the video streaming of the german branch visit program was excrutiating 3.5 hours long.. i just went to see the last 45 min (part of mark sandersons talk).. i think sanderson is quite a sympathetic speaker and he kind of made a loving impression.. he didn't mention controversial stuff (except for one thing i will come to soon).
he mostly talked about how to find joy, even when life is not easy, and how much the gb loves the rank and file.. one point seemed soooo important to him.
parents and children.
This will backfire in my view.
As a child grows in understanding through their teens, the importance and significance is instilled in them, for them to reach out for baptism as a goal.
For a 9 year old to be baptised, they will grow up knowing that decision was actually taken for them, without their realisation of what it entailed or their proper consent.
Baptism will lose it's importance and there will be more who come to resent being forced into something so early in life.
i am not greatly familiar with the belief of jehovah's witness but am learning more through a school project.
.
what is the jehovah's witness view on organised crime?
Organised crime is, apparently, tied up with other churches:
*** w96 4/15 p. 15 par. 18 Why Worldly Religion Will End ***
What would happen to all the unrepentant liars, fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals, swindlers, criminals, drug peddlers and addicts, and members of organized crime? Unquestionably, Christendom’s rotten fruitage makes it fit only for destruction by God.
There's a whole Awake! article on this subject:
*** g97 3/8 p. 3 How Organized Crime Affects You ***
stephen lett about 33 minutes in to may's "liar liar" episode of the monthly worship broadcast said "jehovah's witnesses have the most multilingual speakers of any organization in the world!".
the catholic church has the most people i thought, do you think he's telling the truth and where is he getting these facts?
i finally broke down and decided to watch this in order to work on my reverse witnessing skills, lots of ammunition for anyone needing fuel to extinguish their dirty flames of lies!.
"Jehovah's Witnesses have the most Multilingual speakers of Any Organization in the World!"
I suspect their nemesis organisation, the UN has more multilingual speakers.
Or to put it into Lett speak "It may well be that the UN has the most Multilingual speakers of Any Organization in the World!"
did you watch the story about the jw who was working as a burger boy at some diner and his boss wanted him to work on sunday during the time of his meeting?
this faithful jw decided he could not attend a later meeting (6 pm sunday meeting) and soon quit his job(or got fired to attend his sunday meeting) so he could attend the sunday meeting he was assigned to.
i think he was on welfare because this story states he won't work on sunday morning because that's when his meeting is!
Another New Light statement from that video at about the 45:15 mark.
"[The elder] reminded me, that as a newly baptised witness my prayers are much more readily received".
I can't say I've heard this before, and can't think of a verse that supports it?
I thought it was the the prayer of a righteous man which had more force (Ja 5:16), therefore NOT a newly baptised one.
did you watch the story about the jw who was working as a burger boy at some diner and his boss wanted him to work on sunday during the time of his meeting?
this faithful jw decided he could not attend a later meeting (6 pm sunday meeting) and soon quit his job(or got fired to attend his sunday meeting) so he could attend the sunday meeting he was assigned to.
i think he was on welfare because this story states he won't work on sunday morning because that's when his meeting is!
I like the incidental scene where they are at the k.hall (about 42:50) and he gives his little girl a coin which she runs off with it. Next we have an extreme close up of the "Local Congregation Expenses" contribution box and we see her drop that coin in.
Not relevant to the story being told but it's a nice little detail.
Similar to the scene at about 51:10 where a little African girl drops money into an extreme closeup of a contribution box.
Oh, also at 36:45 and again at 37:00 and again at 39:30 and again at 1.31:50.
I wonder what message the GB are trying to convey throughout this video.
Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to have much to do with Christ.
couple of weeks ago an elder took a young man aside and crawled all over him after the tms for wearing a "skinny" tie.
it was one of those 2 inch wide ties.
nothing bright or scandalous about.
so the fade is progressing well.... however, it has been noticed by the 'hounders', who i know will be "following up" with us soon i'm sure.. so i have thought of a way of shutting down the questions etc.... if they ask about things like meeting attendance and field activity, i am going to say something like:.
"oh, thanks for your interest and concern brothers.
this means a lot.
i was talking to my brother this morning.
last night at his meeting, they read a letter from their co. he talked about the earthquake.
he said that if some were moved to maybe take some vacation time, and go do volunteer work in napal.
_Morpheus samuel tells saul that running ahead presumptuously is the same as using uncanny power.
This is interesting.
The NWT says (1 Samuel 15:23) "pushing ahead presumptuously [is] the same as using magical power"
But the Hebrew word used here does not mean that. It is consistently translated as "stubbornness" in other translations. Even in the NWT this Hebrew word is only translated "pushing ahead presumptuously" in this one place.
The WT didn't always use this peculiar translation, and in fact once adhered to accepted wisdom in calling it 'stubbornness'.Stubbornness is not the same as pushing ahead presumptuously, but it suits the WT to have this phrase available to them so it can be wheeled out as a method of berating and condemning any charitable intentions, as in the case the OP describes.
and if so, does this mean that adam had already invented a timetable, and calendar?
Adam died in 3096 BCE at the age of 930.
The calendar was already in place before Adam was created:
Genesis 1:14 "Then God said: “Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to make a division between the day and the night, and they will serve as signs for seasons and for days and years"
ok, l know i am not the first to notice or likely comment on this, but as little as i respect commenting on persons, i am going to do it now.. lett seems like a charicature.
he is so strange-i cringe when i watch him speak.its as ifhe was once given advice to speak slowly and clearly and now he just talks like a cartoon.
he creeps me out.
