does anyone ever wonder the good they could have done instead of giving a public talk for 45 or 30 minutes?
i remember giving my first public talk aged 18 and even then i was thinking ' this is just me making up half truths trying to blind people with jw propaganda'.
fast forward 15 years to when i gave my final public talk and i was so close to seeding the 30 minutes with ideas that could possibly wake people up but i never had the guts.. in that 30 minutes i could have done so much real good for a person instead of spreading this awful religions dogma.
Remember the 55 minutes, a 15 minute break and watchtower 2 or even 3 part articles.
Now the talks are interchangeable; different slant on the same guilt and carrot. The WT is 3 paragraphs of introduction, 3 paragraphs of review, and a preview of next week.
Dont go into the midweek skits and slow learner material
on halloween night, police arrested two people who were dressed up individually as a battery and a firework rocket.
they charged one and let the other off.. police in london are investigating the theft of dogs throughout the city.. they don't have any leads.. i found a large box filled with kodak 35 mm camera film, and handed it in to the police.. they said they'd let me know if there were any developments.. police recovered a valuable stolen microscope.. they say they're looking into it.. yorkshire police can't establish what's wrong with the sat-navs in their new fleet of squad cars.. they're still looking for leeds.. police are investigating the theft of a perpetual motion device.
they say it's an ongoing inquiry.. the old ones are the best!
I'm American. We get them.Those are dad jokes, otherwiseknown as groaners
a news article has the headline of " ‘case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans"; see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/case-closed-999-of-scientists-agree-climate-emergency-caused-by-humans .
the article says in part the following.. 'the scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed 99.9%, according to research that strengthens the case for global action at the cop26 summit in glasgow.. the degree of scientific certainty about the impact of greenhouse gases is now similar to the level of agreement on evolution and plate tectonics, the authors say, based on a survey of nearly 90,000 climate-related studies.
this means there is practically no doubt among experts that burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gas, coal, peat and trees, is heating the planet and causing more extreme weather.. a previous survey in 2013 showed 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering earth’s climate.. this has been updated and expanded by the study by cornell university that shows the tiny minority of sceptical voices has diminished to almost nothing as evidence mounts of the link between fossil-fuel burning and climate disruption.. the latest survey of peer-reviewed literature published from 2012 to november 2020 was conducted in two stages.
Even my rose-colored glasses do not want me to live in a pre industrial world. You mean the one where we plowedwith horses, had famines, and hunted whales for the oil?
how much of the preaching hours in yearly report you think are real?
they always have high numbers preaching hours.
probably increase every decade.
Stan
The visiting elderly is the one part of ministry that should be done.
elf...simply a great movie imo.
funny, heartwarming and well acted..
Christmas for a dollar
how much of the preaching hours in yearly report you think are real?
they always have high numbers preaching hours.
probably increase every decade.
Pioneer shuffle. There is an app now to track diwn to the second. 🤔are there overlapping seconds?
Mail a letter on the way to the meeting for service to "start" the time. Leave a tract with a street beggar then drive a long distance. One elduh was famous for needing to stop at home for supplies, take a work call, buying gas; meanwhile I wanted to get out and done. The best was two going on a study whilst I waited in the car napping or conversing about hobbies.
I am sure every minute doing meeting parts is counted.
There are those who still think it is a life saving work. They never consider they use the least effective approach at the least effective times.
here's my list of jw no-no's as i recall: .
1. no giving or accepting valentine candy for students.
2. no going to home coming football games.
List is too extensive. I am allowed a gun but got admonished for looking at a pistol. But my old hunt partner elder haf a .357 snubby. Some things depend on country, state, local elders.
first of all, hi, i go by blotty on this website :) i am someone who has a passion for the bible and like to get a as balanced view as i can from the trinitarian and the jw (or unitarian) side - even though i come off as leaning towards one or the other at times, in my opinion they both have merits in certain cases..if this is in the wrong section i apologise - this is just something i found interesting.iv seen online a lot that say the watchtower and tract society "invented" the link between proverbs 8:22 - 30 and jesus (the word).
yet interestingly some "mainstream" "trinitarian- aimed" translations are cross referencing the following:source:https://www.biblegateway.comprov 8:22 cr rev 3:14niv, gnt,esv, nasb, nasb1995, nasbre, cevprov 8:30 cr john 1:1,2 esv nasbprov 8:30 cr john 1:3esvnasb1995nasb(this list is by no means complete)if this is simply wisdom, why is it referenced with jesus (or the word)?.
Witnesses borrow all their beliefs. Maybe the lone exception would be overlapping generations
something to cheer about, after the jw cult's failure to silence kevin mcfree.
closed captions/subtitles are facilitated.
enjoy.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqdxo1v8ilm&t=481s.
" babies are born with inherited love"--"bsbies do not have love"
3 day man hunt, bag of potato chips, so many tidbits. All true.
I really wish I could sit and watch these with friends.
honest hearted people could laugh at themselves but are too stiff to do so
maybe this man (sir isaac newton), has more credibility than fred franz in picking a date for armageddon ?.
interestingly, newton(brilliant mathematician, everyone must know him) was very interested in the bible and revelation .. .
what newton tried to do was determine a particular timescale for the apocalypse.
I'll be 112 so will probably not see it.
AND. A day for a year and 1260 days came directly from jehovah throughthe GB so nobody else could know of it. OR there is plagiarism afoot.
