i dont know if it was the same for you, but for me when i was a jw meeting days seemed to have a black cloud hanging over them.
on thursdays i knew i would be going to the meeting that evening.
that i would be getting into my meeting clothes at 6:30pm, leaving the house at 6:55pm and be sat in the kingdom hall from 7:15pm-9pm, then milling around for about half an hour before finally getting home for 10pm.
Yep, remember the feeling, even more when I had an assignment at the meeting. A few evenings preperation.
Never missed this any moment.
Remembering my last assignment at the service meeting, leaving the platform knowing it was my last time there. Never felt better in my life!
G.
are all the gb members past and present, part of skulls and bones and other masonic secret societies?
we know the first few top brass were, like br rutherford and br russel.. they all have several expensive watches.
like literally more than one for everyday of the week, rolex and omega, where did they come from?
Simple, there is a jewelry donation desk at Warwick. For real! Check the recent watchtower telephone index provided somewhere here
i remember getting my ass beat .
in 1987 / 1988 for listening to atlantic star.
they had a song called always.. my mother sat me down anmd told me listening to music like that would just rile up my emotions and make me look for a girl to fornicate with.. like at the age of 10 i was going to take it to that level.. my mother later banned r and b from our home.... i find it all hilarious now, but a friend of mine actually sent me a link to the jw broadcast and said i had to watch this.. i told him there was no way, but he said just start at the 50:40 mark.. i do not believe that this is what the org is doing now???.
The more mainstream approach is not bad. They forget to change some fundamental issues.
G.
jw father in law in hospital, this weekend, maybe last days of his life.
with his last energy he was reading a watchtower magazine for comfort.
i could understand.
JW father in law in hospital, this weekend, maybe last days of his life. With his last energy he was reading a Watchtower magazine for comfort. I could understand.
Then he is too tired and puts the magazine away. I take it to arrange his hospital desk.
And then, I feel the magazine is heavy like a feather, has not more then 10 pages like a postal stamp.
It made me think things are not up in JW country anymore.
Such a thin magazine makes a JW think, is it??
G.
don’t know if it was part of the script.. at the memorial the remark about growing annointed numbers including this numbers from 2015 to 2017 was made (from 13.000 to 18.000+).. reason for the growing numbers could be:.
- feeling annointed because of former believe.
- psychical reasons.
The elder said during the memorial “with growing JW numbers it would not be a surprise that the annointed number is growing. There could be a correlation between it”.
I an currious If this was in the script.
Because it was an Amsterdam congregation, it could be a liberal suggestion. The Dutch are not known for their strictness and loyality. We like to think on our own.
A recent CO told our congregation that Dutch witness make a cost / benefit calculation and are thinking “what’s in it for me” first.
G.
last night's memorial talk in my cong went into graphic gruesome details about the torture of jesus and how the stake killed people.
i mean medical level graphic description!
step by step details of each injury and how it killed!
A local initiative I think.The local zelot.
G.
don’t know if it was part of the script.. at the memorial the remark about growing annointed numbers including this numbers from 2015 to 2017 was made (from 13.000 to 18.000+).. reason for the growing numbers could be:.
- feeling annointed because of former believe.
- psychical reasons.
Don’t know if it was part of the script.
At the memorial the remark about growing annointed numbers including this numbers from 2015 to 2017 was made (from 13.000 to 18.000+).
Reason for the growing numbers could be:
- feeling annointed because of former believe
- psychical reasons
- because of growing JW numbers it could be a normal issue that annointed numbers grow
I heard the speaker and thought If you are annointed you would be stumbled to need an excuse to be part of it.
G.
today the pope said in an interview that hell does not exist.. (we allready knew...).
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Today the pope said in an interview that hell does not exist.
(We allready knew...)
G.
so lloyd evans will shortly be releasing his new book how to leave the jehovah's witnesses.
i do enjoy his rebuttals and the stuff he manages to get hold of and leak.
but i'm struggling to understand what he could possibly write to merit a whole book.. all info on how to leave is right here on this forum.
He has the right to do what he wants. If he wants to publish 25 books, so what? Let him go.
it’s up to us to buy or not to buy, isn’t it?
G.
what i don't understand:.
with a jw.org app on your cellphone governments can follow you continue.
is this - in country's with a different type of democraty - not a big security risk for the user of the app???.
I'm no technician but are there no other options to follow certain app users?
G.
