serena william's thanks jehovah god for allowing her to participate in sports.
how nice.
my jw parents followed the rules and thought they were doing jehovahs will by denying me participation in sports.
I also heard the quote: „ For physical training is beneficial for a little, but godly devotion is beneficial for all things, as it holds promise of the life now and the life that is to come.“
I note that this rendering is more negative than other translations that state physical training is good but godly devotion is better.
(can't insert edit in title husband a jw?).
i just read that serena said both of them were jws.
but this wouldn't be the first time means 1) supports her beliefs and does them 2) supports her beliefs and doesn't interfered with but no where does it say he is a baptized witness.
She was holding the Olympic Torch at the ceremony. Is this not a pagan thing to do?
good pick?
bad pick?
helpful to president biden?
Is that as compared to PRE pandemic/defund the police/BLM riot levels? Or as compared to the more recent 'defund the cops' period levels? (diogenessister)
Interesting that you mention this since it seems to be religious pattern in the Bible Student's world. In a German issue of the Present Truth magazine of the LHMM of P.S.L. Johnson they state (translated):
“Our earlier experiences in the tribulation period were social inequalities, disobedience to authority, strife in the relations between capital and labor, class hatred abounded, deep-seated discontent prevailed, agitations and demonstrations for radical change continued, the poor were malnourished and cried out for bread, the underprivileged demanded money and various “civil rights” from the rich. For years these signs of impending catastrophe have become increasingly evident in the present order of things and more and more “men languish in fear and expectation of the things that are coming upon the world” (Luke 21:26). On this day we witness further outbreaks of trouble. We can name the following: Antifa, Black Lives Matter, defund the police movement (in the USA a movement to take funding away from the police - translator's note), the Covid-19 pandemic is causing great financial disasters, socialist idealism is rife in the world of politics, the governments of the world are in a bankrupt state, the hatred of many factions towards the Christian world continues."
I notice here that the word “civil rights” has been put in quotation marks. In the following list there is not a word about racism and discrimination, but the Trump vocabulary is used: Antifa (=anti-fascism) as a difficulty (in the concentration camp, by the way, the Bible Students secessionists also got the purple angle), “Black Lives Matter” is a problem and Covid 19 is not described as a health disaster but as a financial one. “Socialist idealism in the world of politics” is denounced. Interestingly, Russell still recommended socialism in Volume IV of Studies in the Scriptures and distinguished it from communism.
But what can one expect from an institution which, even in a convervative religious environment, clings to the old in a splintering off of a special community.
(You find the original document here: https://www.bibelstandarte.de/gw/gw99.pdf)
perhaps you considering joining the wt cult - here is a concise list of why you should not.. what the watchtower demands of you:.
1.complete obedience to them.. 2. be willing to lose your life for zany blood teachings.. 3.put other cult members before your real family.. 4.refusal to let you leave their religion when the penny drops it's a cult.. 6.accept that they can backtrack and change any of their flip flop teachings at any time.. 7. you can't change your mind about their teachings without harsh discipline,.
8. insistence that you humbly and quickly apologise for your mistakes and errors.. 9.gladly accept they will never be apologising for any of their mistakes or errors of judgement.. 10.accept that even ones who follow and believe in the bible, but not the governing body are worthy of destruction.. please feel free to add more..
I cannot imagine anyone with a clear mind joining this cult today. Everything that somehow could have been viewed as making any sense at all has been crumbling down.
good pick?
bad pick?
helpful to president biden?
Biden wasn’t just losing due to his age, it was his record and the state of the country that was keeping him down
As President Joe Biden runs for reelection, here’s how the U.S. has fared during his time in office:
good pick?
bad pick?
helpful to president biden?
Oh, before launching three separate comments the censor deleted two of my comments. #freespeechsoimportanttotrumpists
Ah, and since the reason for Biden's withdrawal has never been given the speculation that he was not able is just - well - not so coherent. It is just copy paste. Please add that Biden should refund the Republicans now.
good pick?
bad pick?
helpful to president biden?
An interesting choice between a sincere prosecutor and a multiple convicted felon.
wife and i visited the russell gravesite in allegheny (pittsburgh) pennsylvania yesterday.
i’ll post photos if i can get them to upload on the hotel wifi..
To me it is still fascinating how these early BS started and what evolved out of them. I have a general interest in that time period, too.
some of you have read the first two volumes of schulz and de vienne's separate identity series recounting the watch tower's early years.
uncle b is working steadily on volume three, the last in the series despite declining health.
a few rough draft paragraphs of chapter three are up on his blog.
Great work! Looking forward to the complete release.
it happened at a rally in pennsylvania, apparently.
he seems ok i've seen a photo of him bleeding from his ear.
this is absolutely nutso....if it's too it doesn't surprise me the way they constantly describe him as "far right" and that his supporters are "maga republicans".
A comment by a medical guy I copy here (translated):
"Anyone who knows me knows that I know my way around firearms and surgery. I think this assassination was planned in cold blood - by Trump himself. Look at the video. First you hear the shots. Then, not as a reflex movement, but with normal reaction time, the hand goes to the ear...The bullet should have hit the ear about 0.3 seconds before the bang (difference in supersonic bullet/speed of sound). No cry of pain or flinch. Trump's hand moves away from his ear as he goes down. You can see the palm of his hand - without blood. When he comes back into view, there is some (in my opinion far too little) blood on his face - and a thumb-thick injury on his ear. Even a .50 caliber would not have produced such a large wound - only bullet wounds are larger than the bullet. Injuries to the face or ear bleed very heavily. My conclusion: With this act Trump puts himself in the line of Reagan and Kennedy - I bet that their names will be mentioned by him in the next few days. And he will have a wound on his ear - after he gets out of the hospital! Not before. Lastly: Oswald's shots on Kenndy were difficult. Downwards and with a hard to determine lead, whereas this shot was a penalty kick without a goalkeeper. Trump missing at 120 meters with a sniper rifle .... Let's put it this way: Any hunter would be ashamed if he missed a roebuck or fox with a shot."
