just been catching up on the case of jamal khashoggi.. khashoggi was a saudi journalist who 'went missing' on 2 october after visiting the saudi consulate in istanbul.. he visited the consulate in order to get paperwork that confirmed he was divorced from his ex-wife and free to marry his turkish fiancée.. the details that are emerging are harrowing and show just how barbaric the saudi regime is.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6288131/jamal-khashoggis-apparent-murder-follows-disappearance-three-exiled-royal-princes.html.
these assassins are the kinda people my government (uk) and other western governments are doing business with, propping up, and acting all smiley with in front of the cameras.. i suddenly feel the need to take a shower ....
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ratified the International Convention against Torture in October 1997 according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Wikipedia
State is breaking international law
The Saudi Arabian delegation's abstention of ratifucation of human rights andwas prompted primarily by two of the Declaration's articles: Article 18, which states that everyone has the right "to change his religion or belief"; and Article 16, on equal marriage rights.[21
alexander janneaus ruled (and also served as high priest) in jerusalem between 103 and 76 bce.
the books of maccabees provide information for the start of this historical period, brought to an end by herod the great now archaeological evidence has emerged in jerusalem of his murderous reign.
this times of israel article diuscusses the evidence and how the story was put together.
As the time between 537 BCE (God's people returns from captivity) to 14 .CÈ Tiberius becomes ceasar)is not part of our bible, what happened in this time - whether cruel or not - is not important. It lays in the dark for bible readers. The only thing relevant was that the temple was rebuilt and so we know that the jehoba again blessed the people whom he allowed to be scattered before and gave inn the hand of their enemies Such of a story I would have to believe if the written is all
how many think they will announce in the annual meeting they just gonna have one meeting a week?
if they dont it will be astonishing, amazing and other things..
Shouldn't it start only after sunset in Pennslvenia, BY and Warwick ?
it really hurt to hear brothers and sisters commenting about this at the meeting yesterday.. "as in solomon’s case, one of the greatest threats to spirituality is friendship with those who do not understand or respect jehovah’s standards.
some may be associated with the congregation but may be spiritually weak.
others could be relatives, neighbors, coworkers, or schoolmates who are not worshippers of jehovah.
A spiritually weak person = looser in the game: one who thinks yet for himself and doesn't everything what Mr Madwick desires. One who needs to feel shame for not being strong and not being a line. One who needs to be exposed publicly in the publication and through rebuke by exposers who only work with him for the purpose to change him, so that he is not a danger for the strong, to whom he is a permanent harm.and warning: never let me be like her/him
A strong minded : one who gave up own goals and totally agrees, who doesn't allow own goals to mix up with Mr Madwicks goals, nor does she/he allow herself to doubt anymore, nor does she he tolerate weak ones any more,cause being strong is cooler. Always on the platform, pulling, pushing, bullying. The player, the masked one with cynical insight, the Aaarrgghh guy., the awkward one who goes so far and exposes the weak one, proofes the weak one's testimoniaks and judges about her goals, because he has the might. (Org guy)
Strength is then positive, if it is true strength, true greatness, genuine love.
i have listened to steven unthank`s podcast and found it very informative and interesting and thought i would ask this question for anyone who is still a practicing member either a pimo or a pomo who only goes along for a family member ,whether this doctrine is still a part of the religions teachings ,or whether it has been dropped altogether .. your replies are much appreciated ..
Funny quotes from the Sixties
" awake world-watchman, the “slave” class" haha.
"The facts show that during this time and up to the present hour the “slave” class has served as God’s sole collective channel for the flow of Biblical truth to men on earth" .channel for the flow....channel for the flow. ...haha
"through this unique channel actually as a miraculous evidence of the operation of holy spirit". Haha.
So, aside from the awake remnant of the “slave” class, all others of mankind were found to be spiritually asleep up to 1931. They were all fatally heading for Armageddon’s destruction. By 1931 the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergy were snoring in even deeper spiritual slumber than prior to 1914. Not an awake watchman among them.
in 1918, the remnant of the slave class was cleansed from worldly and religious defilement.
hahahaha.
follow the awake “faithful and discreet slave” class Your happiness now and in the future new world depend upon your working with the remnant
However identufication of collective FDS as remnant class has disappeared.
Now it's only a composite slave. But not any longer "class.
What anyhow remains is the
"bride class, lazarus class, anointed class, rich man-class, the goat class, sheep class, kings daughter class Jeremiah class phhhhhh
Short the class is the whole, the slave is the spiritual leader feeding... a kind of "upper class" not to mix up with gilead class.
i have listened to steven unthank`s podcast and found it very informative and interesting and thought i would ask this question for anyone who is still a practicing member either a pimo or a pomo who only goes along for a family member ,whether this doctrine is still a part of the religions teachings ,or whether it has been dropped altogether .. your replies are much appreciated ..
