the 2012 special talk is "is it later than you think?".
the outline can be found at this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/221623/1/anyone-have-the-outline-for-the-2012-special-talk.
at that above link, you can also see the october 8, 1968 awake cover that uses that exact same title.
"If you can't assure me that the teaching will never change, then there is the possibilty that it is not true; yet if I proclaim that the teaching is not true, I will be disfellowshipped for 'apostasy' and/or
'causing divisions'. Can you explain to me why unity (really, conformity, but let's throw them a bone) is more important than truth?"
Um, duh, because the light is getting brighter..
i was thinking about something.. getting a blood transfution.. thats wrong right?
oky and theres allot of scriptures supporting that.. so is giving blood at a bloodbank allowed for witnesses?
no, its not allowed.... oky so heres my question.... witnesses are allowed to use blood plates... where does those blood plates come from?.
mrbunyrabit, welcome to the site!
TD (PhD or even MD as far as I am concerned), thank you for your concise and easy to follow explanation.
-Yan
the insidious bind the watchtower religion places on their members is unconscionable.. holding family and friends "hostage" as an extortion strategy may be their most potent weapon of enforced conformity.. .
in effect, like an armed criminal who points a gun at you and threatens "your money or your life", the watchtower leadership.
holds the power to separate dissenting members from those whom they most cherish.
A very, very loose interpretation on the JW leadership part of the Second Amendment..
its my first real birthday today!
i recieved a call in the morning with a sweet voice singing 'happy birthday' to me.
it was so nice.
Aren't you supposed to get a cake with one candle for your first B-day? What flambe and italian restaurants are we talking about here .
Happy Birthday!
as i've posted multiple times before, i am new to many of the aspects of wts scandals so a couple weeks ago, i was on youtube and heard of a group concept from tim kilgore called the vaa (vast apostate army).. personally, i like the concept of former witnesses and anti-watchtower proponents uniting to stand against the wrong doings of the organization.
i would like their rally in a few years to succeed.
if things look promising enough, i more than likely will go.. but honestly, i don't know much about the vaa, and since it's not a concept with that "new car smell" i imagine people have more infor to offer.. i saw on older posts that witnesses are not fans of the idea of anyone banding together en masse against them, as they go to the lengths of calling the vaa a terrorist organization (though no acts of violence or tyranny have been committed or threatened).. so if anyone can offer insight into this group, it would help a man know if it's a group worth rallying with.. .
The VAA shows up on November 5th, 2017 and nothing happens well guess what? JWs you're not the chosen people because the scripture says as soon as people turn against them it will be like touching God's eyeball and he'll step in right away.
Actually, this looks like a win-win to me.
11/5/17 comes and nothing happens, JWs are not chosen because God didn't step in.
11/5/17 comes and WT falls, JWs are not chosen because God didn't step in...
as i've posted multiple times before, i am new to many of the aspects of wts scandals so a couple weeks ago, i was on youtube and heard of a group concept from tim kilgore called the vaa (vast apostate army).. personally, i like the concept of former witnesses and anti-watchtower proponents uniting to stand against the wrong doings of the organization.
i would like their rally in a few years to succeed.
if things look promising enough, i more than likely will go.. but honestly, i don't know much about the vaa, and since it's not a concept with that "new car smell" i imagine people have more infor to offer.. i saw on older posts that witnesses are not fans of the idea of anyone banding together en masse against them, as they go to the lengths of calling the vaa a terrorist organization (though no acts of violence or tyranny have been committed or threatened).. so if anyone can offer insight into this group, it would help a man know if it's a group worth rallying with.. .
Their own door to door work will become the biggest deterant to their religion.
C'mon, Tim. As if their D2D work now produces any results... Let's see, hmmm, about 11 trillion hours of preaching to just start a "bible" study...
Tongue-in-cheek, Cofty....a lame attempt to poke fun at american ignorance, I guess...
Who is the footballer on you pic, btw?
Looks like the picture was mirrored - the steering wheel is on the wrong side....
Bu then, how did the license plate letters came out OK?
my parents are quite popular in their congregation, and they're constantly inviting brothers and sisters over.
as i've been part of the org for 19 years i know all these people very well, and before i da'd myself i was good friends with all of them.
every other friday they invite a single brother round for dinner, just to cheer him up a bit.
Can you, hmmm, excuse yourself from the dinner?
If they are trying to send you a message, who says you can't send messages too.
mcdonald's annouced they are stopping the use of pink goo, ammonium hydroxide, in their burgers...but:.
propylene glycol, carmine food coloring, shellac, l-cycsteine(made from hair and hooves), lanolin gum, silicon-dioxide are common ingredients in our processed foods..
...and they are after alcohol and drugs...Go figure.
