well, i just got back from yet another summer ass-marathon.
seventeen hours of sitting in hockey arena seats that were made for three hour games, trying to stay awake, while not losing contact with my extremities.. needless to say, the program was dull and boring.
in fact, i'm not completely sure that they didnt just re-run last year's.
Hi RunningMan;
I laughed my head off when I read your post - Jehovahogie..............Well, you should have read my uh, "suggestions" for Keeping Awake During the Assemblies that I posted last week; the time jes' would've flown by! Here it is in case you didn't see it:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=31016&site=3
i for one actually agree with the comments made by invisible, americans on the whole are a nation that dominates the world through bullying.. america is the big kid in the playground nicking everyones lunch money.. i live in the us but will move away soon.
what happened on 9/11 was unbelievably , god awful and so sickening that i cant watch those planes hit the twin towers without feeling nauseated.. this may hurt but.........america brought his on themselves.
the world has had enough of their politics their machoism and their greed.
"lucidentity" is probably the same person as "You Know"..........both spew rhetorical crap that makes little sense, they both profess to belong to the J-Dub-Club, they both call everyone else here "apostates", yet they themselves are visiting "apostate" sites.
Perhaps Lucidentity should see if there's an earlier flight out of the United States........I'm sure you'll be much happier in Iran.. :-)
the house was full yesterday!family,friends,ice cold molson canadian beer,and crown royal canadian whiskey.you need plenty of refreshments to celebrate canada`s birthday!
(lol)everyone had a good time.how was your canada day?
"Where's Canada?"
Now Voltaire, what kind of a dumb question is that?! Everyone knows that Canada is where Moses sent the 12 spies into..........hehehehehehehehehehe................
There was a Canadian program on TV a few weeks ago, and it was called "Talking to Americans". The jist of it was: Americans know virtually NOTHING about Canada and to prove it, they went and spoke to some very prominent Americans and told them completely insane things about Canada and the Americans believed it!!
They interviewed one Professor from Harvard University and told them that Prime Minister Tim Horton approved something (can't remember what, but this guy didn't even realize who the Prime Minister of Canada really is).........
Or they interviewed students and told them that Canada just finished getting 800 miles of paved roads and would they like to congratulate Canada on that?! Of course they would!
They even pulled one over on George W. Bush when he was still Governor - they gave him a totally fake name for Canada's Prime Minister and he didn't even bat an eyelash.
The funniest one was when they were talking to some Americans on their yachts and they told them that Canadians couldn't do the same thing as we had no water on either of our coasts. Believe it or not, the Americans were kind enough to offer their services to us, and they said they saw no problem with Canadians using their coasts!
I'm not sure what Americans are taught about Canada in school, but I know when I went to school, we had to know ALL 50 States plus their capital cities, before we passed the class..........
the lower requirements of the wt has been brought up from time to time.
i thought i would summarize the ones i know of.
1. conventions used to be one week and go from early morning til late at night.
They're softer on some things, like you say: shorter Assembly times, less hour requirements for pioneers, but on things that really matter, they haven't changed a bit.
Expecting people to go to 5 meetings per week is unprecidented in any other religious organization (as far as I know)........Some want to meet twice a week - Sunday and maybe Wednesday night, but that's it; Witnesses are the only ones expected, not only to go to all these meetings, but to study about it before hand and then participate wholly. And if that's not all, you STILL are expected out in service every single Saturday morning, no matter that you just covered the same territory 3 weeks earlier...........and geeze, if you have your Sunday meetings in the afternoons, god forbid that you be allowed to sleep in one morning; you're expected out in service Sunday morning too!
Of course, all this is done, so that the average Witness doesn't have time to think for themselves. I would love to see the Governing Body members come out to the real world for 6 months: get a regular job, commute to work, come home, eat, get ready for the meeting, don't get home till 10pm, put your exhausted kids to bed, do some work around the house, fall asleep, get up at 6:00am, and start all over again.........let's see how many meetings THEY'D miss!
what do americans in general actually really know about the big outside world outside of their own culture?.
it's certainly not just me, but for years since early childhood in fact, it has been commonly accepted by many, that americans in general are the biggest ignorant fools residing almost anywhere on the planet, yet they still do their damndest to have everyone believe what a great nation they are.
is it even beyond their comprehension how foolish they look often to the rest of the world, the fact that they have so little understanding of problems on the worldwide front?.
"........It's certainly not just me, but for years since early childhood in fact, it has been commonly accepted by many, that Americans in general are the biggest ignorant fools residing almost anywhere on the planet, yet they still do their damndest to have everyone believe what a great nation they are. Is it even beyond their comprehension how foolish they look often to the rest of the world, the fact that they have so little understanding of problems on the worldwide front?......."
America is by no means perfect - no nation is, but like someone else mentioned, it's funny how all these other countries seem to hate America and all it stands for, but they sure don't mind accepting the good ol' greenbacks instead of their own currency (ex. Cuba, Iran, Iraq, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia). One of the most hypocritical examples I saw of how much other countries hate America, was when the newspaper showed a 12 or 13 year old Palestinian boy, burning an American flag, but he was wearing a Spiderman T-shirt. Go figure.
