extreme hair styles can easily lead one into a trap of the devil also, and cause others to stumble.
for example, a young man in the united states was making fine progress in his study of the bible, and he was moved to share with an experienced witness in preaching to others about the good things he was learning from the bible.
from early youth he had let his beard grow, and since some in the business community wore beards, he felt that his wearing one in preaching to others would be acceptable generally.
I read something recently that touches on this subject that I had never heard before. I've been reading the book 'Epidemics and Society' by Frank Snowden, and in the chapter about Tuberculosis, he comments that in the early 1900's it was commonly believed that going cleanshaven was a protection against contracting and spreading TB. Made me wonder if this could have been one of the reasons Rutherford was against beards.
Just a thought
la norvegia non è caduta nella trappola della torre di guardia di agosto.. https://files.accessjw.org/s/sdzfgcgk4bi48jb.
The Norway flag in the shape of the Christian Cross is just icing on the cake
a single sister in her 40s and her two single daughters were visiting my mom.
i would say her daughters are in their early 20s.
my mom got sleepy and we put her to bed but the three sisters stayed to finish their drinks..
I do miss Billy the ex-Bethelite
interesting video connects the dots.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ff1ibybfe4&t=205s&pp=2ahnazacaq%3d%3d.
The OP video is a reasonable explanation.
It wouldn't be the first time that 'doctrine' changed due to maneuvering to satisfy a legal requirement. I have my own theory that many of the changes that dated to the '40s and early '50s were maneuvers to satisfy the courts (particularly in the US) regarding getting ministerial status for JW men. It was all about the draft back then.
what i would like to see and maybe will get there in about another ten years is being a jw is a rewarding thing that enriches your life.. just like other religions out there you may not know the entire truth and maybe not quite right many of the beliefs but to have to idea of a belief centres and stabilises you.. i would like jws to be able to celebrate birthdays and maybe even other holidays if they choose to and not be judged by those who choose not to.. i would like jws to be allowed to have different interpretations of scripture and everyone is happy to agree to disagree and be able to say to each other yes maybe that interpretation is nearer the truth.
we just don’t know.. i would like new members of the gb to issue an apology for previous members getting so many things wrong.. they need to come out and say they were wrong about 1914 this date has no scriptural significance and the same is true of 1919. jws were not chosen in 1919 as the one and only true religion.. we just don’t know about so many things and it takes humility to admit we were wrong.. i would like to see even more lightening up on stupid restrictions like young people being allowed to have a varied friends and activities that are not with jws only..
You dream a lot too!
watchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.
average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.
baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.
From the thread title: "JWs hit 9 million Publishers"
Are you one of the 9 million publishers hit by JWs this year?
Good one!
news is that the ramapo project has been approved by authorities and can move forward..
Tuxedo and Fishkill are a couple of places I have heard of. I think Tuxedo is slated to be for sale at some point; it was considered temporary housing from the beginning.
hello!i am an independent scholar and researcher with a deep curiosity for ancient cultures and texts.
i do not adhere to any religious tradition, but my passion for understanding the mysteries of our past has led me to explore biblical stories in depth.
my particular interest lies in the original hebrew text of the bible, which i find fascinating both as literature and as a source of historical riddles.i recently completed a study that might change the way you perceive some well-known biblical stories.
Thanks Kaleb. I knew the OP was kind of outlandish, just didn't know what to say about it.
what is the purpose of yorww having a creed & the forty (40) basic, fundamental truth requirement?.
many people have wondered about the above question and our stand on the forty (40) basic, fundamental truths, and why we make it a requirement for individual jehovah's witnesses to believe these ideas before...before they can join our five (5) discussion boards.well, its called the yorww congregation, isn't it?its a congregation of like believers and persons of like faith.
(matthew 18:20) so they are supposed to agree on their beliefs, exactly as first century christians agreed upon their beliefs.
OK, first if you are going to use some made-up acronym, first define it. Otherwise it is all BS.
edited to add; and NO I am not clicking on your link
watchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.
average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.
baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.
I might be wrong, but I think you would have to click the box in their app to be counted as a publisher. They asked me for my email address so they could send me a 'personal invitation' to download the app, but when I refused they were miffed.
