i actually visited the kh a few days ago.
i just needed to see some friends.
i hadn't been in months.
nowawake 14, you said you went because you just wanted to see some friends. Why are you going them? Why don't they come to you?
Eventually you will realize that they are not your friends. This includes any blood relatives. They do not love you. Their loyalty is to "the organization". You deserve to have true friends, who are happy to see you be/do what you want to be/do, rather than just trying win you over to be what they feel you should be.
i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).
you can't write this stuff.
right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..
moomanchu, this is the one time that a Watchtower prophesy came true!
i was doing some reminiscing and remember the days back in the late 80s and early 90s where i truly could say the meetings were so encouraging and that i felt the holy spirit present and operating on all of us.
today when i attend, there is nothing of the sort.
is it because jehovah has withheld it?
You are waking up.
Maybe the REAL Holy Spirit is enlightening you.
I heard nothing but horror stories.
I was baptized in 1981 at age 25, came in from "the world". Single. Aux pio'd for a year then was a reg pio (and worked full time and had my own place). I was considered an example. So the elders and CO handed me a Bethel application and said they would sign off on it if I would fill it out. I had not given any thought to going. But I decided to go and visit, get a tour etc. I was impressed with Bethel but definitely did not want to apply. The dormitory life didn't bother me; I had previously been in the military and lived in the barracks. But Bethel was just too structured for me, like being in the military, and I had had enough of that. I don't want to be told what time to get up, what time to eat and so on. I want to choose what kind of job I will have. When I returned home and told the elders I was not interested in going, they acted like I was disowning the faith and throwing my life away. I remember asking them, "Wouldn't you rather have me here, as a pioneer?"
I am so glad I didn't let them talk me into going.
we've often seen the happifying kingdom trope of a bearded bible student coming up from the baptism water with a freshly shaven, baby smooth face.
beards, after all, signify independent thinking and are best left to worldlings.
our new july 2019 issue of the watchtower, however, sheds increasing light on the subject.
In all 3 pictures he's wearing orange. I guess this is to show that he is the same person....
we've often seen the happifying kingdom trope of a bearded bible student coming up from the baptism water with a freshly shaven, baby smooth face.
beards, after all, signify independent thinking and are best left to worldlings.
our new july 2019 issue of the watchtower, however, sheds increasing light on the subject.
That means they had to let an exemplary brother grow a beard so he could pose for these photos. Or it is fake hair.
In this case he looks much better with the beard.
I remember seeing an old booklet - 1960s? - that had an "illustration" of Christ impaled between the 2 thieves. Naturally the 3 condemned men were clad in only loincloths. How would they distinguish Jesus from the other two? Can't draw a halo...can't get around the fact the Jesus had a beard (Isaiah 50:6, NWT) so here's what they did. The two thieves had hairy chests whereas Jesus did not. A friend and I (both hairy) were joking that this must mean we cannot be of the anointed.
i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).
you can't write this stuff.
right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..
Zeb you are right. The elders show up at the home of an inactive one uninvited. They remark that the person's lawn is not tidy, or his grooming is worldly. If some other JW happens to see them out and about they run to the elders to tattle that they saw him with a cigarette in his hand or whatever.
So now Jesus' words at Matthew 7:2 apply: for with what judgement you are judging, you will be judged, and with the measure that you are measuring out, they will measure out to you."
The next verse mentions the rafter in one's own eye.....We can keep going with this.....if he needs the "loving counsel". Ha ha ha
i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).
you can't write this stuff.
right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..
Now everyone will be buying that brand. "Celebrity endorsement"
I can see the advertisements now. Macclellans, the official whiskey of Jehovah's Witnesses.
The next NWT might read " then those on his right will say to him, Lord when did we see you hungry or sick or naked or in prison..." they have to delete the word "thirsty". Ha ha
i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).
you can't write this stuff.
right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..
I didn't notice him doing any "incidental witnessing" to anyone.
so, its a simple meal, wt trying to deflect away the questions about the elephants in the room.
no record in the bible the apostles celebrating it later, until paul writing about it.
jesus commanding it to be celebrated every year.?
You are right...nowhere does it say once a year. Nowhere does it say to go out and invite as many strangers as you can round up.
Also, if this covenant is with the anointed only, then only the anointed should celebrate it.
