this is a fairly worldly view, for those who haven't seen it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3be9wcawim.
As far as the JWs are concerned, anybody "talking in tongues" is definitely "demonized."
All the Witnesses that I knew were so afraid of tongue talkers, that it would have to be the quickest, surest way of scaring them away permanently
(As in having your house "marked off the territory.")
- i.e.
(i) Tell them that you regularly talk in tongues.
(ii) Have them believe that you are about to hold a tongue-talking session.
(iii) Invite them in to participate.
Bill.
) on gen. 15:13 (luther martin, date setters, guardian of truth, sept. 15, 1994).
(luther martin, date setters, guardian of truth, sept. 15, 1994).
(luther martin, date setters, guardian of truth, sept. 15, 1994).
In answer to the question as to "why have all predictions about END TIMES been proved false?:
- because the whole bloody thing is just a load of hocus-pocus.
Start and finish of the matter!
Sure, the end WILL Eventually come - but that will be when the sun runs out of nuclear fuel.
- This event has got nothing to do with the utterances of Charles Taze Russell, Joseph Smith, Joseph Rutherford, William Miller - or of mythical beings such as "Jehovah."
Bill.
PS: It won't happen in our lifetime!
i am just curious about people in non christian countries who have occasion to cuss.we in english speaking countries with a christian background frequently use expressions such as "jesus christ" "christ almighty" "christ" "geez" etc.etc.
what do people in non christian lands say when making such exclamations ?
for eg muslim countries, asian countries,mainland china etc.
I have heard that Moslems use the term "By the Black Beard of the Prophet" in the same way as Christains use the expression "by Christ" etc.
Bill.
jehovah's witnesses are peaceful folks, just ask them.
having been one till many years ago i used to know the stock answers to questions about that fine line between being peaceable and defending oneself.. this came to front and center during the past several days with that horrific arizona shooting where some 7 folks have lost their lives.
it could have been more if it weren't for several onlookers ganging up on the perpetrator after he emptied the first magazine of bullets, getting ready for his spare magazine.. these onlookers instinctively became aggressive and restrained the perpetrator, one of them choking the man when needed, etc., and etc.. heroes, all of them, in my opinion.. none of them remained passive, thinking that this man wasn't really a threat to them personally so why get involved.
The JWs have always been down on the learning of self-defense:
- defensive techniques that might enable one to disarm a violent attacker.
From what I could see of this particular case, it seemed like those members of the public who overpowered that gunman knew what they were doing:
- like they had received some basic training in self defense.
So even if the JWs do permit their members to come to the aid of a victim of violent attack, the typical JW would not be much use in such a situation as this one:
- simply because they are never permitted to learn how to handle themselves.
In dealing with a violent attack (particularly by lethal weapon), it is often prior training that makes all the difference
i.e. as to whether you walk away from it alive or not.
I know, as I have survived a few!
Bill.
question:.
why do i see so frequently the witnesses referred to as "window washers" on here?
i have been a witness (though only recently "conscious") for my whole life.
sooner7nc,
What stories have you to tell about carpet cleaners?
- I can't wait to hear these!
Bill.
so says jordan maxwell and he backs up the statement with years of research and knowledge.. at 1:25:00 he speaks about the eerie death of chas.
taze russell.
he died at the stroke of midnight on halloween, a high occult occasion.
It is rather hard to believe that C.T. Russell was financed by MI5 and MI6:
- The organisation that later became MI5 and MI6 was not founded until 1909.
- Yet the Watchtower Society was incorporated in 1884 (having been founded three years earlier).
By 1909, Russell was nearing the end of his tenure - what sustained him up until then?
Bill.
question:.
why do i see so frequently the witnesses referred to as "window washers" on here?
i have been a witness (though only recently "conscious") for my whole life.
If I may break the train (which seems to be either throwing brickbats at Farkel, or else throwing brickbats back at those who do!) and return to the title of this thread:
- cleaning used to be seen as the single best source of part time work, and possibly still is.
Only because of this, many in the pioneer service turned to cleaning work in order to support themselves. It certainly did not mean that the same individuals were incapable of anything else (although I certainly agree that it does not prepare a person for much else - certainly not for handling the responsibilities of an elder!)
It should therefore hardly be a surprize that a disproportionate number of JWs are cleaners by occupation.
And not only window cleaners, either. Around here, many are into carpet cleaning as well - some even owning franchises for one or other of the big carpet cleaning concerns.
As well as cleaning, though, the local JWs seem to also be heavily represented in pest control work - and at all levels up to senior management.
Bill.
japan had incredible increases in the 80's and 90's of 20-30 thousand publishers a year until it collapsed in 1998....figure since then till 2011 have been going down.. 1998 -222,912 publishers -3,802 congregation.
9 years later.. 2006 -217,519 publishers -3,164 congregations {loss of 5,357 publishers closed 638 congregations} .
{note that japan publishers average 31 hours a month compared to world 15 hours}.
Designs,
Good point - even the "industrious", "dedicated" or whatever JWs in Japan (in the 1980s, the WTS seemed to run out of pleasant adjectives with which to describe them!) could not keep up the pretense forever.
Bill.
this article must have been written by bethels most advanced scientific mind......this is why we need a college education.. .
watchtower 1973 july 15 p.7 "question from readers.
when did the dinosuars become extinct?
I have got my Bachelor of Stupidity displayed on the wall, above where I am currently sitting:
- courtesy of reading such scientific journals as Watchtower and Awake for 28 years!
Bill.
PS: That would have been / should have been a Bachelor of Engineering, but for The Cult's interference when I was seventeen.
somebody know the theme of this years district convention or is still top secret?.
Room 215,
I agree with you all the way - who gives a ####!
Bill.
