https://cne.news/article/2827-court-case-jehovah-s-witnesses-norway-kicked-off.
norwegian jehovah's witnesses are in court this wednesday and thursday.
they are fighting the government's decision to remove their registration as a religious community.. .
For now it seems to me like a way for them to have something technical that allows some association without changing anything meaningful in their policies. Most JWs will never see a Flock book.
Many devout JW's already "go beyond" what has been written regarding shunning. Many already shun "inactive" members who have had NO judicial determinations (faders). They simply no longer show up for meetings or field circus. Still, the super-righteous JW's are shunning them.
i would like to share an experience from my younger days, which now as i sit here i can't believe it's almost been 10 years now since this happened.
it still feels like it was yesterday.. so my family and i moved out of our old hall and wanted to start new because of the crap we all went through in the old hall.
this is a link of my story ne posted for me http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/244665/1/one-experience-in-our-old-kingdom-hall-that-still-haunts-me .
Big hat. No Cattle.
we're you regular at the 3 meetings days watchtower hade?
i remember our was tuesday, thursdays and saturdays.
in reality it's crazy they hade so many meetings.
Big fish. Little pond.
Lots of those in the JW world.
Or as my rancher friends from Texas would say -- Big hat. No cattle.
this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
I remember hearing Morris on a monthly broadcast saying that we shouldn't be overly excited about the cry of Peace and Security.
As I read this thought I recalled his recent comment about telling is sons that they shouldn't count on seeing the end of this system (or something to that effect). I think he was trying to get that point across to the longtime JWs in the audience -- "Don't count on it, folks!"
june 2023 study watchtower p. 13, par 15 - “we will not be fooled if we “make sure of or, “test” all things.”...we need to test what we hear or what we read to determine whether it is genuine.....instead of naively accepting what others the org say, we use our thinking ability to compare what we read or what we hear with what the bible and jehovah’s organization say.”.
Of course that excludes testing the WTS/JWs to see if what they say is "genuine" (accurate).
my big one was: .
rev.
20: 5 "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
Isaiah 11:6 . . . “the wolf will actually reside for a while with the male lamb”?
Why does this description of the future Paradise limit it to just "for a while"?
not a hint of a new date for the great tribulation.
the attitude of jw is that they expect it immediately although the inter-lapping anointed allows for any additional extended time.
given the time of the end, the end comes after the good news is preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations with the internet and 108 years and tons of publications even in finnish.
We are not serving Jehovah with any certain date in mind. We dedicated our lives to serve him (and his Organization) forever.
JUST LOOK at the evening news. This system is obviously on its way out very, Very, VERY soon!
re-posting this for reference.. #1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..
#2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..
#3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..
Thanks, Cofty!
cofty could you answer how the single cell came about by chance?.
i know the argument for complexity in nature says natural selection over billions of years but this could not explain the complexity of the single cell the building blocks of life?.
Cofty— Deja vu. It goes like this every time, doesn’t it! I, for one, appreciate reading your knowledgeable comments.
Doc
for the most of us, we have left the jws...and even though we are no longer jw, many of us are still interested in their beliefs, doctrines and practices as currently practiced.
i was trying to sort out in my mind why i still care about what they are doing.
i think the answer to that is a hope that something will develop in the jws that will wake up a lot of others, and selfishly, a lot of my friends.
Because our lives are still affected if we have active family members who have no awakened.
