2014-03-29 adjustment to financing kingdom hall and assembly hall construction worldwide.
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Quick question: When a congregation takes out a loan from the society, did they have to pay it back with interest?
Also, when a loan is taken out, where does the money come from? Brothers and sisters who donate to the society. I'm sure if the people taking out the loan asked them for the money directly they wouldn't ask for it back so why do the wts feel the need to?
..specifically, the suffering of animals.
you can talk about free will/sin/people choosing to not listen to god etc to explain human suffering being allowed.. but how can you love a god that allows animals, that haven't sinned or chosen to not have anything to do with god, to have their short lives ended in often long, drawn out, painful ways.
i could list stories i've read that would probably make you feel ill, but i'm not looking to shock anyone or start an emotional debate.
Why did god make it so that imperfection would be passed on to adam and eve's offspring if he apparently knew from the moment they sinned howbadly humans would suffer because of it?
I remember the memorial speaker on monday talking about how imperfection conforms to the 'Law of Genetics' but that just got me wondering, don't jws also believe that god create all universal laws?
For someone as all-loving as god is meant to be to look at a newborn baby and make them have to suffer for the rest of their life because their parents ticked you off is just ridiculous. Not to mention that he supposedly did this for every human being that ever existed since then.
The dented bread pan explanation doesn't really help explain anything. It just shows how an all-powerful god is too lazy to use a different bread pan
this was in the paper wednesday - in south africa - durban.
which is quite surprising as our papers usually do not carry stories like this.. this is a prem baby - now 6 months.
the dr's had to obtain a high court order to allow the procedure.. the baby had to have a blood transfusion as it could not absorb the mother's milk and supplements cannot be used because of his tiny body.. the parents refused to give their consent and was on life support so the dr submitted to the court that this was an infringement on the.
Last time I checked, a six month old baby isn't a Jehovah's Witness. If you don't want to take blood transfusions fine but you made that choice for yourself. Don't force your child that can't even walk yet to conform to your beliefs.
definition for the word prophecy:.
noun [plural prophecies.].
1. the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.. 2. something that is declared by a prophet, especially a divinely inspired prediction, instruction, or exhortation.. 3. a divinely inspired utterance or revelation: oracular prophecies.. .
I think if you say something big will happen in the future but don't be too specific then no matter what you say it will happen
people will just try to make your prophecy fit whatever is happening to them at the time
the comic (which you can find here) is pretty much everything i dislike about the wt.. if you've read it you'll see how they have added to/ taken away parts of the account to make it read how they would like you to read it.. in this version, lot's wife is a materialistic b*tch who got what she deserved and lot is a hero who stood up to the bad sodomite men.. no doubt you also saw all the wonderful images of people dying while fire and sulphur rained down from the skies.
and who says the wt don't provide for the "young ones".
the part about this that makes me really mad is that this stuff is aimed at children.
Don't know if this is because it's on an iPad but none of the links are working now for me
On jw.org just type lot and his family into the search bar and you'll see it
http://assets.jw.org/assets/m/ijw13fr/502013169/ijw13fr_id-502013169_E/502013169_E_cnt_1.pdf
nothing new to report... this memorial was not the last one (sigh) :(.
on top of that, the assistance for my hall was the same as last year.
i don't see how they will break the 20 million mark.. also, with the current trend the brothers who partake publicly will most likely pass the 14,000.. how was the memorial in your part of the world?.
Attendance was really high in our hall. Like twice as high as normal.
But hopefully it was the last memorial because the wts will receive some new light and decide to come clean about screwing people over for the past 100+ years
a non jw relative who is a staunch critic of the wt attends the memorial with us every year, but just because she enjoys worshiping with her relatives.
she fought against my parents becoming witnesses before i was born.
she owns the book 30 years a wt slave and suggested i read it.
Thought only our speaker kept going on about christendom's churches. It seems counter-productive if they pick the one night of the year that they expect more non-jws (and usually people interested in Jesus in some way) to do the whole "lol those idiot churches say..." stuff.
The jw.org plug in our one seemed a bit rushed. I think the brother forgot to mention it earlier in the talk because he stumbled over his words trying to fit it in while they passed out the wine.
In our hall no one partakes so they just pass the bread and wine along. Is that the same in all the halls? I saw one woman laughing to herself when she saw that that was all we did with it and up until then I didn't realise how weird it was. Like touching the plate/glass is that much of an honour
exodus 9 then the lord said to moses, go to pharaoh and say to him, this is what the lord, the god of the hebrews, says: let my people go, so that they may worship me.
2if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, 3the hand of the lord will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the fieldon your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats.
4but the lord will make a distinction between the livestock of israel and that of egypt, so that no animal belonging to the israelites will die.?.
westiebilly11 because satan said that god isn't as popular as he thinks he is so god got upset and is taking it out on humans
the comic (which you can find here) is pretty much everything i dislike about the wt.. if you've read it you'll see how they have added to/ taken away parts of the account to make it read how they would like you to read it.. in this version, lot's wife is a materialistic b*tch who got what she deserved and lot is a hero who stood up to the bad sodomite men.. no doubt you also saw all the wonderful images of people dying while fire and sulphur rained down from the skies.
and who says the wt don't provide for the "young ones".
the part about this that makes me really mad is that this stuff is aimed at children.
Probably why they have to teach them to people as children and stop them from thinking for themselves later on
interesting.... http://www.cnet.com/news/lab-grows-blood-for-human-trials-like-real-life-tru-blood/?ttag=fbwl.
if they're made using stem cells the gb might stumble onto some "new light" to stop any jws from using it so they can still push the no-blood rule
