just in case someone wanted this letter for their records.
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.. petra!.
"If the publishers choose to applaud, the elders should not discourage them from doing so"
There's something wrong with the past/present tense in that sentence. How can the elders discourage you from doing something you already did? Or did they expect the elders to yell "Hey! Stop that! Hey!!" when people started applauding?
I want to be the first guy to stand up and do the dramatic slow-clap when the next reinstatement is announced.
so said my pops one morning.
we were visiting my sister in eastern tennessee and the night before after everyone else went to bed pops was watching tv when all of a sudden and completely on it's own the tv changed to the tonight show, holy smokes!!
must be demons cause pops didn't change it!
i listen to dave ramsey while i work.
he is that financial guy who hates debt.
i agree with 90 percent of what he says.
Every car I ever owned was never good enough. People griped non-stop about this car being uncomfortable, too low to the ground, no cup holders, no rear AC controls, too high to climb in, old van with only one sliding door, the sliding door isn't automatic, etc.
I always kept field service in mind when buying cars like a good dubbie should, but I gave up eventually because the root of the problem is, the 'friends' were too snobby to ride in old vehicles. If it's not a 2015 honda then forget it. Well, how are we supposed to afford brand new cars when we're supposed to be poor? Hmm?
Cars were always a touchy subject with me. I started to purposely leave things wrong with my car so I didn't have to drive. "Sorry brother, my car is acting up, can you drive?". I should have bitched about their cars, but I couldn't bring myself to 'return evil' to them.
from a story in the jewish press:.
quote: "the city of david excavations of the jerusalem hebrew university on mount ophel, at the foot of the southern wall of the temple mount compound, have yielded a sensational discovery: a seal (bulla) with the name of king hezekiah (727-698 bce).".
"king hezekiahs bulla was discovered in a garbage heap that was dumped during or shortly after hezekiahs time, from a royal building that was used to store food.
this has been something that is bugging me lately-.
jehovah is all knowing.
he knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan.
this has been something that is bugging me lately-.
jehovah is all knowing.
he knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan.
this has been something that is bugging me lately-.
jehovah is all knowing.
he knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan.
This has been something that is bugging me lately-
Jehovah is all knowing. He knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan. So why did he wipe away all the bad people with the flood and leave satan alive? He had to know that wouldn't make much difference in the grand scheme of things.
Additionally, confining satan to the earth in 1914 supposedly marked the a great increase in wars and overall evil. But, if we already posses inherited sin from Adam and Eve, what more evil could satan really do just by being here?
Just feeling philosophical again...
don't forget to post your reported assembly and convention attendance and baptisms and whether they are higher or lower than customary (if you know).. here's some detail passed to me of the last circuit assembly held at surrey (uk) assembly hall.. attendance 922 baptisms 3 (half circuit).
i was thinking the other day (i know, i know, bad dub, no thinking allowed!)...
did you ever notice the screwy logic that we are led to believe is the truth?
like ezekiel 33:8:.
I was thinking the other day (I know, I know, bad dub, no thinking allowed!)... Did you ever notice the screwy logic that we are led to believe is the truth? Like Ezekiel 33:8:
-"When I say to someone wicked, ‘Wicked one, you will surely die!’ but you do not speak out to warn the wicked one to change his course, he will die as a wicked man because of his own error, but I will ask his blood back from you"
This was always beat into my head that if I didn't preach, all the dead people would be blamed on me. I didn't kill them, God did. Yet he, of infallible justice, blames imperfect ol' me? I get to be God's scapegoat? (Wait a minute, is that a privilege? Usually crappy jobs in the bOrg are considered privileges...)
Anyhow, so next time I feel like killing somebody, all I have to do is tell a 3rd party- "I am going to kill a random person at a random time with a totally random method". If they don't stop me, it'll be the 3rd party's fault. I'm off the hook. I'm imitating God.
Lets hear all those crazy bible logic stories!
cult flakes?.
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(welcome to the height of intellectual thread topics.
Well, I am trying to watch my weight (gotta fit into those tight-pants!). So, I prefer the diet cereal, "Russel-Lite"! Remember the commercial?
"Yes friends, when that camel-sized ass of yours won't fit through the kitchen door, let alone the eye of a needle, try new Russel-Lite! Now available in Franz'enBerry! What's that Oliver? You want some "Knorr"? Absolutely! Look for Russel-Lite in your favorite grocer's dumpster. Russel-Lites!* "
*Russel-Lite cereal is not for everyone. Russel-Lite has been know to cause cancer in the state of California. Russel-Lite may cause brain damage, the sudden urge to knock on strangers' doors at 9:01am, and extremely lethargic, aimless sidewalk travel. Russel-Lite may also lead to the purchase of a mini-van, polyester suits, and in some extreme cases, corduroy. If you should arrive at a kingdom hall in a new minivan, with your body covered in corduroy, discontinue your Russel-Lite regimen and seek psychiatric attention as soon as possible.
