on one of those pentecostal cults ,the poor buggers that got out and spoke of their experiences reminded me of the wts so much!
yep, Mrs Ozzie and i both thought of the parallels to the WTS, especially the shunning and breaking up of families.
Notice how God spoke through th elders? Now where have we heard that before?
BTW don't assume that Pentecostal and cult are necessarily words that go togther.
terry gave me a copy of "in search of christian freedom"...no disrespect to ray franz...i am bored to tears....can't get past the frist chapter...soaked up coc, turned around and soaked it up again.... highly recomend coc to any jw (one that's not brain dead) or ex-jw (also not brain dead) who needs to know something about how the tower works....great book.... sigh, i seem to no longer have the attention span it takes to read a book of this depth....a sad commentary on me...has the internet dumbed some people down to the point that they can no longer read a book?
if that's what's happended somebody shoot me please... .
stilla:
Try The Gentile Times Reconsidered - that is a great read
you're stillawag!
decades ago, when my brother was a teenager and i a young 20 something year old full of the truth, he got disfellowshipped for inappropriate behavior with his 17-year old girlfriend.
he cried.
i remember it like it was yesterday.
.....seconded?
decades ago, when my brother was a teenager and i a young 20 something year old full of the truth, he got disfellowshipped for inappropriate behavior with his 17-year old girlfriend.
he cried.
i remember it like it was yesterday.
Don't go welcoming him! He's from downunder - ya know what bastards they are!
anyone else hate this practice?
uve been sitting all day 4 three days @ this place and u just wanna hurry up and finish ur cleaning assignment so u can go out to eat w/ ur friends, but bro.
special speaker from bethel/or do has to give a one man symposium during his prayer recapping every single moment of the past 3 days.. its like they have this formula that they use to determine how long a prayer should be.
I beleive it was a guy called Ernie Beever but correct me if I'm wrong.
An unconventional man. See your mailbox.
anyone else hate this practice?
uve been sitting all day 4 three days @ this place and u just wanna hurry up and finish ur cleaning assignment so u can go out to eat w/ ur friends, but bro.
special speaker from bethel/or do has to give a one man symposium during his prayer recapping every single moment of the past 3 days.. its like they have this formula that they use to determine how long a prayer should be.
The all time worst District Convention concluding prayer of all time that I had the misfortune of enduring through, was the year I was dunked, Fred Franz was in town vactioning and just dropped by to give the concludingprayerlecture. He droned on and on for over 10 minutes
From what I remember, he made a habit of it!
anyone else hate this practice?
uve been sitting all day 4 three days @ this place and u just wanna hurry up and finish ur cleaning assignment so u can go out to eat w/ ur friends, but bro.
special speaker from bethel/or do has to give a one man symposium during his prayer recapping every single moment of the past 3 days.. its like they have this formula that they use to determine how long a prayer should be.
Reason is- giving the concluding prayer at a DC is evidence that you are damn spiritual.
Seems like it, doesn't it? The length of the prayer increases in direct relation to the depth of spirituality, eh?
apparently, a cruise ship got caught in a typhoon that hit the r.o.p.
[republic of the philippines].the estimated death toll is approximately 700, or about half the number who perished on the titanic.
i fear that the death toll in the latest cruise-ship disaster could actually be higher than 700. my fear comes from the fact that 700 were officially registered as being on board.
A correction is needed.
Unfortunately, there exists the common practice of cramming many more people on board, people who are not recorded in the official registry or log.
I wasn't aware that cruise ships overloaded their capacity, so I checked for the report and sure enough, it was a ferry!!
RESCUERS are searching seas near a capsized ferry in the Philippines as fears grow for more than 800 people missing after it sank in a typhoon.
Coast guard boats searched the area around the 23,824-tonne ferry and divers were expected to drill into the side of the vessel where they hope survivors might be alive in air pockets.
Twenty-eight passengers and crew were the most recently found survivors of the ferry disaster, having landed at a small coastal village after drifting for more than 24 hours in a rubber boat, radio dzBB reported.
this is for the really die hard researcher .
reference is made of this case in penton's book... ''jehovah's witnesses in canada: ''.
champions of freedom of speech and worship .
Interesting that the case is actually "Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses".
The use of the word "congregation" as in JWs is only of more recent origin - they used to be known as "companies'.
ok, i was working on my project about "new light" and i came across a very interesting statement that was made 24 years ago via the wt:.
december 1, 1984 watchtower:.
"....have apostates who claim that "the last days" began at pentecost and cover the entire christian era promoted christian alertness?
"....Have apostates who claim that "the last days" began at Pentecost and cover the entire Christian Era promoted Christian alertness? Have they not, rather, induced spiritual sleepiness?...."Yep, it's true, they have become sleepy!
