One elder in our cong had dementia. He was in a home. But they kept him on as an elder.
He was married by had a bad reputation for rubbing himself against the sisters. I remember him blocking a gate so I had to squeeze past his fat stomach.
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Butchered pronunciation
by road to nowhere insince it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".
twice, morning and afternoon..
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We were given a talk about orgies. But the elder pronounced it with a hard 'g' as in 'organization.'
Sounded like corgies without the 'c'.
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Watchtower Disparages the Bible
by Vanderhoven7 ini'm looking for wts quotations that contrast with ii timothy 3:15-16 whereby they downplay scripture.. here is one from way back..
"...people cannot see the divine plan in studying the bible by itself...if he then lays them [scripture studies] aside and ignores them and goes to the bible alone, though he has understood his bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness.
on the other hand, if he had merely read the scripture studies with their references, and had not read a page of the bible, as such, he would be in the light at the end of the two years, because he would have the light of the scriptures," (watchtower, sept. 15, 1910, p. 298).
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If you read the Bible on your own and ignore WT nonsense you are not humble and will act foolishly.
*** w82 6/1 p. 19 par. 14 Loyally Submitting to Theocratic Order ***
A mental attitude that must be guarded against is thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought to think. (Romans 12:3) That could lead a Christian into believing that he has a special mission from God apart from the channel through which Jehovah dispenses his truths and directs his household. It would, in effect, place him in a supposed special relationship with Jehovah not enjoyed by any other brother or sister in the household. But that sort of isolation can lead only to folly: “One isolating himself will seek his own selfish longing; against all practical wisdom he will break forth.”—Proverbs 18:1.
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Can someone with dementia die and leave their money to the Society in their will?
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by road to nowhere insince it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".
twice, morning and afternoon..
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(Judges 12:5-6) . . .“Are you an Ephraimite?” When he would say: “No!” 6 then they would say to him: “Please say Shibboleth.” And he would say: “Sibboleth,” as he was unable to say the word correctly. And they would lay hold of him and slay him at the fords of the Jordan. So there fell at that time forty-two thousand out of Ephraim.
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So while Conley rapidly faded from Zion's Watchtower...
I couldn't help smiling - so the 1st President of the Watchtower Society pioneered fading. Love it. A man ahead of his time.
And I agree with Nikolaus - very interesting research. Thank you.
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James - wow.
Mine is tame by comparison but I like mango and passionfruit.
Elderly sister in nursing home loves apple juice. I wonder how many in my ex-cong know that or even bother visiting, let alone take her something nice to drink. They never told her I was df'd - so she still speaks to me when I visit. It means I can take her her favorite drink.
She sleeps mostly now, so she may not have much longer to live. She has had a difficult time these last few days. How many of that congregation know?
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Do Believers Cherry Pick Scriptures & Ignore others To have faith In A God of The Bible ?
by smiddy3 indoesn`t the god of the bible condemn him/her self ,incriminate him/her self by the writings as god`s word?.
any human charged with what god has done in the bible would be labelled a monster and either executed or spent a lifetime in prison..
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I guess it depends whether you are an innocent victim having your feet stuck into concrete boots and about to be thrown in at the deep end. Then some big 'monster' (aka Almighty God) comes along and saves you.
Ok he thrashes the mob and you feel sorry for the mob.
What do you want him to do? Redefine right and wrong to match your values? When you make trees, people universes and stuff like that, you can make your own rules. Meantime we have to live by his or not - you have a choice.
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Jesus is a horse?
by Diogenesister injgnat posted this in one of punky's posts.
third century.
why is jesus portrayed as a horse, does anyone know please?.
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The Father of Nihilism, Neitzche fell in love with his horse. Neitz coined the phrase 'God is dead' some change that into God of the dead. But exactly what that has to do with Jesus or that picture I don't know.
Sure its not Pegasus?
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Pilot program for in-person meetings for the vaccinated
by Vidqun inpilot program for in-person meetings to resume, to be launched in hong kong in nov. 2021. only fully vaccinated publishers are to be invited.
it's going to be a fader's paradise.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/q9e9pg/and_so_it_begins/?%24deep_link=true&correlation_id=fb861c4a-8c7e-4bad-b1e3-4c86b3254daf&post_fullname=t3_q9e9pg&post_index=1&ref=email_digest&ref_campaign=email_digest&ref_source=email&utm_content=post_title&%243p=e_as&_branch_match_id=936859150293933406&utm_medium=email%20amazon%20ses.
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(Proverbs 25:25) . . .As cold water upon a tired soul, so is a good report from a distant land. .