i was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.
i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.
i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.
As I read the OP comment I thought that perhaps in the very same line of reasoning that they would support it being forced upon Negroes to provide services advertising or inviting White Supremicists to a Ku Klux Klan rally. Or perhaps in the exact same line of reasoning a Jewish printery must be forced to make available invitations to a Nazi skin head rally.
Just as surely as some believe that all people must embrace the homosexual agenda, I believe personal choice is the real goal.
i hear that a recent talk was about taking care of one's aging parents.
i agree.
generally, kids should take care of aging parents.
One glaring fact jumped out from the last article about caring for aged parnets....not ONE WORD about the bOrg stepping in to help.
Just leave it to the likley now aging themselves children, or turn the aged over to the care of the government! What a crock of shite!
On a side note one of the comments was, "Isn't it wonderful the way that the FDS thinks about the older ones, and cares for them by giving us this food at the proper time?"
I just about threw up! My parents and I have made these arrangements for care, etc. over the last ten years or so. And we didn't need no stinking "slave" to tells us how to do so, or when to do so!
i'm not talking about a individual, but a congregation as a whole.. i'm talking about a brother or sister that really hit hard times.. have there ever been an occasion where the brothers (elders).
decided to dip into the kh funds and help one in need????.
example, brother loose his job, get evicted, family of four or.
Saw a hoarder MS and his well fed obese wife receive money several years in a row to go to the convention, even though they had money enough to go camping, to movies, out to eat, buy a new pickup. At the same time the poor sister with no family locally went without and missed the convention, but that was just fine. She could watch the elder's pets while they went.
i'm not talking about a individual, but a congregation as a whole.. i'm talking about a brother or sister that really hit hard times.. have there ever been an occasion where the brothers (elders).
decided to dip into the kh funds and help one in need????.
example, brother loose his job, get evicted, family of four or.
It was always said that family or some social agency had that responsibility.
Just what the WT from last Sunday said. I noticed one person mentioned the picture of the poor woman who had fallen in the rain, broken her umbrella, broke her glasses, spilled her groceries, broken eggs, saying, "While it is good for the congregation to help AFTER the fact, wouldn't it be wonderful if the congregation was pro-active and helped BEFORE she had an accident?" There were many, including the eldurr conducting, who used the next several comments to basically verbally chastise the person who expressed kindness. One comment even was that the woman herself was to blame for not asking for help! So very sad!
i'm not talking about a individual, but a congregation as a whole.. i'm talking about a brother or sister that really hit hard times.. have there ever been an occasion where the brothers (elders).
decided to dip into the kh funds and help one in need????.
example, brother loose his job, get evicted, family of four or.
As stated before, it's usually the sisters who initiate and organize any charity. The spiritual arrogant elders are way too busy and important to mess with details like the flock under their "care".
Very recently a number of sisters initiated and implememted a schedule to care for an elderly handicapped sister's even older invalid mother while the daughter was hospitalized. Strange thing about it was the sisters doing all the work, including overnight care, were also all older woman in their 50's to early 70's and not themselves the pictures of health. The younger women, the healthy son, and every single appointed brother couldn't be bothered with interupting their schedules to help.
I have notice it always seems to be the older, less healthy who do the most for others.
The scam is that he bought the land for $155,000 less than what it's worth, and the congregation has no idea this is what has happened. They are unaware that they have taken a huge loss so this elder trustee can make out like a bandit. Do you think this deal would have been approved had the facts been presented to the congregation?
ADCMS is correct.
In a secular vein, the president of a S&L that I know about did about the same thing, multiple times, with home loans. He would write the loan for way over fair market value, sell it to a holding company which he owned for pennies on the dollar, then claim the loss for his S&L, pocket the proceeds and he made millions, before the government caught up with him and sent him to prison with a ten year sentence.
BTW, are the initials of any of the principles D.V.?
Cottonwood, AZ???
Lying elders???
I would bet that I personally know at least one of them. Initials C. W. Came from Washington state at one time.
If so, I could tell many factual stories about this LYING, hypocrite!
conversation with an elder...i said " did you watch due south yesterday" and he said " ive got far more important things to do".
i mean that comment of his got me to thinking and wondering, and made me see he was missing out on living..and i think that comment was the straw that broke this boys faith, and started my i dont want to be a witness anymore.
kind of wierd how a simple question opened my eyes.. and now as i write this i am watching " the rebel" a 1950s western series, and its great and its even better my 9 year old is watching with me..and there is nothing more important than being happy.. .
"I know they need some encouraging company, but it such a hassle to drive that far to visit with them."
Said when asked about visiting an elderly, ailing couple that lived fourteen miles from town.
so i just returned from a "memorial" service for one of the jw's i knew.. the eldurr pontificated about how death was the result of sin.
adam sinned, so we all have to bear the results of his sin, and so we die.
okay, so good so far, but then he used exekial 18: 20 as the proof.
So I just returned from a "memorial" service for one of the JW's I knew.
The eldurr pontificated about how death was the result of sin. Adam sinned, so we all have to bear the results of his sin, and so we die. Okay, so good so far, but then he used Exekial 18: 20 as the proof. The last half states, "A son will bear no guilt because of the error of his father, and a father will bear no guilt because of the error of his son. The righteousness of the righteous one will be accounted to him alone, and the wickedness of the wicked one will be accounted to him alone."
Isn't it "comforting" to know that those words are pretty well meaningless?
Adam, if one believes the story, sinned. But instead of Adam's wickedness being accounted to just him alone, billions of innocents are condemned to death for his sin.
questions from readers.
"is it appropriate for a christian to celebrate memorial day in light of its past pagan roots?".
many conscientious ones among jehovah's people today have wondered if christians should honor dead people on memorial day, in view of the fact that evidently jehovah judged them worthy of death.. first let us consider what most scholars agree is the original greek for the term "memorial day", meaning literally "a contemporary holiday to honor those who died by the sword.
Good take on Memorial Day.
