wt 6/15 1962 p.380-383.
"likewise it is possible to spend valuable time speculating on matters concerning the future.
one might ask, in what year will armageddon begin?...jehovah has not provided answers at this time.
Hi again DOT!
It's a bit sad than a lot of people only remebber you defending WT-doctrine. But you know, such defenders are unique at this board. I hope you are not to much offended ........but I understand that it's not nice being met with suspicion.
Sometimes I think we are prone to be to suspicios about people changing their mind. And maybe a bit to quick to call people trolls.
Keep doing your research DOT. Take care.
kendall lakes congregation (miami fl usa), partook of the emblems.
he is an elder(40), his wife and their 2 daughters (21 &19), all 4 are also regular pioneers.
another 6 pioneers in that congregation partook of the emblems..
So 10 partakers in one congregation. All of them pioneers. Hmmm. if this can be verified it's interesting.......something seems to happen among the insiders and very active ones.
snapper creek (miami, fl) congregation, had 2 pioneers (female), partake at the memorial for the first time.
one is 20 years old, the other 23.. the gt delayed again!!
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I just wonder for how long they will remain pioneers. Probably the elders will take some action.
the just of the account, two people enter a city and can not .
find lodging.
an old man invite them to stay with him (levite).. this is so weird, all the men of the city come to have sex with.
I am not sure, but I think according to most scholars this story in Judges is older than the Story of Lot in Genesis. Probably some detail in the story of Lot is a copy of this story.
I did not get invited....in fact I celebrated 25 years without going to memorial tonight!
i was just thinking randomly.
why/how are sexual desires really that much of a sin??.
sexual energy is one of the highest forms of energies known, why would god put this strong desire in us only to have us repress it through his"word the bible"??.
You have already gviven the answer.......the high energy of sexual desire......of course religion have to try to control that energy. If religion cannot control that energy it cannot control anything. That's why religion and sex is so connected.
Lugna puckar, Bamse!
Nice with some more scandinavians/swedes here.
Why not: "Hey, did you tell the girls to take our wine with them?"
Yes, I do, but I very seldom get PMs!
when i saw this article's title in the latest kingdom ministry - http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/278822/1/june-2014-kingdom-ministry-km-06-2014-pdf - i was delighted!!.
i thought, "at last, we are all being encouraged to visit our poor brothers & sisters in nursing homes, who feel abandoned!.
nope, that's not it - it's all about targetting non-witnesses in those establishments, and get them to sign up for "bible" studies.
"They need their wills. And yes most are mentally or physically disabled to a degree."
I'm afraid this is at least an important factor.
just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
Just one more thought.
I know some cases in my country where an elder or a group of elders have been pushing elderly people (mostley women/widovs) to change their wills. In one case the elders had formulated a new will and pushed the lady to sign it. The lady felt so bad about it that she told her daughter about it, and she helped her mother annulate that will.
So the thought of elders looking at tax returns is not that farfetched.
