aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.
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In my view that was a disgrace.
At least there was a modicum of good humour and courtesy shown at times, but the overall act was aggressive, intrusive, disrespectful, selfish and annoying. Better judgement would have left it at that: but then they publish a video of their actions. It’s poor judgement to show a video of yourself acting boorishly.
In contrast, the JWs were calm, reasonable and firmly held up their rights.
JWs right. Apostates wrong. That’s not good.
a new video for a reworded version of pink floyd's 'wish you were here':.
'david' gets bad news at the kingdom hall: he's in trouble.
we see him wince as the judicial committee's decision to disfellowship him is finally announced.
Well worth watching, especially the Mother song.
Good work.
hey guys.
there has been a ton of illuminati hollywood mind control pre-programming about this virus outbreak before it actually happened.
conspiracy people of the world... unite.. .
Evidence 1 = The U.S. government has a patent on EBOLA
Evidence 2 = There's an EBOLA outbreak in the U.S
So what? Having a patent and having an outbreak (if there is one) are different things. They have nothing directly to do with each other. It's not even a conspiracy theory, it's random factoids mashed together.
What are you getting at?
That USG having a patent on Ebola makes an 'outbreak' of Ebola in the US good for USG? Huh?
Profit? Not even a US court would make a person infected with Ebola pay royalties to USG for their use of Ebola, whether they're in the US or not.
You're missing a step (or a hundred) if you want to make a credible conspiracy theory (whatever that might mean) out of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5schopnecog.
it's difficult to imagine how this video could be more disingenuous and hypocritical.
cedars.
It has nothing whatever to do with JW's, and it's a good video. It's just that it's irrelevent to the Watchtower.
Just at the end it says somthing like "choose your friends wisely, choose real friends" then goes to the JW.org graphic. That was the only jarring note, it's like a website, the JW website, is a real friend.
The e=mc2 graphic was funny: as if physics education is encouraged by JWs! LOL!
from relatives and contacts in 2 states, there have been no bibles available for a couple months.
one person mentioned to me as well about supposed quotes in the magazines from other bibles.
rumors are that they will announce a new bible, or possibly tell everyone to buy a bible from another place that they approve of.
The problem with paper bibles is they stay the same forever.
But an online bible can be kept up-to-date so they can make sure it reflects God's Word in real time.
As God speaks, His Word can adjust on tablets in KHs around the world!
And the brothers can get extra help to understand the import of scriptures, so the 'abstain from blood' bit could have an animated gif of someone refusing a transfusion so readers can have no doubt of what Paul meant.
- The elders' version of the bible can have links to the elders' book so they don't forget all the extra secret bits.
- The Sister's bible will have the verses about subjection set to glow red.
- MS's will hack their version so lists of jobs that need to be done at the back of the hall will pop up at timed intervals though the meeting, especially during the boring talks.
- Kids' editions will have real explosions for Armageddon and HD graphics for the birds picking out eyes of bad children.
So, electronic bibles would be a very fine provision of the faithful slave ... see them Write God's Word Daily!
recently on a saturday morning there was a knock on my door.
two ladies asked me if i was familiar with the jws.
i said: yes unfortunatley.
Yep. But only after I was ready to hear it.
He must have been an academic as he lived near a university campus and the way he talked. I had some silly Watchtower about God existing and I rattled off the standard spiel from the usual scriptures. He said things like, 'Oh, the onlological argument...' and went on to explain the origin and faults of each argument I was putting. What that did was tell me the WTS had nothing more than the theologians and were nothing special. I was just recycling old church rubbish in another guise.
It only made an impact as they were the right words at the right time to the right person.
- 23 day to go .. annual meeting unofficial rumors.
- new bible.
- new nwt (revision).
I heard (in my heart) the new bible changes may include:
I understand none of this will be explicit in the new bible. Rather, the bible will include all the favorite scriptures and some sections that require the reader to use discenment. Discernment will be provided in the Watchtower.
...drink a lot?
gosh i love wine.
i like a good bottle of wine each night, and i have a high tolerance to alcohol, though i never drank much (except for a couple of times with the vodka, but i don't keep that stuff in the house anymore, way too dangerous) as a jw because getting slightly happy is a 'sin'.
Good on any on anyone for thinking about how much they drink.
A 750 ml bottle of wine is considered 4 drinks not 8.
By the Australian standard (10g of alchohol per standard drink) a bottle of wine is around 8 standard drinks depending on the alchohol content of the wine.
Australia's drinking guide is one standard drink per hour for women
One per hour will reduce the chances of having over 0.05% alcholol in the bloodstream, ie: the drink driving limit.
The Australian drinking guidelines are:
A bottle a day person is four times over the first guideline to do with long term health and double the second guideline to do with having an accident during or after drinking.
It's all a choice. And nothing to do with the JWs.
about me, i am being raised in a jw family.
all of my family expect for one aunt, who had left but not disfellowedshiped thankly, are in jw.
my father is an elder and so is my grandfather.
Officially, orientaiton is not the issue - sex outside marriage is. A gay man can be an elder, but if he is intimate with a man then he is a fornicator. A celebate single man can be appointed: gay or straight makes no difference.
Unofficilaly, ignorance and prejudice run deep in line with the socially conservative outlook JWs maintian. Probably rural or outer suburban congo members will TEND to hold more gay-unfriendly attitudes, and inner-city congos MIGHT be less unfriendly, just because of the general community views the members are exposed to.
For example, in an inner city congo we had a single (and always busy!) elder who was as close to openly gay as you can be in the JWs: it was hard for him to hide. He was well liked, generally. And a pair of sisters who were flatmates - one a truck driver - were just never asked why they shared a bed sometimes.
e.g a nonprofit organisation that helps people, that requires its members to vote.
is all voting evil and wrong, even if it's not a political party?.
but how about voting for the leader of a nonreligious and nonpolitical organisation, if it is required of members, rather than merely joining it?
Yep, no problem. That has nothing to do with the scriptural basis they cite for not voting in governmental elections.
They used to vote for elders and did away with that on a different (puported) scriptural basis too.
You can vote as much as you like on anything other than a government of the world: voiting was not the problem for JWs, governments were.
