(sorry to interrupt your peaceful day).. i just had an interesting talk with a jw friend of mine.
during this talk i was explaining to him why i was reluctant to be baptised a jw.
we got into many lengthy discussions on various topics.. one thing we discussed was jehovah (duh!
Verry late to this thread, but if I believed the bible I would mention Psalm 116 and the verse that says
8 For you, Lord, have delivered me from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling,
9 9 that I may walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
This implies that there is a land of the dead also (at least to me) Of course the Psalm are considered poetic and perhaps that means poetic license was taken.
warning !.
the following "dictionary" may be very discomforting to true believers of jehovah's organization.
if you ask too many questions about these things you are told " jehovah will make it all clear in time.
I haven't been in a Hall for over 15 years and that was for a funeral. The only thing I could add would be Cobe (coordinator of body of elders?) I need some help here. The only reason I am aware of it is because one of my uncles has the title.
Gosh, I miss some of these posters!
is someone in your congregation confused?
coming soon to the local congregations:.
anointification neutralizer100 suppositories.
Bumping this for the newbies.
Ok folks, we have over a month to order our suppositories and treat these patients (March 31).
I just checked JW .org and they are inviting us all to the memorial on their website.
every time i've asked this in an existing thread, i've never gotten an answer, so forgive me for starting a new thread in order to ask again.
i simply cannot figure out how to quote someone with the standard yellow box.
i can copy/paste the quote, sure, but nothing i do makes it appear in a yellow box like everyone else.
i was born january 15, 1947in mt.
carmel hospital, detroit, michigan.. within six months of my birth, my mother would bundle her baby boy into a blanket and board an american airlines propeller-driven plane--in effect, leaving my father behind--to return to her hometown, ft. worth, texas.. my dad had an excellent job working for cadillac as an inspector.
it was a union job.
Happy Birthday Terry! Get busy finishing that book, I turn 71 this year too.
I want that book for my birthday present!
so this is just a general question.
call it curiosity.. what sort of phobias do we have?
heights?
Freeways, I have driven on highways over the speed limit 70 mph in a 65 zone.... but put that same speed and limit on a freeway 5 lanes all going the same direction and I am white knuckled and cant breathe. Totally irrational. Make it rush hour and I will stay home.
my roommate bought a new dell laptop, operated by windows 10. in the three weeks he's had it, it's online then goes offline (and this repeatedly): when he goes from one e-mail to another, when he engages in a financial transaction, when he opens a new webpage, etc.
he does the basic rebooting, as prescribed in the article whose link is attached.
his pc and my older dell and apple powerbook are all on wifi.
For about a month I was losing my internet on a daily basis several times a day. Finally realized that I had made some changes (with the Ethernet cable) and decided to check all the updates on the computer. Don't quite know which one did it but this past week has been heaven.
is it possible to organize term search results by date?
i search for something get dozens of results, but the dates they start at are completely random, 1 result was from 10 years ago, then last on the page was from a year ago, with random years and dates for the ones in between, this is very frustrating..
If you find an member who has a long history click on their name and messages 'last' that will bring up their oldest posts. Regular google may be an option too.
It may be better soon, someone said that Simon was working on some new stuff. He does have a day job and a family. He will likely stop in and let us know a better way to function on the site.
so after dc yesterday, we went for chinese.
after the others read their rather boring fortunes from their fortune cookies, mine predicted:.
the next full moon brings an enchanting evening.. and you all know the two words to add to the end of the fortune, right?.
So Billy, does your niece have her MD yet...
enquiring minds and all?
i guess at this point in time and space i'm ok if there's an indication of things going in the right direction.. my jw father, who joined the jws in 1973 when i was 8, has always had all the characteristics of the stereotypical brainwashed born again weirdo.
as a jw he always felt the need to show that he was more devoted than the rest of the crop.
to him, life became very easy from that point on: "the bible", interpreted by the millions of wt publications, along with the information in the meetings and getting involved in all jw activities, were the answer to everything and anything in his life".
Great post.
