We're back to roving microphones on booms, congregants not to touch whilst answering. Attendant monitored hand sanitiser at KH entrance, everyone to use on entering.
George
will meetings and conventions be canceled?
the ministry?
shepherding calls, get togethers?
We're back to roving microphones on booms, congregants not to touch whilst answering. Attendant monitored hand sanitiser at KH entrance, everyone to use on entering.
George
written and produced by bible writers...you can't make this up!.
who needs hollywood scriptwriters when you already have a bible story that has drama, suspense, and unbelievable twists and turns?
imagine the story of a man who visits prostitutes, kills a 1,000 man army with a skull bone, kills a lion with his bare hands, loses his strength by getting a haircut, gets his eyes gouged out, works at a grain mill and tears down columns with his bare hands, killing himself and the philistines!
And to think that many of us use to believe this stuff!
That is the amazing thing! How did I believe any of this beyond the age of five? I had long given up on Santa by then.
George
so the bumbling body have released a new study bible dissecting the books of matthew-acts.. even as a jw i had an excellent study bible produced by “satan’s world” which helped me no end to seen insightful on the platform.. does anyone know when this apostate can get hold of a copy?
when will the congregations have a shipment you reckon?.
Those "lucky" ones that went to the AGM last October all received a copy each but were told not to take any additional copies. They will not be available to order for about a year apparently.
George
“parents train your children to love jehovah “.
the title says it all really, but par 6 has this piece of advice.. “jesus likened our time to “the days of noah,” and there is no doubt that we are living in “critical times hard to deal with.” (matt.
24:37; 2 tim.
I knew a sister who had collected her free copy of the "Children" book along with its special bookmark, when she was a young girl at an assembly.
She pioneered straight from school, supported by her parents and then went to Gilead in the 1950's being assigned as a missionary in Ireland. She had a terrible time there and eventually ended up back in England as a pioneer until she died. She said it was a great regret to her that she never married and had children, she was fully convinced that Armageddon would have come many years ago. I'm sure her story can be repeated by many others.
George
jw.org is on collision course with russia.
the may wt study edition is full of prophesy related to the time of the end and what we have read so much in isaiah and jeremia bookstudy publications.. they found their enemy again.
jw.org needs enemy's to exist.
Russia persecuting JW's doesn't bother the WT Society. What really bugs them is the confiscation of WT assets. Anything that costs them money will get a response.
George
is anyone prepping by buying food that has a long shelf life?
i have been messing with it for years.
buying fat free powder milk, bullion cubes, rice, beans dried, and other things that has a shelf life of 25 years.
We have always kept a really good store cupboard of foodstuffs. Our parents did before us. It's not for Armageddon or nuclear war but just in case the weather is really bad one winter and it's difficult to get out or if we are both ill and don't fancy trailing to the shops. We could manage for months if need be.
However, as one member (WTWizard?) wrote recently, we never tell anyone.
George
2020-02-19 letter.
italian translation needed to verify if the coronavirus has suspended the preaching activity.
i think that is what this letter is about.. .
I'm really surprised they didn't advise keeping up to date on jwdotorg where they could still make their financial donations.
George
satan is the number one enemy of gods chosen ones a.k.a.
the jw's.. as far as they are concerned, this whole world belongs to the devil and is designed by him to make life hard for true christians.
with that in mind, why has satan made it easier than ever before to preach the good news?
There are many in my congregation that could not survive without Satan and his Social Services. Many have never worked in their entire life due to "illness" but still manage to pioneer and collect their DSS allowances. They always seem to run a newish car and have all the latest technology gizmos.
George
useful information for students of history - why are bat viruses so deadly.. a bat virus may be responsible for the highly infectious coronavirus respiratory illness in wuhan china.. long ago, when i was growing up in a tiny fishing village on the far south coast of new south wales, some people still ate flying foxes, which were a type of bat.
they were kept in cages "to fatten them up," then killed and cooked.
i do not recall any specific sicknesses that may have swept that village.. other wild creatures were also eaten.
Here in the UK the advice to avoid contact with bats as they can carry rabies. Not so long ago a young girl picked up a bat in a church and it bit her and she subsequently died.
George
i just had this flashback when commenting on another thread about how they used to announce reproof or dfing from the platform.
at least in our congregation, it was a dramatic event (this is what i can remember from back in the mid-late 60's or early 70's when i was a kid).. at the end of the service meeting, just before singing the final song, the brother would announce, "we have a letter that must be read.
the "congregation servant" (my grandfather or later my father) would then slowly walk from the back of the kh to the platform.
I remember back in the1970's an elder in the congregation was disfellowshipped, he had been caught having an affair with the woman he was studying with.
The brother that made the announcement started his talk with an illustration of the pretty and quaint cottages on a Mediterranean island. From a distance they look beautiful but if you were to get up close you would see that the lovely paintwork was all cracked and the wood beneath was totally rotten. That's just how brother --- is, and he has been disfellowshipped. He then went on at length about adultery.
I must have heard dozens of disfellowshipping talks over the years but never another like that one.
The disfellowshipped brother moved in with his study, I believe they eventually married. He was probably 20 years older than me so has probably gone by now.
George