so my girlfriends, friend has invited me to her little boy's christening.
6 months ago if you'd asked me this i'd have recoiled in horror.
in a catholic church?!!!
Ahhh....Remember to "wet the baby's head" for me! That's an old tradition you might approve of! It involves those old enough to imbibe to drink a toast ( or three) to the future health of the baby. Enjoy the day...as Astronomer Royal Martin Rees says about church " I do it for the tribe". It's a lovely welcome to a New life, I always think what will this little one see that I could never have dreamed of.
Rebelfighter I love to attend church purely to listen to the choir at Kings College.
it's not as if the sheep was trying to seduce the shepherd, the poor creature was violated.
we have come a long way from those days, thank goodness.
so why slay the sheep or beast?????
Smiddy good point.
If Adam hadn't been so fussy....with that in mind....
I had a friend who used to say that it would be so much more exciting if you didn't know what you were going to give birth to... "Oh look, I've had a monkey" or " ahhh, it's a baby kangaroo". She actually didn't want kids but was desperate for a pet penguin.
Just sayin'....😋
and it felt wonderful!!.
i went into the city to where i knew there was a "cosmopolitan witnessing" trolley, because i wanted to ask a simple bible-based question.
the trolley was attended by an elder and a sister who was another elder's wife.
Well you've opened my eyes, that's extremely interesting. And the poster underneath Bobcat who explained it some more ( Merism) I hadn't thought about the worthlessness of the poor great crowd whose good works now count for nothing. Maybe tested unto death here only to be tested again in WT's paradise. ....how unfair when the GoBod gets a cosy life at Warwick and gets a pass straight up to heaven. Yuk.
Good witnessing, and as they say " baby steps...". Who are we to say how these people really think, there has to have been a last day we all went in service for the Watchtower Corp., be it last week or 40 years ago.
hazel grove congregation in stockport, cheshire, u.k.. not only is the congregation saturated with elders, it is/was pretty well saturated with cash - according to its 2014 financial statement to the charities commission.
http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/accounts/ends82/0001066282_ac_20140331_e_c.pdf.
its elders are listed as frank broadhurst, nick ashton, nigel bailey, noel crossley, peter davies.
hi guys.. im aware of the orgs blatant hints to donate, donate, donate to the org, the sacking of bethel staff, selling of buildings, reducing mags and books, emphasis on digital rather than physical books etc which is obviously a money saver - but are the wt org in money difficulty?
because elsewhere on here and on youtube there's stories of the watchtower being mega rich, one even called it "a billion dollar organization".
and if there is any money in there, who's benefiting off it?
Orphan Crow I think you've cracked it. This "disbursement quota" has to be the reason they are hassling for donations. I'd put money on UK / Aus /NZ and US law having a similar quota...it would explain why the drive for donations is worldwide as the "qualified donee" they are spending so much on Warwick.
Do I understand this correctly?
in the videos where a scripture is cited and they show the written verse.
after the verse is read, the graphics shows the cover of the book closing on the verse as though seen from the edge of the book.
then the closed book flips up onto its' end and identifies the source of the verse as (drumroll, please) jw.org!
There's a jworg video ( I think 2015) where one of the shepherds to whom the angels announced Jesus birth, becomes the narrator for the whole two part video - essentially the story of Jesus life and ministry. In it he talks about his doubts that Jesus is the messiah, despite seeing the angels with his own eyes as a young Shephard boy. On two occasions he talks about how you can know the truth or whether Christianity is the true faith. The first time he talks about how he knew Jesus is the Christ...the truth. The second time he talks about how he can know Jehovahs Witnesses are the truth.
Just like you bible quote example they sneakily slip it in as though a first century shepjhard would know what Jehovahs Witnesses are, let alone that they are the one true faith. Subliminal messages.
i went to field service group once and the young elder taking the group was wearing a hat and said the prayer with a hat on.
i informed him later that you are not meant to have head covering, he said he was unaware of such things.
now that the calibre of recruiting on the part of co..
Watchtower trained kids know so little of the bible or church etiquette. Poorly educated but when parents take newly baptised 8 year olds out of school to pioneer...can you blame the kids for their ignorance?
With regard to the congregations accounts, The Watchtower loves to forget the biblical examples of women in positions of authority - Deborah the judge, of course, But in the accounts example there is the " Diokonos"( deacon or ministerial servant) Pheobe for example, when describing the qualities that the office holders called "deacons" must possess, Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 3:11 that thegunaikas (Greek for "women") hosautos(Greek for "likewise"), translated "likewise the women". They, likewise, are to be "worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything." The "likewise" indicated that the women deacons were to have similar qualifications to the men deacons (see also the Apostle Paul's use of the term "likewise" inRomans 1:27, 1 Cor. 7:3,4,22, andTitus 2:3,6).[11][12]
yes my holy anionted mom who has cancer is concerned that the loving god jehovah may ask her in heaven to destroy here non believer family including her 5 year old grandchild during armagedon....how messed up are these crazy people!!?
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StephaneLaliberte 3 hours ago
Wow, that is not too far from the schizophrenics who do it in their life time!
Stephen I'll say: that is not too far from schizophrenics isis terrorists who do it in their life time!
according to christianity, the death of jesus was a miscarriage of justice.
so then, what if there was no so-called miscarriage of justice so that jesus was not put to death by the romans but he instead died a natural death?
would christians still receive the forgiveness of their sins and their hoped for salvation?.
as if anymore proof were needed that what used to be the religion i was baptized into has ceased to exist i was asked this insane question, when i mentioned to a jdub that someone i knew was celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.
are they witnesses?".
i didn't used to really think about that insane question in the past, but now that i have woke up to ttatt it is glaringly obvious that they think there can be no chance of actually knowing and getting along with anyone outside their tiny circle of conditional friends.
Neveula
Hi, Those that are already dead will be resurrected, however if you are still alive at armageddon you will be destroyed by Jehovah and Antony Morris III flexing his brand new 'fire ball arm!' That's the usual interpretation that witnesses give of the Revelation "global jihad"
