all the videos have been taken down by the watchtower!.
yikes.
uun .
HAH, this is hardly a bad thing.
This is the internet; attempts at censorship just make things spread faster here.
It's also hypocritical. Do they want to 'spread the good news' or not? Taking it off youtube accomplishes the exact opposite.
It's not like they plan to make any money off its sale, they give the videos away for free at the conventions and congregations.
my daughter is unbaptized but is recognized as jw since she goes out door to door.
a baptized brother in high standing took some interest in her (staring, flirting, hanging about, hugging while intoxicated then keeping his distance before going back again and then withdrawing again ) and she ended up getting emotionally attached to this jerk & let him know.
in between long drawn out silences he turned her down, saying "i don't know you" though he'd had long conversations with her (though would ignore her the following day after they had any close alone time) she said "all the jw stuff aside, did you ever like me as well?
Turns out I have a harder time grasping how men think than most women do.
Seems like something made him switch from thinking: "I'm dating a soon-to-be witness so it's ok" to thinking: "I'm dating a worldly girl, this is wrong."
Then again, if he's getting drunk and huggy but still in good standing, I'm at a loss.
Not knowing anything else about the conversation. Her question: "All the Jw stuff aside, did you ever like me as well?" Makes it sound like he's rejecting her for religious reasons. And she wants to know if he'd date her if it wasn't against the rules.
But hey, it sounds like they're breaking up. So at least it's ending well.
well our dear faithful ones at jwtalk have seen fit to provide jehovah's "food at the proper time" earlier to the rest of the world than their governing body sees fit, so to follow are the scans from the convention.. .
dvd front:.
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I opened this thinking. Oh cool, I'll get to see what's being released before everyone else does again.
Then I see what looks like a Jimmy Neutron rip-off styled cartoon. And immediately thought. "Hah hah, very funny. Like that's what was really released this year"
It took me until around the 6th post here to realise it was dead serious. . . I'm still a bit dubious. Is that REALLY what's been released this year?
Not a new reasoning book updated for all the new light? Not a verse by verse study of the book of psalms or something?
my wife and i were chatting about this last night.
having left the jws, we quickly became heavily involved in a born-again christian church, and the culture associated with it.. i've completely jettisoned any faith in supernatural god beings, and we were chatting about how intense christians are about god and how much they expect their version of the sun god to do in their lives.. however, as witnesses, you always had a fairly low expectation of jehovah, right?
you never really expected him to "show up" and help you, did you?.
None of the witnesses I know expect jack squat from God until Armageddon.
The literature always points out: "Of course we don't expect miraculous protection from god in these last days"
or: "Christians are no longer speaking in tongues or performing miraculous healings in our day"
Without ever bothering to explain why that is.
They seem to deliberately avoid praying for anything concrete. They don't pray to god that their relatives survive some illness. Or to keep them safe. Or to provide food. Or anything which could possibly fail to happen.
something that has troubled me for some time, why do introvert personalities reach out for the office of overseer?.
this personality does not help with shepherding the flock (other brothers pick up their slack, their too shy for judicial committes), they are not upbuidling for the brothers and sisters (their long lost stuttering problem resurfaces when asked to call m.i.a.
congregation memebers) and they are useless for widows and orphans (i can't help little father-less davie, my online role playing games are all time consuming!
Seems you might be confusing 'introverted' with 'shy'.
Shyness inticates a fear of bieng in a social situation.
I'm an introvert, I also used to be shy. Now I'm just an introvert.
I'm not afraid of social situations and I do just fine. I simply dislike them.
many states have such laws.
it is being considered in many others.
if legal, would you openly carry a firearm?.
If making gun possession illegal in the states would guarantee that criminals didn't have access to guns, then I'd say: Screw the constitution, make guns illegal.
Unfortunately that's not how it works. Making guns illegal just ensures that only criminals have guns.
Even if all gun manufacture is halted in the states, and it's completely illegal to even bring a firearm into the country. Criminals will still import guns illegally.
What it WOULD accomplish is stopping idiots who THINK they can help by owning a gun, from being stupid and shooting innocent people on accident.
conventions start may 18 according to jw.org.. hopefully, there will drops in baptisms as reported from 2011. unfortunately, there will be the poor kids..
Every year I predict it'll be a new Reasoning book.
Seriously that thing is ancient and contains a lot of old-light.
digital publications.
books and brochures.
http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=qryqcsvrglbbx.
Holy crap this looks even more boring than ever.
And I'm not just saying that because I'm an apostate. . . this honestly looks REALLY freaking boring.
At least when they give parts on apostacy, prophecy, history or their crappy understanding of science I have something to stew about, get upset over or explain to my family.
But this is all just boringness!
hypothetically: .
you are in a room with two other people.
you barely know them, but they are kind of nice people.
Hi Lore, what is your point for asking these questions?
I didn't have a point exactly. It's just an interesting question.
A lot of people would say they'd throw themselves on the grenade to save a few other lives. But very very rarely will anyone say they'd be willing to be killed now to save dozens through the organ transpant.
I'm curious about why that is.
Why is sacrificing yourself in a violent emergency heroic and admirable, but sacrificing yourself to provide essential parts is creepy and objectionable?
Why is that? What's the difference? Either way you're deliberately sacrificing yourself to save others.
Imagine you were the one of the guys waiting on an organ transplant. You'd probably feel VERY guilty about accepting the organ if you knew that he killed himself to give it to you.
But if someone threw themselves on a grenade to save you. Would you feel the same guilt? Or would you just admire the guy and thank his family?
There's something different about it, and I want to know what it is.
hypothetically: .
you are in a room with two other people.
you barely know them, but they are kind of nice people.
2. Yes.
Oh.
Well that was unexpected. . .
Then, if I can ask this without sounding like I want you to kill yourself:
Why don't you? There's a lot of people waiting on organs and pretty much no hope that there will be enough to save them all.
