did you read the daily texts when you were a dub?
did anything from the daily texts wake you up about the truth about the truth?.
I'd go through periods of trying to be consistent in read the daily text but it usually faded out over time.
Looking back, I realize that a lot of importance was put on the daily text because it was the perfect place for them to take a single scripture, isolate it from the surrounding verses and interpret it completely out of context. Typically they'd sum it up with comments that eluded to how wonderful they are and how grateful we should be and how we we needed to be doing more.
I realized that much of my life was spent examining issues that didn't exist and pursuing goals that were based on a false premise and someone else's agenda.
First and foremost, I became less judgmental of myself and less narcissistic and realized that I was not responsible for saving/enlightening the whole world nor was I capable of it. God's personal happiness and the fate of the whole world was not revolving around me and my minuscule life.
I have my own standards that I live by and I let others have theirs, even if they're not necessarily what I would do. If they ask me, I'll tell them why but otherwise, it's none of my business.
Guess what? nothing in this world change except that I now have more peace of mind because I'm good enough for God or anybody, just as I am.
If there is a God and he does have a future plan in store for mankind, there's no reason I shouldn't be included in it.
i am not sure but i know where non jws have been brought in for a witness to a judicial meeting.
what is the official policy on this?
They take themselves quite seriously so I'm guessing not. If by chance an non JW were allowed in, they'd probably have to sign a non disclosure agreement and wear a burlap bag over their head, on the way to and during the meeting.
title: אחות מתזמן (sister scheduler) .
אחות מתזמן would be based on 1 kings 11:3.. 'he had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines' .
אחות מתזמן job is to arrange solomon quality time with his legal babes.
The Wizards of Jah's
A documentary highlighting the startling similarities of the early Watchtower Society to the classic 1940s movie, The Wizard of Oz.
The Great Crowd and their dogged loyalty to God is represented by Dorothy and her little dog Toto.
The "Way to Salvation" is represented by the Yellow Brick Road.
The present "System of Things" and it's temporary security is represented by Dorothy's Farm
The ever impending "Tribulation and Armageddon" is represented by a devastating Kansas Tornado on the Horizon.
"Satan and his earthly organization" is represented by the Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkeys.
The "Faithful and Discrete Slave" represented by the Good Witch Glenda who doesn't tell Dorothy anything she didn't already know.
The Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion represent the various human imperfections of the Governing Body.
The nameless faceless yet powerful Watchtower Society is represented by the Wizard behind the curtain who is exposed and revealed to be none other than the traveling Sideshow man Dorothy first encounters on her quest save her Dog Toto/ maintain her loyalty to God.
i have a friend that is considering going back.
i figure it is her life and maybe it is something she needs.
anyway we were talking about when she was little and she remembered a picture in one of the books where it showed teh new world with pictures of everyone around the lamb etc in paradise.
These are links to where you might find what you're looking for.
jehovahs witness book paradise lost to paradise regained
title: אחות מתזמן (sister scheduler) .
אחות מתזמן would be based on 1 kings 11:3.. 'he had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines' .
אחות מתזמן job is to arrange solomon quality time with his legal babes.
A weekly cooking show featuring vegetarian recipes such as
“101 things to do with forbidden fruit”
Guest speaker Lot talks about the benefits of a low sodium diet.
title: אחות מתזמן (sister scheduler) .
אחות מתזמן would be based on 1 kings 11:3.. 'he had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines' .
אחות מתזמן job is to arrange solomon quality time with his legal babes.
Thanks A Lot !
A uproarious Sitcom that revolves around a blended family headed by an aging Widower and Grandfather named Lot and the Grandchildren he sired with his two Daughters.
Lot has his hands full trying to hide the family's secret from the local villagers and find eligible men willing to take on his Trampy but lovable Daughters...and his 2 grandkids who are both cousins and half brothers to each other ! Comedy ensues as the family of 5 navigates it way through life after the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the madcap shenanigans they get caught up in along the way, just trying to fit in.
pilot program for in-person meetings to resume, to be launched in hong kong in nov. 2021. only fully vaccinated publishers are to be invited.
it's going to be a fader's paradise.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/q9e9pg/and_so_it_begins/?%24deep_link=true&correlation_id=fb861c4a-8c7e-4bad-b1e3-4c86b3254daf&post_fullname=t3_q9e9pg&post_index=1&ref=email_digest&ref_campaign=email_digest&ref_source=email&utm_content=post_title&%243p=e_as&_branch_match_id=936859150293933406&utm_medium=email%20amazon%20ses.
A couple of weeks ago my JW sister in law made a remark about the advantage of Zoom meetings. " You tune in...you watch a few videos and you're done ! " As she said "done" she brushed her hands together as if dusting them off and flung them outward as one would do when completing a unpleasant but necessary task.
A lot of JW's go to meetings not because they can't wait to hear something new and interesting. They often go out of obligation, habit or peer pressure and because they mostly want to see their friends. It seems to me that little by little it's getting easier and easier for them to envision their lives without the JW's. It would be disheartening to make the effort to go to the Hall and see it half empty and find that none of the people you actually like are there. On top of that, to have your temperature taken and sit there for 2 hours with a mask on, this includes the already fidgety kids who would rather be elsewhere. What about commenting? You'd have to mumble through a mask. To remove it would expose the microphone holder and those around you to "droplets" and defeat the whole purpose of wearing the mask.
so now will the snowflake idiots on the left want to ban archery?.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/13/europe/kongsberg-norway-attack-intl/index.html.
Let's Ban Archery
I swear some folks like to find things to be upset about and then spread their negative outlook to others and seek their validation. Who said anything about banning archery? This is like seeing a news video about the dangers of Obesity and concluding that the extreme left is going to ban CHOCOLATE CAKE??
did you know that noah entered the ark in the end part of november and also that jesus' followers flead jerusalem around 25th of november 66ce?.
could it be that a significant group of jehovah's witnesses would begin to flee to the "wilderness" in the end of november?
revelation 12 speaks about a flight of a symbolic woman to a wilderness.
I would like to flee away from this system with Covid related requirements.
Not counting old age and other sicknesses 20+ thousand JW's have died of Covid in this past year and a half. Since they believe it will take 1000 years to grow to perfection, hopefully the ones "fleeing from this system of things" aren't carrying covid or suffering from any number of ailments that require a handful of medications to stay alive. I imagine that if and when "armageddon" is over, there will be JW's who are in their high 80's or 90's or JW's who were diagnosed with untreatable stage 4 cancer the week before armageddon arrived and even with the best of medical attention, only have so many more months to live and will already be at deaths door. There may be JW's who were laying on an operating table having heart surgery when Armageddon hits or will have just given birth to a premature or sick baby. Since it will be 1000 years before they are finally perfect, will the still imperfect sick or elderly people who survived armageddon, suffer and die in the new System from the myriad of illnesses they carry or die of old age before perfection is reached . If so will they be resurrected later or immediately?
It used to be fun to think about paradise and living forever, petting lions and living "happily ever after" but as an adult, when you look at it literally and focus on the details, you realized how far fetched the whole concept is. It worked for us because most JW's only have a idealized vague notion about what after armageddon will look like and what it would take to health wise to get everyone past the thousand years and what being happy living for all eternity would take, mentally. They mock "worldly" people for believing they're going to heaven to be with Jesus yet at the same time their hope is just as much of a fairy tale.
Maybe living in a country with "Covid requirements" might not be such a bad thing to you after all ? Hopefully we all have many happy Novembers to look forward to and won't spend them speculating on nonsense and wishing for better time that will never arrive.
