so after nearly 15 to 19 years of not attending a convention, i can't recall exactly, i went to one last year.
the brother giving the talk was from bethel and was introduced as a helper of the governing body.
it was a title i never heard of before.
Governing Body Helper = Future Governing Body Member candidate.
For instance, Mark Sanderson was a GB helper for several years before he was "appointed" a GB member.
As for when the "annointing" takes place in all of this, your guess is as good as mine.
on jw tv.
anthony morris is ranting against higher education.
he is blaming parents for enrolling their kids in college.
on jw tv.
anthony morris is ranting against higher education.
he is blaming parents for enrolling their kids in college.
Real quick, my favorite moments from the "education" broadcast:
1) Every time the Turd pronounced "JW" as "jay-dub-yuh";
2) When he was reading the scripture in 1Tim at around 8 or 9 minutes and got hung up ". . . and. . . er. . . .ummm. . . ."
Fucktard.
in the long winter nights you need some good tv shows to watch while you wait for the eternity between seasons of game of thrones.. we've watched marco polo (pretty good) and have just started watching orange is the new black which is not at all what i imagined (didn't know it was funny!).
house of cards is on the list too as we've heard good things about that.. anyone have any others that are worth seeing?.
Idiot Abroad
the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).
before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.
first, the reason i think it should be shown:.
I'm not at all against having flags to identify a poster's country. I've identified what country and state I live in numerous times over the years.
My thought, though, is that many times a flag symbol is really almost meaningless.
For instance: one poster is from England, another from Scotland, yet another from Wales, and one from Northern Ireland. Does the UK flag really represent the diversity in these posters?
Or: I'm from New Jersey and another poster is from Hawaii, and we both get US flags?
We practically live on opposite sides of the planet!
things are often more than the sum of their parts.
the letters typed onto this page, for example, are more than just letters.
they've become a series of ideas and concepts.
My wife has told me that I'm the most "spiritual" person she knows, but I don't even believe in god (or spirits or anything supernatural).
I think the "spiritual" she is talking about is being able to see past the surface and appreciating (although not fully understanding) what's going on behind it all.
CODED - I think this is part of what you're talking about in the OP.
does anyone have the 2014 stats from the 2015 yearbook yet?.
(isn't it usually out by now - or are they waiting to celebrate new year's day?
).
Let's hear it for Canada!
A big goose egg for growth in 2014!
Although, I consider anything 1% and below to be negative growth (not even keeping up with the population)
i can understand maybe wearing one of these out in fs, or at ca's & dc/ic, while out and about, but to the kh, come on who the heck are they trying to impress??
it looks so stupid for half the congregation to be wearing these things at most of the meeting.
oh and now when the circuit serpent, sorry servant, comes around it's even worse!!!
a woman has been shot dead by a 2-year-old in a wal-mart store in idaho.. .
the 29-year-old was shopping with four children in the store in hayden, when the two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired the weapon, shooting her dead.. initial reports suggested the woman was the boy's mother, but the police have said that this is as yet unclear how they are related.. source; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/toddler-accidentally-shoots-woman-in-idaho-walmart-9950847.html.
i've nothing to add to my past comments on americas psychotic relationship with guns.
