this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.
1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.
6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.
Let's hope that Spanish figure it out and start exiting the doors fast!!!
A Spanish translation of "crises of Conscience" would be a boon.
That Deborah Drexla has got a lot to answer for. Why doesn't she hand over copyright to someone with the nouse to get the job done.
i guess this would be a good question to ask.
does jw org have goons they send after ppl to threaten them?
or to inflict violence on?
Ok. So This is something someone posted on exjwreddit.
A couple thought it would be a cool idea to get engaged at the new Borg HQ in Warwick. They found a really lovely looking Gizebo by the lake and decided it was the perfect spot!
So the chap proposed, the lady said yes and they celebrated by taking some pictures of themselves at the gizebo to commemorate their engagement.
Just then a bunch heavy-type "goons" came running down the hill.
They took the camera away and made them destroy the pictures. They said it's for the GB to use the Gizebo for their meeting on a Wednesday morning, if the weather's fine.
The site was especially chosen because it can't be seen from the outside for 360° around The gizebo!!! And they don't want anyone taking photos because they don't want people to start to idolize the site, and turn it into some kind of shrine!!!
This chap assures us he was an eyewitness to this event. So, were they "goons" or just over-zealous security types?
One thing I do know - there's very little that most jw won't do for the GB.
hey all.. just saw this video about the upcoming protest at warwick on november 5th.
it looks like some momentum is building up to it.
but what i really want to know is will it have much impact?
Not sure about the idea of involving other religions, as doing so may be seen as a conflict of interest on the part of the churches involved.
Yes Pete you have a very good point.
I think letting the religious community know about Watchtower's cruelties generally is good, because people with a belief in GOD are obviously more vulnerable to being converted.
But - as yourself and Steve 2 mention - a ' rent a crowd' from competing churches would detract from the message, and give Watchtower ammunition against them.
this updated article at ajwrb explores some of the roots of child sacrifice that the watchtower essentially encourages jehovah's witness parents to observe.
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http://ajwrb.org/watchtower-sacrificial-lambs.
hey all.. just saw this video about the upcoming protest at warwick on november 5th.
it looks like some momentum is building up to it.
but what i really want to know is will it have much impact?
This lass is ringing local churches and the general Warwick community and letting them know about the upcoming protest. She's wonderfully articulate and super approachable so makes a very good impression. I truly wish them all the best and if I lived in the USA I'd be there in a heartbeat.
the title was a joke but i going to tell a story that happend to me a a meeting.. there was a brother giving a talk now from my other post there are like 4 teens and 10 or more kids 5 to 8.now the brother just said now most of you kids will be getting asked have you lost your virginity.now all the teens are 13 like more or a year older you havent had sex but they dont care.. but the young kids most likey just asked there mom and dad when they got home ''mom dad whats my virginity''?.
just my god man what the fuck where you thinking when writeing that..
Oh boy are you ever right! In appropriate isn't the word!! To be honest I've heard of believing JW women saying they won't take their young kids to meetings. They also don't like the violent imagery, too, and very late meeting finishes. Seriously, modern parents won't tolerate this sort of thing.
And of course born-in parents remember the embarrassment, fear and boredom from their own childhoods, too.
so there i was earlier today, enjoying a spot of lunch in a pleasant little cafe whilst out shopping, when up came a fella i vaguely recognised from the dim and distant past just as i was tucking into my highland soup with bread roll and butter..
"i would never ignore you you know".. "eh?
what" i ventured wondering wtf is this all about.
Nice to know you haven't changed too much after so many years !
I wonder....do you think he was looking for an opening? A kindred spirit, perhaps? After all it must be very disheartening for dubs that diddly squat has happened so far....103 years and counting.
Sounds to me like someone who knows he was wrong holding out an Olive branch.....(?)
how often did we as witnesses say something like this : "unlike members of false religion, who venerate or worship through statues or idols, we give our focus to jehovah!".
members of religious groups focus their religious adoration via an image or statue.
they do this in order to provide some sort of focus to their need to worship.. witnesses give extreme focus on the name "jehovah" .
Of all the bizaro things to object to.....a choir. Any idea why the society had a thing about choirs? Or was it just a case of " anything remotely fun we don't do".
i was withh a friend of mine who is a jw still and for whatever reason we started talking the bible.
i asked him about lazarus and how is that when he died he paid the price of sin, but then jesus resurrected him.
and i asked him "where is lazarus today?
.June's Saturn I even explained to him, that it's like a person who feels lust for an animal.
I don't even think it's that simple. I mean as you said last is a human trait, so it's like us having the trait of another species...The behavioural instincts of another species.
Say like a bird has the trait or instinct to build nests. It's like a human suddenly collecting sticks and twigs and trying to build a nest.....then settling down to roost, picture that!!! It was something utterly contrary to their nature - like nest building is to us!!
part 1 - protein functional redundancypart 2 - dna functional redundancypart 3 - ervspart 4 - smelly genes.
in part 4 we saw that roughly half of the 800 genes in the human genome that code for olfactory receptors are broken remnants of our evolutionary history.
they were vital to our distant ancestors but in humans, as in our primate cousins they have been allowed to fall into disuse as our eyes became more important to our survival than our nose.
Pale.Emperor I remember visiting the natural history museum in New York and not being able to explain away the skulls that clearly didnt belong to any modern human or gorilla or monkey
Isn't it incredible that when you look at them, even as a lay person with zero knowledge of anatomy and physiology, it's plain to see they are neither ape nor human skulls....but something else altogether, yet at the same time very obviously closely related.
Breathtaking to see them in the flesh, so to speak*.
Edit*I believe they are often copies the real thing being too precious.
