i think i've mentioned before that from time to time my commute on the bqe takes me past the old factory buildings and the soon to be former headquarters building.
i was struck the other day with how shabby they've become.
even 25 columbia heights, still currently occupied, its facade is filthy.
With terrorism the way it is maybe it's a wise decision to move out of the epicenter of what many experts think is the target for a future terrorist attack
Leave it to Jehovah to promise to not let any harm come to his earthly organization, but he couldn't protect them from an underwear bomber. I wonder if Jehovah is still scared of chariots with iron wheels. LOL. Those Bronze Age gods are so 4000 years ago!
so since i blew up at my family for being self righteous hate mongers, my uncle sent me a huge letter calling my ignorant and uncaring.
to which i exploded back with an email.
may have gone a bit too far on that one, but whatever what is done is done.
FMF, Nobody knows how to push our buttons quite like family. And everyone in our family that is older than us is usually inclined to think that we're still very young and inexperienced, certainly not as mature as THEY are.
I gotta admit that your family is way pushier than mine has been.
i think i've mentioned before that from time to time my commute on the bqe takes me past the old factory buildings and the soon to be former headquarters building.
i was struck the other day with how shabby they've become.
even 25 columbia heights, still currently occupied, its facade is filthy.
To add to the list in the OP:
A legal department that looks criminal. -- It used to fight to defend religious freedom and freedom of speech, but now is reduced to paying out settlements and trying to defend WT's failed "protecting our child molesters" policy.
Preaching has changed. -- Yesterday went through a different part of downtown and saw a couple of WT litteratrash carts, an elder-type playing with his phone, and a couple of sisters talking to each other. They're tucked in the entryway of a building under renovation about a block away from where pedestrian traffic is. Jeez, I thought working on construction projects was an easier way than d2d to get my time, but now they count time just standing around downtown. And d2d seems to be reduced to handing out tracts for their website.
after almost 24 years in the school and doing it since i was nine years old, i officially resigned.
it has become increasingly difficult to prepare talks, especially with the new format for brothers.
i did not mind doing them; i actually put the time and effort into getting them out.
Congrats on your TMS graduation!
i thought it was ex"plane"d at the corporate meeting that type-antitypes were finished unless it expressly is stated in the bible.. from the feb 22 study article.
question on paragraph 11- what comparison found at psalm 122:3,4 could be applied to god's people today?.
during the coming time of trouble for this system, we will have to be truly united.
Those dwellings were built so close together that the psalmist described Jerusalem as a "city that is joined together as one."
The psalmist was clearly talking about physical closeness. That kind of closeness would get a congregation disfellowshipped. Looks like times are changin'!
i havent seen this posted in a while and i think its really well done, so i share here now:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdp7pkecjvq.
i understand that warwick is to be the new world headquarters of jws, patterson is an educational complex, and walkill is a literature production center.
will patterson continue to be used as it is now after the completion of warwick?
if not, what will happen to it?
a recent c.o visit informed us that some (probably a small amount) of the european printing is done in canada - but he didn't say for which countries though. very strange.
It might be a matter of language. Not sure if it's still the case, but I think Vietnamese or some of the other smaller languages were translated and/or printed in Canada and shipped out from there. Similarly, foreign language litteratrash distributed in the USA will come from other printing branches besides the US and Canada.
oh....ok....hahaha...did anyone else pick up on this classic stuff up in the wt for the weekend of 21/22 feb?.
after speaking about the destruction of sodom and gomorrah, paragraph 6 says:.
"only lot and his daughters, who stuck close to him, survived".
2 Pet. 2:7,8 always seemed really weird about God delivering "righteous Lot, who was greatly distressed by the indulgence of the law-defying people in loose conduct..."
Well, I guess it's official--sex with anyone is okay as long as they get you drunk first. Looks like I have my work cut out for me!
i understand that warwick is to be the new world headquarters of jws, patterson is an educational complex, and walkill is a literature production center.
will patterson continue to be used as it is now after the completion of warwick?
if not, what will happen to it?
when was your last time at Wallkill?
Time for the ad hominem attacks, eh? I disprove your HUGE nonsense so now you are looking to find some way to discredit me. Silly apologist, get back on topic.
so i actually came out to my mother a few days ago.
told her how i really felt about being a jw (jehovah's witness) and how i wasn't straight.
i wasn't surprised by the disapproving response i got because really, i wasn't expecting any more.
Welcome JennyBoo!
She only hopes that I do not turn my back on Jehovah in the end.
That's the tricky part. Since Jehovah is invisible, it's so hard to be sure that I've really turned my back on him! Dang it! Jehovah, show yourself so that I can clearly turn my back on you!
And then there's the tricky part about "the end". Is the end soon as in "next month", or soon as in "overlapping generations from now." That why JWs call them "the Last Days", because they last...
...and last...
...and last...
...and last...
