i do remember reading an article that it is not ok for jw to sell cigarettes at gas stations, etc... i was wondering what about lottery tickets?
they do sell lottery tickets at few restaurants around my home.
if jw works there and rats me out to the elders, i would not give a damn about it but i still prefer not to hear from the elders about it..
@James Mixon: I had a roommate who was studying at the time a few years back. I sat in on the study, and he asked an interesting question.
If someone played the lottery and won, and donated the money to the society, would they accept it and would he be disfellowshipped?
The brother and I reasoned at the time that they would not accept it... Now I am not so sure. It's a donation, right?
in the late 1990s there was magazine article that asked the question, are jws a secret society?
obviously they said no, because they claim to be transparent to outsiders and new members.
but they really are not transparent at all.
A secret society for dorks.
barcelona (spain), jan 8, 2017 at 1.30 pm.
two publishers of the tagalog group in barcelona (public meeting at 4.30 pm) do visit an evangelical church barcelona downtown to receive free food bags.... i can confirm that the queue was long.
the pastor in charge of this church has not allowed me to take picture of some older jw living barcelona downtown, but i was able to catch these young publishers.
@tor1500, no worries about a long post. I quite enjoyed it.
Ubuntu. "I am because we are."
just awhile ago i saw someone mentioned that 1914 made it's way into the revised nwt.
if this is true, will someone tell me where?.
Boy, they really don't think they'll have to back off of that, do they?
i do remember reading an article that it is not ok for jw to sell cigarettes at gas stations, etc... i was wondering what about lottery tickets?
they do sell lottery tickets at few restaurants around my home.
if jw works there and rats me out to the elders, i would not give a damn about it but i still prefer not to hear from the elders about it..
Waaaaaaay back when I was a grocery store bag boy, I realized really quick that I had no interest in keeping up dumb rules about conscience like this. I just did my job.
i cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.
are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.
I got nothin', if everything comes down to varying definitions (which is your point, of course).
i was working today and my brain was working in circles like it often does and i started wondering about what i was always told about people like methuselah in bible times, and their incredibly claims of longevity.
i've tried researching things but have a hard time getting through all of the bible thumpers to some real evidence, and figured that some here may be more informed or have done the research previously.
so, did people really live longer way back when?
And, to say that humans weren't keeping time quite the same as we do today is somewhat accurate... Except that Genesis was compiled much more recently than that, and at a time of heavy Chaldean and Persian influence. Hence the astrology, or why else would Genesis 1:14 mention not only days and years but signs and sacred times?
i was working today and my brain was working in circles like it often does and i started wondering about what i was always told about people like methuselah in bible times, and their incredibly claims of longevity.
i've tried researching things but have a hard time getting through all of the bible thumpers to some real evidence, and figured that some here may be more informed or have done the research previously.
so, did people really live longer way back when?
If you divide the ages by 12, then Adam was created 138 years before the flood.
It's irredeemable nonsense if taken literally.
barcelona (spain), jan 8, 2017 at 1.30 pm.
two publishers of the tagalog group in barcelona (public meeting at 4.30 pm) do visit an evangelical church barcelona downtown to receive free food bags.... i can confirm that the queue was long.
the pastor in charge of this church has not allowed me to take picture of some older jw living barcelona downtown, but i was able to catch these young publishers.
The "life saving work of the Witnesses".
Ya know, I think it was a program on PRI recently that interviewed a Baptist minister who is helping Syrian refugees integrate in the USA. He said he believes in Christ and of course he wishes everyone would do the same, but that does not come first. Helping his fellow man regardless of belief is what comes first.
On the other hand, I helped at a kingdom hall renovation in a bad neighborhood, one right across from a known campsite of homeless people.
When lunch time came around, did the Witnesses prepare some food for the homeless, too? Nope. Did they eat outside in front of them?
Yep.
i cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.
are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.
They all believe you live and die. So there's that.
