i'm curious as to why the picture in the new revelation book, on this weeks schedule, seems to be different than the original version.
does anyone know why?
it shows completely two different individuals, but the same background.
Well, you see, this is a foretaste of what things will be like in the new system.
You can live a good life, become approved by the governing body, then wake up one morning in the spiritual Gulag and find that your wife is back home holding hands with a body that has had the head replaced with one that is more appealing to focus groups.
for people who left, not only the organization, but also the canaanite/judaic/christian/islamic/bahai god, do you still pray?
before we left the group we (my wife and i) were questioning the bible and the existence of god.
being witnesses, we were uneducated and never heard of things like pascal's wager, but we (my wife especially) had come to a similar idea - even if the whole thing were ballocks, there was little harm in continuing.
No, although I have been caught talking to myself. But then, I exist.
i just changed my order of magazines at the counter to the bare minimum.
me, my dad, my friends, heck everybody i know throws out a large bag of unused watchtowers and awakes every few months or at least once a year.
then it hit me.
Now, let's take this one step further. We know that many of the mags are simply trashed by JWs, but how many are trashed by householders - you know, the person at the door is too polite to say "no", takes the mags at the front door, and throws them straight out the back. Now that they are free, this probably happens constantly.
And, let's not forget how many JWs don't even read the mags. I almost never did.
Really, these must truly be the most un-read, over-published magazines in the history of the world.
my first week of posts here were very serious and all the wonderful, encouraging replies helped me very much.. so now i want to ask something semi-frivolous.
(actually it's one of the many things that don't make sense to me about "the truth").
why do animals die?.
Rover ate a forbidden kibble.
my daughter katie and her cousin lisa are about to embark on an 18 day trip through spain, france, belgium, netherlands, germany, switzerland and then through the south of france back to madrid.
they will be travelling from madrid towards the atlantic coast and biarritz, up to bordeaux, poitiers, tours, orleans, paris, lille, gent, antwerpen, utrecht, amsterdam, bruxelles/brussel, aachen/aix-la-chapelle, heidelberg, munchen/munich, konigschlosser, ravensburg, zurich, luzern, interlaken, bern, lausanne, annecy, avignon, nice, monaco, cannes, marseille, nimes, perpignan, barcelona, back to madrid.
very ambitious, i know.
Tell them to say Hi to my family. My wife and daughter have been in Europe since June 24. My wife comes back next week, but my daughter will be in Hamburg until the end of August and then in Paris for Sept and Oct.
this is a vent.
i just showed up at work and am livid.
the reason?
By the way. If you are a CAA member, you can get a half hour free legal consultation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6917113.stm.
oscar has a habit of curling up next to patients at the home in providence, rhode island, in their final hours.
according to the author of a study in the new england journal of medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be correct in 25 cases so far.
I guess that's how Jesus will eliminate death in the new system. He will have the "cat of death" put down.
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or high school diploma.
where did you learn the art of public speaking?
That's like crediting the horoscope or the National Inquirer with helping to build reading skills. I mean, sure you have to read the things, and reading is good, but that's pretty thin gruel.
way, way back in 1962, when i was four years old and my family relocated from harlem to queens, ny, our tuesday night book study, as it used to be called way back when almost universally in jw land, was conducted by a woman !!
please don't think i don't remember correctly because of my young age at the time, but the sis.
who conducted it is still alive, and i practically know her whole family.
OK, here is the official policy:
If a baptized man is present, he must should the prayer.
If an unbaptized man is present, then the woman should pray, but she must have a head covering, on account of the angels.
If a baptized man is present, but for some reason cannot say the prayer (perhaps his head was stuck up his ass or some such thing), then the woman can pray, but she must have a head covering.
If no men were present, the women could pray all they wanted with nothing on their heads.
The head covering can be anything. A hat will work, but if there are no hats, then anything at all will suffice - handkerchief, ash tray, coaster, etc.
For some reason, everyone always seemed to use a napkin. I personally saw my mother use one. Did no one have a hat back then? Or, were women making a statement by using something preposterous?
Now, I'm not sure why the presence of a penis made such a difference to the angels. Even a baby boy would be cause for scurrying for a hanky.
the wts has erroneously set the fall of jerusalem in the year 607. i'm trying to put together information, for our son, proving that this date is false.
i've decided when our son brings up the subject of his involvement in the wts, i will then show him this information.
i feel this particular subject is the wisest to go with.
I consider this article: http://www.towerwatch.com/articles/the_1914_doctrine.htm to be the definitive proof that 607 is wrong.
It disusses the evidence against 607, based on the Bible, archeology, astronomy, royal lists and inscriptions, business documents, and Egyptian history.
The only thing missing is the proof from the society's own publications, but that is in one of the threads listed above.
I have this article in a cleaner ms-word format. If you pm me your email address, I can send it over.
