Pierce, new member of the GB has raised a family of 5 kids, and did secular work to maitain them.
The latest member is black.
i've seen this topic debated/mentioned on other threads.
but i'm wondering if i'll get any jw apologists on this one.
question 1: .
Pierce, new member of the GB has raised a family of 5 kids, and did secular work to maitain them.
The latest member is black.
why is life so complicated at times?
i thought i had it all sorted out...friends, kissing friends, non friends, etc.
people should stick with the label i give them damnit.. .
Just kiss everyone, that's easy!
i was not allowed to: .
1. bring worldly kids at home .
2. play chess (war game.
Haha, I can imagine that, were they "Zeeuws" gereformeerd or something??
I had to wear tweed trousers or pants, even to go to school!!! I don't know why even still visit them, my mother is still a witness, my father stopped, just like my brother, and my sister got disfellowshipped and reinstated agian.
if the local congregations have no money to pay their own bills and the numbers of witnesses continue to drop off, how will the society last?
we've heard about down sizing and layoffs.
we've seen congregations merge because the bills aren't getting paid.
If they just would be more carefull in building.
In Africa they just forgot a 800.000 dollar equipment and found out a year later.
The DR branch took five years to be build which cost the brothers a 30.000 dollar a day.
If they would sell the 34 objects they have in Brooklyn, can you imagine!!! And it is all paid for.
does anyone listen to enigma?
i recently started listening to a few of the songs, i love the song gravity of love , all of the songs are so relaxing
My favorit is:
Le roi es mort, vive le roi!
i was not allowed to: .
1. bring worldly kids at home .
2. play chess (war game.
Well your advantage is you got stuck at 17, I got stuck at 7..I'll manage
i will be talking with a jw soon about the trinity.
she tells me that she can use any translation to disprove the trinity and that jesus is not divine.
i feel good about talking to her but i would love to know their plan.
The point is: What prove do you have for the trinity (not the father and son) in the so-called new testament.??
I investigated it ad fundum, discussed it with Calvinistics many many times and there is no prove.
why do you think that there are such extreme rules regarding flirting and dating even within the walls of the organization?
do you think there's some psychological reason?
how does this benefit the ones at the top, or the hold on the rank and file?
In the YY-book (the old : make your youth) it even says that holding each others hand is wrong
i was not allowed to: .
1. bring worldly kids at home .
2. play chess (war game.
I was not allowed to:
1. Bring worldly kids at home
2. Play chess (war game)
3. To wear jeans (no kidding)
4. To wear T-shirts
5. To sing birth-day songs, but I could eat the candies at school.
6. To join school-trips
7. To join school-parties at night.
8. Play Indian and cow-boy
9. Date a girl untill the age of 18
I was obligated and forced to:
1. Go out on service two times a week-end.
2. Do my first talk at the age of 7
3. Get my hair cut very short
4. Wear a tie during field-service
5. Wear a badge at the assemblies
6. Do temp.pioneer-service at the age of 15, yes 75 hours at that time.((Got batized at 14)
That's probably why I will never grow up
Edited by - fulano on 11 November 2002 4:21:47
i got lost yesterday.
after the funeral the entire family gathered at my grans house, close to the sea.
seven of my cousins, my friend and me, decided to go for a little walk we were all still in our best suits for the funeral, some us wore high heels, but common sense does not rule in my family, and so we walked into this nature wilderness.
Sad story.