Best new poster: 2007:stand up and take a bow R.f.
I won an award! Woohoo!!!
best overall poster: a round of appulase for minimus.. best supporting poster: put your hands togeather for flipper.. best researeher: lets here it for blondie.. best single post :no clear winner here lots of good posts i think it should go to the person(s) who broke the sex abouse pay outs.. best new poster: 2007:stand up and take a bow r.f.. thats it for this year folks post hard for next year.. .
Best new poster: 2007:stand up and take a bow R.f.
I won an award! Woohoo!!!
i would like to wish you all on this forum a happy new year, and hope that this new year will bring everyone better days, but most of all .
love.
health.
Same to you buddy!
are you doing anything special tomorrow night???
i think i'm going over to some ex-dubs' house to celebrate this horrible, pagan festival that will no doubt earn me a one-way ticket to the firey gehenna.
anyone else got sum plan??!!
had a serious talk with my jw wife 2 nights ago.
told her i would not be coming back into "the truth" .
she was rocked and asked why.
To admit even that much to your wife had to be a task in itself. I don't know how the elders in your area are but it seems that with BOEs overall in general are quick to come around when it comes to wanting to control your thoughts, not when there are ones that really seek them out for help in some way.
Great for you for turning down their "help".
as i sit at the meeting on sunday mornings, it never ceases to amaze me as i look around at the people.
and wonder are these people brain dead?
an elder recently made these comments at the meeting:.
An elder recently made these comments at the meeting:"The Watchtower and Awake are letters from Jehovah." Over the years I have known several people who
have submitted articles for the Watchtower and Awake. One of them at the time, was a secret apostate at Bethel,
and yet his article was published.
If that's the case, then either Jehovah is confused in the letters he's sending since some of the information turns out to be wrong. Why the need for "new light" if these are "letters from Jehovah"?
In my opinion, I think it's quite disturbing to think this way about the information the Governing Body sends out to the R&F, and unfortunately, many of them do view the information in this way. How reliable is your god if his "letters" are subject to change?
R.F.
does anybody have the missionary counsel booklet as a scan (pdf or other)?
^^^^
"teen brothers remembered at memorial service.
teens killed in wreck studied to be nurses.".
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpmemorial1230pndec30,0,2937934.story.
It's so sad to lose ones this way.
'' faders'' are a thorn on the sides of the wts.
they miss meetings,don't contribute any money,don't go out in service,and can contribute towards the ''spiritual sickness'' of the local congregations.. will there come a point where they will ask each and every ''fader'' if they wish to remain in or out of the congregation?
can they come up with scriptures to warn the congregation that you are a ''fader'' and are be marked?
I can only really see the GB reinforcing the idea of the social scene being cut off to an extent, as Blondie already mentioned.........sort of like a punishment lashed out at the R&F that do fade. Faders aren't really much of a threat. Sure, they keep the numbers down by their inactivity, but I think it's in the GB's best interest to leave them well enough alone. They never know how many among them might actually DO want to go back but are finding it hard to do so.
that makes us like/love them so?.
is it how good they smell or how unpretentious they are?.
my granddaughter - age 9 - gave me a big smile and hug before i walked out of the door this am.. it felt good then and i can still feel the effects.. children are precious and so wonderful!.
Even though my 5 year old neice drives me wacko sometimes, I just love her to death. It's interesting observing her. I think sometimes that she doesn't know alot, but she's alot smarter than I think.....smart enough to try to get over on me sometimes lol.
Also, I just get so happy inside when she tells me that she loves her uncle.
Gotta love em!
although i don't know this as a fact, i suspect that the wts is negotiating some pretty lucrative rebates from these hotels (which of course the rank and file jw pays) because they can guarantee a full house at $xxx per night.
this came from last year's thread about the rooming department km insert, and will almost certainly apply this year.
but, when the watchtower society negotiates with hotels, they are not having difficulties negotiating just for the price that you, the attendee, pay.
Open Mind....I like your thinking.
The DCs were usually held in a city where I have family in, so we usually stayed with them. A few times though, my dad and I decided to share a hotel room just because. I remember wanting to be the good Dubbie and told him...."I don't know if that's on the recommended lodging list"