i spent monday walking down memory lane.
i went to the old brooklyn bethel.
the old towers hotel, were i roomed for 3 years is now a care facility for old folks.
I never understood how jw's handle their history.
When a witness dies, he or she is forgotten in a year.
When a local jw building is left no one cares.
If the HQ is sold for billions to Kushner, Trump and Reibling / Taurus (witness) no one cares.
A sect. All for the money.
G.
straight from the horse's gb's mouth - from the 2022 convention broadcast.. it's at the 38 min.
30 secs.
point of the jw broadcast: https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/2022convention/pub-co-r22_1_video.
When I watched this, I fell from my chair. Since then I avoid watchtower "education" at all terms.
They are mad.
G.
the expression "jehovah god" has always seemed strange to me.
even when i was a jw, i found the term awkward, and never used it myself.
both words are nouns intended to be synonyms of each other, unless the name "jehovah" is being used as an adjective, which is also weird.
The last years in the organisation I only used the prase "heavenly father" and "almighty father in heaven".
Of course I was more and more on the elders radar.
G.
the study edition of september has 2 question from readers.. one about what happens arround 1000 years after armageddon.. they compare 2 class of people: permanent resident and temporary visitors.
first: these doctrines are difficult to believe in.
and pure fake fantasy.. g..
Yep, all over again then.
G.
the study edition of september has 2 question from readers.. one about what happens arround 1000 years after armageddon.. they compare 2 class of people: permanent resident and temporary visitors.
first: these doctrines are difficult to believe in.
and pure fake fantasy.. g..
the study edition of september has 2 question from readers.. one about what happens arround 1000 years after armageddon.. they compare 2 class of people: permanent resident and temporary visitors.
first: these doctrines are difficult to believe in.
and pure fake fantasy.. g..
The study edition of september has 2 question from readers.
One about what happens arround 1000 years after Armageddon.
They compare 2 class of people: permanent resident and temporary visitors.
First: these doctrines are difficult to believe in. And pure fake fantasy.
G.
gorby's son, 12 year old,, made his father happy and thinking.. he said: "truth and logic are connected.
jw.org is not logic so it has no truth".. one line with so much to think about.. g..
How to derail a good and original post.
G.
the last 2 1/2 years have been extremely stressful.
while the rest of the world was dealing with covid, i was also dealing with cancer.
in fact it seems none of my doctors knew about it.
Good to hear!
G.
i know this subject has been talked about lots over the years, just thought i would share a recent finding from canada.. while visiting with a group of friends, an elder (don’t recall how the subject came up) mentioned the local body had voted to allow brothers with beards be allowed to give talks from the platform.
(it was a very close vote).
the direction given was for each congregation to decide for themselves if that is now acceptable.. so some congregations will be for, and for many it will not.. it’ll probably be a long time before we see any pictures on the watchtower where they’re allowing this though..
So glad, don't use my time for this typical JW issues anymore.
G.
do anyone here remember a now inactive webpage that would generate hypothetical convention themes?
it may have been something like districtconventionthemegenerator.
com.. this was from about 20 years ago.
A lot of info is lost on the net.
Time tends to erase and delete.
G.
