in the tract delivered saturday, it said that a neighbour qualified to teach the bible would come around if you wanted.. are they actually qualfiied?.
It's up to the organization issuing the qualifications to determine who is qualified. If WT says any baptized JW or any "publisher" is qualified, then any person fitting that definition is qualified.
It's up to the consumer to determine whether engaging the services of a particular organization will meet requirements or not. Sadly, most consumers have no idea what is actually required.
Caveat emptor.
do not assume that i speak spanish.. it seems to that more and more latinos that i interact with on a daily basis assume that just because i have brown skin, i speak spanish.. end of rant.. edited to add: wouldn't this be akin to assuming that just because a person is african-american that he/she can sing, dance or play sports well?.
It seems like you'd be better served by learning to speak Spanish than ranting to people who aren't involved and could care less about your ass-umptions or your color.
coincidence, hmmm?.
the november issue of the ha wake has a picture on the cover with the cryptic caption.
success how can you achieve it?.
They're capitalizing on recent newsworthy events; most publications do.
Quite a number of their captions are "cryptic". My favorite was "Women - Deserving of Respect". Was it a statement? A question? Not long ago Barbara Anderson posted some information indicating that there was disagreement on the topic. I still think that the caption reflected the indecisiveness of the editorial staff.
sigh.... wished i would've introduced myself proper in my first post here, but having the fear of being found out too quickly or not being the right time made me censored myself from revealing too much info.
recently though, i just felt the need to get this off my chest, despite the possible risk of being called out, which several jws in good standing are aware of my exact situation.
i registered at the new site (jw support something) since theres some buzz of this site is going off line, but hadn't received my confirmation email yet.
As far as I'm aware, WT says it's ok to take the regular oath of citizenship with the mental reservation that if anything the USA requires is in violation of God's law you naturally wouldn't comply, just as any natural-born "true Christian" citizen wouldn't. There was a Questions from Readers on it in the early 1980's if I remember correctly. Maybe Blondie or one of the others who has access to WT literature would be able to find the item and post it for you.
how many of you have gone out and bought our rented woodstock?
many people were unable to engage in the freedoms of the time - some because of religion, others because they may have been fighting a war or perhaps because they did not feel a part of the movement.
my older siblings were part of those hippie style movements so i remember them well - i'm going to pick up the disks for sammie to watch.
Somewhere in the WT literature there is a story that says Woodstock was almost "Wallkill". According to them, the festival organizers first looked for a spot in the area around WT property and when they couldn't find anything suitable they moved on to the place where the event was actually held.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/05/artificialintelligenceai
Did you notice that the computer doesn't "give back" in it's "conversation" with the human? All it does is ask questions. The human to human conversation asks some questions and also gives back information.
those words have been spoken to me a bunch of times by bethelites.
some of you on here try to reason with jw's by showing us how our reasoning is wrong, i do the same thing.
what i forget is that whenever i used to hear a teaching or a decision that didn't make sense, it then became "holy spirit" working.
until you are the one that is burned....then you start to think.....
May these litigious Bethelites fully cooperate with the outworking of Holy Spirit as it stirs the minds and bank accounts of the GB and recalls to their hearts the decision of the superior authorities that slavery in the United States ended a looooooong time ago.
it seems to be generally assumed that the "original sin" was the act of disobedience.
so what's so bad about wanting to raise your intellect?
did our creators intend for us to just be like the dumb beasts?
THAT was the original sin- covetousness.
Brother Apostate: My take on cameo-d's question was that it referred to the "original sin" of Adam (and possibly Eve, if it was the same "original sin").
As far as covetousness being the *original* "original sin", while it may have preceeded Adamic sin, how can one be certain that it was the absolute original sin? Perhaps it is only the first sin that we, as humans, have heard about!
as my bio mentions, i grew up in a non-denominational setting and am very thankful for that.
however, there are still a few things that are held within this setting to be truth (will of god, biblical, or whatever else you care to call it) that i find very disconcerting.
i've tried, on various occassions, to discuss this with others within the 'brethren' but they are leery of such topics and tend to view me as cynical and jaded and a danger to the proper order of things .
A lot of my family were Brethren from the start of the movement, so I thought I'd look into what they believed. At first I was happy; I thought I'd found something good, but then I saw that they were just as man-made as the Watchtower so I lost interest entirely.
Why do you want to examine their beliefs when you already see that their basic premise is contradictory?
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i've read a lot of history on the home children, great depression..train kids...and so on and as i've heard politician after politician talk about a possible new depression era, i wonder if this is the beginning of another surge of abandonment.
there are already kids living in tent cities and cars and vans so i wonder if as the laws for the age of abandonment are increased, if we will see a surge in the coming years...sammieswife.. us shocked by spate of abandoned children 14 given up by parents under new nebraska law.
state to reconsider age limit of 19 after criticismed pilkington in new york the guardian, saturday october 4 2008 article historypress conference following eleven children having been left at hospitals in nebraska, sept 24 2008. photograph: nati harnik.
I don't think so. Abandonment just hasn't been in the news as regularly as some other issues.
I remember that in the 1980's it went by some popular term (which I have forgotten) when parents were moving away and literally leaving their teens behind. It happened a lot in California; I knew of several who were living in a city park in the very "good" neighborhood where their homes used to be.
My own mother did it twice, first to my sister and then to my brother. (Yes, I took them in each time.)
