The purpose of life. Just like any other plant or animal. We are born, we reproduce and we die.
Posts by hoser
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583What is the purpose of life?
by slimboyfat inwhile reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.
because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".
i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
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I need more faith so I've been told
by hoser ini attended the circus assembly last weekend and i have come to the conclusion i am lacking faith.
the opening talk on the program, the very first words that came out of the speakers mouth told me so.
he said most of us here are lacking faith even though we might not know it.
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hoser
I attended the circus assembly last weekend and I have come to the conclusion I am lacking faith.
How do I know this? The opening talk on the program, the very first words that came out of the speakers mouth told me so. He said most of us here are lacking faith even though we might not know it.
Do you put material goals ahead of "spiritual" ones ? Most of the time.
Do you miss meetings and field ministry for recreation? Hells ya!
Are you prepared to turn down a blood transfusion in a life threatening situation? Not really.
Are you willing to obey instructions from the faithful slave even though they appear foolish from a human standpoint? Never!
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WT “Study” for 11th Sept 2016 – “Why Must We ‘Keep on the Watch’”?
by Nicholaus Kopernicus ini was really puzzled when i opened this edition of the wt magazine at the above “study”.
what on earth has this picture at the top of page 13 got to do with christian watchfulness?
i wasn’t making a connection at all.
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hoser
A comment from one of the ministerial servants today.
"In light of the generation teaching we know we are very close to the end. "
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Is this an "all-time" Low?
by Je.suis.oisif ini just wanted to vent, nothing more.
my aunt died in edinburgh last week.
her obituary facilitates adding candles & personal messages.
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hoser
The pioneers can start their "time" at 6:00am on their iPad. Snooze in bed for another hour, have breakfast and get ready for the arrangement By noon they could have clocked in 6 hours.
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Pioneer School - Columbian Style
by darkspilver inat the la vega kingdom hall, which is around 35 miles north west of bogota, columbia.. with a population of just under 50 million, there are some 165,000 active jws in the country - a ratio of around 1-in-300.. they conduct around 220,000 studies each month, and with just under 24,000 regular pioneers, the country saw a 2% increase last year.. last year's memorial attendance was over half-a-million, which means 1-in-100, or 1%, of the country attended.. street view of the outside of the kingdom hall: .
https://goo.gl/maps/4wxafcxgfrb2.
remember, the video below is in spanish, if that's a problem -, don't click the link .
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hoser
Colombian style. I'll leave that up to the imagination.
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The elusive song 151 makes an appearance.
by SadElder inthe missing song 151 now titled "the revealing of god's sons" shows up with the september edition of tv.jw.
no words or score on the jw page yet.
can't say that it sounds any different than any of the other songs they produce now.
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hoser
I just listened to it and almost threw up my KFC.
Is it just me or are these songs getting cultier lately?
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The elusive song 151 makes an appearance.
by SadElder inthe missing song 151 now titled "the revealing of god's sons" shows up with the september edition of tv.jw.
no words or score on the jw page yet.
can't say that it sounds any different than any of the other songs they produce now.
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hoser
It sounds no different than the songs they produce now. So what you're saying is that it sounds like crap.
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My old congregation is gone
by cookiemaster inwent to the hall today as i was the designated driver for my parents.
an elder who was in our old congregation in the city gave the talk.
i've had a little chat with him and apparently our old congo is gone.
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hoser
The last hall I went to they had the congregation scrape together enough funds to renovate the hall and then within the year closed the congregation and sold the hall out from under us.
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Worshiping a piece of stone
by FedUpJW intoday one of the members of the local congregation who is somewhat limited intellectually was showing off a small bit of cut granite stone.
as he did so he made sure to let everyone know that it was given to him by the congregation service overseer who just completed his second or third round of bragging rights slave labor at warwick.
he mentioned that, "brother _______ gave this to me as a piece of reality from warwick.
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hoser
Sounds like idolatry to me. Time to get the judicial committee fired up.
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WT "Study" for 4th September 2016 - “Seek the Kingdom, Not Things”
by Nicholaus Kopernicus ini’m sitting there in the kingdom hall just thinking how rich it is of the gbojw to preach about materialism when they have recently been evidenced to be using bro’s & sis’ contributions to the world wide work to travel business class!
just that thought alone was leading me to read scripture while they were all engaged in the wt “study”.. however, then it came to paragraph 17 and i blurted / choked a little.
the paragraph said that “we should not imitate the people of ‘the nations,’ who have no real faith in a loving heavenly father who cares for those who put the interests of his kingdom first in their life.”.
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hoser
The problem is that the magazines are written by people who don't have to make a living in the real world.