i was thinking of how little i know about my father’s side of the family.
i recently inquired about ancestry.com and i’ve come to the realization that even the closest sides of my family via my father, are unknown to me .
what a shame that jehovah’s witnesses kept us apart.
I have 6 cousins on my fathers side who I think that I met about 3 times.
The only events we could go to were signigficant wedding anniverary parties.
Rather than being "a good witness" we must have looked VERY weird and standoffish.
I am enstranged from all of my JW family and know nothing about my non witness family.
have there been a gb in the organization before that like the 'spot light' as much as the current one?
they seem to be everywhere.
from broadcasting, to magazine and selfie jws post on facebook with them..
When I wqs growing up there were decades when I didn't even know any names of the GB, never mind know what they looked like. They could have punched me in the face and I wouldn't have know who they were.
They always prided themselves on the fast that they were discreet and gave Jehovah all the glory.
I have never watched a broadcast for about 3 years and have no intention of doing so, but if they are intent on becoming well-known, famous 'pharisaic' characters then I hope they desrve all they get when the net closes in on the abuse cases etc.
oh man, i know i'm gonna catch flack for this.. everyone sees masonic conspiracies everywhere.. i am not a conspiracy theorist.
i don't honestly believe the governing body are freemasons.. yet, probably due to cruising this site and seeing all the masonic conspiracy threads, i saw this when looking for a shot of lett's pinky ring to show how he wore one in october, but then took it off in may to ask for money.. .
original is on the left, and on the right, i played with the brightness/contrast to get it to show up a little better.. what does the pattern on his ring look like to you?.
Whatever, Wildsteve.
very interesting w 50 6/15 pp.
the general principle shown is that any fruits from theocratic victories should go to jehovah’s honor, and not to the exaltation of any individual or organization.
the israelites stripped the midianites of their fine raiment and jewelry; so the truth declared against the world leaders, whether religious or political, commercial or military, strips them of the “higher powers” claim in which they clothe themselves, removes them from their exalted position, plunders the prestige and adoration they once enjoyed, and they lose the flattering titles that allowed them to glitter and shine.
Not really on topic but I just shuddered at thought of the old very long WT's with 30 or more paragraphs.
In the days when timing wasn't really classed as important we used to have WT studies that were about an hour and 45 minutes (really) and each paragraph was dra-aggggged out. I hated.
Young ones have it so easy these days when 22 paragraphs are considered long. lol
PS. I admire people hunting through old litrature trying to find things, but personally, I never want to see another single WT again in my life.
the watchtower is so short of money because they have to pay for all the upkeep of so many branch offices around the world.because so many of the branch offices are in very poor countries and they are not balancing the budgets.
The congregation that I was in worked really hard to get a new kingdom hall and ended up with a surplus of £35,000 which they wanted to keep for repairs, maintenance etc.
After the circuit overseer visited they received a letter informing them that they needed to send it to Bethel. The congregation was allowed to keep about £2000 and the rest was sent away.
it was put to public vote on the Thursday night and although there were some grumblings and people feeling genuinely ripped off, the vote was unnanimous and the money was transferred.
It was THEIR hard earned and donated money for their own hall but of course it went supposedly to Africa to build KH's there (Did it get there or not, I don't know).
i was just browsing the russian jw site and saw this image that appears to represent christian persecution by showing handcuffs in front of prison bars that appear to form a cross.
which would be weird because they don't even believe in the cross, or maybe it was clip art from another source and they didn't notice.
or last and most likely i'm seeing things that aren't there 😜.
There are so many other serious REAL issues with the JW's to be concerned about without getting consumed with conspiracy theories like this.
We don't want to look as nutty as the JW's are by analysing every little word or image.
Concentrate on the BIG issues....promotion of shunning, splitting families up, cult mind control, hiding abuse, preventing further education, extraction of money and resources from members, and constantly changing the goalposts regarding armmagedon etc.
Next people will be analysing any pictures of the sky in WT publications and making shapes out of clouds.
the most obvious is the eye of horus cleaver designed jw convention grounds in denmark.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loyjxu4qrvw.
*rolls eyes" and sighs.
Wild Steve, there are REAL JW issues that are much more terrifying and incredible than these daft made up conspiracy theories that you are intent on promoting.
Perhaps you should go on the "Prince Philip organised the assasination of Princess Diana" website instead. They LOVE conspiracy theories there.
i was thinking about how paul was able to hijack jesus message.
he never met jesus (claimed an encounter after jesus death that affected his eyesight) .
he was a persecutor of jesus followers.
Anybody who makes their name in religion are generally insane, egotistical, charismatic and make themselves and their message attractive to a whole load of brainwashed followers who are desperate to believe in something and be led.
how many people here can sincerely say those words to someone?
i take it most here do not say prayers, right?
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I don't pray and don't believe in God anymore so to say that they were in my prayers would be worthless.
I tell them that they are constantly in my thoughts and follow up regularly with a phone call or visit if they need one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8b_xqi_nm.
this is self explanatory.
please if you are in a commonwealth country write /phone /fax your local member to support tr release from his current place of imprisonment.. you may not receive any reply but do so anyway.
I am not going to get into the debates but I am well aware of the English Defence League and the agenda of a lot of the folllowers.
The media perpertuate the problem by not allowing them to have any dialogue which creates a breeding ground of fear and racism amongst some members instead of allowing people to talk about issues and allaying peoples fears and misconceptions.
