simon, i hope this is ok to post here.. for those who dont know yesterday a terrible car accident took the life of a lovely young woman leah ryan.
she was the daughter of 2 members here who go by the names of sleeping beauty and her husband hairy he goat.. leah"s sister has started an account to help fund funeral costs.
for any wishing to donate here is the link.. https://www.gofundme.com/for-leah-my-beautiful-sisters-funeral?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_co_shareflow_m&fbclid=iwar1z971joytaqnsy0zyq1_admdyxzqjpgrlf7l2-teq1nalnnqc6wcsn3pq.
I fail to see why anyone here should contribute to this £5,000 money grab.
The death of a child - even a young adult - is a tragedy. Was she employed? Did she have life insurance? Did she have any savings? Is her family insolvent, living under a bridge somewhere?
HOW does this become a community obligation?
NO reasons have been given for why donations are required, just "we would like you to give us £5,000, please."
I await the flaming... unleash hell!
not sure it's ok to post here about that.
im sorry if i'm wrong but i'm just trying to find my way and meet people that could help me become a good witness.
i recently discovered my faith as a witness.
PURELOVE20, this is a predominately APOSTATE website. You are welcome here if you have doubts, but if you are a "true believer" and are here because you think we're a virtual Kingdom Hall, you need to improve your reading comprehension.
i was recently given a gift of ancestry.com and i’m curious if anyone else has used this service?.
NewYork44M asked, "Those that did the test, how has this changed your life?
I have done 23andMe. I'm the kind who want to know if I have "genetic risks," so I followed that wherever it led. Nothing I didn't already know, no horrifying surprises. I got weary of the seemingly unending stream of questionaires, so I eventually withdrew. I also received messages from "4th cousins" that I was suspicious of. These experiences tend to temper interest.
So, bottom line, no change at all.
i was recently given a gift of ancestry.com and i’m curious if anyone else has used this service?.
If your family is a traveling circus of DNA - mine is ancient royalty* - then one of the DNA services might be really helpful in laying to rest some old family lies.
...just sayin'.
*We're from Atlantis - Atlantis City, NJ, to be precise.
i was recently given a gift of ancestry.com and i’m curious if anyone else has used this service?.
Yes, Min, I have used Ancestry for personal research into my tribe of Neanderthal troglodytes AND for research into the lives of various Watch Tower clowns. I'm 132% Neanderthal, y'know!
I like Ancestry, but it hasn't always given me answers as easily as the folks featured on the US TV show "Who Do You Think You Are?" get their answers. It also is not an -ahem!- inexpensive service.
will it be the complete and utter mismanagement of child abuse issues due to a total disregard for children and not wanting to bringing reproach upon corporate jehovah's name?.
or will it be some other thing?
i strongly think the governing body's days as g. o. d. are numbered due to their complete incompetence to rule a corporation, brought on by a big and getting bigger shadow, and a persistent denial of anything negative about their corporation's claims to be god's earthly organization.
I've been here for 18 years, and 18 years from now my parousia will have been here for 36 years...
I am convinced that only the individual death of each GB member will loose their grip on power,
OR
the emergence of a totalitarian dictator who who stomp the WTB&TS into non-existence,
OR
the slow passage of creeping aeons of failed prophecy piled upon failed prophecy upon failed prophecy that will wear down even the most devoted "Sister Busybodys" (combined, perhaps with a worldwide shortage of "acceptable, appropriate, non-threatening" doilies for Brother-Sister Busybody to wear as she executes her duties as de-facto "spiritual head."
As John Wick might have said, "Yeah, I guess you could say I have an ISSUE WITH THAT."
heh.
i am trying to get in contact with clive wren from the uk.
he served in croydon, gujarati and lymington.. not sure if he is still active or not.. if he is still serving the name of his congregation would be amazing.. thanks.
No one else has mentioned this... I'm trying to be HELPFUL... Bro. Wren may have flown the coop, eh?
...I'm laughing WITH you!
the deeper you dig--the less impressive jw’s become!___________________you may think you know the men who are vitally important to the birth of the religion--but chances are good you’ve been kept in the dark.. _____________.
did you know?the 1st case heard by the supreme court of the united states concerning the watchtower society involved a director (an officer) of the watchtower, william franklyn hudgings.. a brief description of hudgings and his character.hudgings was an attorney, quack doctor, self-identified ‘scientist’, a pro-zionist, and religious enthusiast who over the years held various director and officer positions in the watchtower society, and the affiliated people's pulpit association and international bible students association.
at the time of this particular case, william hudgings acknowledged being the corporate secretary of the people's pulpit association and acknowledged that his daily duties included the administrative charge of printing of the watchtower magazine, the bible student's monthly, the kingdom news, and other watchtower publications.. (hudgings was also re-elected to the watchtower society board of directors in january 1919.
Terry, I _ALWAYS_ learn something from your posts!
Thank you so much for the dogged detective work!
just saying i’m still alive and greeting everyone, veterans and newcomers to this forum.. 2018 was a year with a lot of turmoil in my life; me and my wife separated, then reunited months later, and spent the second half of the year healing the emotional wounds from that episode.
that, along with a record year in terms of my business meant that choices had to be made regarding my time, and i decided to focus on my marriage instead of other endeavours.
it seemed to have paid off.
Hey, EdenOne! Howdy!
http://boston.com/dailynews/013/ascribe/_end_of_world_has_already_begu%3a.shtml
end of world has already begun, university of washington scientists say in book 'the life and death of planet earth' .
by ascribe, 1/13/2003 11:57 .
Ooops! The world has already ended!
