Nobody does it better...
Makes me feel sad for the rest.
Nobody does it better...
Makes me feel sad for the rest.
this latest attack in manchester u.k. targeting a venue attended by mainly children and teenagers who go to a concert by their favorite singer and then to be attacked by a terroist has to be the last straw... surely ?
22 dead at last count mainly young girls enjoying a concert of their favourite singer ?
and at least 50 others suffering injuries ?.
I often wonder what would happen if the worlds media would agree to stop reporting protests, bombings and similar events, on all media. It seems to me these folks are trying to make a statement and get attention and that's exactly what they get, worldwide coverage within seconds, every time they pull one of these stunts.
The trouble is, sensational news and graphic video draw the eye of the public toward the products being advertised between each story. Money always wins out in the end.
circuit overseers, elders, ministerial servants, pioneers and rank & file are stressed out over an ex-jw (kevin) who has visited nearly 20 congregations (orange county) and has high-jacked the opening prayers and done some effective witnessing before he is escorted to the back door.
and everything is caught on video!.
kevin is also visiting numerous jw cart locations from the los angeles area to orange county and giving a most effective wiitness at each location and they're all on video.
I noticed that in the videos I watched, the kingdom halls he visited were practically empty. I wonder if that's the case now in most places?
my brother got remarried to his ex-wife over the weekend.
they had been married for 15 years, but divorced in 2011. they decided to give it another try, because they have 3 kids together, and the dating pool is very thin for jws in their 30's and 40's.
we didn't want to attend, but since i was invited, and they were kind enough to attend our wedding, we decided to suck it up.. the most interesting part was the way my wife responded to the whole ordeal.
She also found it amusing how many times the speaker used the phrase "Jehovah God" during the talk. It must have been 10 to 20 times.
I Always hated that expression "Jehovah God".
Why follow the name Jehovah with the word "God"? There's not that many Jehovahs running around out there that they need to clarify who they are referring to.
i looked up that watch and see it for $399.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-watch/apple-watch/rose-gold-aluminum-pink-sand-sport-band?afid=p238%7csit8pgwuv-dc_mtid_1870765e38482_pcrid_138112194227_&cid=aos-us-kwgo-pla-watch--slid--product-mq142ll/a&product=mq142ll/a&step=detailunsure if the original gold cost a lot more or not, but if told somebody that rose watch is 17,000 and they see it's $399, it'll look like an 'apostate lie'.
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$ 399,00 is still a lot of money to spend on a watch, for a "Minister" who makes videos telling children to give him their money instead of buying an ice cream cone.
we all know the jw doctrine of life and resurrection on earth after armageddon.
this video inadvertently explores the flaws in the doctrine.
https://youtu.be/l-s34gz3xwg.
Average JW: "Not a problem...with Jehovah, anything is possible. Besides that.... we will be perfect and will be able to devise ways to efficiently raise food and manage the earth resources, not to mention, there are other planets to populate once the earth is full."
yay!
now kids can help draw lot's wife getting destroyed.. .
It seems only fitting that JW's would use connect the dot pictures to prepare their children for all the connect the dot scriptures required to prove their false doctrines.
with tattoos becoming ever more popular in today's culture, i couldn't help but wonder what happens when people with ostentatious tattoos seek baptism?
are they admitted?
many don't have the money to have them removed, yet i can't imagine they'd be allowed to do pioneer work.
A new brother in our Hall (former biker) had a tattoo of a topless mermaid on his forearm so before he got baptized, he had a bikini top tattooed on her.
I attended that Hall for 25 years and he was the only person in all those years to get baptized who wasn't already raised as a JW. He was living with a former JW lady who wanted to make a comeback. So they got married, he cut his ponytail, got his tattoo fixed, joined the ministry school, became a ministerial servant and seemed to be doing ok and was everyone's darling new boy. He was trotted out regularly at assemblies to give his experience until sadly, he blew his brains out with a gun one day.
is this the reaction you get when you walk into a kingdom hall sporting your new beard 🙄.
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in the early 1970's i was an elder who was convinced by the other elders in the congregation that armageddon was coming by the end of 1975. at that time, as an elder, i knew that in the early 1920's the witnesses thought that in 1925 christendom would be destroyed and the faithful men of old, abraham, isaac, noah, etc., would be resurrected to earth.
i knew those were failed prophecies yet it did not bother me.
as i ponder why it didn't shake my faith, i must have given the borg a pass since it was so long ago or maybe because the light is getting brighter.. i am afraid that the same thing is going to happen with the 1975 video at the assemblies.
@ Sour Grapes
My thoughts exactly and I just can't think about it because the idea of having the life I lived through back then as a result of the JW's, dismissed as if it never happened, is just too much to bear.