popping in to say hi.... been away from the forum for a long time.... had some serious health issues starting at the beginning of this year.
on the mend now, and getting back into the swing of things.... great to be alive!.
Hello Coffee_black.
Don't think we've met I've only been here about a year. Good to know you are getting better. I'm in my late 40s and have had some health problems for the first time last couple of years, had a near miss a year ago...so I know how it feels a little. Life is good, young one's appreciate your health!!!
Had a little look at your bio and I'm Glad your family is with you and no attachments to the WT!🌹get well soon, anyway all the best and hi!
hi all, just recently i was thinking about the period of my study and eventual baptism as jw.
it took many years, i guess in all about 10 years.
various times i stopped the study but after a while it started again.
Chook Out comes the white rabbit out of Toni Morris pants LOL 😂😂
I knew a couple of old dears back in the 70s 80s that used the King James at the Kingdom Hall, baptised so long ago who knew if their was a NWT back then.
Menrov I too liked the Good News - I was given it at a kids summer hols thing run in our local park. It was run by some Evangelicals, games, food , fun for bored kids in the hols in the UK ( we didn't have summer camps like the USA). It was the most fun I ever had in my childhood. I thought I was in heaven. Parents didn't know, just thought I was in the park playing.
the big day is two days away when she will say "i do".
i knew this day would come someday but as a mom you just want to hold on even though i did everything to train her to be very independent.
she has been making most of her own decisions since middle school.. she moved away 5 years ago but still was totally mine till 2 years ago when mr. wonderful appeared in her life.
WingCommander !!!! Get back to bomber command and stop being a Debbie downer!!
Enjoy your day Rebelfighter you've done your best for your girl now it's up to them! ( I've always found superglue on your dress works quite well if you change your mind!)
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]
