**overlapping donations**.
yes.. that's a thing.
not new, of course.i just felt like shouting it from the housetop.. ( don't forget the worldwide work, friends... ).
reminds me of a fundraising in a little Pentecostal church, they put the platter in front, near the lectern, and did one lap of contributing, counted, it was not enough, so, the members did another lap around the front. not enough!-- another lap.
Witnesses will not get over all these laps, sadly, they are still lapping it up.
does anyone else have those things that everyone else seems to know ... except you?
it's like you were off the day it was taught in school and you don't know that you don't know about it.
but everyone else does.. i have a couple .... first, days of the month.
besty so should it be: I even left my red port at home?
they seem to have laid off their proofreaders.
in the new 03/2016 study watchtower there is a picture description:a mature young person does not act like a friend of god at the kingdom hall but a friend of the world at school.
the german issue saysein reifer junger mensch verhalt sich im konigreichssaal nicht wie ein freund jehovas und in der schule wie ein freund der welt.
It would have sounded nicer if Kingdom Hall and "school" would have been close together, to make the contrast clear like:
Ein reifer junger Mensch verhaelt sich nicht wie ein Freund Jehovah's im Koenigsreichssaal, aber*** in der Schule wie ein Freund der Welt. oder *** gleichzeitig IMO.
For an English speaker, the German "New Theocratic tongue" really sounds antique, stilted.
and i don't mean that stupid made up shit russell just invented only a 100 yrs ago.
he never passed the 7th grade and declared that the world was too stupid to understand the bible without him.. who do you follow and pore money into the watchtower?.
I remember one school overseer with a degree in Journalism, an accomplished TV personality. what a difference a degree makes.
Now, if local elders had degrees, that would fulfill Jesus' words about slaves being the first, for the undereducated 7 would direct, feed the educated.( the things hidden from the world)
i am intrigued to know if there is truly any evidence of financial irregularities in the jehovah's witness organisation or if any one or group are raking off funds or benefitting financially...?.
whilst i disagree wholeheartedly with most of their teachings and practices, dogmatism, legalism and superiority complex, i don't honestly think there's anyone making millions at the top.
yes you could say that the gb are comfortably off, don't have to pay bills etc but they do actually get up in the morning and 'work', they aren't going off in private jets to tropical islands or driving bentleys.
i am intrigued to know if there is truly any evidence of financial irregularities in the jehovah's witness organisation or if any one or group are raking off funds or benefitting financially...?.
whilst i disagree wholeheartedly with most of their teachings and practices, dogmatism, legalism and superiority complex, i don't honestly think there's anyone making millions at the top.
yes you could say that the gb are comfortably off, don't have to pay bills etc but they do actually get up in the morning and 'work', they aren't going off in private jets to tropical islands or driving bentleys.
does anyone else have those things that everyone else seems to know ... except you?
it's like you were off the day it was taught in school and you don't know that you don't know about it.
but everyone else does.. i have a couple .... first, days of the month.
source: suspect spoke of 'baby parts' after planned parenthood shooting, by kevin conlon, greg botelho and pamela brown, cnn updated 4:03 am et, sun november 29, 2015.
just one little thought....adam & eve ate the fruit from the tree "of the knowledge of good & evil".
so..in other words, before they ate they did not know right from wrong...hmmmm so how can you blame someone who does not know right from wrong?.
for a crime to take place in human law you must have the act - 'actus reus' - and the guilty mind or 'mens rea' as it is termed.
smiddy: they would have eaten from the tree of life first ? before eating the tree of knowledge of good and bad ?
The Tree of Life likely was part of their monthly diet, a spice, supplement; think of the 12 harvests of the trees on the river in New Jerusalem of Revelation 21/22. Wt writers teach that "one day Jehovah might have shown them the tree of life", but they probably knew it very well, that is why the way was blocked until it's flooding. so:
A-dam & Eve were perfect, therefore dying like all creation, (even stars died, so that we can live). perfect= mortal, normal.; that is why they needed the tree of life to extend their time beyond normal. The fantastic 900+ year lifespans were due to the residual effect of the monthly shot of tree of life juice. --damn those swords, beat them into plowshares!
The wolf in red riding hood talked too. where is evolution when we need it? the breeding success of those talking animals?.
does anyone else have those things that everyone else seems to know ... except you?
it's like you were off the day it was taught in school and you don't know that you don't know about it.
but everyone else does.. i have a couple .... first, days of the month.
starboard right and green? but I like the sound of ignorance Sam Cooke: Don't know much about history-- what a wonderful world--"t
