so sad.
i love europe.
i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.
Well said Caedes.
Terrorism in the British Isles.
A question: "Were all USA Catholics supporting terrorism because NORAID supported the IRA who killed thousands in their bombing campaigns?"
A wider question ""Not just USA Catholics but all "Christians" - were they supportive of these campaigns because the Protestant UDA/UFF killed hundreds too?""
2015 guidelines for training potential circuit overseers.. http://we.tl/tagk4vycdl.
.. 1925 message of hope from page 141 of the 1988 revelation climax book.
page 3 starts the reprint shown in the golden age magazine.. .. http://we.tl/wjaevwvztz.
so sad.
i love europe.
i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.
@prologos
You had your throat cut in the H2H ministry? By whom?
so sad.
i love europe.
i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.
@FMF
"Hopefully the size of the attack that happened in Pakistan doesn't make its way into European borders."
Already has FMF - with routine regularity terrorist bombings and shootings have been in the newspapers since I delivered them as a kid and on the TV I watched from the black and white years onwards ...
Here's a few of the more notorious ones.
1974 Dublin and Monaghan 34 deaths ... 1980 Bologna Italy 85 deaths ... 1988 Scotland (Lockerbie) 243 deaths ... 1998 Northern Ireland Omagh 31 deaths ... 2004 Madrid 191 deaths ... 2005 London 56 deaths... 2011 Norway (Brevik) 77 deaths ... 2015 Paris 137 deaths.
my husband and i have been out for a long time, maybe fifteen years, i must say we are in a bit of a nowhere land spiritually, we find it impossible to attend any other church.
we really resent so much of how they messed up our and our children's lives.
we can't get back all those 25 years we were in.
i'm hearing rumours of huge changes within the berkshire circuit here in the uk .
congregations being dispanded and kingdom halls closing down and being sold off.... official announcements within the next month apparently .
does anyone else have anymore info?.
I heard about this over the Easter weekend from someone who attends a congregation in Berkshire - she has an elder relative there too. Apparently the rumour is that the elders will hear something within the next 3 weeks.
So that fits in with the O.P.
Interesting - as Phizzy mentioned - "Hail the Theocracy, ever increasing! Wondrous expansion is now taking place!"
i'm hearing rumours of huge changes within the berkshire circuit here in the uk .
congregations being dispanded and kingdom halls closing down and being sold off.... official announcements within the next month apparently .
does anyone else have anymore info?.
So if they lose one kingdom hall and just one congo per circuit and there are 60 circuits in the UK and they average 200K per KH that's ... umm ... errr ... takes off shoes to count using toes ... ...
£12,000,000
Then if they make London a non-printing branch after the Speshul Visit at the end of April they can sell all the London properties and make Chelmsford a branch for 100 instead of 1000.
Loadsamoney for the Magnificent Seven and their dirty dozen helpers to live off of.
my uber jw elder brother used to use jesus's quote "you know a tree by it's fruit" and then would speak about how jws are the only ones going door to door and restoring god's true name.. my niece was the first to point out that those were works and not fruits.
my brother retreated for a few days to contemplate the difference between works and fruits and when he returned to address the comment, he stated that works are fruits.
what's the take from the jw apologist?.
My take is that "fruits" are also the "natural" result. So if you are a loving and kind person that will naturally show as a fruit.
"Works" are doing things whether naturally or through duty or to save your skin or under compulsion.
So door to door ministry is "works" and could be a fruit of loving kindness towards others but equally or more likely through self-serving desires.
our "spy" was able to get in and get out undetected.
we thank him/her for their kindness and courage.
remarks were made that the assembly this person attended only kept the women in their place.. i remarked to this person that one of these days the watchtower is going to "put down" the wrong woman who is going to clean their clock with a massive discrimination lawsuit!.
@rebelfighter
Woot! Way to go girl.
@self
Never ever ever ever piss rebelfighter off. It won't end well.
so about last night.... i am out at a local club (not restaurant, not event venue - a club) to see a rap concert.
now, i am with some friends minding my own business, and i find that i am standing right behind 3 active jw's - one of whom used to be my best friend.
this girl is as fake as they come: 1) she used to live with me and would bring non-jw guys home all the time, 2) was living with a man when she lived down south - until he dumped her, and then she decided to go back to jw's the 1st time and got reproved, and i supported her.
@babygirl30
Ah ... but she doesn't know you didn't take pics does she?
