http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28978655.
a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour has been taken without consent from hospital by his parents, sparking a major police hunt for the family.. ashya king was taken from southampton general hospital and is now believed to be in france with his parents and six siblings.. police said he needs constant medical care and there are "serious concerns" for his life if he is not found today.. brett king, 51, and naghemeh king, 45 removed him from the ward on thursday.. ashya's father was pictured taking him from the hospital"everyone is sending their love now.
we love you so much and we want to see you very soon and i love you so much and can't wait to see you.".
I'm wondering if there's something else involved. I had a look at the young man's FB page and it seems the little guy has been in hospital having treatment for over a month and he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. His last post was late Wednesday evening. It does seem a crazy thing to do but they seem like a well adjusted family. There's got to be more to this story than appears on the surface.
Nicolau, I hope you manage to get in touch with them somehow.
watchtower 1st february 1952 page 79.. god interprets and teaches, through christ the chief servant, who in turn uses sam, geoff, steve, gerrit, tony, mark and dave as the visible channel, the visible theocratic organization.. king david approached god through the priestly organization represented by abiathar, who had the ephod; and a servant of today must likewise look to sam and geoff etc (that's us by the way) for spiritual food that is timely and for directions in kingdom service.. you lot must show your understanding in these matters, appreciating your relationship to us, remembering the fate of those like korah and achan and saul and uzziah and others who forgot the theocratic order.. are you assigned as individuals to bring forth the food for the spiritual table?
no?
then don't try to take over our duties.. you should eat and digest and assimilate what is set before you, without shying away from parts of the food because it may not suit the fancy of your mental taste.. the truths you are to publish are the ones provided through sam, geoff and the rest of us, not some personal opinions contrary to what we have provided as timely food.. jehovah and christ direct and correct us as needed, not you as individuals.. if you do not see a point at first you should keep trying to grasp it, rather than opposing and rejecting it and presumptuously taking the position that you are more likely to be right than gerrit or tony.. you should meekly go along with us and wait for further clarification, rather than balk at the first mention of a thought unpalatable to you and proceed to quibble and mouth your criticisms and opinions as though they were worth more than our provision of spiritual food.. theocratic ones will appreciate us and not be so foolish as to pit against jehovahs channel their own human reasoning and sentiment and personal feelings..
Brilliant Thomas, it just shows the manipulation and control just by changing a few words here and there. I must admit to doing it myself whenever I have to sit through something at the KH. It keeps the eyes fully open to the mind control!
isn't going to be wonderful??.
not being there..
Only went to yesterday's (for hubby's sake). Can't stomach any more than that but something made me laugh. On the way back to the bus I overheard two sisters and I thought it perfectly captured the JW mindset!
Sister no.1 'I like these new understandings but I have to be honest I don't even remember the old ones.'
Sister no. 2: 'Well, I think that's a good thing isn't it?'
never was a jw, but been here long enough to have made some friends and respect opinions.. retired in 2004, lived in cyprus 2005-2010. back here in wales since then.. just back from a holiday in france (most recent of many).
love the country, the lifestyle, can get by in the language.. just seen an advert for a country estate (british-owned) they want someone to live on site, do a bit of handyman stuff, etc., look after (mainly brit) holiday visitors in return for zero rent (only utitlties).
family would be abe to come and stay for free.
Sounds brilliant! We have lots of hols in the Pyrenees (french side) in the summer and you're right about the scenery, it's stunning. So peaceful too, great slow pace of life. Not actually been to Andorra though I imagine it's not too different from the rest of the Pyrenees. Hope you find what you're looking for!
in addition to the recent thread, "how to shut your mind down .
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" (which is excellent) but there was another thread about the same time i'm searching for and unable to locate.
I find an antihistamine pill makes me sleep, only trouble is I can't wake up in the morning!
Another thing I've tried is acupressure. Just under the ankle bone is a pressure point on each side (in the dip below the bone). Press firmly on each side at the same time for 60 seconds while breathing slowly and deeply and relax your muscles then do the same with the other ankle. I have no idea why or how it works (for me) but it does, every time!
so i was looking at the boards not too long ago and saw a list of questions that were related to whether or not a religion was a cult that looked like it came from the watchtower.
i've been trying to find those questions again so i could find the watchtower and hopefully one day show this to my wife who is still asleep to the troof of the gb.. .
the help would be greatly appreciated.. .
Interesting that the article on propaganda was written in 1980. The same time Ray Franz was being ousted. Who knows if that wasn't written by someone who had woken up to it all and was trying to subtely warn others.
this topic is of a theological nature.
if you have some scriptural insight, please share.
grievances are not welcome!.
Although I believe in God and the bible etc. I think all this speculation is pretty pointless. As Searcher said Jesus told us we wouldn't know the day or hour.
Personally I've had enough of the WTS speculating about this sort of thing and getting it all wrong. How do we know that Daniel wasn't applying this prophecy to 70AD?
Why don't you get out and enjoy life now while it's still pretty peaceful? There'll be time enough to worry about things if things start getting bad (as they have in other countries). Why spend your life worrying about what might or might not happen in your lifetime? You may be dead long before anything bad happens and you'll have wasted all that time! Get out and enjoy life!!
i was surprised to read that the us has no minimum statutory paid leave.
in the eu the minimum is 20 days annually.
some countries give much more.
Yes, I read that a bill was introduced into Congress for a mandatory week's paid leave back in May but nothing's been done yet. Apparently it leaves an eigth of the US workforce with no paid holidays at all!
i haven't come across any arguement that does not involve secular history and external references.
in fact the wt can not get to 607 bce without using external sources as in knowing that they need to get back from 1914 ce to 607 bce, and botching an argument using an external date as reference to create their start point at 537 bce.. i realize that to get the final date we must provide a fixed figure from somewhere which can only be a historical source, but the objective would be to disprove the wt flim flam.
once that is achieve we can use which ever fixed historical point they wish to chose.
This is a great video on the subject. Easy to understand and easy to show JWs. he uses ONLY JW publications and the bible to prove it was 587BCE and not 607BCE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdn_t-Aj0jg&list=UUmFy5skgfYsQ36UG1isMNSg
i was surprised to read that the us has no minimum statutory paid leave.
in the eu the minimum is 20 days annually.
some countries give much more.
I was surprised to read that the US has no minimum statutory paid leave. In the EU the minimum is 20 days annually. Some countries give much more. (In the UK it's 28).
I realise that employers of good companies will grant paid leave, some maybe generously but what about the workers in companies that don't? Surely this is like being in an under developed country not one that claims to be a superior democracy!
How much paid leave do you get in your country? Or how good is your company (if you work for one) in giving paid leave?
