so i just finished watching the netflix series "seven seconds", about a police cover up of a black teenager killed by a police officer in a hit and run.
it was filmed in jersey city, nj at the end of the last episode as the camera panned the area, they showed the jersey city assembly hall.
i actually helped restore that building and helped in building the addition..
SO I just finished watching the Netflix series "Seven Seconds", about a police cover up of a black teenager killed by a police officer in a hit and run. It was filmed in Jersey City, NJ at the end of the last episode as the camera panned the area, they showed the Jersey City Assembly Hall.
I actually helped restore that building and helped in building the addition.
it’s me again, your favorite greek philosopher xdd.. i was wondering if any ex-jws around here have since indetified with other christian denominations.
if that is the case for you, how has it been?
do you feel more welcome?
I've been affiliated with an independent Bible Students group, they are NOT associated with any of the organized groups like the DAWN or the PBI. Just a small group that gets together on Sunday in private homes and study the scriptures.
don't know if this is a global thing but i've just been told by a pimo member of my old congregation that a min servant has been given the task of destroying all old books/literature in the kh library prior to 1992.. could be the elders (or even one of them) on a mission to stamp out dissent as my ex-wife used the same reasoning to her elder dad that i used in my jc: rutherfords books containing failed predictions.. anyone else heared anything?.
the ms who's been given the task is a company man.
no hope of him keeping them or selling them on ebay.. they have some russell books in that library too.
This has happened before, I remember in the 80s a letter being read to the congregation from the Society, it told of all the branch offices they were building and how they needed old books preferably before 1950 to stock in their libraries, and asked that JWs and Kingdom Hall libraries send their books. This was done. I later learned from a high ranking bethelite that these books were destroyed.
i think i read somewhere that if you have been inactive for ten years plus, the elders will not try to meet with you and corner you to get you back "in".
is that true?.
i just realized that mr. spiral and i haven't gone to meetings or reported time for over ten years.
I walked away around 1992, moved around and then left the state. They tried to meet with me, but I just blew them off.
think this night about former and current leadership of jw.org, and the use of multimedia and broadcasting, imaging a theodore jaracks kind of gb member would be chosen again.. is there a way back possibility for jw.org to end all the multimedia circus and a go of the radar for the gb again?.
a one way street?.
g..
Russell started this train on it's a one way track ... and there is no turning around ... regardless of what lies ahead.
While it's true that Russell started this train, I would hardly blame him for the current mess the organization finds itself in. After all what Russell founded was a publishing house, keep in mind that the various congregations were all autonomous. The Society had no say in local matters. It was Rutherford who took control of the congregations, and turned the organization into a Brooklyn Vatican. That was never Russell's intention.
Of course we can say since Russell started the Watchtower, then he is to blame. If that's the case, why not blame the Adventist, if it weren't for them and William Miller, there would be Watchtower, better yet, let's blame Jesus, since he started Christianity.
i am looking for the book the harp of god.
i am told it has some crazy passages in it.
can anyone put up some quotes of the book?
Depends on which edition, the book was updated several times, not only in text but also in pictures. There's one on ebay for 2 bucks
i thought it was bad enough that jw`s put in weekly reports of fs hours every month in the d2d work when in fact the average publisher would never mention this "good news of the kingdom" to the householder .. more often than not it would be something like some mundane thing about what they have observed about the householders property whether they have kids ,what a lovely garden they have before being cut off by the householder with i`m not interested knowing jw`s are trying to convert them/sell them the watchtower and closing the door.. yet the jw goes away happily putting in a report telling jehovah they have spent so much time in the fs witnessing about him and the kingdom of christ jesus...... cart witnessing is even a worse lie ,why ?
because jw`s make no attempt to witness to anybody they expect people to come to them to be witnessed to which of course never happens .
they spend hours upon hours a month telling jehovah by their fs reports they hand in how much they have witnessed for him ,when in fact they have done nothing of the sort .. they chit chat among themselves witnessing to nobody for hours on end and then lie in their fs report they have been witnessing for jehovah ?.
The last few years I was in, I pioneered and never went out in service, I just made up the time and placements
my sister call me today and told me she found this book in her mail slot and she wondered if.
it was a book published by the wt.
lol.
not sure if this is the proper place to post this.
i have a book, it's 8.5 x 11. the cover looks exactly like the old "truth" book, complete with bible embossed on the cover.
slight title change.
Not sure if this is the proper place to post this. I have a book, It's 8.5 x 11. The cover looks exactly like the old "Truth" book, complete with Bible embossed on the cover. Slight title change. it's called "The Truth that gives you Eternal Life.
It has 10 chapters, 116 pages. just like a Watchtower publication, the paragraphs are numbered and at the bottom of each page are questions.
This book was given to me over 20 years ago by Tom Cabeen, and I can't for the life of me remember the history behind it.
Does anyone know?
while doing some research, i stumbled upon a blog written by a former bethelite.
his name is john bechtel.
the blog is several years old.
Is this the same John Bechtel who left Bethel during the "Great Apostasy" of Ray Franz, in the late 70s, early 80s? I think he was friends with Tom Cabeen and others. From what I was told by my wife who knew John personally, he had a great crisis of faith when he found out it was ALL a lie. So much so that he became an atheist. He was a real gung ho JW at the time, finding out it was all lies destroyed his faith in God, as he couldn't differentiate between God and the Society, the two were the same.
I just shared his picture with her, she says it's not him, that he was blond and he had "this big hawk nose". Of course judging from the blog, he is successful and could've have had surgery. Who knows!
