The Awake! footnote in that same article mentioned that he died in 1996 at age 92!
I met him in 1998 and he was still alive, living in Southern California.
^ that's some funny stuff right there.
since there is renewed interest in the 1975 fiasco and one of it's main promoters, i discovered something interesting.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/103129/1/who-is-charles-sunutko.
in the above thread blondie posted an except from an awake!
magazine article on old chuck s. in it, he stated he was born one year after his parents married in 1935, viz.
The Awake! footnote in that same article mentioned that he died in 1996 at age 92!
I met him in 1998 and he was still alive, living in Southern California.
^ that's some funny stuff right there.
ok, am i correct in saying that the fds never stated armegedon was coming in 75'?
however, they led everyone to believe it was coming in 75'?.
if the latter question is true, can you provide links to talks or articles that point to this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujm2aqtts9e&feature=plcp.
What was the original movie? Does anyone know?
i hear americans called yanks---and it never even made me blink an eye.
so i'm not sure---and almost used the term brits a minute ago and edited to say british people.
so tell me----is it offensive?
Brits is fine by me. I'm English, you may find the people who object more are the English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh nationalists.
http://drclintonb.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/swollen-misfortune/#comment-68.
read the story.
look at the picture.
I think this post needs a warning, there's a picture at the link which some may find distressing.
hey peeps,.
it's been a long while since i've posted (i am completely out - wife and kids still in) but thought you might this interesting.. they came home from the district convention yesterday with the new dvd intended for kids.
they popped it in right away and this is what happens:.
nugget said:
The guilt, pressure and manipulation was text book more a lesson for parents on how to guilt their children.
Yep, gave me some flashbacks!
certainly if, after having escaped from the defilements of the world by an accurate knowledge of the lord and savior jesus christ, they get involved again with these very things and are overcome, the final conditions have become worse for them than the first.. 21 for it would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness than after knowing it accurately to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 the saying of the true proverb has happened to them: the dog has returned to its own vomit, and the sow that was bathed to rolling in the mire.
2 peter 2:20-23. the saddest thing about apostates is that they allowed the cunning deception of false reasoning to take root in their heart thus allowing room for satanic influence and mental disease.
Notice how sad and meaningless their lives have become.
My life has infinitely more meaning now than it did. How many apostates do you know personally nana to make that assumption?
tomorrow the 22nd i will be 85 years old .
good wishes only please,remember if you say something nasty i will cry.
and my mum told me it is a sin to cry on your birthday .
Happy birthday Grace. xx
my fave was roy renouf - district overseer.
always had time for me and seemed to keep thigs real.. heard that on a zone vist he told the governing body the branch was told old and grumpy or something like that!.
worst was michael purbrick.
Keith Gaydon. Nominated for worst not best category.
i thought it might be interesting and fun to have a "predictions thread", where we set out our predictions for events to unfold concerning the watch tower society (or jehovah's witnesses in general) over the coming years/decades.. it strikes me that so much has happened in the last ten years, most of which has defied expectations.
here's just a few of the developments that i can think of:.
the abolishment of group book studies in favor of a "family worship evening"the creation of a "study edition" watchtowerthe halving of monthly magazine printing commitmentsthe unprecedented closure/merging of branches (16% reduction in branches last year)the menlo park scandal, a body of elders removed for resisting a refurb of their kingdom hallthe lawsuits in victoria, australia - the society taken to court concerning child protection lawscourtroom admissions about the faithful & discreet slave and similarities with the catholic churchincreased hate speech against "mentally diseased" apostatesastonishing lapses of judgment, such as the "selma and steve" study articlethe ditching of gilead as a school for missionariesambitious construction plans for a new world hq (with or without jehovah's blessing!
The Kingdom Ministry will no longer be printed separately but rather inserted into the koolaid Watchtower - by 2016.