here in Italy it used to say health and other says thanks.. popular custom of good education.
but the wts says it is wrong and all not do.
there have already been several threads started about this particular issue.
quite a bit of stuff to reflect on, especially the articles elevating the elders and gb.... but here's another gem..not as significant, but still interesting.
i grew up as a jw and it was verboten to say "bless you" or "gesundheit" after someone sneezes.
here in Italy it used to say health and other says thanks.. popular custom of good education.
but the wts says it is wrong and all not do.
looking up all the references is a lot of work - one of the reasons nobody normally verifies these, but trust the writers.
as you will see, the writers are banking on this, but it is not a good thing to trust the wtbts writers.
please find the bibliography worked out for quotes 38-51, covering the heading "what about human evolution".. interesting is that many quotes are from the [u]preface[/u] of books, where the authors honestly explain the difficulties and assumptions related to evolutionary science.. [b]what about human evolution?[/b].
how meny book or other new publications are been introduced DC of this 2010????
september will mark my first year out of the watch towers darkness (pun intended).
i embarked on my full blown search for truth about the truth in april 2009, and by september of that same year i was convinced the organization was no different than any other religion; but i was wrong again.
because if there were like any other christian denomination, such as the baptists, methodists, presbyterians, lutherans, etc...it would have been a lot easier to endure sitting in their meetings, listening to their rhetoric, and engaging in some of their activities.
this year is the first time that I have decided not to go.. I won't go
also if have all my family and many relatives.
I want to be inactive.
I have only the curiosity of that said but I don't want to be to listen our our there.
can someone say me ?
i successfully skipped my very first district convention this weekend, after 25 years in the borg.
i spent the day with my disassociated parents - ate breakfast and lunch with them.
felt great.
do you have schemes of the discourses on the play
i'm a big fan of mr. raymond franz and read both of his books a number of times.
does anyone here think maybe he didn't tell everything he knew.
for legal reasons and will expose more than he has told before , since the wts can't touch him after he dies.
I also think if there are things say him has written and will do after death.
many of us are aware of the stroke that raymond franz had yesterday,.
that he is on life support and it doesn't look like he is going to pull through.. someone on another thread mentioned if he didn't survive how many.
was planning on attending his funeral.. to me this deserves its own thread.. .
I pray that can meet Franz Ray live, we hope in a Miracle
disfellowshipping notes - page 14 paragraph 13 - notice how they state disfellowshipping for a man who unrepentently practices fornication.
(it was beyond even that, but with his own mother!
in the scriptures ) .
there is also say: some letters written Corintis are lost, Paul has written 4-5 letters to the Corintis we have only 2 if also this 1° and 2° was 1 the beginning wa 4 letters,,in Cor 5: 9 in my letter. this lost. also 2 Cor. 2:4 and 7: 8 other letters. cannot Disfellowsh.. someone if he go to confess. only if he doing becomes in the community and in the world scandalous olders intervene.
like everyone else here, i am praying for ray to pull through this medical crisis, but i realize the odds are not good.
i know it's not something people want to think about, their obituary, but i contacted a religion journalist and told her about ray franz, his life at bethel and his books.
i hope she passes the information on to the rest of the writers on their religion blog.
dear friends. you that you are more near tried to do a lot for doing it knows what he has written Ray. many anchor JWs don't know these books. I am Italian and thanks to him I have opened the eyes on the WT. and I hope that also others do the same. I and he are written 15 days ago there programmed (health allowing) to come in Europe and to meet he Sorry:(
just setting the record straight.
there is another thread that notes a claim on wiki that said that ray has died.. he had a stroke yesterday, and is in the hospital.
he is still alive.
Ugly news. I am sorry a lot !!!!, we hope that can recover.. also with a miracle of God. we pray. 10 days ago I have received your letter ..he always been available and fond.