the october 2017 wt study article (simplified).
let us consider some examples of fake love.
when satan talked to eve in the garden of eden, what he said made it seem that he wanted the best for her.
If he's going to let me suffer because other grown ass people are doing stupid things, that makes no sense.
But remember that paragon King David of the bible?
How many died because HE sinned? Today, just as then, the higher up the ladder you go the less personal accountability you have; the lower you are on the JDub ladder the more you must pay for your "sins" and those of others.
What a dysfunctional, sick society!
https://www.facebook.com/jw.0027/videos/799049613609936/.
the video was posted directly to a pro-jw facebook page.
i cant believe what i'm hearing... actually, nothing surprises be about this cult anymore.. didn't they say to the judge in the arc that they dont discourage college?.
"We want to PRAISE those who drop out of college.
What happened to Don't Give Up?
loyalty—part of the new personality (s-341a-18-e 5/17).
note to the circuit overseer:.
use this outline for the tuesday service talk from september 2017 through february 2018. you will need to prepare your own 30-minute service talk for use after the watchtower study.
Another WTF moment. Nowhere in the context did I see "loyalty" mentioned in the Bible's description of the "new" personality.
in the latest 2013 revision the footnote of john chapter 8 states; a number of ancient and authoritative manuscripts omit vs 53 (of chapter 7) to chapter 8, vs. 11.. yet the 1984 revision quotes a similar footnote, however the passage of scripture is included in the text, albeit separately at the bottom.
this passage of scripture is about the scribes and the pharisees who brought a woman that was accused of adultery before jesus to test him on the punishment to be meted out.
then came his famous reply; let the one of you that is sinless be the first to throw a stone at her.. i just found it interesting that the wtbts would leave this out in the latest revision.
I’m wondering what else has been altered / left out from the previous revision(s).
I noted that in Matthew 24: 35 where Jesus stated, "Truly I say to you that this generation will by no means pass away until all these things happen." the cross-reference to Exodus 20: 5 in the 1984 edition which states, "...bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons, upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation..." was deleted. Can't have the Bible contradicting the governing body's nu-lite explanation of what a generation really is, now can they?
back in march i fell and injured my back at work.
my back has been a problem for many years but certain exercise has able me to function normally through the years.
now i walk bent over with a cane and cannot walk very far, stand, or sit in a straight back chair.
IF surgery is the answer of last resort the right surgeon is the key. Ask questions. It doesn't hurt to ask for references. And having been there, done that...use a neurosurgeon, not an orthopedic surgeon. The skill set needed for working on the spine necessitates someone with a higher skill set than an orthopedic surgeon.
Just my two cents having gone thorough this type of surgery with great success.
sometimes, comparing raw numbers provides a more clear-cut numerical picture of growth or otherwise than percentages.
below are the numbers for peak publishers (rounded off so that 4,1 represents more than 4,100,000) for each year throughout the 1990s and those for the last ten years.. year: peak* baptisms.
* peak publishers abbreviated - simply to show annual baptisms in relation to peak publishers.. the main point: .
Unless something fundamentally radical happens.....
For just a moment I am going to put on the ol' JDub hat and say that something fundamentally radical is going to happen...soon...the Big A! The proof is that the preaching work and the in gathering of those in line for a life of petting pandas is obviously drawing to a close.
Okay, now that I have parroted the JDub line that I think I will go be sick...
june 28, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: important reminder—volunteers.
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Can't you just feel the love???
if memory serves me, when it was first introduced elders had to fill out a form to grade a jw, and only those who made the grade could do the carts.. i didn’t realize until sir82 said something on another discussion that the process had changed.. what is the process nowadays?
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"Should be willing to cooperate with the body of elders"
“more than material assistance, refugees need spiritual and emotional support.
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4:4) elders can help by obtaining literature in the language of the refugees and by helping them contact brothers who speak their language.
So refugees who have lost everything should not try to replace these things?
Lord, no! How can we expect them to keep a simple eye if they are replacing "things"? Birds of the heavens, put kingdom "interests" first and all that other clap-trap? Throw a WT at them as you scoot on by, gawd will take care of them.
so i went to visit my jw aging mother this week (i've been df'd for 40 years) and she told me she needs to give the people who are taking her to the convention $10 each day of the convention to cover gas?
my uber elder cousin told her she needs to do this!!!
wtf?
Many years ago an elderly, disabled sister needed finances to get to the scheduled convention.
My dad and one other elder furnished the money. The rest of the elder body had multiple excuses why they couldn't afford anything to help her. That included the one who came tooling into the KH parking lot two weeks before the convention with a BRAND NEW luxury vehicle!
My dad is now treated like he is DF'd because he is old, infirm, and no longer a useful tool, and the other brother got so fed up with life he ate a bullet.
Loving bunch of hypocrites!!
