witnessing would cease, would it flow on to attendance numbers at meetings and then total decimation of the church..
Jesus would not be recommended by the elders since he was technically inactive for not turning in his time, ha.
This weekend i overheard a conversation from a couple on the LDC and they can't count their hours worked at k.h.'s but they get special consideration for the hours. Not sure what that meant.
i've just been watching a youtube video that reveals the new assembly hall in orangeburg, sc.. two things struck me when watching it.... firstly, everything is attributed to jehovah, right down to deciding the location where the hall is to be built.
"we examined over 300 properties," said one interviewee, "we were reminded that jehovah knew where the site was, we just had to keep looking and show him that we were persistent.
" other workers interviewed throughout the video attribute everything to god, as though it is impossible to build anything without divine direction.. here is the video.... .
Meanwhile in Africa they are sitting on wood benches with dirt floors! The end is so near, lets build a multi million dollar assembly hall.
officer james givens has served with the cincinnati police department for over 26 years, but has never quite experienced anything like this before.
he was sitting in his patrol car in a parking lot when he got an unexpected visitor.
a goose came up to his car and started pecking on the side of it.
Thats a pretty cool story
i mailed the below letter to my mother a few weeks ago.
i did share it on the ex-jw facebook group but thought i'd post it here.. basically, she's shunned me since day 1, has little or nothing to do with my 3yo daughter and told my sister "i hope <my daughter> becomes a jw when she's older so i can welcome her into the family".
well, that was the last straw for me..
Great letter, and i think she will read it all the way thru in the privacy of her home. She will feel bad for doing so, but curiosity will get the best of her no doubt.
so as of july 2nd my wife delivered by c-section our little one pound, three ounce daughter izabella.
it was a very scary night that started with a decel and turned into multiple decels that greatly concerned the doctors.
by early morning they felt the need to take her for her safety.
congrats. A friend of mine had a situation very similar to yours 16 years ago. She is also named Isabella and doing perfectly fine today :) She fit in the palm of his hand when she was born and weighed around 2 lbs if i remember right.
same theme scripture as last week deut 32.
3/4 "a god... who is never unjust".
do i share that spirit ?
I got a kick out of how they talked about first century "elders" and the "governing body" in the first centuy. No where does the bible talk about either of these men does it? They apply their new school words to the old school bible to manipulate peoples thinking.
Also someone made a comment about the opening picture and how some had beards and others did not, and how they were supposed to be accepting of that. Funny how no one accepts anyone with a beard today though.
getting the second tattoo soon, in a long line of many to come!
any of you other sinners getting ink'd on a regular basis?
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The argument that it won't look good on your body at 70 or 80 years old.......well, nothing will look that good on your body at that point :)
growing up as a jw, i was told that kiss stood for knights in satan's system (or service).. i just did a google search and learned it's not true.
it's actually not an acronym for anything.. to be honest, apparently it's not just the jws who believe it means something related to satan.. http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/kiss.asp.
one day paul [stanley] and peter [criss] and i were driving around, brainstorming for new names.
Haha i remember that too. Witnesses always gotta demonize everything. ac/dc i was told stood for all children/devils children.
some congregations were known as liberal and others were considered very conservative.
back in the 1970s a nearby congregation made all speakers who gave public talks a white shirt to wear.
if a speaker came in wearing anything but white they were brought into the library and were given a white shirt!
We were counseled for hanging out with another witness couple too often, even though everyone was in good standing and for going to a bar (they didn't call it a bar though, they referred to it as a place with a "long thing") Ha, such morons.
i was approached by two jehovah’s witness elders who handed me a pamphlet advertising the jw .org website.
each man carried a bible and an apple ipad.
they told me that they enjoyed visiting with people about the bible, and asked if i was a bible reader.
Awesome job. You are every witnesses worst nightmare at the door lol. I hated getting people that knew their bible, and you know it better than 99% of witnesses!
