which is what a dub said to me today.
i would like to come back to him with evidence that they are not.
does anyone have any helpful links they could post to refute this?.
At our hall the dubs will say how sad these disasters are and
how many inocent people die. However they turn around and
look forward to God killing everone on earth except the JW's.
In looking at the terrible destruction in the pics from Japan
what a mess they have to clean up and they will have the help
of foreign nations. Imagine the whole earth looking like that
after Armageddon and about 2 million men and 2 million women
and 3 million kids having to clean the mess up.
Sour Grapes
for a long while i have been coming to this site on a daily basis and i think it is time to introduce myself.
here we go: my parents learned the truth when i was 4 and i don't have childhood memories of how life was before they converted.
i was a model jw child, although quite mischievous at school.
Welcome. Inch by inch live is a cinch. Yard by yard
life is hard.
Sour Grapes
we were not at the meeting last weekend and just wondering if the "30 hour" rule for april 2011 pioneer hours was actually read to the congregations ???.
rub a dub.
It was read Sunday at our Hall. The brothers and sisters were
almost giddy with excitement. The brother reading the letter
said that it was another blessing from Jehovah.
When I pioneered many years ago, I had to log in 100 hours.
Now in April you can pioneer for 30 hours and you can be
a publisher with 15 minutes a month. Their aim is to make
the goal of pioneering so low in hours that those who are logging
in 15 to 20 hours will feel guilty if they are not pioneerig.
When you fill out the pioneer application in April you have
to put down if you are going to be a 30 hour pioneer or
a 50 hour pioneer. What would happen if they did not have
to turn in time? There would be a large work stopage.
Sour Grapes
well, aren't they?
my jw father is arguing with me about holidays and birthdays so i asked him what baby showers were and how they differed from birthdays?
if mother's day and father's day are wrong, how is a baby's day (shower) not idolatry too?.
You can celebrate the birth of a baby but not the anniversary of
the birth of the baby.
Only a JW would find that to be reasonable.
Sour Grapes
i can't remember, do they have enough sense not to go in fs in the us tomorrow?
new year's day (many need to sleep in!
), bowl games, etc....
The "wordly holidays" are special service days and
those who are seeking to climb the JW food chain
are expected to go out. The only change is they
gather for the group 1/2 hour later in the morning
to give the worldings another 1/2 hour to sleep in.
Sour Grapes
happy new year one and all!,.
the local elders sent a letter home with my hubby, pretty much stating that after "many" attempts to visit and speak with me, this letter is once again asking to meet because it came to their attention that i voted in the last pres.
election.
The official stance is that it is strongly suggested that you do not vote.
If an unbelieving husband forces his wife to go with him to the
polling booth she is expected to cast a vote for God's Kingdom or
do nothing and turn in a blank sheet of paper.
The Witnesses are more critical of voting now than they were
10 years ago. Voting is almost as taboo as taking blood. If you vote
I don't think that they would officially disfellowship you for that
because in today's political climate that would be bad PR if it
became public knowledge.
Sour Grapes
3 months ago one of my friends emailed me that.
he was invited to a jw "get together" to have some.
fun.
3 months ago one of my friends emailed me that
he was invited to a JW "get together" to have some
fun. They were supposed to dress up like what they
wanted to be in Paradise, like a farmer, a dancer,
carpenter, or a gardener, etc. Of course you had to bring
a covered dish with 2 liters of pop. There would
be games to play like checkers or monopoly and
the highlight of the night of fun and games was
to bring your new song books so they could practice
singing the new songs. I don't think that my friend
went so I do not know if everyone had a great time.
What a nice way to spend a Saturday night.
Sour Grapes
"watchtower world"... "a place where "stupid is better!"...
the wbt$ is always doing something stupid..from the begining of the wbt$ to this very day... stupid is on the menu,in watchtower world... .
it never ends..there is always something stupid happening within the wbt$... these are bethel one liners..bethelites have posted on jwd/jwn... that i have collected over time... .
Stay alive until 75.
SG
for those researchers who would be interested in the kingdom ministries before those that appear on the wt library cd-rom (which starts at the year 1970):.
here are two more years (us edition), which can be downloaded at the following filesharing site:.
1966 km reduced size (20 mb).
Thank you.
SG
english standard version(2001).
woe to you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites!
for you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.. .
You can learn more here in one day than a life time sitting
in the Kingdom Hall.
