Seems like Mom (Elton John's Sister) gets more out of this than anybody and she better live it up while she can cause' bow legged baby girl looks just like her.
( so mean....I know )
http://www.msn.com/en-au/travel/news/baby-beyonce-19-month-old-beauty-queen-wowing-crowds-with-single-ladies-routine/vp-bbbskv4?ocid=mailsignout.
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Seems like Mom (Elton John's Sister) gets more out of this than anybody and she better live it up while she can cause' bow legged baby girl looks just like her.
( so mean....I know )
ok so i know its not really anything to do with jwness but we are struggling with baby names and really can't think of one we both like.
its getting a bit desperate as i'm due in about 8 weeks .. i'm getting bored of looking at the same old names on the baby names websites so any suggestions would be much appreciated (girls please).. **cash prize for the one we choose!
** ....... no not really lol.. .
Noxema
Reality
my grandfather only had a third grade education and knew little about the bible when jws called on him.
he was a different breed of jw than those of modern times.
he truly cared about people and would give them the shirt off his back.
Your Grandfather's sad last moments reminds me of something we found out a few days ago.
My wifes JW grandmother died a few years ago in her late 80's. All the JW relatives live a few hours away and it was her non JW Grandchildren who watched out for her in her last years. As it happens, only one person was with her as she died and that was one of my Wife's non JW Cousins. We didn't know this before but this Non JW Cousin happend to mention the other day that poor Grandma was really terrified in the hours before her death and this Cousin couldn't understand why or what the grandmother was trying to explain to her.
We asked her what Grandma was saying and the cousin said " I'm not sure exactly what she was talking about but she was really upset and I didn't know how to help her. She kept saying something about how she wasn't sure if she was one of the other sheep and kept saying again and again, something about the number 144,000 and that she very very frightended to die."
My wife and I looked at eachother and knew exactly what was going on. Grandma claimed to be of the annointed after she was quite elderly but none of the JW family really took it seriously. Apparently she was having second thoughts of guilt about having partook of the emblems. Anyway it was distressing to find this out this kind and good woman died in such an agitated state. If one of the JW relatives had been there, they may have been able to comfort her and assure her that Jehovah would take care of her no matter what calling she had. Wanting to spare our feeilings, these non JW's relatives sheilded this information from the rest of the family who are all JW's. They didn't realize there was any JW significance, they just wanted us all to think Grandma had passed away peacefully.
this is the scuttlebutt in one of the "bethel congregations" by us.. no details as to exactly what this "faith-testing" announcement might be.. anyone else hear any of this pre-zone visit hype?.
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When is the zone visit, how long until we find out what the announcement will be?
i believe the jws are morphing into a mainstream social religious group.
we've long been taught we had the truth due to our suoerior doctrine.
it appears that the gb knows that their teachings are ludicrous and indefensible.
We put a lot of emphasis on the writings of one socially inept little nerd back in those days. What if we had known that one day all that "deep" stuff we studied would be dumped? Just imagine all those book studies I had to sit through as a kid - wasted. I could have stayed home and played like all the other kids, or at least done something that wasn't a waste.
So True !
as if we needed any further evidence that the minds of christians are not all that they should be, the shenagins in the christian segment of the christian segment of the singapore population once again demonstrated that each time they fart, they blow some of their brains away, and sadly they fart so much that there's not much brain left.. i guess most people have heard that time cook (boss of apple) publically stated this week that he was gay and proud of it.
in most of the western world, it barely caused a ripple, but not so in singapore where christians are always lobbying the government against sin.. but, tim cook as a gay man provoked the ire of the singaporean church leadership.. i have not heard that anyone claimed that using an apple iphone would make you gay, but prominent church leader lawrence khong, was commissioned as an apostle by dr. peter wagner, of the international coalition of apostles, in 2000. .
on hearing the news about tim cook, lawrence khong stop using iphone and even denounced technology altogether.
Now that the printed word is less in demand, it's time for the Society to put all those Bethelites to work assembling their own JW.org Tablets and avoid using these tainted apple products in thier worship. Maybe that's why they're building that big compound in upstate NY even though they are scaling back on everything else.
i hold kindness in high regard; it separates us from the drudgery of life and elevates those who practice it as well as those who receive it.
my family has been going through a big crisis for several weeks now and i've noticed a few things.
several of the elders have expressed their concern for us, shared a scripture and then back out to field service or whatever.
Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
today i was sat in a car full of jaydubs on the way home from the circuit assembly, and the discussion turned to halloween and how to avoid trick or treaters!.
seriously, there was talk of pulling curtains shut across front doors and how disgusting it was that parents let their children knock on doors , and how annoying it is to get a knock on the door knowing it's an uninvited person!
had to bite my tongue... .
Halloween is the one time of year that JW's get to pull the HBH (home but hiding) maneuver on someone else.
The book 1984 was published in 1949 and spoke of many technological advances that weren't known then. These have since been invented and are currently in use. Was the author George Orwell divinley inspired?
Television has been around since the late 1940's but JW's never took advantage of it to spread their "lifesaving news" which could have been televised worldwide in a matter of minutes. Instead they plodded from door to door with poorly written literature, claiming that when the message is finally spread, the end will come.