with the upcoming elections, the campaigns and political rhetoric are ramping up.
(ramping up is an understatement lol) .
i remember a few years ago, gb member brother herd mentioned during one of his talks that several witnesses were either reproved or disfellowshipped for voting for a certain presidential candidate who won...twice.
Back in the day voting in any election from municipal preferences up to national level was considered a violation of neutrality and disfellowshippable offense.
As for the congregation resolutions put to vote, it was mainly a formality...if the option was brought up it was already a done deal. The majority hand raise was a farce.
he reinterated the end time events.
destruction of babylon the great, proclamation of peace and security, then our hailstorm message and finally armageddon.
we all can go into detail what a load of 💩 this is but here is the kicker.
Delusions, delusions.... Locusts to hailstones....
so if the bible is the inspired word of god and i don't believe it is by any stretch, how did adam when he was kicked out of the garden of eden know what a spinning sword was?
did adam invent swords?
more bible non sense garbage.
The answer my friend..is spinning in the wind....
Chances are we may never know the answer to this confounding query...
i was a witness from grade school ( 1976) until 2007. i seem to remember an important aspect that was always talked about at the hall as being a fact.they would say that "the rocks themselves would cry out" if the public preaching work was to stop,,,,, all i've seen and heard these past few months are the witnesses complaining about the witnessing work coming to a halt.but i've not heard one rock crying .. .
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I like the stream one...😁 however...what about "until houses are without man"??? Now that everyone is stuck at home that one becomes an enigma....
i am so sick of hearing ( wife is pimi):.
critical times so hard to deal with.
last nano second..... buy out the time.
So happifying.....food at the right time.....
So encouraging......
.....try gaggifying....
a friend of ours who is married to a jw said that this morning for service everyone who was on zoom got to do a call while the rest listened in on the call.
there were thirty-one this morning listening in on one who would call someone to preach to.
shouldn't the person they are calling on be warned first that there will be so many listening in on their phone call from the zoom meeting.
This is shocking! Invasion of privacy reaching a new outrageous level. And all the zoombies count time for being implicit in the obnoxious activity?!? What is the matter with these people.....rhetorical question.
this was sent to me by a cooky uber-dub.
apparently it's making the rounds locally...it's typical lighthearted jw satire (that they think is great!!
smh :-/ ) .
Yeah.....apparently this will occur after the babble language reversion that will magically have everyone speaking Adamic.
Where will it be held though? Or will it be a global zoom?
Balaam's talk as blubro has shared will surely be a must hear for me. Oh...rats.....I will be turkey vulture poop at that point. But....great fertilizer!
i'm sure there's already topics on this but i couldn't find one so i'm starting my own.
is the kingdom hall scheduling program new?
is this where they are entering all of the members data now?
Sounds odd. What does your carrier have to do with it....you got a number and a connection...that's it. None of their business who you pay for said connection.
i am pimo, but now have 40+ years of being a jw as i was raised in a 3rd generation family of witnesses and continue to fake my way through things - fading as i can.. for the vast majority of my time as a jw, the meetings were the central focus for all jws to get teaching, association, information and so on.
nothing was more important than being at the meetings!
over the last 20 years starting with the elimination of the weekly book study in homes and continuing down to today - my opinion is that the value/purpose of the weekly meetings continues to be diluted or minimized.
From my observation, a good portion of jw's remain loyal for social reasons...the people factor, the group dynamic. Take away that actual organized physical aspect by deleting halls and actual real meetings and there are going to be a lot of unhappy campers....and they will gradually seek alternative support groups and systems. The doctrine used to be so much more significant, but that has been so convoluted and diluted most don't even know what they believe in....so.....I see the sect dissipating.
today, i got an email from an old friend with a story told by brother andre ramseyer who attended training at patterson in england.
a service dog regularly attended the meetings with his owner.
when the owner passed away, the dog was given to another blind man.
Dog disease heart worm???
