it is a single 8.5 x 11 color page that opens with this drivel: how can you survive the end of the world?
--- you are warmly invited to come and listen to the answer.... there is a typical watchtower picture of zombie-like survivors coming out of a dark armageddon storm cloud with lightning and thunder, and walking into a spring field of sunshine and flowers.. on the back is quoted mark 13:37 - "keep on the watch".
(said near 2000 years ago, but continuing on) - four bulletins: stay awake as christian families / know that the end is near / imitate jesus' example of watchfulness / keep in expectation, watching for jehovah's day.. at the bottom is a generic invitation to mail in what is a little coupon for a bible study to the local branch office (no local contact information is given) with entries for such places as trinidad/tobago, ghana, nigeria, curacao, etc.
All of them say to "keep watch with prayer".
Luke says:
21: 36 But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.
Think I'll stay with Jesus' words. [JW fearmongering is contradictory.]
i just recently got a facebook page and started to look up some old jw friends (im a long time fader).
i see there pictures and comments and feel kinda jealous that they all look happy (im in a rough stage in my life).
i never was happy as a jw, and since i faded i am more comfortable in my own skin....the future looks bright for me.
Well, if you are jealous of "other" people you are also worried about what "others" think of you. Get the "others" out of your life and focus on yourself for a bit. Find who you truly are, make any improvements YOU find necessary (if any) and be happy with yourself, the true you.
FB is simply another place where people can post and communicate. If folks seem happy, good for them.
Jesus and all his family (plus the original Apostles) were Jews and they would have followed the (traditional) Jewish practices for burial.
Actually men were prepared for burial after death by men, which is the case of Jesus. Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus prepared his body and buried him in a new tomb. (John 20) By the time the ladies showed up with their spices, there was no need because he had already been properly buried according to custom.
There is no 'funeral' as they are done today. Your body was prepared, wrapped up, and placed inside a tomb. Someone would guard the body as it was being prepared and recite Psalms. Family members would tear their clothes and remain at home in mourning. That's it. (No such thing as a viewing, procession, etc.)
What's done today is some sort of pagan Nordic (Gentile) traditional practice.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6722491.ece.
new 'shock' report into irish church sex abuse(afp) 10 hours ago.
dublin a shocking new report has identified hundreds of victims of child sex abuse by irish catholic priests, officials said tuesday, two months after a landmark study found "endemic" mistreatment.. a government-appointed commission of investigation headed by a judge has been probing allegations of abuse by priests in the archdiocese of dublin -- the country's biggest -- since march 2006.. archbishop of dublin diarmuid martin has warned that the report -- presented to justice minister dermot ahern on tuesday -- would "shock us all.".
Weren't they actually killing kids in their care?
my life has reached to a dead end...i'm stuck and there is no way out.
i was inactive for 6 years and i'm disfellowshiped for the past 3. i would never think that my life would have been in this terrible mess.. .
i wasn't planned to be disfellowshiped by my "wife" turned me in to the elders for apostasy 2 times!!!
Soooooo any word from justhuman?
i went to the meetings this week because we have the co's visit.
i have not been in about five months.
oh my god some of the stuff you just cannot make this stuff up.. ok so like many of us i feel that there have been things done that are wrong in the "truth".
That's because its taken out of context. Read the entire chapter and regain your sanity.
none, a few, most, nearly all?.
examples ....
...for the most part.
we know that jehovah/yahweh cannot lie, and that he hates a lie(pr 6:16-19).
but according to his word, it is okay to do it pertaining to his purposes.
of abraham, isaac, rahab, and elisha(gen 12:10-19,26:1-10,jos 2:1-6,jas 2:25,2 ki 6:11-23).
No. Lies are lies.
http://www.search-the-scriptures.org/hebrew_new_testament.htm.
The legal writing of that time was done in either Aramaic or Greek. (Not "Hebrew" and not Latin)
Sure, just so I could go explore the universe ... there's only so much on earth to see and do.
Now if I had to stay in one place and listen to one group of men yap forever, then No, I'd rather stick a gun in my mouth and blow my brains out.
