electrify your front door".
"freedom is the distance between jws and me".
I stayed alive 'til '75 and all I got was this stupid bumper sticker.
"jehovah's witness, such a presentable vegetable".
"jehovah's witness protection program: electrify your front door".
"freedom is the distance between jws and me".
Got "new light"?
i watched the first part of the frontline special on mormons last night and i just visited the website.
mormons are so much cooler than jws.
they have a bloody history, pride in their ancestory and their temples are beautiful!
Why is it that the mormons have twice the amount of members compared to JWs? They have been in existence for about the same amount of time.
What is different about the mormon marketing campaigns compared to the JW door to door marketing campaigns?
dear friends,.
much of what we do on a daily basis is routine and of no particular, earth-shaking importance.
however, after reviewing letters of family going back to wwii, it is fascinating to read what dad was doing on board the aircraft carrier in the pacific on any old day, what mom was cooking on her ever-steaming range, how i was dealing with the roller coaster of emotion at bethel [mom saved all my letters], how nana wrote that she would not study with the witnesses [per my request] but 'here are some mittens i knitted for you when you canvass new york with your magazines.
I just left the dentist,...and now I'm beginning to feel the after affects of the root canal. Once I get home the darvaset should do away with the throbbing ache.
What hurts the most is that my insurance only covers $1000 for the year. After all four procedures I have to go through to fix everything I will owe between 2-5k.
Ugh....
when i suggested to my jw sister that the wts has caused so much pain and division in our family, she told me it was because my brothers and i had made the choice to leave.
we were responsible for the division---not the society.
we are the ones that chose to leave the love and protective shelter of jehovah's organization and we are the ones that have the choice to return to the fold.. i need an intelligent comeback, preferably one that will plant a seed, not one too sarcastic.
are you da'd or df'd? if you are, something like this:
Yes, I made the choice to leave the organization but that doesn't mean my love has changed for you or our family.
The organization that you believe in mandates that you are not allowed to have a relationship with me. You are not allowed to show love for me.
The only way you can show love for me is if I perform works. I would have to attend six months to a year of meetings without uttering a peep to anyone else in attendance. I would not be able to have a bible study with anyone in order to get my many questions answered. Finally I would have to write a letter of repentance to men and potentially be reinstated based on their opinions. After all of this,...then you can show your love for me.
I'm sorry but this is conditional love,...this isn't the genuine love that the bible speaks of. 1 Cor. 13
"love keeps no record of wrongs"
so, from what i remember,...after armageddon, those righteous jw's who make it through will have to clean up the utter devestation.
imagine 9/11 on a world-wide scale.
they also (from what i remember) will not be miraculously perfect right away.
Leolaia,
Wow,...thanks for that scripture. Very interesting. I've never read that before.
How is this scripture interpreted in main stream christianity?
This scripture, I imagine, isn't touched upon in the JW's.
so, from what i remember,...after armageddon, those righteous jw's who make it through will have to clean up the utter devestation.
imagine 9/11 on a world-wide scale.
they also (from what i remember) will not be miraculously perfect right away.
Right Zico,...I think this is something that most JW's have no real concept of. I'm not sure if the society has answers to these questions but I think they've left a lot of room in this area for potential critical thinking.
If you set up these scenarios and asked 100 different JW's these questions,...I think that we would probably get 100 different answers. Whatever the local congregational legend is at the time would be the answer. "Well Brother long in the tooth said we would reach perfection in 200 yrs."
It just goes to show that there isn't much in the way of thinking outside the box.
