http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/28/us-secession-idusbre90r15n20130128.
ok, not yet....... but this could be a move in that direction.. things are gonna get weird.. metatron.
I love their steamed hotdogs, their poutine, the Montreal Smokemeat, and bagels.
Steven Harper just pledge some money for they infrastruture in Levi, Quebec.
I think they might repent, and stay with us. But, then again we are living in the last days. You know what that means for Quebec
now that we are using ipads, and other mini devices at the meetings.
is there any letters from the society that restricts.
the use of internet to only elders?.
Actually you can have a data plan with the cell phone co. that you have a contract with. My Iphone allows me to have this available on my trips and in different countries. But, I didn't want to purchase this on the Ipad. The Ipad is really not convienient to take with you everywhere.
The Ipad does work with WiFi ie. MacDonalds, Starbucks, Airports, transit etc.
If the publishers are paying for the Wifi service at the KH, why would it be exclusive to elders?
now that we are using ipads, and other mini devices at the meetings.
is there any letters from the society that restricts.
the use of internet to only elders?.
Now that we are using Ipads, and other mini devices at the meetings. Is there any letters from the society that restricts
the use of internet to only Elders?
can anyone tell the story of john o groh?
ray and the wts mention him as a society director and member of the early 1970s governing body..
I think he was the guy that stole that Marble rye loaf from that elderly Jewish sister in the Brooklin cafeteria.
the newish japanese government is conservative in bent, and its finance minister recently raised eyebrows with the above statement.
japan, as you may know, is a rapidly aging society as the long falling birthrate bites into the demographics.. here's how the english guardian reports this tale:.
let elderly people 'hurry up and die', says japanese ministertaro aso says he would refuse end-of-life care and would 'feel bad' knowing treatment was paid for by government.
Well, there goes my plans for retiring in Japan in my senior years.
no, this is not a thread about the march, april 30 hour push or months with a c.o.
visiting.
it is about where it will go from there if successful.
I'm holding out for when 10 hours a month is proposed.
i attended the meeting today, and i just wanted to share my observation of whaty i consider to be part of the hypocrisy inherant to all organized religion.
one of the things i hate most about the jws is the way they point fingers at others while calling them "worldly" or "not christians" while quietly doing the same thing that they accuse everyone else of.. one of the local elders gave the talk about forgiveness to relate with today's study topic.
one of the scriptures he quoted and emphasized was psalms 15:5 which, paraphrased, asks and answers the question: "o lord, who shall sojourn in your vtent?
The thought about not charging interest was in the day when inflation wasn't an issue. Think about it, if you lended $1,000.00 to somebody, and at the end of the year the inflation rate was 2%, are you really getting back what you lended if the borrower only gave you back that amount? Your money has depreciated by 2%. So there was a time that the Society gave Mortgage loans that reflected the inflation rate to the congregations. Today, the inflation rate is really minimal, so no interest is being charged on the mortgages.
If you just left your money in the bank without any interest, you would lose it's value. Inflation is a menace.
that seems almost redundant to me.
isn't all family business important and necessary?
having a meal with your grown, disfellowshipped child seems to me necessary part of having raised a decent, family-values sort of child.
Necessary family business is not a biblical term, and neither is 'Disfellowship'.
It's just a mental warfare strategy that the Admin Class of the WT soc is trying to use. "Shunning" is I suppose another word for it.
Shunning is used in the Med field, Legal field, and many religious org's worldwide. Mind you, it's not as extreme as the Muslim faith does, but it is a form of bullying. The Wt Soc go extreme in putting a wall between the family members.
forgiving one another.
why must we be willing to forgive?.
paragraph 18 = 0. .
Thanks, Blondie.
As Don Henley said, " It's about forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness......"
Something that the WT seems short of particularly with their treatment of DF'd ones.
jehovah [is] a god merciful and gracious,.
how did jehovah deal with the sins of david and manasseh,.
nation of israel as a whole?.
This is what Blondie does...She takes the time to connect the latest WT material to other sources that the WT has written in times past. It's really informative, and enlightening. I appreciate what she does. Her work is well researched.
But granted she is not the FDS, and she doesn't want to be.
