so i was scrolling through the latest morning worship videos and found our good friend tony m. explaining why the gb is not dogmatic.
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you can find hirs reasoning at around the 3:30 mark here..
Its a mistake to spend so much time studying what your criics say and formulating answers to refute them.
When you are focused on REacting you are not acting.
A religion that is full of holy spirit would be a forward moving one of action - not a reactionary bunch of mish mash.
So that is a core mistake.
I am thrilled.
i see the letters r&f often, but i dont know what that stands for..can someone tell me?
tia
seems as though the number of baptisms even for the young ones is down from what people report here.
at my former hall the young ones are all in totally sheltered even while going to school.
expressing thier desires to pioneer etc.
Religion as a whole is having a harder time.
This is reflected in all groups but most especially in the younger segment of the population.
When people dont want to be somwhere, all it takes is a trickle at first to encourage others and then you have a flood of leavers.
"the way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end.
now you will have peace for eternity.".
-- maleva, the gypsy woman, the wolf man.
I love your eloquent mind CoCo.
Hope you are well (( ))
thank the almighty god jehovah for smart phones.
helps get me through the day.
has anyone by chance read the latest issue of pshychology today?
april issue, article title' moment of impact'.. i havent fiished reading it yet, but it got me thinking, how likely is it that many born in jws [ teens in particular since thats the age these issues start to appear] will end up with these problems mentioned in the article?
i know of a few adults that have this problem, schizophrenia, bi polar, ect.
i am a happy man!
i texted my mother a couple of questions.
i asked if she thought that my children will die in armagedon even if they were good, and had a possitive outlook on life.
I think there is a softening among the ranks.
Not in the party line coming down from on high but just on the grassroots level.
I think it is groundswell effect of mothers just not wanting to shun their children.
It is still small but I definitely see it in my area
ralph and pam candelario were active jws in colorado.
ralph murdered pam.
professor jim penton was invited to appear at the trial last month by the prosecution as an expert witness to answer questions about jws.
TheOldHippie
I wonder why this should be so interesting? One murderer among thousands in the USA. What makes this one so special? Is it because he is a JW? What about the Catholics or Evangelicals or Agnostics or Atheists? Why specifically target this one?
we have the circuit overseer’s visit this week, and my folks are having him and his wife over for lunch today.
of course, i’m making it a point of hightailing it out of there to have my lunch elsewhere.
when my mom asks me “why don’t you stay and meet him,” i just say, “well, he’s just a man like everybody else.” she says, “well, of course.
If they dont want people asking them to autograph Bibles and such - they shouldnt be giving them rock star billing to begin with.
When Morris gave the closing talk at the convention in Atlanta, it began to storm heavily. He said the brothers asked him to announce that everyone should remain in the building for 15 minutes after the closing prayer for their safety in the lightening.
He then said that unlike his big brother he couldnt stay the storm.
JAW DROP!
Did he just SAY that????
Yep. He was joking about Jesus being his big brother who could still a storm but Anthony couldnt.....yet.
It was a puke worthy moment.
That kind of thinking is where the problem of autograph seeking begins.
Like Londo said - classic double think/speak.
luke 15:4. new international version.
"suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them.
doesn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?.
Seems to me that if this was the true religion, that Levels experience related in his post would be the common one.
Bible principle = elders.
Instead it seems to have been an isolated occurrence of 3 men doing the right thing.
Oh, and they happened to be elders also.
