from what i understand, a letter was read this past week in regards to congregation reassignments and that the elders want to meet with people at their homes to tell them where they have been reassigned.
obviously, this would be due to the merging and dissolution of congregations.
can anyone confirm this?.
Why don't sell all of the KH, all of them. The elders and MS could then rent a very small office in town to keep the little stuff like books and magazines, remember that now they don't need too much space !
Then the elders could broadcast the meeting to the RF, (make them log to control, of course). THAT SAVES MONEY. Leave physical meetings just for conventions. Just brainstorming.
over a period of time i got to thinking - what does the word 'apostate' mean to me.
having given it some thought, this is my view;.
the org has given the word its own definition and basically use it to demonise people and consider them pariahs.. however, the jw meaning of 'apostate' is a mere word and only has power if recognised as such.
Oh, they could say that I'm an 'apostate' but in reality I'm a member of the 'Reformed Worlwide JW' ....care to join?. Just to make your day Tallon.
the attack by gog of magog with commentary watch to the end.
talk from the 2018 convention .watch till the end.
That's why Russia is so wrong harassing JW's , they just fueling the paranoia ! Leave the Borg alone Mr. Putin, the would fade eventually by themselves.
with all this talk about ai taking over jobs and finding cures by feeding it proper input data and a whole host of other tasks why not have scientist put up a site run by artificial intelligence to deprogram people from cults and offer them counseling as what to do after leaving the mind control cult.. i know this might be a very touchy place to put ai i think it would offer scientist working with ai to test its capabilities and do a public service at the same time.. perhaps offer it honestly to the public who are having doubts about a specific organization that is unduly controlling their lives.. and great if that would pass a turing test:.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/turing_test.
Oh...have you heard about JW net?....that site is a really effective deprogramming AI thing for all the Borg stuff.
when you grow up and look back on childhood belief you have to laugh at how.
easter bunnies and santa were all too plausible for children because trusted adults who were otherwise unimpeachable sources of truth and reality assured and reassured kids.
why wouldn't they accept it?jehovah's witness kids didn't have santa, we had armageddon.only this morning i suddenly asked myself why i ever accepted the idea of a war in heaven as even remotely sane.
Just imagine, "war in Heaven", as is depicted, fought with swords, bows, arrows, and of course, horses. Not that the spiritual sphere is advanced like 13 billion years or so. And no casualties, just prisoners.
I mean, we humans should copy that.
trump - putin summit today, putin said : "cold war has ended, difficulties in us - russia relations don't have any objective reasons" .
it's gonna be another stunt, too much interests in keeping the worldwide weapons race and the inmense profits.....
Trump - Putin summit today, Putin said : "cold war has ended, difficulties in US - Russia relations don't have any objective reasons" . It's gonna be another stunt, too much interests in keeping the worldwide weapons race and the inmense profits....
a thrift store down the street is run by members of a small, local christian congregation.
evangelical but not sure what religion they are affiliated with.
they have set up the store as a non-profit and have a specific use for the funds they acquire.
Ohhh...and a playground for little kids too...please.
i think this is a well developed discussion, of ian stevenson's work in investigating people's past lives claims.
it's a little long.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0attm9hgcdw.
Of course there's an afterlife, just remember the parable about the rich man and Lazarus....ohh...wait....were in JW land...no there isn't an afterlife.
being the loving god that he is :).
how do you imagine this playing out.
let's say eve didn't eat and so we didn't fall into sin.. what do you think god would have done with satan and his demons?.
The thing that baffles me is how something perfect could turn to the 'dark side'. Adam and Eve is a children's tale. What about the angels that choose to make themselves a body so the could have sex with women!. Imagine perfect entities that had lived forever choose the dark side. On the other hand imagine Jesus and the history of having the option to have 'all the kingdoms of the world' , he as a perfect entity could have accepted. I mean those literary tales are so powerful that is not a mystery why people get so fanatic sometimes.
just read a post on facebook where somebody is making some wild crazy-talk about the descendants of cain being the beast of revelation or something.. cain was always a strange tale to me.
don't people use any critical thinking skills when they read this stuff?
everybody knows cain killed his brother abel, but do they ever look at the surrounding tale?.
Why Abel wasn't able to defend himself? Why this crimen was allowed? Why the 'eye by eye' law was not used? And the discussion continues, on and on....
