“Is there anything from your past, even before baptism, or in your personal or family life that disqualifies you...?"
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Yes, Brother Circuit Overseer, before I became a JW, I was a "worldly" person, so everything I did disqualifies me you dumbass!
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Because asking that has stopped many a perverted elder from being appointed...
Unless he feels bad about it now and realizes he should have come forward at the time. In that case, he gets a mulligan and the CO will appoint him anyway (provided a generous green handshake is involved).
Incidentally, why ask the question? Isn't Holy Spirit supposed to reveal all of this anyway, regardless of whether the brother admits to anything or not ?????
so talking with my wife last night...i was explaining to her about a conversation i had with a person at work about end times.
he has a strange belief that some scriptures in isaiah perdict something huge is going to happen in september of 2015. she then states that no one can predict the future only the father knows and he is in a cult.
lol on the inside.. i then stated "what about 1914 and the dubs perdiction and what it means today" she said no there was never any predictions.
The GB are not stupid. They are highly intelligent and shrewd men
It's probably more accurate to say they hire highly intelligent and shrewd people outside of the WT Organization to do their thinking and strategizing for them.
I don't ever look at Anthony Morris III or Stephen Lett and say to myself, "now there's a highly intelligent man".
we were taught for 100 years that the end or armageddon is imminent, as if it is coming in a hurry.
but look now at the new way of sharing god's kingdom in uk which i find as a complete irony.
"thousands have switched tactics to stand on street corners in more than a dozen cities across britain - and unusually for public preachers, they are staying almost completely silent... unlike other evangelical preachers, they do not shout or call attention to themselves - instead standing in near-silence until someone approaches them."http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691254/how-jehovahs-witnesses-got-street-smart-believers-swap-infamous-doorstepping-standing-outside-train-stations-shops.html.
WT should make a categorical statement and support it with activities that are aligned to it
You mean WT should practice what they preach?? What a concept ! LOL.
In reality, WT operating as if it actually believes what it preaches is true is counter to its corporate interests.
As I've said repeatedly, actions speak louder than words-everytime- and WT's actions clearly demonstrate at the very least they do not believe Armageddon is coming anytime soon; more accurately, they believe it's not coming at all.
jul 22, 2014, 2:09pm hstlongs drugs to open new store in east honolulu near aina haina shopping center enlarge photopbn filelongs drugs, which opened this store in the davies pacific center in downtown honolulu last summer, plans to open another location in east honolulu near the aina haina shopping center.. duane shimogawareporter-pacific business newsemail | google+ | twitter | linkedinlongs drugs has purchased property for $7.6 million from the jehovahs witnesses for a new store and pharmacy in east honolulu near the aina haina shopping center, the broker who represented the seller told pbn.. rhode island-based cvs caremark corp.(nyse: cvs), which owns the longs drugs chain in hawaii, and kz devco, the california-based company that serves as the drugstore chain's exclusive developer in the state of hawaii, recently pulled building permits for the 1.4-acre property at 5156 kalanianaole highway, which was at one time was home to the popular ranch house restaurant.. a cvs/longs spokesman did not immediately return a message left by pbn.. the fee-simple property, which includes a two-story, 24,200-square-foot building, the former current home to the jehovahs witnesses, and a 2,279-square-foot building, the former home to a veterinarian clinic, had been on the market since the summer of 2012.. mark bratton, vice president of investment properties for colliers international hawaii, who represented the seller, told pbn that the jehovahs witnesses sold the property because they need a smaller location closer to where their members live.. the property was one of the few fee-simple commercially-zoned properties located within the aina haina and hawaii kai neighborhoods, which has about 150,000 square feet of office space and approximately 783,000 square feet of retail space in the trade area, colliers said.. with this limited inventory of commercial-zoned properties in the area, property sales are few and far between, according to colliers, which noted that the nearby aina haina shopping center was sold in 2007, making it the last commercial property sale within that area.. cvs opened its newest hawaii longs drugs store in may in makiki, which was its first new full-service store in urban honolulu in years.. longs drugs, which has operated in hawaii since 1954, currently has 54 locations in the state.
the aina haina neighborhood has longed for a drugstore chain to open in the area.
both walgreens and longs have stores in hawaii kai about four miles away.. duane shimogawa covers energy, real estate and economic development for pacific business news.
@ Ocean1111: Well if we take the 500 million or so, the JW land asset sales of the last four years in the US, and project that globally (and include other investment assets) it could be feasible Bethel is liquidating a billion or more in assets
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The Brooklyn properties alone netted WT $1,2 BILLION.
Add to that the sale of 14 Branch offices, plus Assembly Halls and Kingdom Halls, WT is sitting on $Billions.
we were taught for 100 years that the end or armageddon is imminent, as if it is coming in a hurry.
but look now at the new way of sharing god's kingdom in uk which i find as a complete irony.
"thousands have switched tactics to stand on street corners in more than a dozen cities across britain - and unusually for public preachers, they are staying almost completely silent... unlike other evangelical preachers, they do not shout or call attention to themselves - instead standing in near-silence until someone approaches them."http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691254/how-jehovahs-witnesses-got-street-smart-believers-swap-infamous-doorstepping-standing-outside-train-stations-shops.html.
It is because when people walk by and look at the JW's and the literature, Jehovah is analyzing their hearts and determining if they are worthy of salvation during Armageddon.
So the most powerful person in the universe is reduced to analyzing people exclusively through a crappy literature cart??
What next? Jehovah™ will require any potential convert to Moonwalk wearing one studded glove, then judge them as to worthiness for Everlasting Life™ based on their skill level?
why are all the GB members comfortably situated at Headquarters rather than some of them travelling from one congregation to another and writing personal letters to individual congregations?
perhaps this should be in the humor /jokes section....but oh well...here goes.. (some of our more tech savy forum members may know to upload images to help out?).
so how about these ideas for jw.org merchandise?
or as some tacky gifts as handed out at the international conventions?.
perhaps this should be in the humor /jokes section....but oh well...here goes.. (some of our more tech savy forum members may know to upload images to help out?).
so how about these ideas for jw.org merchandise?
or as some tacky gifts as handed out at the international conventions?.
It depends on how one decides to live his christianity. To me is by trying to do the good, without slaving the life of others
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"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." --- Marcus Aurelius
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"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -Albert Einstein
perhaps this should be in the humor /jokes section....but oh well...here goes.. (some of our more tech savy forum members may know to upload images to help out?).
so how about these ideas for jw.org merchandise?
or as some tacky gifts as handed out at the international conventions?.
