the watchtower has many schools to teach their members on how to become more effective in various assignments in jehovah's organization.
they are trained to strengthen and help the congregations and branches around the world.
here is a list of some of the schools the society run:.
Yeah why indeed, since the WTS rave on about a people being prepared for Jehovah ,why are the remnant of 144K not being prepared specially and taught how to bring the great crowd into the new system and also taught how to become rulers in heaven,since the women have not had the "priviledge" of eldership ?
So you can have classes for the window cleaner elder but not for members of the 144k as a group who are going to rule and heal the world?
a republican congressman voted his conscience to impeach trump.
the results might surprise some of us.. "my dad's cousins sent me a petition - a certified letter - saying they disowned me because i'm in 'the devil's army' now," kinzinger said in a phone conversation on thursday.
"it's been crazy, when you have friends - that you thought were good friends that would love you no matter what - that don't.".
I don't live in America so can only see, read ,hear of what is supposed to be happening there ,but to me it does'nt seem to be the America of yesterday.
Here in Australia, which is basically run by 2 parties, people mainly seem to be of the opinion that politicians from both sides are self serving and not much in the way of meaningful policies divides them.
But since the likes of Trump got in power it appears a strong division is happening there. I wonder if years ago Americans would have supported a Trump ,the way the media portrayed him and the way he portrayed himself to the public. But he did get voted in and America got what they wanted ,well at least the ones that voted for him.
So maybe it's the fault of the people then that put him there due to changing attitudes and beliefs ,lots of things contribute to change not just a Trump.
I think there are 2 types of people generally like the bible says, the sheep and the goats with the sheep being more common.
The sheep love to follow the popular path and worship other people as can be seen by movie stars singers politicians ,religious leaders etc they are blind to the fact that they eat and shit like everyone else. People have to belong to teams. Hence people worshipping Trump and other "leaders" perhaps are forgetting history and what it teaches. They have forgotten that there are people who are decent who would be better serving them as leaders and choose the leaders who are narcississtic or violent or forceful like history shows.
Yes I am a goat and maybe it seems to others I am fooling myself that decent people will take back the world but hope gives one something to live for ,but maybe the leaders the people select are a reflection of what people have become .
This is not meant to offend anyone, just an observation
jehovah's witnesses used to state other christian denominations go to war and in fact that their religious leaders bless such wars.
they see this as one reason why all other christian denominations are not true christians since they kill one another at war and therefore they don't love one another as stated by jesus in john 13: 34,35.. for example when a roman catholic go to war, he/she is bound to kill a fellow roman catholic in the cause of the war.
therefore roman catholic can't be true christians since its member don't love one another and kill one another at war and as such god cannot be in support of such wars where his worshippers kill one another.. the question that comes for consideration is, has jehovah ever supported wars between his own worshippers?.
Strange how the believers on here are really silent ,when someone like PISTOLPETE makes an observation like that above.
do you think the world will be a better place?
more civil?
kinder?
@minimus
Hey Dozey ......wake up it's just a bit of fun
Me too ,suffer the little F***wit GB
do you think the world will be a better place?
more civil?
kinder?
I see blue suits ,blond hair ,expanding waistlines ,small hands and red ties becoming unfashionable this year.
In fact the color red may suffer this year ,perhaps red M & M's getting the chop being that red is associated with leftist ,perhaps even communist agendas ,and forums having a 60 percent cut in political discussions .
some questions you may like to ask a jehovah`s witness?.
1.when did the modern day jw religion begin?
we all know the stock answer to that q that they will give ,but persevere .. for the past 2000 years there has never been an organization known as jw.
Smiddy3
"No Jehovah`s Witnesses were not chosen by Jesus in 1919 ,by there own literature it was the "International Bible Students Association" ,IBSA .that were chosen,not JW`s. they may claim its ` the same thing ,but that`s not so . Why ?'
So then this leads to the question who really is "THE ISRAEL OF GOD" in the NT ?
The watchtower says it's the 144K but how can that be if Rutherford apostasized and threw the IBS away and immediately taught things that kept him in new homes ,limo's and booze ?
Great read Smiddy
so i received an email from one of the used-to-be jw friends that now pretty much ignore me.
it was haranguing me about "getting right with gee-ho'-vuh", and how imperative it was to "return to the organization".
it continued on with the worn out argument that "the faithful and discreet slave know what we must do in order to be safe and to live, as gee-ho'-vuh brightens the light to them.
If you urinate into the wind long enough ,eventually your shoes will get wet.
can anyone explain this to me??
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Good reasons above
I wear mine in the car going to get tested in my street at the Covid testing station which is drive thru.
Is this silly ? Well when I wind down my window there I'm faced by people who are testing me and heaps of other people before me .Could I get infected there ? Probably not but I am in a high risk category so why take a chance .
I guess people wear masks in their car for a variety of reasons like they put one on before leaving the house because they don't keep them in the car.
My partner and I went to Bunnings (retail hardware store) yesterday ,signed in ,put on hand gel ,and had our masks on and of the hundred or so in store, including the staff ,we were the only ones with masks on.
We may have been conspicuous but we tried protecting ourselves from a possible rogue arsehole who knew they had Covid but did'nt cover up. And this happens.
here it is ,the end of a year and a new one starting tomorrow.. i do not want to reflect on the bad the year brought us ,but thankfully i will move into the new year glad that i am still here to enjoy the good things in life that are still here .. though i've had some personal bad stuff happening like all do from time to time i did have things to be thankful for ,like my loving partners support and a wonderful christmas visit with my daughters family and grand children.. i had to plan my driving trip to queensland in between covid shutdowns but this made it more exciting and helped me to see i should not take family for granted.. so i'm thankful for the good the year brought and yet sorrowful for those in the world who had bad things happen.. that's the stuff of life and sometimes it's worse for a while and then change brings better times.. i don't believe the strike of clock will bring change but what we do in our lives will ,i've made bad decisions that have lbrought life long change for bad but i have made some for good.
some things from outside will bring change ,like covid ,but it is how we handle things that really matters for the future.. the one big thing i am thankful for is getting insight from this wonderful site that helped me see what the disgusting watchtower org is in reality , and over the years have seen thru others here how they broke the clutches of a cult of liars.. so thank you all and hope that the future brings some happiness as well ,agong with the sorrow and especially to all the ozzies on here.
Here it is ,the end of a year and a new one starting tomorrow.
I do not want to reflect on the bad the year brought us ,but thankfully i will move into the new year glad that i am still here to enjoy the good things in life that are still here .
Though I've had some personal bad stuff happening like all do from time to time I did have things to be thankful for ,like my loving partners support and a wonderful christmas visit with my daughters family and grand children.
I had to plan my driving trip to Queensland in between covid shutdowns but this made it more exciting and helped me to see i should not take family for granted.
So I'm thankful for the good the year brought and yet sorrowful for those in the world who had bad things happen.
That's the stuff of life and sometimes it's worse for a while and then change brings better times.
I don't believe the strike of clock will bring change but what we do in our lives will ,I've made bad decisions that have lbrought life long change for bad but I have made some for good. Some things from outside will bring change ,like covid ,but it is how we handle things that really matters for the future.
The one big thing I am thankful for is getting insight from this wonderful site that helped me see what the disgusting Watchtower org is in reality , and over the years have seen thru others here how they broke the clutches of a cult of liars.
So thank you all and hope that the future brings some happiness as well ,agong with the sorrow and especially to all the Ozzies on here
