I expect it will come back, along with regular meetings, in the next few months.
Dude, you....are....dreaming.
Everything will be shut down for at least, at the barest minimum, another year. Probably many years.
considering it is contacted in the open and i see other people engaging outdoors on other sales activities why is cart witnessing still not allowed?
are there any updates as regards returning to this activity any time soon ?.
I expect it will come back, along with regular meetings, in the next few months.
Dude, you....are....dreaming.
Everything will be shut down for at least, at the barest minimum, another year. Probably many years.
do you have any information on tony's family history and mormon background?.
I seem to remember that one of the GB members had a Mormon background
I think it's Ken Cook.
Huh - come to think of it, he does have that pudgy, awkward, nerdy demeanor and pale skin that I associate with the typical Mormon guy. Would not be surprised.
apparently they made leather tents for the roman army.
i had searched this site but i couldn’t find that this topic had been discussed yet.
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The WTS tends to just kind of gloss over this point - just who were Paul and Priscilla and Aquila selling those tents to?
It's not like there were guys getting 2 weeks paid vacation and taking the family on a camping trip to a national park. A subsistence farmer or fisherman of workman would have no need for, let alone could afford, a tent.
Pretty much the only market for tents would be the military.
Today, of course, if you work for a defense contractor supplying material to the military, you are expected to quit your job, under the threat of being disfellowshipped / self-disassociated or "non-neutral activity".
you might tactfully approach grieving ones in cemeteries on occasions when they return to visit the grave of a loved one.
We had a CO visit not long after this came out, and I recall some folks talking about how the "car group" the CO was in did just this - hung around a cemetery and waited to pounce.
Even though I was a full-on believer at that point, I found it really ghoulish. Never was I so thankful I missed field service that morning!
friendly and good gorby smiled and waved towards 2 local jw's yesterday, and they turned with an angry face their back to me.
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has something changed regarding faders recently?.
Right here, right now, in January of 2022...what exactly is a apostate?
Right now, the functional definition of "apostate" is "any person who opposes the work of Jehovah's Witnesses or expresses an opinion designed to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the governing body or JW doctrine or policy".
Technically, to be an "apostate" you would have had to be a JW to begin with then "turn away" from it, but the "real" (functional) definition given above does not have anything to do with whether someone used to be a JW or not.
any one that have a funny or unusual experience from field service?
maeby you visited favela brazil.
the hood in the usa.
How does one start a study with Rock Hudson? Did you find him door to door? Informal witnessing? What was the "hook" that drew him in (resurrection hope, a search for meaning in life, fear of nuclear annihilation, etc.)?
If you worked with MJ in service, you must have been in his congregation. Must have been a real circus when he attended meetings? Did he try to just fit in as "Brother Jackson"? Did regular JWs flock around him? Invite him to their homes for a "get together"?
Who answered the door at the Manson murder house?
Sounds like you could write a really interesting memoir!
any one that have a funny or unusual experience from field service?
maeby you visited favela brazil.
the hood in the usa.
Dude, you can't leave us hanging like that.....details, man!
anyone who has been of this forum in the past few days has seen doubting thomas (an active jw) refuse over and over to provide even one scripture that can show how a jw can get their sins forgiven while outside of the new covenant as described in mt.
26: 27-28. yet, he claims to believe in the blood covering of jesus while at the same time personally rejecting the new covenant "for forgiveness of sins".
his contradictory claims are common among jw's.
"The ...other sheep..are...not even justified." WT 1938 pages 104-105
I really honestly don't care one or the other, but....
That seems like a lot of heavy lifting from all those sets of ellipses.
Not to mention that any JW would laugh in your face if you tried to prove a point by quoting an 84 year old Watchtower article. "New light" and all that.
(Yes I know you'll argue that it has not been superseded but still....an 84 year old article? C'mon. JWs would respond by trotting out a couple dozen more recent WT articles explaining how their sins are forgiven)
do you think the jdubs will start up the door whacking again one day?.
there has to be many inside the org that are dreading having to do that again and as for the general public seeing this, it’s hard to imagine.
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Yes, in April.
LOL.
Which year?
Reminds me of that old JW joke - "I know the day and the hour of Armageddon! It's on a Tuesday at 9 AM".
friendly and good gorby smiled and waved towards 2 local jw's yesterday, and they turned with an angry face their back to me.
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has something changed regarding faders recently?.
Nothing new.
Maybe they heard a public talk on "bad associations spoil useful habits" and they took it ultra-seriously.