Beautiful picture of you and your family Perry.
Thank you for sharing it, very heartwarming!
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wishing everyone a happy resurrection sunday.... from my family to yours!.
Beautiful picture of you and your family Perry.
Thank you for sharing it, very heartwarming!
so i attended a fairly large jw gathering last night with my active, elder husband.
it was a good-by party for a former special pioneer couple who have been demoted to reg pios and have now moved to a larger city to find work.
anyway, there was music and skits.
Cangie3 hours [email protected]'ll bet that was the D.O.'s way of saying "pfffftht" to the BOA on his way out. Maybe he was more "awake" than any of them suspected...
Agreed Cangle! lol
so i attended a fairly large jw gathering last night with my active, elder husband.
it was a good-by party for a former special pioneer couple who have been demoted to reg pios and have now moved to a larger city to find work.
anyway, there was music and skits.
That is my impression too Cadellin.
I wish we knew if it was our increasing clarity of vision or the reactionary decision making that seems to possess the Org.
Perhaps it is some of both?
as far as the "memorial" goes... .
should an anointed follower of jesus share the cup with unbelievers?
would the cup not be polluted by an outsider, invited in to a sacred thing?.
so i attended a fairly large jw gathering last night with my active, elder husband.
it was a good-by party for a former special pioneer couple who have been demoted to reg pios and have now moved to a larger city to find work.
anyway, there was music and skits.
We had an awesome D.O. for a little while a few years ago.
He recited the words to "Imagine" in his concluding talk on Sunday at our Circuit Assembly. I had fun looking at the faces in the audience. Some thought it was awesome, some of the more tight laced ones looked unsure.
He got kicked out of the work due to the age requirements. He seemed glad to leave. He got in a tangle with some elders here and and told them they were "a bunch of assholes" lol
He was a gem and I am sure they were glad to retire him!
my name is christian and my wife is katja, and we have been out of the organization for a year and a half.
we were both regular pioneers and i was a ministerial servant.
we were very much happy to be witnesses and doing our best to do more for the organization.
Hi and glad to have you here!
May I ask what was it on Instagram that got you thinking? I have hopes that will happen for my siblings someday.
don't know if someone else has posted about this but apparently mark sanderson was in brussells for the memorial, someone on fb with a public profile posted some pics and said he'd turned up in brussels, that a guy who had been sent to the bethel there had just got off the metro when the bomb went off.
don't know how true it is but there was a few ooohs ahhhs .. how wonderfuls .... photo.
don't know if someone else has posted about this but apparently mark sanderson was in brussells for the memorial, someone on fb with a public profile posted some pics and said he'd turned up in brussels, that a guy who had been sent to the bethel there had just got off the metro when the bomb went off.
don't know how true it is but there was a few ooohs ahhhs .. how wonderfuls .... photo.
So there were ohhs and ahhs because a Bethelite got off the train just before the bomb went off?
Evidence of protection from above?
Well then! They must really be amazed at the protection given the Mormon missionary who was not only in Brussels but also in Paris when that attack happened.
He has been all over the news. He has nine lives!
How "spared" he is!
(ohh....ahhh)
video - "use insight when comforting others"this was a wt contrived video of a sister who was widowed a year ago, and turns to members of the boe after a meeting in the kingdom hall in a distraught emotional state accompanied by suicidal thoughts.
two members of the boe saw her in her own home later that day.she conveyed that she wanted her life back - that her heart had been ripped out.
the elder acknowledges that "you and dan had a wonderful relationship".
Nicholaus, your review of the video was most excellent.
I was especially struck by what you said about how the Org puts the whole context of this topic in to a morality frame.
Grief is highly fluid and merely "shaming " a person in to thinking they have failed in an integrity test if they are overwhelmed in grief is appalling.
Then there is the fact that this video required writers, editors and researchers to make a script. Then elders who could memorize and execute that script for filming (and the end product is sill offensive).
It begs the question, how many overworked, stressed out elders are going to be able to do that in the real world?
Dont even ask about the elders who dont give a flip in the first place...
i just got the news from our former congregation in hollister, ca regarding a tragic event following the 'memorial' wednesday night.
we shared the kh with 2 spanish congos.. a couple from the spanish congregation were leaving the kh so that the next spanish congo could have their 'memorial'.
they exited the parking lot in their car when hit by an oncoming car right in front of the kh.
Exactly Diogenesister, It is reasoning on it like you did above that made me realize that JWs operate on a high level of superstition.
Of course they would call it "faith" but when a person adds in reason, it fails the litmus taste and is revealed as just plain ole superstition, pure and simple.