i posted this thread sometime last year but thought i would revive it due to the new ones on the board, and to change things up a bit.
my favorite?
bro murikami, from hawaii, very humble, kind bro.
No one may know this Cuban C.O. (Spanish circuits), but I have to give credit where credit is due. Samuel Izquierdo was a great speaker.
I remember my stumbling him about the quotation marks around "Samuel" in 1 Samuel 28 in the JW bible. He offered to give me an answer the following day. He did. Sounded almost like an admission that the quotation marks were wrong.
hi there i am new to this and want to get some advice.
i think i was abused as a child by someone in a hall in central california a long time ago.
i have been seeing on here for a while, two names keep popping up to get help.
You think?? I am no psychologist, but that piece information raises suspicion. To be sure about your "thinking", talk to shrink too.
Anyways, I like Zalkin better. He has far more resources than Simmons
many of us here have commented on the deceitful friday afternoon video shown at the 2017 rc that discussed 1975.. the video attempted to shift the blame onto congregation members for the fiasco saying, "some were looking to a certain date as signifying the end of this old system of things.".
this same video mentions how, “a few even went so far as selling their homes and quitting their jobs.”.
we all know that the wt leadership created this teaching and endorsed it right up to its abject failure.. now below is the concluding talk given on sunday at the rc.
Double speak better than in George Orwell's novels
according to victor yarofeyev, who publishes a blog for a radio station in moscow, echo of moscow, the total value of the jw properties in russia is 1.9 billion rubles.
which converts to $31,956,955 us.
almost 32 million dollars.. yarofeyev speculates that, if the supreme court refuses the org's appeal on july 17, some of the jw's properties may prove difficult for the russian government to seize.
We are having another "Rutherford vs Germany's government" case. Governing Body trying to save their most important --their only-- assets...no not the brothers and sisters
The right thing to do is for the Russian government is to seize all the WT assets, auctioned them, and distribute all the revenues among all the publishers. They are the real owners of those properties. But we are dealing with tyrants versus tyrants. Justice won't happen here
mohammad will style your hair — and slit your throat.
posted on june 29, 2017 by baron bodissey.
mohammad hussain rashwani is a syrian “refugee” who came to germany for a better life.
Simon: "I feel a "workplace accident" will be the official report."
Sorry, it was inappropriate, even callous, but I laughed at this comment. I guess it is so outrageous, and yet within the realm of possibility in our politically correct times.
i still believe in freedom of religion even if i disagree with the beliefsof the religion.
what about you?.
No, I wouldn't. Just treat them the way they deserve to be treated. Make them pay taxes for income and property. I would also force them to pay salaries and benefits to the "volunteers". They offer nothing to society. They should be taxed as a business.
hey guys.
first of all, i want to thank everyone for being so welcoming and helpful on this forum.... i was thinking about my last 3 years as a jw when i was attending the portuguese congregation and learning that language to bring in more converts.
interestingly, we were told not to attend meetings in our native language in order to immerse ourselves in the new language.
Hey, that gives me hope that my nephew will quit the cult soon. He has to travel six hours to go to his Portuguese conventions (L.A. to San Francisco). That's a crazy waste of time, money and energy. A life wasted
Ouch!
i just learned that my wife's congregations will soon be disbanded.
her congregation will disappear (cahuenga spanish in north hollywood in southern california).
all the members will be added to other neighboring congregations.
That's it: Wondrous expansion/contraction!
Not Great contraction. In JW lingo the word "Great" is used next to tribulation. Sorry I misapply the JW lingo. You have to excuse me. I attended many meetings and conventions with my wife over the years, but they went over my head because I would sleep through the whole thing.
i just learned that my wife's congregations will soon be disbanded.
her congregation will disappear (cahuenga spanish in north hollywood in southern california).
all the members will be added to other neighboring congregations.
OC
"I think you are crediting the wrong person for the invention of the internet"
It's one of the many ways Republicans in the U.S. mock Al Gore. I don't even know if there's any basis for it, but many people find it amusing. Al Gore was never my guy, so I don't mind making repeating the joke.
EDT to add:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFJ8cHAlco
Not exactly inventing the internet, but certainly giving himself credit for the creation of the internet
