i am thoroughly surprised nobody has brought this up yet, but two of the original songs released last year, "i give you my best" & "jehovah welcomes you home" were performed by george benson, and the first one was a duet with singer sheila hutchinson, the same one who did duets with him over 10 years ago for the cancelled album mentioned in our kingdom ministry.
compare this:.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=58_mjyndcey.
Big League Stuff - what with another post hinting at a possible USD 900 000 gift from the late Br Prince - superstars are good to have around - they do eventually die ! So suck-up to them !
Have met and spoken to Benson when he did concerts over my part of the world - very down to earth guy - also corresponded for some time over e-mail with him along with jazz Flautist Hubert Laws.
Benson attended the local KH during a jazz festival he played at here.
let me start by saying that this forum has been helpful to me in many ways.
i haven't gotten involved in much commenting and i am not very assertive by nature so i've steered away from participating in debates.
but i have read threads often and had a sense of community.
2005 - $20,000 for chanhassen jevovah witnes y st louis jehovah witness2006 - $130,000 for jehovah witness kingdom hall2007 - $800,000 for peccole ranch lakes kingdom hall fund.
the amounts of his donations has been posted in other forums with copies of the public tax filings of his love 4 one another foundation..
i feel an unfamiliar restlessness in my lower body.
too long have i been confined to my sickbed; my mind and heart coax me arise and gaze upon the world outside.
it is no longer a matter of fighting long-entrenched despair.
Love it !
Needed that too !
it has been 21 years since the 1995 article that pretty much buried the idea of the '1914 generation'.. remember those guys?
the ones born in 1914 that would still be alive when the end of the system arrived.. i'm glad i'm old enough to remember going from door to door, preaching this belief.
the reason i say that is because i have a lot of 'still in' jw friends and family.
"Eager to see the end of this evil system, Jehovah's people have at times speculated about
That should read : The GB have at times [often] speculated ............................ That is a deliberate attempt to push the focus back onto the R+F ..as usual
i hope everyone is having a good day/night.
so i was just reflecting on how happy i am to have my babies, despite the orgs.
not so subtle requests that married couples not have babies in order to further serve the org.
Ditto BeautifulMind
We were strongly encouraged to remain childless - and so our first baby who has just turned 26 came along after we had been married 11 years/
She then had Bilirubin issues and we had to face a major blood issue just hours after she was born.
When I reflect back on how easy it could have been to have listened to this "sage" advice to remain childless I actually start to tremble ! Damn that was a close call !
the full program has been leaked in spanish.. http://www.extj.com/showthread.php?27685-juego-de-bosquejos-de-discursos-de-la-asamblea-regional-2016.
here is my back up, including the files already extracted: link.
i have yet to read it.
my son graduates with his bachelors degree, cum laude!.
he is the first in my family to graduate with a four year degree.
and he is already in talks for a teaching job.. so, gerrit lush....up your nose with a rubber hose!
Not mit zer rubber hose ! .......mit zer leder hose !
Congrats to you and your son !
in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.
now, on with the leaks & releases!
first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.
in an effort to excuse yourself from elder persecution, you present an argument.
whether at a jc or just in an average elder shepherding call.
most people who have confronted a jc, have tried to explain to the elders about what they know of the org but the incriminating questions always come up.. when confronted with the question, do you still believe the gb is the f&ds?
Oh we had this in our recent pre-JC visit by 2 elders :
So I found the Video and the Transcript of Geoffrey J before the ARC - you know, where he is asked if he believes the JW are the True org etc . Played this to them and invited them to follow on the transcript and then told them that my current position and answer to their question is the same as GJ's ! .................until further notice and that I am applying a "waiting attitude" .................................That seemed to settle the matter ................[and they retired until a further time" ]
Also asked for a Biblical ex-splanation of Bro Splanes splanation of the Overlapping Generations - No answer offered !
No JC ...............yet !
