Crazy guy where did you read the whole story about that family? I'd like to check it out.
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i noticed that in paragraph 13 they mention the girl sheryl that i believe was the same girl that was in their video about the typhoon that hit the philippines back in 2013. they talk as if she's so happy and thankful to jehovah even mention that she lost most of her family in that typhoon.
what they don't mention was her family members that were killed in that typhoon were inside a kh thinking they were going to be protected by jehovah since they were in gods house and his people and all.
they also fail to mention that the government authorities were telling people to get out of town but the elders were most likely telling the people in their congregations to stick around and just come to the hall.
Crazy guy where did you read the whole story about that family? I'd like to check it out.
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how to they deal with issues of child molesters or rapist that are not witnesses?
if a man rapes a witness that is not a witness, do they report it to the police or cover that up too?
if there child is molested say at school, does the two witness rules apply?
so here we are, almost a year into the "new" congregation donation arrangement.
and its beginning, as was predicted, to fail miserably, and to have direct negative consequences on the poor sheep.. let me give you a little experience, directly from our congregation of about 80 publishers.
back in may, after reading the letter about the "new" arrangement, the elder body decided to "donate" the extra funds on hand to wt, as directed.
The general attitude is to just get through the meeting and then get home to watch whatever was taped off the cable TV box.
lol... did you read my mind.
been hearing this from various people from the cong that jw.org is a clear sign that god is directing the org.. i have various friends in the it dept not only in brooklyn but mexico and colombia, just a fact there is 5 to 6 it dept all over the world that give support to jworgie 24/7... so i have ask them how they came up with the website wich is not the best but not the worst by far.
all four of them told me the same story, there is a brother in florida that is profesor of some kind computer class and as project he made them work on the website so students of these college helped launch this site.. so more like jah backing it has more like satan backing...
there has been more than a few posts about anthony morris iii and his talk about tight pants, spanx (spandex?
) and bethel as a destination vacation.. after the initial bewilderment and laughing about his diatribe, it is more clear to me that this was not about modest clothing choices, or spiritual priorities.. it was designed and succeeded as a slap in the face of all who listened.. the things he talked about are just not on the normal radar of anyone who listened.. i can recall nowhere in writing that ever encouraged families to go to bethel before disneyworld, mgm, etc; nowhere that talks about leggings or modern cut men's suits (it is just fashion, after all), or women wearing exercise clothing in public.
(on a side note, i have been to assemblies, there are just not many of us who could wear tight clothing and not look like stuffed sausage, so how many people was he aiming at here?).
They just arnt lapping it up as they used too in my area and my area was very very hard core for a long time.
I Agree, with the exception of those few die-hards. Not 2 months or so after this talk I was invited to someone's home for dinner and the sister that did the inviting had spandex pants on the whole time I was there. Her husband was dressed as your typical "off-duty" elder in khakis and a golf shirt but his wife was in "spanx" panty lines and all.
JW's in general, do not seem to care as much as they used to. They may not vocalize it, they may criticize those who are vocal, but by their actions they are showing that they know some of this drivel is non sense.
one cant help but notice all of the dramatic changes thathave been happening to the organization.
this is not the religion that i grewup in.
im not saying that the religion that i grew up in was better, justdifferent.
It really is quite fascinating when you look at the WT Org's history, particularly when the majority of the GB has had a turnover. Russell, then he died and when JFR took over there was a schism and the ones that continued to believe in Russell's teachings were labeled "apostates" while the one's that embraced JFR's changes were renamed Jehovah's Witnesses.
JFR hired a new prophet named Fred Franz to be his main writer and doctrine maker...this continued after JFR's death with Knorr also using Freddie. Under Freddie and Knorr they expanded the GB with hand picked individuals who for the most part followed Freddie's lead.
Finally after Knorr and then Freddie died this hand picked GB continued for a while holding the mantle but also making some changes then they eventually had to fill in replacements with their hand picked friends. Then they started dying off so these hand picked friends made more changes, and so and so forth until here we are today.
It seemed to me that many of the changes started with Ted Jaracz's death and continued until some of Ted's closest, hand picked GB members were out numbered then more changes happened. Might be a coincidence but seems like with the death of Guy Pierce in particular changes have be in overdrive.
It all remains to be seen what will happen when Losch, Splane, Herd die off and what their replacements will then do.
if you, like me, have noticed the sudden increase in hysteria in the khs right now, i put it down to that jw tv site.
its's far more extensive than i thought it was, i thought it was just 1, 1 hour program a month.
there's a s*** load of videos on that site.. and the real problem, from just watching a clip from each video, is that these guys are clearly "mentally unstable".
There is only a small percentage of JW's that really can be considered "hardcore" these days. While that Jim Jones pic above is interesting I seriously doubt that any command like that would ever be issued let alone followed. This is a cult but not an extreme cult in that sense, the few wack-jobs aside.
The only real issue I have with the JW Broadcasting, being that I am still an active JW, is that this is just one more thing to guilt trip people about on the congregation level. Now, before and after the meetings and during F/S this is how the conversations go: "hey good point in the latest broadcast right?" "wow did you catch that interview or that morning worship video.. so hard hitting" In other words this is turning into a way to identify "spiritually weak" individuals in the congregation. It is clever.
ever had this thought about an upcoming movie?.
and then i would feel guilty for putting my entertainment desires ahead of god's kingdom.. .
shameless!.
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2014/12/22/jehovahs-witnesses-buy-fishkill-rivercrest-apartments/20788311/.
jehovah's witnesses now owns a major apartment complex in the town of fishkill.. tenants say they've been told their leases will not be renewed.. the sale of the 250-unit rivercrest luxury apartments closed dec. 3, the deed on file at the dutchess county clerk's office shows.
while sale price is not stated, the transfer tax indicates a transaction for $57 million.. rivercrest is a modern development west of route 9d just north of beacon and was a project of avr realty, which also developed other housing and commercial spaces in that area as well as projects in eight states.. the sale deed is between rivercrest development llc, based in yonkers, and watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc. as the buyer.
Yeah, throw the worldly scum out onto the street! Bird food is wall they are, bird food!
This would likely be no different if it were another company purchasing this complex. Its business, granted you'd think so-called christians would be a little more kind but it is what it is.
i never had the privilege to serve at bethel .. therefore, community help is greatly appreciated friends.. do the gb members have their own living quarters separate from the average jw?.
does their "busy" schedule permit field service, if yes, how many hours a month?.
how long are their weekly wednesday meetings?.
Whoa take it easy on the NYC bashing people, its a great city.