In the late 18th century, the term "class" began to replace classifications such as estates, rank and orders as the primary means of organizing society into hierarchical divisions. This corresponded to a general decrease in significance ascribed to hereditary characteristics and increase in the significance of wealth and income as indicators of position in the social hierarchy.
Class is not a biblical term. So it had to cease after It got outdated. It was useful in its time to mobilise the rank and file and call it great crowd Class followers of the remnant or bride class.
rev.14: 1-6 describes the 144000 as males who do not defile themselves with women and are classed as virgins.?.
how does the governing body of j.w.`s explain that a man having a sexual relationship with a woman defiles a man?.
isn`t this or shouldn`t this be an affront to women who are jehovah`s witnesses ?
Gods mouthpiece said:
And this holds true also in the way Jehovah selects those who are to be associated with his Son in the Kingdom government. How thankful the great crowd of other sheep can be that faithful women, such as Jesus’ mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, Priscilla, Tryphaena, Tryphosa, and a host of others IN THE EARLY Christian congregation (NOTE: not today) now share in the Kingdom rule, enriching that government with their intimate understanding of the feelings and experiences of womenfolk! What loving foresight and wisdom on Jehovah’s part"
as well as
These all must receive a change of nature at their resurrection, being made partakers together of “divine nature,” in which state none will be women, for there is no female sex among spirit creatures, sex being God’s means for reproduction of earthly creature
Jehovahs heavenly women ip-2 223-224 have no female sex, so the husbandly owner will change the sex of women into male to mix them up into the divine nature.
But how can the no resureccted male-women have further the same intimate feelings in exectuing the kingdom rule governance, if they are not any longer women?. Wouldnt such trans-women who are ruling with Christ in the Rulership be to nice, to caring and to compassionate and compete with the male-sex rulers, who are also called "heavenly woman" funnily enought also they are male? What is better a women-attitude or a male-attitude in kingdom governance?
But obvioulsy the are only enriching the male governance (womenfolk), but not deciding what men will do, they will further subordinate themselves under the male rulership, which is only called "heavenly woman", to play a kind of love to the great crowd, a love that will not really be reflected in the rulership of the princes in the new system/world. How could the womenfolk ever decide?
never giving up the ethiopian orthodox faith and its joyous holidays for a publishing company gone bonkers.
i love everything about being orthodox christian.
my wife can stay or leave..
Happy New Year.
Jesus and today's Jews also celebrate new year from 9 th - 11 September.
It's a big festival called Rish ha Shannah.
The festival is about trumpets and rapture. About a new beginning And the coming of the lord
https://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/09/06/amway-founder-magic-owner-richard-devos-dies-age-92/.
i've heard people say amway was a little culty for a business, and reminded them of jws in some ways.
i'm not familiar with amway myself, can anybody here elaborate?.
Certainly this scheme will survive. I had two encounters. In both cases I was suddenly invited in private homes, where I got a lot of upbuilding information about successful and happy life.
One person had a good job and a beautiful loft. The other lived in a little one and told me of his big house at a lake he has built in Hungary where it was cheaper. They wanted to appear sucessful.
Both guys were rhetoric genius . It was an experience like, if you not begin to work for a Amway you are completely ignoring reality of life. It was really hard to say okay, I got it, thanks. Can we talk about something else? It was really hard to say goodby, eithout looking stupid, if I not joined or wanted further contact. He gave me his card. I was jobless and looked for a job.
This happened after JW and gladly I read about Amway in an info at the commercial chamber,.that it was a certain business scheme.
yesterday, my classmate was giving an example from her homeland on how people can give various interpretations which have nothing to do with truth.
though studying in the us, she was closely monitoring what was happening in kerala (a small southern state of india), her birth place.
last month saw unprecedent heavy rains wreaking widespread havoc in this small state with huge population (which is much more than australia’s population).
Do you mean that for 45 million pilgrims there is only one temple in Sabarimala?
Pilgrims
A prayer for Ayya.
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/a-prayer-for-ayya/236222
I dont understand how it can be "attractive" for women to fight for their right to go to exactly this one temple,
that is overcrowded under the deluge and in a desastrous state.
Garbage—empty bottles, plastic packets, leftovers and what have you—is routinely dumped into the river. However, the main source of contamination is the "overflow from latrines" that line the steep terrain along the riverbanks. Even at the sanctum sanctorum, the sewerage drains into a part of the hillock and gets washed downstream into the Njunangar rivulet that joins the Pampa.
