One of three congs. in my local area was dissolved this last CO inspection week.
Love the growth.
my mil came by to drop some pressure on my wife to go to the three day this weekend.
she told her that she wants our baby to live forever and that she wants us to come back.
apparently people would be “so happy” to see us return to the fold.
One of three congs. in my local area was dissolved this last CO inspection week.
Love the growth.
since we were jws at one time, has it influenced your view as to where your dead loved ones are now?
i know many here do not believe in anything biblical but i’m curious as to whether you believe anyone is in heaven?
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No such thing as "heaven" and no such thing as "hell". We did not exist before we were born and will not exist after we die. So, where do I think loved ones are? In the box on the mantle.
this afternoon, i had a vision.
one of the past, present and future.. .
over the past two decades, i recall one distinct, universal phrase being uttered by older jehovah's witnesses on many different occasions:.
Three generations of JDubs who thought they would not die are dead and the current believers will also die.
Shouldn't that be ONE lonnNngg overlapping generation? LOL
https://youtu.be/q5vy2teaiuo.
leaked: hub project 2018 [part 1 of 4] https://youtu.be/q5vy2teaiuo.
leaked: hub project 2018 [part 2 of 4] https://youtu.be/8mjfucowkos.
Couldn't watch more than a half a dozen minutes of the first link.
Haven't those self-proclaimed providers of "truth" ever heard of file compression, or Win Zip or similar programs? And you just have to appreciate the WT solution...lower quality files! Of course it didn't take that goomer long to trot out the "use of dedicated fund" B.S., did it?
let’s start with the good news for the congregation that is.
two new sisters were added to the group a mother and her daughter.
then the bad news.
Tell us what’s going on in your congregation.
Over about fifteen years time congregation size has "grown" from 95-100 average members to a whopping 30-33 members. I just cannot believe the wonderful growth!
they are still burying the children in santa fe, texas.
and it happened again today in indiana.
no one killed but some injured.
why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?
is there something seriously wrong with society?
does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?
In the United States the biggest reason for firearm violence in schools is, IMO, The Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA)...an act of the U.S. Congress prohibiting any unauthorized individual from knowingly possessing a loaded or unsecured firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(25).
If YOU were hell-bent on committing a firearm crime wouldn't YOU want to go where there was the LEAST chance of someone taking YOU out?
news in general are supposed to be unbiased.
but given how commercial and political interests get their tentacles around them, finding a fully unbiased news website is not so easy.. here in america some would rather trust bbc or reuters than they do cnn or fox news.
any favorites?.
What's Your Favorite "News" Website?
For me that is about like asking if I would prefer a white hot poker shoved up my ass, or to be stabbed in the eye with a sharp stick. None of them, left or right are worth anymore than different sides of a counterfeit bill.
It turns out the gun was turned back on them and shot them in the face...
I wonder how many snowflake lefties will be "triggered" by that phrase and have to find a "safe space"?
it’s been very difficult, much more than i first anticipated to live a lie, (be pimo and a regular active member) i still live with my parents but i plan on moving out at the end of the year, so i really need to keep it together.
but i think people are starting to get suspicious that something is up.
i’ve stopped commenting, going on service all the time, talking at the door, and occasionally voicing something, such as a question that no one has a good answer for, that makes people think, but ahah, thinking is dangerous and wrong so that is suspicious of course.
I respectfully disagree with the suggestions to ask "awkward" questions.
Agreed. It is difficult, but silence can be your friend in these kinds of situations. Many years ago my father gave me some very good advice, "Don't write it if you can say it. Don't say it if you can mumble it. Don't mumble it if you can keep quiet." If one ponders what he meant we will see how smart those words really were. No one, absolutely no one, can hang you with words that you never wrote or said. Even Sad Sack JDub eldurrs.
i'm listening to a podcast where a former elder describes how another elder conducted the watchtower study about hyperbole.
the elder called it hyper-bowl.
soon the whole congregation called it hyper-bowl.
But, really, how is anybody benefited by several people repeating the same stupid mistake as the first person?
Reminds me of the stupid dented cake pan illustration.