@ HappyDad:
Yes. The Convocation Center has been renamed the Wolstein Center. I am from the Pittsburgh area originally too.
peak attendance 7100. baptised 38 mixed bag of old and young.
youngest age 10. saw no brothers with beards.
better than average .50% growth.
@ HappyDad:
Yes. The Convocation Center has been renamed the Wolstein Center. I am from the Pittsburgh area originally too.
has anyone else heard this?
a poster on another thread said it's a new rule brought in at this years convention.. last year they were told to shun even non df people and now this?
a religion cant force someone where to plonk their ass surely?.
Nazi elders.
LOL!!
this was brought up in another thread, but i thought it should have its own thread.
feel free to add your own observations and experience.
the jws are so duplicit, and they rename things to somehow justify their own irrationalities.
It's not a sermon, it's a talk.
peak attendance 7100. baptised 38 mixed bag of old and young.
youngest age 10. saw no brothers with beards.
better than average .50% growth.
I was at Cleveland, and I didn't see as many beards as I thought I would, 6 or 7 maybe.
is it possible to keep a somewhat relationship with your family if they are witnesses and have a "worldly" girlfriend?
i just posted a post, and found this site to be very helpful.
sorry to repost but my other thread brought up some other questions.
@ whatisthis12:
You need to think long and hard about your boyfriend. It seems like he is not being completely honest with you or himself. Please don’t set yourself up for heartbreak!
i have been dating my boyfriend for almost a year now.
when i met him i had no idea that he was a jehovah witness.
we took a vacation and he lied to his parents about who he was with, and they ended up finding out not only that he way lying, but who i was.
@ whatisthis12:
It seems to me that he should have opened up to you about being an ex-jdub sooner than he did. That in of itself should give you pause.
march 22, 2017 to all convention committees re: discontinuation of physical distribution of convention releases.
You still have to donate though.
most jws i know claim they are happy being in the great crowd.
they'd rather live on a paradise earth and pet lions than go to heaven.. heaven is a place they can't relate to, a place where they don't expect their friends and loved ones to be.. so why are more and more jws claiming to be of the anointed?.
aren't they looked down upon as if they are crazy, proud, ignorant, or engaging in apostate thinking?.
Not
that it matters, but the only anointed making the decisions are 7 or 8 guys in Brooklyn
Warwick.
there was a recent thread on another site where posters maintained that many of the *most* long-standing jw's don't believe at least one official watchtower doctrine.
i've even read reports from bethelites saying they've heard bethel overseers say they don't believe some watchtower theology.
this made me think - i believe there are a few official doctrines that are common for many jw's to be either in denial about or simply not really believe ( often one and the same thing).. i'd say these are pretty high in the ranking:.
You can have a beard, but you can't.
officer james givens has served with the cincinnati police department for over 26 years, but has never quite experienced anything like this before.
he was sitting in his patrol car in a parking lot when he got an unexpected visitor.
a goose came up to his car and started pecking on the side of it.
That's a pretty neat story.