Have you hit a rough patch and feeling discouraged after 30 years of marriage and 2 children? Go see your new age 20 elder for spiritual council.
SydBarrett
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They are running out of people to do their stuff.
by liam inthis is the watchtower study article being studied today.
so it’s the current new light!.
what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.
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Why Did God Create Us?
by Sea Breeze injesus is the creator god, but why did he create us?
what say you?.
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Putin Speech LIVE STREAMING: 'Russia Ready To Attack With Oreshnik Missiles' | NATO | Ukraine War!
by Littleleslie inputin speech live streaming: 'russia ready to attack with oreshnik missiles' | nato | ukraine war!
(times of india).
russian president vladimir putin warned of more strikes on ukraine with intermediate-range ballistic missile oreshik if strikes with western-made missiles on russia continue.
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video has been LIVE STREAMING for 5 hours
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Memories of Excessive Laughter
by Sea Breeze injw's are not known for laughter.
there are the rare exceptions.
they are more known for their fear mongering and doomsday scenarios where "the dead shall come to be as manure on the surface of the ground from one end of the earth clear to the other".
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By contrast, after leaving WT, we had an assistant Baptist pastor at a church we attended from Tennessee. He was hysterical.
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Trump wins
by gavindlt ini am non political and have never voted but nonetheless i have been keenly watching to see how the trump presidential race unfolds.
i believe that his involvement in propelling or influencing a leaning toward bible prophecy will unfold.
how, i can’t say but something tells me that this anomaly and outlier being trump is highly signifiant!
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Was Hell Consistently Taught from Genesis to Revelation?
by Sea Breeze insome sources cite that the word or concept of hell appears 167 times in the old and new testament.
jesus spoke about hell more than anyone else.
how can such consistent warnings by many different writers over 1600 years all be parables?
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Would you be able to survive a three day Assembly?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe last assembly i attended was over 10 years ago.
the monotone speakers, boring talks, uncomfortable seats, long prayers and nodding off after the lunch break did me in.
i survived the morning sessions, but the afternoon sessions were brutal.
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SydBarrett
Last one I attended was 1991. No I couldn't do it again.
However, as miserable as the 3 day conventions of my childhood were, they were nothing compared to the stories of the 1950s that my older relatives told me stories of.
Imagine driving almost 900 miles from Georgia to New York on pre-interstate highways. Sitting in the open air at Yankee Stadium in the middle of the summer from 9a.m until 9:30 in the evening. For EIGHT DAYS. Sleeping in a pop up camper. Waiting in lines to use makeshift shower and toilet facilities. The smell by day 8 must have been indescribable.
Also, what in the world did they manage to come up with to speak about to fill 12 hours a day for 8 days???
Then drive back home utterly miserable and exhausted. Today that drive is about 16 hours. Back then it must have been a multi day drive on state highways and secondary roads. Insanity. -
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Where's Simon?
by nicolaou inanyone heard from him?
he hasn't been active for over a week.
probably on holiday but would be nice to know everything's okay 🤔 .
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SydBarrett
Likely just taking a break. Being an Englishman living in Canada with strident opinions about the USA probably takes a psychological toll.
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Did your witness family have a 'Thanksgiving' that wasn't on Thanksgiving?
by SydBarrett inmy family had several elders, ministerial servants, auxillary pioneers etc, so it certainly wasn't one of those 'barely in' families.
but in certain small ways, i think mine were slightly less hard line than some other families i've heard stories about over the years.
one example was the 'fall dinner'.
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SydBarrett
My family had several elders, ministerial servants, auxillary pioneers etc, so it certainly wasn't one of those 'barely in' families. But in certain small ways, I think mine were slightly less hard line than some other families i've heard stories about over the years.
One example was the 'fall dinner'. My grandmother would host a big family dinner that was Thanksgiving in every aspect except name. We didn't have it on Thanksgiving Thursday but it was always that general time of year. Did yours do that?
The no Thanksgiving thing always seemed even more stupid than the prohibition against the other holidays. There wasn't any scripture or pagan origin that they could twist and stretch to sorta kinda make an argument for not participating. It was simply being contrary for the sake of it.
What could be more benign than taking advantage of a day that most people get off work to get together with the family for dinner? And if the JW's had allowed it, it would have been a day where JW's socialised together,strengthening their social bonds. Kinda dumb that they didn't see it that way.