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It appears I'm able to post on your topic, Blondie. I hadn't been here for a few days and had no idea there was a change coming! I really don't like the new site but know change is inevitable so will hopefully get up to speed.
I don't want to download an app to my browser to read personal messages. Not sure what to do.
found this video of the entertainment preperation for the delegates in atlanta, u.s. this seems to be professionally done maybe outside sources or probably done by "professional" jw's.
this is just like christendom or all the other religious organizations that they deem to be from the devil.
the people seem to be very sincere in there efforts & is much appreciated,.
There is so much joy in singing in a choir or being part of an orchestra and these folks get only a temporary taste. It should be an always activity for them. And the young woman who gave up a promising career for the kingdumb. How many of the GB and other higher-ups live from hand to mouth like she thinks is right?
"Jehovah's music." How cultish that sounded!
i didn't go to the convention but have family who did, all are going on about the resurrection talk, how there wasn't a dry eye in the arena.
and apparently a video was shown too on it.
we lost a family member some years back and they are on fb talking about the resurrection and new world coming soon.
This is what got my mom and grandma in as they'd lost my mom's brother and father in a short time. Both believed they'd never die. My mom was terrified of death. I didn't know when she was ill and dying and I wonder how she coped. I doubt my sisters had much empathy for her, would have named it being weak in faith if she showed fear.
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i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.
while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).
a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.
Don't know how I missed this last time around. I pioneered with Roberta Little way back in the late 60s, early 70s. I knew she'd married a much older man and was really surprised to hear she'd married at all. Must be pat 65 now. Richard Devine's family was in my KH in Detroit. He had a brother, John, at Bethel, too. Does anyone know if he's still there?
but their views on blood are just plain weird!
meat has blood in it even if it's bled.
still eating meat means consuming blood.
I always thought the teaching on blood was hypocritical. Transfusions were wrong but you could use blood in medications. No blood meant no blood! And having to believe that those nice, kind, generous folks you "preached" to were bad and deserved death.
someone told me today that at the annual meeting something was said along the lines that, we do not need to be like the boreans and search that everything is true because we know we have the truth.
can anyone confirm this?.
If this doesn't wake some of the sheeples up then nothing will.
here is the text of the letter:.
february 2, 2014. .
your brothers,.
It's a "nice" idea, but how many elders have the time or the will to follow these instructions? Even for those who are sincere, I can't imagine it won't wear off after a few weeks. They're already too busy.
my memory of singing the kingdom songs go back to when i was a child in the 1950's.
they still hold a place in my memory and my heart.
how can something that is so much a part of your childhood not stay embedded in your heart.?.
DNC, that's interesting. I loved the harmonies of those hymns, even as children my sisters and I sang with my mom (just something we did, in the car, of an evening) singing the harmonies by ear. I still love to sing and currently sing in a couple of choirs.
Thanks for the info!
my memory of singing the kingdom songs go back to when i was a child in the 1950's.
they still hold a place in my memory and my heart.
how can something that is so much a part of your childhood not stay embedded in your heart.?.
Shirley, I remember them. I'd like to see a copy of that old green songbook.
