download from this site is pink.
is this a sneaky way to ferret out those who get theirs from this site?.
I've got a Bethel elder who's super anal about every JW rule who emails me the KM every month from his Bethel email address, albeit with the direction that it not be forwarded. They're always pink.
There's also a local elder who will email it to me if I ask, so there doesn't seem to be any restrictions about non-elders receiving or having the Pink PDF KM. (It does get pretty annoying trying to find the right KM at the meeting when every single one on the iPad is pink.)
R_O
so my husband (who was never a jw) saw a christian bumper sticker today and asked me if the witnesses have any.
i said no (not that i know of anyway) so here are a few he came up with.. 'honk if you're a zombie'.
'my other car is noah's ark'.
Honk if you miss slushy OJ with your cheese danish!
Chaperone on Board
distance from jehovah (not jesus).
comments.
comments.
16, 17. What grievous situation has afflicted many parents, and how do we know that Jehovah understands their pain?
16 The bond between parent and child is so strong that Jehovah used that relationship to illustrate his own love for his people. (Isa. 49:15) It is normal, therefore, to be deeply grieved when a beloved family member leaves Jehovah.
I couldn't help it. I raised my hand to answer this question, and again on paragraph 20. I made a point to say "...when a beloved family member chooses to leave, or is expelled from the Organization because of their words, actions, or beliefs."
The conductor didn't blink and just moved on to covering the material in paragraph 17. I just didn't want to hear someone else either just parrot back the paragraph on leaving "Jehovah", or "the Truth TM ". I doubt anyone else in the audience even picked up on it, or that it made an impact on anyone. But I felt good saying it and ensuring someone else didn't say something that would just make me irritated.
R_O
was pondering today on the jws stance on the existance of the dinosaurs.
would be interested to know any belieavers stance on this eg.
your own belief and that of the wts current understanding.. insidentally i tried to search this on jw.org and no search bar, or at least i didn't find one ????.
Most J-dubs I know wouldn't dispute the dinosaur fossil record, although not everyone. I observed the following conversations between two recent JW high school graduates (although come to think of it, one was "home schooled"):
"Dinosaurs? Haha...don't be an idiot. Don't you know that they didn't really exist? They're a myth scientists made up to support evolution."
"No, dinosaurs DID exist. Haven't you seen the fossils? It's CAVEMEN that are the ones that didn't really exist!"
"Ohhh....right, okay!"
AWAKE! education at its finest.
so my husband (who was never a jw) saw a christian bumper sticker today and asked me if the witnesses have any.
i said no (not that i know of anyway) so here are a few he came up with.. 'honk if you're a zombie'.
'my other car is noah's ark'.
607 is right!!
Proud Member of the Overlapping Generation
God Hates Birthdays (but Anniversaries are OK)
Praying that God Kills 99.9% of the World...ASAP.
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This reminded me that I saw the following vanity license plate in the parking lot of the last assembly:
JWORG
I kid you not.
sorry it's gonna be long winded.
i've done my best to reconstruct from memory.
my husband was next to me the whole time.
00DAD: How would I know? They didn't even know for the last 93 years!
Hahaha!!! PERFECT response!!!
sorry it's gonna be long winded.
i've done my best to reconstruct from memory.
my husband was next to me the whole time.
Two questions for the group:
1. Have the elders been instructed on what to say when it's discovered that the person has read the "Flock" book? The line of questioning Julia got seems very similar to some of the recorded JCs I've seen/heard.
2. What can/do elders do when the subject of the Judicial Committee refuses to answer certain questions, especially the "loyalty" questions? Anyone have any experience as either a member or the subject of a JC? As long as you haven't incriminated yourself or voiced beliefs that are contrary to WTS teachings, they have no "evidence" against you. (Although come to think about it, refusing to answer may be considered "BRAZEN CONDUCT", I suppose.)
sorry it's gonna be long winded.
i've done my best to reconstruct from memory.
my husband was next to me the whole time.
Thanks for posting.
A few things jumped out at me.
Preppy: Then what has changed in 13 years?
"Ummm...let's see. The meaning of "the generation"...twice. Deciding the Faithful and Discreet Slave is actually just the Governing Body. What forms of life saving blood-based treatments are or aren't acceptable. Shall I go on?"
GO: Do you believe the Governing Body are Jesus's FDS?
Me: I choose not to answer that.
It just dawned on me that they use this question to decide whether to give someone the boot, but it's not asked (at least not this clearly) as part of the written questions, or as an oral question during the Baptism Talk. Can you imagine if they did? "Do you believe the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses is Jesus' 'Faithful and Discreet Slave' and serves as Jehovah God's sole channel of scriptural truth? Your response, please?"
there is rumors that in this years dc nwt will be released and also new tracts.
any other rumors about new releases?.
I think there is some legitamacy to this theory, I am the literature servant in our hall and we have been back ordered on Reference Bibles and the Black and Red Deluxe Bibles for about 8 months now. All we have are some of the crappy paper bibles and a few hardcovers. Maybe because they aren't printing them and are instead waiting for the release of this NNWT.
I know they've been piloting some different Bible cover materials to replace the paperback (and possibly the "Deluxe", but my memory is foggy)versions since they fall apart so fast. It was implied that the test population was made up of traveling JWs, such as CO's wives. When I was at Walkill last year the samples that were shown to me were more of a fabric type material, but they seemed to be testing out a number of options.
R_O
so i'm young enough to not remember having hot prepared meals at assemblies, but heard all about it from my parents and the like.
but what i do remember were all of the cold sandwiches and institutional snacks and soda.
remember the food tickets we started to use?
In no particular order...
Slushy orange juice with the foil lid
Apple danish (you can keep the cheese danish, thank you very much)
Sausage, Egg & Cheese on an english muffin
Hogies!
Hot chicken sandwich on that soggy bun
Lemon-lime Shasta soda
