it's that time of year again when i can get back on the fields with the metal detector looking for ancient stuff.
the first field to be harvested was full of peas - ideal as it leaves no stubble and it's a two minute walk from my house.
it has given up two coins in two visits this week.. the first one is a cut-half silver penny from the reign of henry ii.
Apart from the historical value and importance of these finds cofty which by the way I find immense for you personally having found them, what about the monetary value to you in finding them is their any reward their ?
I would expect their would be but are they of much value ? To Museums ? are they interested in such finds ? Historians ? Collectors ? etc .etc.
I`m just curious
figures from that latest 2-weekend convention in caridff (wales) reveal jw “growth” now in decline.
baptisms are discouragingly low (21, combined), and circuit overseers have been primed to deal with assemblies where there are no baptisms; see these leaked 2018 instructions:.
pdf summary: https://1drv.ms/b/s!arekzxkzlp8ybsl45pov7y6k26a.
Inflatables ,card board cut-outs I can just see it now ,and with the writing department juggling the numbers and counting the rubber duckies in the baptismal pool ?
WOW look at the growth achieved !
O.K I`m being stupid here .but any more so than what the G.B. come out with ?
figures from that latest 2-weekend convention in caridff (wales) reveal jw “growth” now in decline.
baptisms are discouragingly low (21, combined), and circuit overseers have been primed to deal with assemblies where there are no baptisms; see these leaked 2018 instructions:.
pdf summary: https://1drv.ms/b/s!arekzxkzlp8ybsl45pov7y6k26a.
" When their are no baptismal candidates present when he asks for these to stand their is no need to ask the two questions or to say the prayer "
Isnt that a no brainer ? And they have only come out with that instruction only recently ?
Thinking back though when I was in I`m sure they did still go with that ritual !
That`s crazy .
even if the world and organization(not for better,)change a lot from the 80s.
the watchtower articles seem exactly like the one we study in the ,80s.
there's a zombie feeling to them.
I think they have always been reprinting their articles since the 1950-60`s only to make a change according to the decade /news of the time .
Think of the books :
"Your Will be Done On Earth" ," Babylon The great Has fallen Gods Kingdom Rules" and "Revelation Its grand Climax"
I don`t think their has been anything "new" of any significance since these were published though I stand to be corrected since I`ve been out now for over 25 years .
They can only rehash "Old Truths" for "New Truths" for so long until it just becomes "Truth Garbage"
What`s that saying about re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic ?
That`s the Jehovah`s Witness /Watchtower Organization down to a tee.
angus stewart qc, senior counsel, has had a long and distinguished legal career, beginning with his passion for justice in south africa, fighting apartheid, then later working in the truth and reconciliation commission, and more recently acting as senior counsel in the case studies on jehovah's witnesses in the australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
angus discusses, from his own personal point of view, and not representing the carc or the commissioners, what the journey was like, learning about the internal law and policy of watchtower society, how he became determined to stand for justice for all the victims and for the whole community of ex jehovah's witnesses and how he felt about the evidence being presented to him and the people presenting it.. interview by lara kaput and louise goode for jw community podcast.. https://jwcommunitypodcast.simplecast.fm/cf4d380d.
I just listened to it ,thanks for posting it jwleaks . It highlites the humanity of the man .
Well worth listening to it.
quotes are from the 2005 wt cd red text is mine
the wts claims to be the sole source of god's truth on earth today.
truth is so important to them that they even use the term "truth" as a name for their teachings.
Every J.W. knows your not lying if you are doing it to gain converts ( sheep like ones ) and to put off and confuse those who oppose us.
Never mind that J.W.`s say that Satan is the father of the lie.
what is the strangest picture drawn or other you ever saw in a jw article?.
Well I could go out on a limb here and say the illustrations of Jehovah sitting on a throne and with a beard ?
Isn`t that ironic ?
in the genocidal instructions supposedly given by god we find this interesting command: “now kill all the boys.
and kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” (numbers 31:17, 18).
in the midst of killing and plundering, how were the israelites to determine whether each girl “has slept with a man” or not?.
“Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” (Numbers 31:17, 18 )
Spoils of war eh ? Virgins for the Victors
And don`t forget that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son blah ,blah , blah,
How did I ever believe in this nonsense for over 30 years
10 dark and ungodly christian beliefs.
joshua sigafus august 1, 2018. .
christianity is one of the most widespread religions in the world, with more than two billion followers worldwide.
Thank you for your replies venus to my questions, not that I agree with you but at least I now know where you are coming from.
quite regularly at meetings jws mocked worldly people and apostates(anyone who had left the "truth") for saying the bible contradicts itself when it is in complete harmony from beginning to end apparently.
can anyone point out some of the contradictions they know of?
they used to laugh at the fact people on the doors would say the bible contradicts itself and when they asked the householder to show them where, they couldn't..
