You have done it again!!!
Hope that Liverpool will make it forth this year
arsenal have taken the premiership from manu, and done it in style.
yesterdays game would have been the icing on the cake if it wasn't for the idiocy of lehmann in the closing minutes of extra time.
even you manc fans have to admit that winning the league unbeaten is a real accomplishment.
You have done it again!!!
Hope that Liverpool will make it forth this year
well i went last night...........did anyone else notice how the talk focused almost exclusively on the 144,000???
jesus was barely mentioned.
the first couple of minutes talked about when the israelites left egypt and the passover was instituted.
I my self came to that conclusion. Even though I live in Greece I made the same observations. This year, the Memorial was focusing the 144000. Not much about Jesus. It seems that the GB gave the new Memorial talk to all the congregations world wide.
When I have done the Memorial talk 12 years ago it was much different. This year all they focus was the annointed class and how many are still alive from 1935 were was the end of the heavingly calling.
It seems to me that while time goes by(actually they shouldn't have 8400 annointed ones if the calling has and that year-1935, and this number it has been the same for the past 15 years. If someone was 20 years old back in 1935 that means it is now 94!!! ) WT will need more efford to convince the rank and file of JW's that this dogma it is correct, or again they will find another new date to set again for the annointed class.
which one teaching really hurt you when you found out that it was not true?
my number one thing is finding out that the name "jehovah" was not in the bible like it was in the new world translation (tm).
christians did not call god "jehover" "jehovah" or by his first name, no more than you would call your father by his first name when you were a child.
EVERTYHING HURT ME
if the average congregation has about 83 publishers in the us, then the organization may be sinking into a crisis.. take that 83 and consider that half the congregations may have less.. take away '15 minute publishers' who don't attend.
take away completely fake publishers who rarely attend.
take away increasingly tired publishers who 'feel sick', are depressed, or just want to stay at home and watch tv.. .
Nice observation metatron
And in my country we have similar situation like in U.S. Congregations are about 75-100 publishers, like the one I attend sometimes. We have about 90. Take out 15 that they are old in age, plus young children, the "spiritually weak ones" then you can hardly count 50. In the W.T study you can hardly count 75.
Indeed W.T in few years time it will need new active members!!!
jehovah's wife and her kids.
this was a response that my friend cynthia sent back to this person in response to her questions.
mr. watters:.
That it is a really nice one Randy!!!
But in the end who cares...
All those stupid explanations all these years...
I'm sure that they don't recall this one
when i used to go the meetings in the late 80's, the mood was good, knowing that the end was close.
later on in the 90's while i still attended once in a while, people were starting to be less zealous and were starting to put their needs before those of the kingdoms.
people started to buy houses, instead of living in apartements, they were buying nicer cars, taking vacations far away, and mostly, the women started to work, to help pay for the better life style they were living.
I believe the mood it is the same in all the Western Countries...
JW's became like a Club...They seem that they got tired hearing the same thing all the time:
ARMAGEDON IT IS NEAR, WE ARE AT THE DOOR OF THE NEW SYSTEM
In Greece the only increase we had was from the foreiner workers(Shri-Lanka, India, Albania)Without them there is no increase...
jehovah's witnesses certainly have some unique beliefs and some are very, very confusing.
anything that you never quite understood?
Well lets see....
The famous 1914 doctrine
The 144.000 Saints
Their strange way of explaining Revelation
The Faithfull and Discret Slave
Resurection
Soul
Jesus
WELL THEY ARE INDEED IN A DEEP CONFUSION
comments you will not hear at the 1-11-04 wt study
"take exquisite delight in jehovah," david said, "and he will give you the requests of your heart.
(pedophiles are protected by a two-witness rule in the wts.
I love your comments blondy....
during my eight month long study with "elder bob" (moms husband) we have batted around many subjects to say the least.
but the one that really stands out is the dreaded date of 607 bc.
im sorry i just will not let up with this date, and him having to prove it can stand.
Scholar
IN MY PREVIOUS POST I HAVE POST THE BIBLE EVIDENCE REGARDING 587...WHY DON'T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT...OR YOU WILL TRY TO IGNORE IT LIKE WT DOES????
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many skeptics assert that the bible must be wrong, because they claim that the ark could not possibly have carried all the different types of animals.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/magazines/docs/cen_v19n2_animals_ark.asp
Actually there was a flood and Noahs flood it is a copy of an older Sumerian Myth the story of Gilgamesh....It is not possible to put all those animals and give them food for all those days. It takes a great deal of efford to keep alive all those animals with food...
Because there were earth changes earth was flooded many times, especially when the ice age finished.
In the region of Mesopotamia(Iran, Iraq, Turkey) there was a flood that did occured before 5500 years, and that is the flood of Noah...
It was a regional flood and the animals that Noah put in the Ark there were Animals that live in that area like Lions, Tigers, horses, dogs, cats, rabits, not many spieces but also small comparing to elephants, hippos, and some other that they live in Africa...
Actually we have in our Greek mythology similar myth (like everywere in the world)of a flood. The only difference it is that we have a story of 3 floods. Gods destroyed the earth 3 times with the flood because people have sin.