trying to get this going again - so if anyone knows of someone that could do with some encouraging words please pm me so that i can put their name up here.. rekless: his wife recently passed away - please keep him in your thoughts/prayers.
mrs chickennest: still haven't heard anything other than her diagnosis of lung & sinus cancer.
please keep her and hubby.. simplesally: does anyone have new news?
Nice idea Lou.
Something like this helps in so many ways - the people who are mentioned know we are thinking of them and the rest of us can feel a little bit better about our own problems when we see others going thru even more difficult things.
To all of you dealing with death, illnesses and other difficulties...my thought are with you
recently i talked to an elder friend, who is used to and tolerates my liberal thinking about the "truth", about restrictions after df'ing and reproof.
i asked for the scriptural reasons for such.
he proceeded to hem and haw, "well they are necessary for blah, blah...." i repeated scriptural .
Can't really answer your question but well done for getting him to think. Perhaps if he sees a couple more inconsistencies he'll wake up a bit. Though you have to be careful not to move too far too fast. Easy does it!
how much money did you put in the kh box each week not counting monaply bills.
now that you are out what do you do with the extra cash.
Honestly, I never liked to contribute financially. I don't remember dropping anything in the box for a couple of years prior to leaving though hubby would donate at the DC (as if it wasn't expensive enough to get to it! ). They always spoke about how they don't pass a plate around looking for donation - another dig at the Catholic Church. So I thought plate/box what's the difference? If I don't have to donate my money, then I won't. I did buy some supplies for the KH sometimes though. At least that way, I controlled what the money went on.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/166570/1.ashx.
for everyone taking part in this years secret santa, here is the thread to post ideas about what you would like to receive.
this way when you get your name of who you are buying for you can come in here and look at what your person has posted.. .
Yes, thanks a million Mouthy. And I've wasted no time in finding somewhere to wear it to!
I'll be wearing some of the items tonight as my husband and I are going to the party his employers are organizing. Should be fun!
i did some painstaking research and discovered that the christmas spirit is still being practiced at the highest levels in the organization:.
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/xmiuyefnvbixnino#/owner/xmiuyefnvbixnino.
That was great! Well done.
the january km is completely different.
the style has been totally revamped
SBF said:
Remember there was that bold statement someone highlighted from the January WT that looking after fellow brothers and sisters is just as important as the ministry. That might not be an entirely new thought but then it is not something they point out every day either. So that might also be an indication they are moving away from focus on the field ministry.
But doesn't that make a complete nonsense of the drama in the summer conventions about Scoliosis being wrong for doing good works on not focusing on the preaching? Sometimes it really feels like the right hand don't know what the left hand is doing at the headquarters!
so i drove by my old kingdom hall the other day and noticed that it had a for sale sign in front of it.
this came as no surprise to me, as i knew that they recently won approval to build a new kingdom hall in a neighboring town.
(caused a bit of a stir in town - but that's a different story).
I think you're on to something loosie. Perhaps they just spun the colour wheel and used whatever colour it landed on!
jehovahs beaming eyes examine all.
ot 8--achan.
ot 9 - solomon.
Nice comments Billy. Certainly made me laugh.
I almost hope my JW mother brings up the subject of this WT when I see her tomorrow. I'd really love to convey some of those gems to her.
so i drove by my old kingdom hall the other day and noticed that it had a for sale sign in front of it.
this came as no surprise to me, as i knew that they recently won approval to build a new kingdom hall in a neighboring town.
(caused a bit of a stir in town - but that's a different story).
Yuck! What's up with all the clashing colours! I've been to many meetings with a hangover but if I had to go to that KH I really think I'd be quite ill!
My old hall was pink. Then I moved to a neighboring cong whose hall was also pink. Definately some closet homos in these parts!
"jehovah's witnesses have the lowest retention rate of any religious tradition.
only 37% of all those who say they were raised as jehovah's witnesses still identify themselves as jehovah's witnesses.".
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/743/united-states-religion.
Certainly brighter than the leaders who quote the pew research in the Feb awake! (Though obviously not the bit you mention!)
