i was in full time service for six years including bethel.
once i got out of bethel, i figured i had already given them six of the best years of my life (ages 18-24) working as a slave/drone in their factory, so i rationalized that i had given them enough... so over the next 27 years i would say maybe $200 bucks is it.
i think their whole "voluntary contributions" idea is biting them in the ass, because over all jehovah's witnesses are a cheap group people with a few exceptions.
As a child from age 4-9 I used to put my pocket money in the donation box. But this was the late 80s and early 90s so it would only have been about 50p.
After than I donated sparingly. Not very much at all. Like pocket change.
when I moved out of my parents home I never donated a thing. At the time I felt a little guilty about it but looking back I'm so glad I never put any of my hard earned cash in there.
now i think i may have seen everything.. "boy crowned prom queen by schoolmates".
i'm all for people being entitled to wear what they want and live as they please as long as they're not harming anyone but - a male prom queen?
maybe there wasn't much competition in his school?.
Not that being a tranny is the same as a pedophile that I know of, in that they don't harm anyone or attack or pray on others that I know of. But neither do cutters or many other mental illnesses. But that is not to say they are OK. It could be that being a tranny is just a mental illness like a hoarder, does not really harm anyone, but its still a mental illness non the less.
Oosh! Dressing in womens clothes is relatively harmless I'd say. But let's not lump such persons into the same catagory as a pedophile. Oh, and "tranny"? WTF?
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source :.
https://twitter.com/jepthahsdaughte/status/1162740218031681542?s=20.
Was this during the session though? Looks like the kind of thing you'd see before it starts.
first of all, there's a new imaginary picture of jws during the great tribulation:.
then there's a picture of a jw family refusing to listen to "apostate lies" via pre-programed, self imposed information control:.
the description says:.
Wouldnt mind being locked in a bunker with her tho...
Almost makes me want to convert again.
this is what jesus said.
matt 24-14.
14 and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.. looking at this verse what is the central theme?
Hang on a second...
Do they preach about Gods Kingdom? NO instead they believe an angel named
Moroni provided gold plates in upstate New York which was the basics for book of Mormon
Mormons do indeed preach Gods Kingdom. But it's their interpretation of what that is. I could quite easily say that Jehovah's Witnesses preach 1914, overlapping generations and tight pants - which Jesus didnt do.
alex - thank you for your offer to have a conversation about evolution.. i accept the scientific evidence that all life - including humans - evolved from a common ancestor through unguided evolution over millions of years.
this isn't even a controversial position in the scientific community.. the evidence rests on the data from many interconnected fields including paleontology, comparative anatomy, geology and especially genetics.
it is no exaggeration to say that the evidence for your own non-human ancestry is contained in every cell in your body.. it is my experience that jws are generally quite ignorant (not in a pejorative sense) of the scientific case.
Was that it from the JW corner? Alex lasted 3 posts?
Almost feel sorry for him. That was a terrible attempt.
from the silly website today..... thursday, august 15god .
energizes you, giving you both the desire and the power to act.—phil.
2:13.courageous men who are willing to take on more responsibility are a blessing to a congregation.
The average age of a congregation's body of elders is going up, up, up, there are more and more "honorary" elders who just retain the title but who really can't do anything practical like give talks or make shepherding calls due to failing health. And there are fewer & fewer MS's to replace them, and fewer and fewer guys who even want to be a MS.
I smell some "new light" coming in the next decade or so. They'll go back to having a congregation "serivice directors" like in the days of Joseph Rutherford.
Lets not forget, Joe Rutherford (gods mouthpeice on earth) taught that the elder arrangemnt was unscriptural and that elders were "haughty" and "lazy". (Penton, Apocalypse Delayed)
I guess a broken clock is right at least twice a day!
first of all, there's a new imaginary picture of jws during the great tribulation:.
then there's a picture of a jw family refusing to listen to "apostate lies" via pre-programed, self imposed information control:.
the description says:.
So they're in lofts now, not the basement?
My question is, where do they go to the toilet? In a bucket?
once upon a time in... hollywood my review.
i rode my bike through 3-digit temperature and watched quentin tarentino’s new film.the title harkens back to sergio leone’s trilogy titles.. i wanted to see it for personal reasons.
the time span covered is the background to much of my life.
Been looking forward to this. Unfortunately it's not on here in the UK until the 14th.
spotted this on twitter (link) .
apparently someone set up arcade versions of jw video games for the international delegates visiting madrid.
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