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i was coming home this evening from some ex-witness friends of mine (after part-y-ing), and i had the windows on my car down, playing one of elvis' tapes..........i was stopped at the stop light and i noticed several people sitting on the street giving me dirty looks and i couldn't figure out why at first.......then it dawned on me: they were waiting to see the canada day parade and i was playing "dixie" on my car cd.........(hehehehehehehehe........) i guess not a smart thing to do........ the parade sucked dead rocks and i was just wondering if it was only in my locale, or if other canadians also experienced a crap-o-rama parade.........seeing as this is the first july 4th party since 9-11, i assume that americans will be going all-out in their display of patriotism (i can't blame em) and i wanted to see what others had to say about their country's celebration.......hell up here, all the stores, malls, everything closes up like a ghost town - nothing's open on canada day............
Mimilly;
"........What I take offense to is that you would think a 'song' from USA would bug a Canadian, regardless of what the celebration was......"
Oh for heavens sake, quit taking offense where there was none intended! Look at it in the reverse way: You're an American, driving down the road on July 4th, playing a tape in your car. At the most inappropriate moment possible (lots of people standing there, waiting for the celebrations to start) and a patriotic song from another country starts playing - of course that's going to bother some people............. It's like being in your car and you're right behind a police cruiser and your horn gets stuck - it's horribly ironic that it had to happen at that moment..........that's ALL I meant by it.
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i was coming home this evening from some ex-witness friends of mine (after part-y-ing), and i had the windows on my car down, playing one of elvis' tapes..........i was stopped at the stop light and i noticed several people sitting on the street giving me dirty looks and i couldn't figure out why at first.......then it dawned on me: they were waiting to see the canada day parade and i was playing "dixie" on my car cd.........(hehehehehehehehe........) i guess not a smart thing to do........ the parade sucked dead rocks and i was just wondering if it was only in my locale, or if other canadians also experienced a crap-o-rama parade.........seeing as this is the first july 4th party since 9-11, i assume that americans will be going all-out in their display of patriotism (i can't blame em) and i wanted to see what others had to say about their country's celebration.......hell up here, all the stores, malls, everything closes up like a ghost town - nothing's open on canada day............
"........my girlfriend is from canada, and shes been living here (indiana) for the last year. she has said basically the same thing as mary is saying here, that canada day pretty much sucks......"
Thanks Dubla for your comments I appreciate it - I didn't mean to start a "Canada vs. U.S.A" debate here, but without a doubt, Americans will be celebrating their Independence Day full-force this year and I say 'power to em'............here's an interesting side-point: After September 11th, guess what the two biggest movie rentals were for weeks afterwards both in Canada and the States? Independence Day, and Armageddon.........
on or about june 30, 2002, thousands of jehovah's witness elders around the world received a letter from "the worldwide .
christian community" urging them fully to take on their voluntary responsibility as "shepherds of the flock of god" .
with respect to child molestation that occurs among their "flock.
Excellent Letter! Very impressive that this went out to elders around the world............gee, somehow, I don't think this is one letter they'll be reading out loud at the meetings...........
i was just reading over there and thought some of them should really think before they post!
some real jerk posted this: umm, don't count your time spent eating lunch - unless you witness to the waitress.
give her a real tip - how to get into the new system.. .
Well, seeing as Witnesses are still strongly discouraged from getting any sort of "higher education", or in many cases, they're not even encouraged to finish High School, I think there's a good chance that yes, Witnesses are amongst the most uneducated religion around.
one example of this trend that i came across is found in acts 15:14 which according to the nwt reads:.
"symeon has related thoroughly how god for the first time turned his attention to the nations to take out of them a people for his name.".
we can also add v.17 which states: "in order that those who remain of the men may earnestly seek jehovah, together with people from all the nations, people who are called by my name, says jehovah, wh is doing these things,".
I thinks it's amazing how quickly the Witnesses can apply scriptures to suit their needs. Anytime there are scriptures that show the nation of Israel was faithful to God, it's applied to Witnesses today, but any time they were UNfaithful, then it's applied to Christendom!!!
There are several scriptures in both the Old and New Testament that seem to indicate that the Jews are still considered a "favoured" nation:
That one (I should remember where it is, but I can't think off-hand) where it says that in the Last Days, people would "take hold of the skirt of a JEW......" Of course, this is applied to Witnesses today, but the book of Isaiah is full of references to fleshly Isreal in the Last Days that there's no way it can be applied to JWs...........here's one I showed an elder a few years ago and I really stumped him. Naturally, he at first said that this is talking about "Spiritual Israel", but I asked him how that was possible, because vs. 27 says He will "take their sins away." I asked him: When did "Spiritual Israel" sin against Jehovah? He had no answer.
The Restoration of Israel
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For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye
should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to
Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
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And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written,
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for this is my covenant unto them, when I take their sin away.
