with the book crisis of conscience detailing the turbulence at bethel during the early to mid 70's, the transformation from autocratic rule to governance by committee or a body of men, many of us can speak to how that felt among the rank and file of the local congregations during those years.
we learned new concepts based in large part to research done for the aid to bible understanding volume, then we were asked or coerced into unlearning those principles, going back to the old ways.
some of us never readjusted, finding ourselves very different from our more hardline compadres.. the inertia for the changes that eventually were initiated in the congregations came from the discovery that the greek words episkopos and presbyteros were used biblically to refer to all qualified men in a congregation, not just one.
I remember the kind of people who joined during that period – in the congregations in my area we welcomed a couple of medical doctors, a couple of pharmacists, quite a few artists – painters, singer/songwriters – many educated people, a couple of lawyers – one of them well-known – one scientist, political interested people, some from the hippie movement.
Now the majority seems to come from among the poorer and vulnerable layers of society.
dear jehovah's witnesses and on-the-fencers.. isn't it even a little bit obvious that the watchtower organisation doesn't have jehovah's blessing?.
if it did, why are your leaders, the governing body, asking you for your money and assets?
surely, jehovah would provide for the organisation without having to use your hard earned money and assets?.
Surely, Jehovah would provide for the organisation without having to use your hard earned money and assets?
How? By miraculously printing money or making the staff never feeling hungry, by letting their clothes and shoes never be worn like in Sinai? By making companies suddenly feel the urge to give materials away for free? What is the alternative to letting the JW community come with their assests?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0fxyk4iba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qxdgtaskfm.
i find these shocking.
Funny to see how some are "more Catholic than the Pope"
in the congregation where i grew up, the witnesses converted this 20-something young man.
he was very strange, lived in a very shady apartment, and he couldn't afford a car, so he rode his bike around the whole area, which was very strange for our rural part of the country.
according to larry, he came from quite a wealthy family in the country he was from.
Like a modern version of Hesse's "Steppenwolf".
I truly enjoyed the story, and like you wonder where he is now, wonder along which roads or paths he is riding his bike, what stories he is telling .................
so we had brother losch visiting our special assembly day which was weird in itself.
he's not a very good speaker and seemed like he was in dire need of a nap or something.. anyways just a few observations from the assembly program.
theme: imitate their faith.
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Yeah. Send all the foreigners home. Let us get that good, old racist society back.
so i was just reading a thread and came across a completely new jw 'rule', that of not being allowed to go fishing!..
at least it's new to me as i always enjoyed fishing as did others in my old congregation.
anyone else heard of this or had this imposed on them in they're jw lives?.
i have been lurking on this site for 3 years and this is my fist post.
i would like to thank everyone for helping me wake up.
i was baptized at 24, married at 25, ms for 18 years mentally in for 24 years but started to wake up 3 years ago doing research to give public talks, and the actions of arrogant and narcissistic brothers and sisters did not help.
laki iceland 1783 for 7 months millions of tons of toxic gas and lava spewed from volcanic fissures.
this blanketed all of europe killing thousands and turning the moon blood red for a year.
many said hell had come to earth.
pdf.
thank you atlantis / wtunderground !.
child welfare services in norway have reportedly removed five christian children from their parents' home and placed them into foster care after the parents were accused of radicalizing and indoctrinating their children with christianity.. according to the british-based christian institute, norway's child protection services, known as the barnevernet, seized the three sons and two daughters of ruth and marius bodnariu in mid-november.. .
although the family wasn't quite sure at the time why their children were being taken away from them, their lawyer discovered that the parents were being charged with christian indoctrination.http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-family-gets-5-children-taken-away-by-govt-for-teaching-god-punishes-sin-151693/.
Sorry to disappoint you, that is so utterly wrong.
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there will be demonstrations in front of Norwegian embassies all over the world, but Norwegian population will be totally unaware of them like it was last year.
Again sorry to disappoint you, these are shown in the television news programs and newspaper columns whenever they take place - whenever 10 or 20 misled persons show up in front of an embassy.
