Well.....
I guess it's a good bet that armageddon won't come before the summer conventions in 2009.
city loses conventionwednesday, october 01, 2008 by lee roopand kay campbelltimes staff writers [email protected]@htimes.comparking dispute spurs jehovah's witnesses to move .
jehovah's witnesses will move their three summer meetings from huntsville to birmingham next year, ending for now a 12-year string of meetings that brought nearly $9 million a year in business to local hotels and restaurants.
a dispute over parking has ended the annual meetings, at least for 2009, as the city's largest single convention booking, bringing 6,000 people to town each of the three weekends.
Well.....
I guess it's a good bet that armageddon won't come before the summer conventions in 2009.
i grew up watching the rifleman and always loved it.
i wonder if they might bring it to the big screen like they have ironman and the hulk.
maybe tom selleck could pull off a decent lucas mccain??
Great show !!!
Loved it as a kid.
A bit of trivia ... he fires the gun 11 times in the intro to the show.
Rub a Dub
What even more fascinating is that, with one in the chamber, the gun only holds 6 rounds.
He must have ahell of a speed loader.
are you disfellowshipped?
disassociated?
a fader?
I dosfellowshipped them.
what space does that leave for jehovah?
the theme text is 1 john 5:3 which refers to the un-burdensome commandments of god.
quite what that scripture has to do with authority is puzzling, as it talks about the love of god not jehovah's authority.
I'll tell you what Jehovah has the authority to do: Get the fxxx out of my life and STAY the fxxx out!
I'm with you on that.......
let's be honest here... single young celibate men, with evenings to kill,.
in a room with high speed internet.. any guesses?
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100% They all did and continue to do so. They are reading and studying WT publications.
did you report others that you either suspected of doing something wrong or knew of that had committed some "wrongdoing"?.
the elders regularly tried to lay a "guilt trip" on members by telling them they could personally "hinder god's holy spirit" if they didn't come forward to the elders and either fink on themselves or someone else.. did you buy into this crap??
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How do you keep clean a room full of shit!!!
interested in hearing if attendance was up or down, did they speak about higher education and do the symbolic .
book burning?
my kids just got back from the 3 day dc, just courious how it went.
The English congregations in the Houston and surrounding areas had their 3 day conventions in the Berry Center. The spanish were banished to an Arena in Katy....don't remember it's name.
I took one for the team and went to Sunday session where they staged a faux book burning. They labeled the books as high quality and high value spiritistic books
to make it more palatable. that was during the drama. They also, as expected, bashed education, and every other charitable work save THEIR work of d2d spreading their good newz.
Typical barf-fest.
i hear you guys saying that often.
i find it frustrating because mine sure hasn't!
maybe it is all the jw's who have ubm's who do most of the door to door now?
Flip the gender script and that's life with me and my wife. She's been in JW mode the past twenty years of our marriage. Sometimes, I wonder how I'm able to hold it all together. Nice post!!!
i just got this in my email from an elder's wife (she knows i am not going to meetings):.
pearls.
the cheerful girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five.
i see some posters still aren't 100% sure that the jehovah's witness religion might not be "the truth"....was there a moment when things became very clear for you regarding this religion?.
do you still think, maybe----jws aren't all that bad??
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2.5 years.....
I remember going to some gathering with my wife and being offered a BS by one of the elders. 12 months later, I was dipped in that bleachwater pool in what used to be the Reliant Arena. I remember being zealous, reaching out, reading for the book study for a short while, until one day when out in service we happen to stop by this house where we were invited in. After some small talk this guy skillfully questioned both me and my wife in such a way where, even today, the questions he was asking and the answers we gave...I now realize he was gently leading us to make our own conclusion that it was a farce.
I remember going to an elder who was out in service with us and asking him would he like to come and talk to this guy as he "appeared" interested, but upon telling him the kind of questions he was asking he opted not to. I remember feeling, at that time, totally dejected by him, and the dirty look he gave me and my wife as we drove away at the end of the day seared into my consciousness forever.
Watching the congregation cliques, elder wives ruling everything during renovations, constant pleas for money, me being handed off by my elder study to someone else to finish a book with as soon as he figured he couldn't count anymore "time" with me.
I started pulling away from going to meetings because of what I was seeing......what I was feeling. One day, after a particularly destructive argument with my wife about it, she called them, and they promptly came over to browbeat me about meeting attendance and whether or not I was praying enough.
They didn't know, at that tiime, that I'd already had enough and would never be going back.