i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.
you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .
which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!
Happy Birthday.... Your world is not only defined by your age bracket... but also your location. Not all the people in their 70s live in your world.
People who are 70 in North Korea will think you are weird. People who live in the desert or a jungle, etc.
Your world is your POV on things.
70 years ago there were even more POVs.
Many of the values that were important in your time frame, are not important today. And many of the values that are important today will not be important tomorrow.
as an obedient little jw at age 20, i was serving time in federal prison in the late 60's, and the 40 brothers inside seagoville prison decided to stage our own assembly.i was the music servant.
(we didn't have elders back then.
)the theme of the assembly mimicked the free world assemblies being held outside.long story short:i composed (what i think and everyone else thought was) a very good song titled:following the fine shepherd as the end draws near.we rehearsed it (bros who had instruments) and the consensus revealed it was a winner._____excerpt:"jehovah god above, we owe you all our love; you are our shepherd and we follow you.though satan demands, that we must compromise; we'd sooner face death than be wrong in your eyes.now and forevermore, we fear not satan's roar;you are our shepherd and we follow you.
some kids went to war and died fighting for someone elses agenda.
some kids went to war and killed other kids for someone else's agenda and came back with ptsd
some kids went to war and killed innocent kids and survive but had to live with that for the rest of their life
some kids didnt go to war and went to prision instead because someone's else agenda and survived
some kids didnt go to war because they didnt think it was right and went to prison and survived
war is terrible for all
that lesson for today likens holy spirit to wind.
any sailor knows you have to sail across or into the wind to get someplace.
the wind will shipwreck you.
the wind is against you. you never sail into wind... you go diagonally or accross.
is not the direction of the wind... is the set of the sail.
so its the skill of the sailor that gets you places.
i was on the phone with a long-time friend from my original congregation north of new york city and she told me that the 'shit hit the fan' when a brother (long-time elder i know well) got remarried about 6 weeks after his wife died.. he was about 60 and his new wife (a pioneer that i also know) was about 50 and had never been married.. it became a huge issue when the co came.
due to all the talk and chatter in the congregation, he even included in one of his talks without naming names, that marriage is something sacred and that when and how people get married is a personal matter as long as it conforms to bible standards.. anyway, it shut everybody up.
any similar experiences in your current/former congregations?.
let the dead bury their dead...
sons of resurrection dont marry...
no biblical need to grieve... dead jws are either on heaven or in paradise
would jehovah kill her?
or would she be shunned by her religion as a whole?
say anything you would think of..
what's in the bible is coming from god... don't blame the reader, blame the writer.
i am finally at the point in my life i no longer believe in the tales of the bible.
my husband feels for the most part that it too is stuff made up.
there are just a few things that he wants to get cleared up, and one of those being the story of adam and eve.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-40.html.
watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc., petitioner v. j. w., a minor.
would jehovah kill her?
or would she be shunned by her religion as a whole?
say anything you would think of..
judges eleven says that the dude would offer " whatsoever comes to meet me" as " a burnt offer" so according to that she only lasted 2 months cuz she asked for a chance to mourn her virginity...
so that's another lie told by the jaw.org people
since they’ve announced the dates for the next 3 memorials, no talk about this “may be our last one!”.
since they’ve announced the patterson construction project will take 3 years to complete.
let’s also not forget when they designed warwick, they spent money on expensive energy saving technology to save millions in the long run, years and decades in the future.
yes its coming in 3 years... we are really close... for sure. so dont make any plans, dont go to school and dont have any more kids...
when was that first preached , with the book babylon the great has fallen gods kingdom rules ,the 1970`s ?
where they claimed that false religion had a fall in 1919 and that it was continuing to that day .
however today we see not babylon the great that is falling ,but the jehovah`s witnesses religion that are on the decline ,selling off branches , kingdom halls in one place after another throughout the earth .. and only a couple of years ago they were predicting they would be needing thousands of kingdom halls to be built for the expected influx of new worshippers ?
actually you are wrong ;) Babylon the great is actually falling... just in the usa there was a 5% decrease in religion members 2015-2018.. now there is only 65% of people that belong to a religion
