personally, i don't think the organization is reformable.
while i was an elder, i tried to be a more moderate voice and as i grew older any harsher attitudes disappaited from within me.
as they say, all the good (and smart) elders have left.
I agree, I don't believe the Society can be reformed. It's has fractured into all these mini corporations, where the lawyers are running things. In order for the Society to have any reform, good or bad, there needs to be a corporate body or individual to runs EVERYTHING, and it will never happen,k because none of these "chiefs" are willing to give up their part of the reservation.
If anything, it's going to split and fracture even more, with independent JW's, like the Bible Students in 1917.
RR
1877 barbour/russell lecture tract!.
cheers!
atlantis!-
This tract (about the size of a handbill) sold on ebay for about seven thousand if my memory is right!
1924-very, very rare!-"comforted of god"--pdf!
bm=bookmarked s=searchable r=reduced from 18-mb to 9.8-mb ref.=referenced (second reference copy included) written by frederick lardent (supplement to "the call of the bride") date from handwritten notes from original owner shows 1924.
************************************************************* i cannot even imagine what this "very rare" booklet would sell for on ebay!
This isn't a Watchtower publication it is a Bible Student publication, published in those early years. In fact their a dime a dozen within Bible Student circles,
and they call the jw's a cult.
well one thing good about this group, is that they no longer exist!.
movement for the restoration of the ten commandments of god.
And they call the JW's a cult.
Well one thing good about this group, is that they no longer exist!
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
More than 300 followers of this movement burned themselves alive March 19, 2000. They predicted apocolypse and committed mass sucide. The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was formed in 1989 by former Roman Catholic priests and nuns. One of them, Joseph Kibweteere, announced that the Virgin Mary had appeared before him in a vision. He said he was to found a mission devoted to living by the 10 Commandments. Kilweteere believed that the world would end on Dec. 31, 1999. When the apocalyptic day never arrive he led his followers into a low building, had them douse themselves with gasoline and struck a match.
i'll share kenny chesney you save me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tnflvudgj48.
How did it taste?
i'll share kenny chesney you save me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tnflvudgj48.
Song 125 "Jehovah Is on My Side"
"I know that in this crucial hour
My faith will yet be tested.
Around me swarms Jehovah's Witnesses
Like bees that were molested."
springs about here and i've seen a few out already, some say it is quite a rush and once you start you.
can't quit.
i've been thinking of starting this year and wonder if there are any pointers i should know since it will be much.
I use to jog, now I just walk, of course I don't have choice, I'm a mailman.
my votes for worst kingdom melody lyrics: song 125- "jehovah is on my side" (try singing these lyrics without laughing like beavis and butthead): "i know that in this crucial hour my faith will yet be tested/ around me swarms the devil's crowd like bees that were molested/ but i can ever beat them off beneath divine protection/ on those who love to bear his name god sets his deep affection.
" or how about song 201- "rejoicing with god's nation" (grab your thesaurus for this one): "in a land so good and spacious/ free from strife and things vexatious/ look!
a happy crowd vivacious/ in god's service that is efficacious.
125 gets my vote:
"I know that in this crucial hour
My faith will yet be tested.
Around me swarms the Devil’s crowd
Like bees that were molested."
["Jehovah Is on My Side" Song 125]
Oh, such a beautiful song!!!
so all this talk at the moment about funerals and stuff got me thinking... what kind of an exit party would i like?.
i reckon i would not want anything too formal, but i would want loads of people saying how great i was - i people to notice that i am no longer around, and be sad about it!
i want people to share good memories.
kwr, I hear that's the new disfellowshipping tactic used by the Society.
so all this talk at the moment about funerals and stuff got me thinking... what kind of an exit party would i like?.
i reckon i would not want anything too formal, but i would want loads of people saying how great i was - i people to notice that i am no longer around, and be sad about it!
i want people to share good memories.
I want to be cremated, and my ashes rolled up and have my good friends smoke me
