this chart is charted using the specific phrase: "jehovah's organization" in the watchtower magazine.
notice how they really start de-emphasizing this phrase in the few years before 1975 and for some years after.
looks like they were waiting for it to blow over.. .
The thinking in those years 1973 - 1975 was that when "The Persecution" hit, JWs would be forced to operate in small groups, completely cut off from "The Organisation". Consequently, much emphasis was placed on ones "relationship" with Jehovah - and reliance on the conscience as a guide, rather than directives from that same "Organisation".
From about 1982 onwards though, we once more started to hear much about "The Visible Organisation".
Bill
this incident in paris makes me feel absolutely furious.
yes i feel desperately sorry for the victims and their families no one should have to deal with that.
the thing that makes me feel absolutely incandescent though is the attack on freedom of speech and expression.
Everybody does indeed have biases, Simon, and in evaluating the validity of any piece of writing (even one section of a piece of writing), it is absolutely critical that you know what the writer's biases were.
None of this is exactly black magic, by the way - I remember this fact being spelled out in fourth form history.
Poor form? I think not. Common sense, I would call it!
this incident in paris makes me feel absolutely furious.
yes i feel desperately sorry for the victims and their families no one should have to deal with that.
the thing that makes me feel absolutely incandescent though is the attack on freedom of speech and expression.
Leon Uris is amongst my favourite authors, and I have a number of his works (including The Haj) in my home library. However, you have to realise that The Haj is a work of fiction. Also, Leon Uris, being Jewish, could hardly claim to be an unbiased commentator on matters to do with the Arabs.
this incident in paris makes me feel absolutely furious.
yes i feel desperately sorry for the victims and their families no one should have to deal with that.
the thing that makes me feel absolutely incandescent though is the attack on freedom of speech and expression.
LUHE,
Add to that list Cuba, whose citizens - to this very day - still enjoy the freedom to do as they are told!
Bill
this incident in paris makes me feel absolutely furious.
yes i feel desperately sorry for the victims and their families no one should have to deal with that.
the thing that makes me feel absolutely incandescent though is the attack on freedom of speech and expression.
Insisting on having it's own way and being sole authority over all, intolerant of all who object.
Would that not also apply equally to communism?
Bill
this incident in paris makes me feel absolutely furious.
yes i feel desperately sorry for the victims and their families no one should have to deal with that.
the thing that makes me feel absolutely incandescent though is the attack on freedom of speech and expression.
"Fascist faith"
Out of interest, how do you define Fascism?
Bill.
feb kingdom ministry 2015, irate householders, "we don't apologize for our work", "did they hear rumors about jws"?
why so angry?
blood or disfellowshipping?.
It was always realised that the suggested "presentations" in the Kingdom Ministry were completely irrelevant for the territory our congregation had (i.e. in Logan city, Queensland, Australia). There, angry persons were the rule rather than the exception. The cause of this anger was no mystery, either - we were covering the territory in less than a month, and people were heartily sick of us.
However, the party line was that "you don't work a territory to death, rather, you work it to life." (I fool you not!). Consequently, whatever conciliatory talk / explanations were suggestedby the WTS, the real issue was never ever mentioned. (Not that your typical Logan City resident - in his singlet and thongs,with a beer belly spilling over the top of his stubbie shorts - was ever very amenable to reasoning anyway, in this or any other matter).
Bill.
a woman has been shot dead by a 2-year-old in a wal-mart store in idaho.. .
the 29-year-old was shopping with four children in the store in hayden, when the two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired the weapon, shooting her dead.. initial reports suggested the woman was the boy's mother, but the police have said that this is as yet unclear how they are related.. source; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/toddler-accidentally-shoots-woman-in-idaho-walmart-9950847.html.
i've nothing to add to my past comments on americas psychotic relationship with guns.
The only two people whom I know personally that have been shot were also themselves armed. Both were licensed to carry a 9 mm automatic, both were very proficient in using the things, yet both still ended up getting shot (in two separate incidents).
This would tend to indicate to me that carrying a firearm may not, after all, offer the level of protection that many people seem to think it does.
Maybe the Australian country singer, John Williamson, got it right in his song We must have a Flag of our Own:
- a stanza of which reads "The way to get shot is to carry a gun".
Bill
One much like any other, I would have thought!
Bill
i have noticed an apparently increasing number of men who are not interested in becoming ministerial servants or elders.
i also know of some that have voluntarily stepped down (which is my case) for no obvious solid reason.. i remember, during my teenage years or even during my twenties, the brothers were always looking forward to being appointed... although many still do, i have noticed there are many others with whom you do not know what the deal is.. since there is no freedom of speech within the organization, we remain in the dark about the motives and desires of everybody else.
i attend a congregation with only two ministerial servants, while it is full of men who do not seem to be willing to do more.. it is hard to tell exactly what is going on, since honesty is not possible while you are inside, but i am starting to think that more and more are becoming disillusioned.... .
How things must have changed !
Once, they were climbing over each other to be appointed.
Bill
