just got back from the three-day convention.
some have posted notes here already.
this was my first convention as an apostate as i have just awoken to the wts a couple of weeks ago.
Just to be totally anal, if you are referring to Max Larson, he is not a member of the GB. He is much more powerful than that, as he is the President of the WTB&TS of New York, and a member of the newly formed U.S. Branch committee. But since he is not of the anointed, he is not on the GB.
I keep up on Max cause I sat next to him for my one and only week spent at Bethel. At the time I did not realize just how big a player he was. He was at our DC last year.
my mother told me that she got a video from a sister that already went to the convention.
the entire program was recorded except for the prayers.
the sister said the society says we have to shut off the recording if the prayer is being given.
Brilliant summation, Francois!
june 20th marked a new beginning for me and yourschelbie.. we had a justice-of-the-peace wedding, with just a few family and friends on hand.
the judge did a marvelous job of capturing the essence of the meaning of marriage in just a few minutes.
(and we weren't reminded that serving a publishing company should be the #1 priority in life, lol.).
Congratulations you two!!!
i cam close to being disfellowshipped once,i was a servant so they only took awy all of my duties,and priv's.but i know a sister even dated her for 10 months who has been disfellowshipped 3 times.it was kind of funny because her 2 fleshly sisters got disfellow'ed around the same time and they all didnt seem to care and went to jamaica for 3 weeks.1 of them even came back pregnant.
My parents have both been DF'd and reinstated twice. Somehow I managed to be a good little JW, till I realized what a load of crap it all is.
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the canadian city of blainville believes it has the right to restrict how people express their religion in public in order to protect people's rights to privacy in their own homes.. jehovah's witnesses pay $100 for an annual permit for door-to-door visits of a non-commercial nature permit holders can canvass for only two months each year.. read the whole article on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org.
rado vleugel
Not to be a dub apologist, but I have a tough time agreeing with the idea of needing a permit to discuss religion. Its one of those "slippery slope" type issues, I think. This is not something else the government should have to be involved in.
But I do find this comment by the JW to be ironic:
"Freedoms have always been very, very important to us, especially the freedom of speech, not just religion."
I think we all know JWs could care less about the freedom of speech and religion, unless it gets in their way. There is no freedom of speech inside the Kingdom Hall.
Ok, I'm a dope too. Who is Keating? Google tells me nothing. Why are you posting this?
how many on this board are planning to see the hulk this weekend?.
do you think the movie will make $100,000 in its opening weekend?.
i want to place a bet on line that it will.
Ok, I gotta chime in.
First of all, huge Marvel comics fan, been waiting like forever for them to start making cool movies based on my favorite comics. Not that X-Men and Spiderman were perfect films, but so much better than lame 70's tv shows or Saturday morning cartoon versions.
So I like the idea of a Hulk movie that is a little closer to the comic than the TV show was. But the CGI so far looks very cheesy. They can make dinosaurs, they can make Jar-Jar, they should be able to make the Hulk. And if they change the storyline too much, it will not help.
the james ossury, and another piece (a inscription relating to repairs to the temple) have today been declared fakes by the body of scientists tasked by the israeli antiquities authority; no url reference, this is off the radio (bbc world service).
IW,
Most of those individuals you mention never claimed to be a divine being with supernatural powers, sent here by God as mankind's only hope. That's why no one gets too bent out of shape over whether they were "real" or not.
Just a thought...
hi everyone, i'm jessica rabbit.
just like i said in my movie, i'm not bad, i'm just drawn percieved that way.
before i was officially out of the borg and wasn't into any mischief (yet) everyone assumed i was.
Hello, Jessica!!!!!
how many people have written to bethel about a problem in the congregation, and what sort of reply did you get?.
i have a sutuation where elders are trying to bully me, and using other things to basically blackmail me.
elders in other halls are indirectly involved in the situation, and say they are out of order for doing it, but are unable to get involved because of the circumstances.
5 months. And then what they sent me back was basically a form letter, that would have taken about 5 minutes to write. They didn't even bother to proofread it.
