todays watchtower study is all about singing complete with instructions on how to sing.,............
"but we all have the responsibility to sing praises to jehovah.
so hold your songbook up high, lift your head, and sing with enthusiasm!".
responsibility to sing...? really?
this is just so they can tell the elders to clamp down on and watch the non singers.
apostates are more likely to be soft on the singing IMHO so heres the official framework for why you should harass non singers (just w/o giving the real reason)
or maybe cuz its rather comical when most the hall ( and its only half full already) is not singing... wow the quiet is deafening.
im sure we'll see a local needs on that later this year
all seeing eye or what?.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jw+property+denmark.
compare with russell's grave site pyramid and the "announcing the beginning of a new world order" pyramid on the back of the one dollar bill..
remember that old JW song singing about "gods new order is near" hahaha
maybe theres something to that. or maybe not. cant really prove anything about this stuff unless you catch the GB in the act talking mason and NWO stuff.
now thats some JW TV i would watch!
lots of spacy questions lately so i'll add mine here.
theres a video of one of the guys on the international space station doing some experiments with a few portable cd players, using them as gyroscopes when turned on.
it was interesting to see.
oh i can see why my calculations were off now, i was using the old "1 minute in WT is as a thousand years"
oops, my bad.
oh and for the havoc, i have not stated anything false nor have i given mis/disinformation but if you disagree, please tell me what misinfo i gave so we can clear that up.
once i heard from a gb, "keep on keepin on".
a church phrase.
when they came out with the idea of the "way" i was dumbfounded to find churches using the same, remember the bible called the way?.
great points smiddy
parasite religion indeed
once i heard from a gb, "keep on keepin on".
a church phrase.
when they came out with the idea of the "way" i was dumbfounded to find churches using the same, remember the bible called the way?.
i like the one when she opened a box. i think the point is that materialistic women have ruined the world?
ok just kidding
well , not really.. our hall recently had a secret collection for our head elder who is almost on the verge of becoming homeless.
i guess he lost some cleaning contracts because his clients were just sick of his no shows because of his pioneer work.
there is always something more important to do than earn a living.. this is the same assholes he is always shaming people to not doing enough.
what scripure was it said.. "if a man does not work, let him not eat" or some such..
he wants to be like the widow.. great example.
in context, it seems jesus was using the widow as an example of how the religious leaders were devouring the houses of widows. look at mark 12 and the parallel accounts to see this. he never said anything positive about the widow giving more than the others, no commendation only observation.
this is my first post, i will introduce myself later.
first of all, i must say that english is not my mother tongue (i'm spanish), so excuse me if i make any mistake.. do you think that some people simply can't cope with being outside the jws?
some of them are too worldlyphobic to be around non-jws, too dependent on a fixed set of rules in order to carry on with their lives, too dependent on the hope of paradise and resurrection, too unable to leave their personal comfort zone within the organization.
IMHO I wouldnt classify military as a high control group (maybe in china or N.K.) you have more freedom there than most high control religions but yes you have to show for work and not do stupid stuff that makes them look bad to the general public.
also they dont care what you think / believe as long as it doesnt interfere with your duties.
totally agree on other points tho.
according to the 11/2017 study watchtower.......apparently not.
is it really true that one can be happy without religion?
certainly an individual can be happy without false religion, but a person cannot be truly happy unless he has a relationship with jehovah, who is described as “the happy god.” (1 tim.
and that from the folks who used to say religion is a snare and a racket!
well at least that was one teaching they had right.
I figure if theres a god who "is love" then he realizes that there is no objective way for me to prove his existence so he will have to prove it. if my salvation is contingent on believing and he provides insufficient (i.e. none) evidence then how is that love? an ancient collection of errorful writings are not proof enough anymore (back when i was all in, it was)
the jist was that we all should sing.
then the first 6 or 8 paragraphs describe how early bible accounts have trained and set aside musicians to do the singing while everyone else listened.. the songs they have put out have no soul, rhythm, or soothing melodies as a whole.
the old hymns are some real music, even if you don't agree with the "teachings".. there is no admission of poetry using archaic language at times for affect or to add to the rhyme, they have to have everything agree with the grey bible.. anyone speak foreign languages?
glad i missed it (or rather, i didnt miss a thing)
anyone notice that some songs dont seem to be appropriate for the "earthly" class i mean, were all the JWs bought for a price? if only the "annointed" then why is everyone singing about how they were bought?
theres a few like this that i noticed.
i just adlib the songs cuz i cant sing that trash they have in the book, its nonsense. noone has noticed so far, apparently.
my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.
what are people's thoughts on this?.
alot of what ive seen in south america is falling apart and looks a bit too much like formed concrete falling apart. im rather an expert at that since my stairs look just like them!
