ok some of you will laugh at this, but it's true, there is a spirit that haunts the premises where i work.. it has spoken to me once when i was locking up, it was 1 single word "hello", i looked around and saw nothing, i ignored it, set the alarm locked the door & went home.
other times i have felt something brush passed me as i have entered the building early in the morning.
the experience that got to me most happened the other nite when i was called back to the store by security, as i pulled into the drive way there was a man standing at the rear of the building, in the split second of looking away he dissapeared, there's no way that he could have run off the property in that split second.. what do you think?.
... Sounds like the work of O' Munaciello... just any Neapolitan:
"The story of ‘o Munaciello, is one of the most famous legends in Napoli, and one of the most interesting. In Neapolitan dialect, ‘o Munaciello means The Little Monk. This little monk can be nice and hide money somewhere within a person’s house or play harmless jokes. The monk can also be cruel; breaking plates, whispering non-sensical phrases in people’s ears while they sleep, or hiding household objects."
nothing feeds a starving person quite like a watchtower.. .
Arthur Goux, who was deposed in Leo's transcript, was one of the wackiest members of the Bethel family; "eccentric" doesn't even begin to describe him. He's of a type that would be incapable of surviving in the world beyond the doors of Bethel.
alot of members don't have a flag or country name beside their user name, and well frequently one doesn't know where that particular person is from, tell us your country, state, county or what ever you feel like giving out.
if you are going to post please at least devulge your country.. me, i'm originally from taranaki, new zealand via auckland.
for the most of this decade i have been living & working in brisbane, queensland, australia.. .
Italia, ever hear of it?
this material is so important that i felt compelled to recommend it even though it costs a few dollars.
while you're reading what this sick child was put through at the hands of ignorant religious zealots, i think you will feel the emotional pain and anger i did.
how in the world can the witnesses in this child's world believe that they have love for others, when by their actions, they demonstrated that they don't.
"This is the unique story written by a hemophiliac who spent part of her childhood in a fundamentalist cult......" Thank God she lived to tell the tale. Blessings to her, and to you and Joe as well.
IsaacAustin: You have a PM
roger insellman, barry sobieski and wade payne were three of the poorest cos i can remember in the decades i was a jw.
sobieski was a bully, using his authority to intimidate as much as possible.
insellman was just not personable, and was such a company man is so many ways.
Barry Sobieski is now a DO somewhere in the New Jersey/Pennsylvania area. I served with him as fellow book study conductors in the Brooklyn Heights congregation when we were at Bethel. A totally humorless, wooden by-the-book figure as I remember him.
disproving the date 1914 as a significant year in bible prophecy is of great importance to some (e.g.
carl o. jonsson).
along with the meticulous details of bible and secular chronology, broadening one's horizons when assessing exactly what this date represents when compared against the 6000 years of human history likewise has merit.
Spade:
"I don't understand Carl O. Jonsson's motivation. Really." If that's the case, why not simply ask him, as we did you? He's not inacessible. He occasionally posts on Channel C
i guess the witnesses are rejoicing over the death and destruction of the latest earthquake in n.z.as proof of the imminent coming of armageddon,and their deliverance into the "new world system of things" i can just see it now ,the kh`s in nz will be filled to overflowing in the next month,......then in six months later it will be back to the status quo.. p.s when jesus said their would be" earthquakes in one place after another" couldn`t he have identified these areas for the faithfull ?
so at least beleivers would have been spared the trauma ?
of course non beleivers would have suffered the consequences,but why should beleivers suffer also ?.
So far there are no reported casualties or missing among our brothers and sisters...
As if the rest of the population counts for nothing.....
a roaring current of change..... what is going on at the world headquarters of jehovah's witnesses?
in the last couple of years unprecedented changes in policy, procedure, and doctrine have been coming forth in rapid fire sequence.
this uninterrupted episode of new information is beginning to backfire for the rank and file witnesses.
Two things -- the inexorable passing of time and the rapidity of the information dissemination on the internet -- will push them toward the mainstream.
early christian writings.. .
let alone "inspired by god?
church councils) this is what i mean by spiritual osmosis.. there are other early lists of new testament books that.
I wonder if there's a list somewhere of a book-by-book explanatiion of why each one either passed muster or was excluded from the canon
