did anyone else catch this in the talk at the convention 'are you behaving as kingdom citizen?'.
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Am I missing something? Why is everyone so hung up on the reporting system?
Surely the reporting is the WT's way of assessing its effectiveness. As JW's see it, publishing is spreading the good news. (This having just read that article you quoted, oppostate.)
did anyone else catch this in the talk at the convention 'are you behaving as kingdom citizen?'.
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Hi Outlaw,
Can't get to your jpg, the link doesn't click through and it won't copy and paste either.
Is the whole posting some kind of image?
i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.
i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?
i've already found several by reading older posts..
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0cd2cocs.
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Shouldn't it be "Peep Show"?
There's no such thing as a JW friend, anyway. All JW relationships are just opportunities, thus all the conditions on keeping them.
I'm not sure that can be entirely true, as an absolute statement. I can think of one family who are most definitely an exception.
Just one, but that one makes the statement in its absolute form invalid. As a general rule, I agree. The principles about "close association" expressed in “Keep Yourselves in God’s Love” don't really have anything to do with friendship at all.
"How can we apply the principle behind Paul’s warnings? By avoiding close association with anyone—inside or outside the congregation—who could be a corrupting influence. (2 Thessalonians 3:6, 7, 14) We must protect our spirituality. Remember that like a sponge, we absorb the attitudes and ways of our close friends. Just as we cannot submerge a sponge in vinegar and expect it to fill with water, so we cannot associate with those who exert a negative influence and expect to absorb what is positive."
It's as though people are just resources for spirituality. Friendship doesn't come into it.
Sorry if this is too off topic, but it followed from the earlier bits of the thread.
remember those arsenio hall "things that make you go hmmm"?.
here's one; is it me or do most witnesses never wonder how an "annointed one" becomes annointed?
if there are "replacements" to those of the "little flock" that fall away...couldn't this just go on forever?
I do wonder how they know they're anointed. And how and why everyone else believes them.
As to the prganisational thing though, I don't think you need a degree to be able to organise, do you?
discussions on evolution and creation are now completely resolved.
no further information on this forum will ever be needed.
so we can all move on.
I dunno, Nicklaus, Lars is making perfect sense to me....
i've had visits and encounters from 6...oops, no, 7 individual...no, wrong, it was 9...9!
chance encounters with individual jw's today!
well, 7 were chance encounters, 2 actually came to visit me on purpose.
Get any tattoos or piercings recently?
No, no interesting body decorations. No horns or tail.
It amused me. And, Lore, as to the failure to use the backspace button, think of it as real-time train of thought!
one of the many questions that i am asked is what are the current gb members like, who are the hardliners and who are more moderate.. because of my previous job, at a european bethel, i had dealings with most of them with the exception of sam herd.. these are my observations of my conversations with them and how others who had dealings with them.. other ex bethelites may have contrary views to mine, but i would be surprised.. i had spent a lot of time with splane, lett and morris.
hardliners.
david splane, without doubt the one who commands the most respect and attention.
bookmarking...(Edit) oops, sorry, already posted in this thread...tried to delete but failed.
watchtower on demon materialization .
i added a new article to my blog about watchtower teaching on demon materialization.
my article is titled watchtower on demon materialization and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/06/watchtower-on-demon-materialization.html.
Bring back Buffy, I say.
