Like the "give us money" references, that should resonate.
This is going to be great. You have such a good sense of humor and are so creative.
Love it!
righto poppickers.
as some of you know, i have been putting together a book of interviews and humour.
it is designed (i hope), soften the blow for those inside the wbt$ who want to escape and also prove to those that have left that they are not alone.. anyway.
Like the "give us money" references, that should resonate.
This is going to be great. You have such a good sense of humor and are so creative.
Love it!
just out of curiosity, if you are in the united states, did any one of you attend a 4th of july parade today, where you live?
i attended the huntington beach fourth of july parade.
i've been attending that parade since about 1993. it's always fun to photograph the different celebrities who are in the parade.
I would attend if I could see the interesting things you get to there in California.
I live in a rural area not in California and there is no parade.
I have three really big dogs and they are all requesting to be inside however due to the fireworks booming outside.
Bombs bursting in air you might say.....
they take our trust our love our youth our family our friends our life our hopes our happiness our children our parents our vitality our minds our hearts.
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then they kill us.
sometimes i get a strong curiosity to start dabbling into other religions, other faiths, you know?
really different ones such as islam, judaism, hinduism, etc.. has anyone here looked into something else?
has your spirituality been satisfied by any other than christianity?.
Neo pagan says the quiz.
I will have to research to see what that even is!
just asking about this "new light" of the 7 member of the governing body (the gb-7) being the fds.
what is the point?.
what biblical "argument" have they given about that ?
Hold Me-Thrill Me.
By the way, the monthly JW Broadcast is late.
Whaaaat?
Is the Holy Spirit getting backlogged?
just asking about this "new light" of the 7 member of the governing body (the gb-7) being the fds.
what is the point?.
what biblical "argument" have they given about that ?
I think they closed rank on who the FDS was because the "remnant" scattered around the world were seen by the GB as getting entirely too full of themselves.
Little peon "anointed" in their own Halls and along the side ways and by ways were uttering their thoughts and regular publisher people were "ohhh" "ahhh" over it.
The change of the overlapping generation was an ideal time to just change the base of power also. Pull it back in to a straight up and down arena of control of 7 men in NYC.
Naturally, this has resulted in more disgruntled "anointed" ones round the world. Some of started websites critical of the GB in NYC but for the most part it is unimportant to the publishers it would seem.
say you could go back in time to when you were 15 years old.
no watchtower in your life.
but the experience you have now you could keep.
As a young romantic teen, I wanted to join the Peace Corp. The closest option at the time? Became a pioneer instead.
I soaked up education and would have kept going forever if not for being in a religion that frowned on it. I would have loved to become a cultural anthropologist specializing in nutritional anthropology.
It fascinates me how we live and interact with our natural world and what has been and is used now to nurture our bodies, the elaborate rituals and taboos that have been constructed around that process and how it varies through time and place.
I also have to say HoldMe-ThrillMe that I loved your answer!
is this political correctness over the top.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33393860.
In my thinking I agree with all of the above and think people really need to get over themselves a LOT - especially Americans.
That said, I can see this trend having a silver lining in that several JW mainstays are going to come to be perceived as more and more heinous. Namely, the blood issue, child abuse and of course DF policy.
this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.
lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.
so who is lorenz reibling?
Another well thought out and constructed post. Thank you OrphanCrow. When I read statements like the one below I know you are exactly right. The underlying principles are chilling.
What if the abortion "rules" of the Catholic Church changed as biotechnology changed - and then it was found out that bigwig Catholics were the ones who were tied to that biotechnology?
Maybe someday I will have the time to compile a list to show the magnitude of the JW over representation in the blood management world,
i had this idea of topic when john aquila made me laugh in one of his post when he said : new light!the governing body has the right to have sex with all the new virgins that get baptized before they get married.. and then i've decided to open this topic to ask this (stupid but funny) question : if you was in the gb, what's the "new light you will want to fight for?