the governing body has decided to launch a pilot program of shepherding district overseers and their wives.
why is this needed?
everyone has an arrangement for personal shepherding except district overseers and their wives.
Maybe it is a way to see if they can eliminate another level ofpeople between the congragation and the GB. Distance themselves from any legal troubles and not have to pay them for the services they are suposed to do.???????
Or it could be a combo of all the ideas mentioned.
watchtower offers huge donation of "field" assistancediv class=subhead>the rvba leads the way to a continuous rondout valley rail trail</div><pby chris rowley .
pine bush a startling offer from watchtower, the jehovah's witnesses' organization centered on red mills road, worth about $136,000, has the pine bush central school district scrambling to see if it can take advantage of the offer.
at the school board meeting on tuesday, september 14, tom walraven, physical education teacher and varsity baseball coach, presented a plan to the board for repairing the e.j.russell field.
This was an offer from the local congrgation,ie regular people many of whom probably have children that would benefit from the improvement. Also lending them the equipment that wouldotherwise sit idol is not a great expence. No real money would be leaving the WT coffers but you can bet your sweet bottom that they will make it seem like the largest of all sacrfices for years to come.
anyone an expert in english grammar?.
why do the jw writers (annoyingly imo) so often use a one word question after a statement.. .
full-time service protectsus how?.
Excelant Brotherdan, great explanation. It is almost like - "Full time service protects us! Oh, so you don't believe that? How? do you ask, well then read this magazine you weak, faithless unbeliever. It is putting the conclusion before the hypothisis, ending all questions and reasoning. Just like their blanket statements to cover any of their beliefs - "Everythinking person knows the Trinity is a false doctrine....." if you question it then you are not a thinking person.
There is always a theme in the WT titles. Look back to the late 90's early 2000's and notice a large amount of titles that seemed to show dispaire. "Will suffering ever end?", "Will there ever be peace?". Before that was, all religions are bad. Now, as has been said on the board many times, The GB is great, follow us, obey, obey, obey. When that tactic starts to fade they will have anotherone, or reuse an old one.
dear readers:.
the following story was a product of imagination and the influence of the films "rebecca," "beauty and the beast," "unbreakable," "signs" and "harry potter.
" i hope you enjoy it; it's my favorite.. coco.
Coco- Awesome! Please do yourself, us and possably millions of others a favor, get some of your writing published. You are a wonderful writer!
Thank you
years ago before i took the time and effort to study logic and argumentation, i went to a market and bought some toothpaste.
it was a little-known brand and it touted "baking soda" as its magic ingredient.
it was also cheaper than the name-brand toothpastes and that helped me in my decision.
Peacedog - You realize you're asking a cultist to contradict his cult masters, right?
Yes I do, but the question is does Debator know that?
years ago before i took the time and effort to study logic and argumentation, i went to a market and bought some toothpaste.
it was a little-known brand and it touted "baking soda" as its magic ingredient.
it was also cheaper than the name-brand toothpastes and that helped me in my decision.
Debator - The WT does not harmonize with the bible, they don't even have Bible studies. They have book or magazine studies. If you were to read Moby Dick, and while doing so you used a dictionary to look up a few words, would you then claim to be studing the dictionary? Well thay is what the WT does, they study their own publications and use the Bible as a reference book to "prove what they wrote". It is not honest schollarship to look at one sentence from one book, another sentence from another book(at times from differant authors) and say they are talking about one subject, or that they are proving anything the WT says. Why does the WT publish very few commentaries? - Because their teachings can not stand up when a Bible book is read/"studied" in context. I know the Wt has had a few but they were/are more humorous than anything else. Please be honest do you truely your whole heart, mind, soul, and spirit believe that the trumpet blasts in Revelation are refering to speaches given by the WT in an Ohio convention? Please answer that question, don't tell me that "we don't believe that anymore" or some other off the topic answer just answer it yes or no.
That will tell us a lot about your purported honesty
the november 2010 awake (the atheist issue) has a ypa article that seems strange to me.
it is about whether or not a kid should drop out of school.
the way that it's written makes it seem that dropping out of school, (not college) is ok under some circumstances.
baltar - I don't think anyone is over reacting, they are using Orewllian 'doublespeak". They say don't drop out of school but they then say to do so to do volenteer work(pioneering) is honorable. They never said spicificaly the end would be here in 1975, in those words, but they implied it would. They have a way out if questioned, but they would rejoyce if thousands of their youth would quit school and sell mags. They would play that up so much - "Look at the young ones, let them encourage other young ones", "the time is so close that even our youth see the need." etc...
I think this needs to be sent to every school superintendant, the Dept. of Edu., and possably even the UN council on education, just as a heads up as to the way the WT may be heading. Even if it does not amount to much it would put another well needed bad light on the WT.
i have always liked gray goose but i am working on some "belvedere" that is nice.. anyone got a favorite vodka?.
I use vodka to mix, although i am a whiskey and scotch fan. I never really tried vodka alone, is it really good that way? I like a good smooth taste, and I don't drink beer at all(Please don't hate me!) I just never developed a taste for beer. So honestly if I were to try vodka straight up, what should I try?
before i tell you my story i just want to say thank you to everyone on this forum for their sometimes funny,and sometimes sad, and sometimes very thought provoking posts, it has helped me a lot.. my family, which consists of a younger brother and a younger sister and my parents.
we began studying with the jw's as a family (mother's insistence) in the mid 1980's.. i was then 13, my sister 12, my brother 7, my mother thought she found the answer to all life's problems and became fully brainwashed, and hence if we wanted to be a happy family we had to all become jw's, and so because we were young and mainly to keep our mother happy we all became jw's.. all i can say is my parents life might have been, happier but mine was far from happy.
i left home as soon as i could i was 16.. my sister at 18 got married to a jw, and they bought a house and settled in to married life, when my sister had her first child at 19 her son was 6 weeks old when my parents moved into their home for a few weeks, while their new home was ready to move into.. during their stay in my sisters home they all got on really well despite a small house and no room to move.
That is so sad, your poor sister, and yes the children. Contrary to popular beliefe, aur actions do affect others.
As to your mom lying, the elders don't care. Even if the congragation asks the elders about it all they have to say is there was not two witness to the rape so they could not act upon it so they are covered. And as long as people are gossiping, lying, and slandering, as long as it does not insult the org., they don't care. It keeps the R&F minds off the lies from the borg.
Hugs to you and your sister, please continue to be a safe place for her and the children when they need it.
theres recently an article in a uk newspaper about a small boy whose family are at their wits end.
it seems he will just run amok, create chaos and danger.
hes been permently excluded from school because of hes terrible behaviour.
In the 60's Dr. B. Spock wrote that if you spank a child they learn violence which leads to more violent crime. So spanking was reduced and the violent crime rate plumited -Oops no it didn't, it went up.
Spanking is not violence, beating out of anger, hatred or selfishness is. Used only when nessasary, and along with age appropriate council spanking is useful and does not harm a child.
