today, i got an email from an old friend with a story told by brother andre ramseyer who attended training at patterson in england.
a service dog regularly attended the meetings with his owner.
when the owner passed away, the dog was given to another blind man.
This is not the first story I have heard where the dog starts a Bible study; however, I started to wonder about these stories when I heard the dog started answering during the Watchtower Study: One bark for yes, two for no and five quick barks for Jehovah. That about covers the full range of answers for the Watchtower Study.
That said, I may well start going to meetings again if they can show me that a dog now conducts the Watchtower Study.
2020-04-addendum letter.. https://docdro.id/n0hm6tg.
2020-04 shepherd the flock of god elder manual.
https://docdro.id/llechtz.
I flicked through, reading entire sections here and there along the way.
Rules, rules and more rules.
I took a couple of Panadol to relieve the ensuing headache. Ineffective. I will have to wait out the throbbing pain
I can only imagine the impact on elders who have still got a shred of active brain capacity and a conscience.
In the chapter on Child Abuse, one phrase is repeated ad nauseum: First phone the Branch Office. A man-made high control religion has its priorities - of course.
from a kingdom hall to a new day care center.
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https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/news/from-a-kingdom-hall-to-a-new-day-care-1.24117155.
You could argue that the change of hands from kingdom hall to day care center isn't that great. Both would share about the same intellectual capacity for starters.
as sgt pepper sang, "it was 20 years ago today" ... that i made my first post on my first forum.. i obviously didn't put too much thought into what it should say although i must have burned 45 posts testing things and was too lazy to reset the counter before going live (?):.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/46/welcome.
but somehow, it worked and grew and here we all are, 20 years on.
This October it will have been 15 years since I joined. My avatar says it all: Give me music and you'll get a big smile from me.
An excellent, informative, often challenging and occasionally infuriating forum. It's not necessarily for the fainted-hearted, but can be instrumental in helping the faint-hearted kick start their fade.
I like that it has room for a number of different viewpoints and that Simon wastes no niceties on posters who flout the standard rules for posting. I've seen a number of posters take exception and leave in high drama. I've seen even more share their views over the years as they've reached out to share their wisdom, knowledge and experience.
Thank you Simon for standing by your website and growing bolder in your views with each passing years. And thank you in particular for allowing us to be your guests. Best wishes over the next many, many years.
another very well researched programme by the blue envelope exploring stephen lett's bio and his family interest in property.
interestingly his parents were pioneering until the new service year 1975 , when they immediately changed tack and began investing in properties along the gulf coast.
once again, highly recommended veiwing.. https://youtu.be/9qh0jbvsdrc.
This just in from Lett's parents: "Please, please, don't blame us".
the jehovah's witnesses are taught by their organisation that christ's body was disposed by jehovah god, they deny the physical bodily resurrection and explain that he rose again as a spirit creature.
as we take into account what the watchtower teach, i explain from the bible that christ rose again from the grave in his body, and showing forth that the jehovah's witnesses are in error.
in this video i cover:
JW Answers,
great to see you filling out this post with multiple contributions. If this were a book launch, you'd be buying all ten copies of your biography.
when the nt says that jesus decided to go back to heaven, izt recorded his promise that he would be with his followers all the time, presumably to care for them.. so let's see how this coronavirus spread so quickly in south korea.. note: this video has been made by a singaporean media group that calls itself 'mothership sg".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcwefiwckv4.
South Koreans have a strong penchant for cults in which membership spreads like wildfire. I've no doubt that the members of Shincheonji will view the Korean government's clamp-down on their activities as persecution.
the jw broadcast for march 2020 is a hard push for more baptisms, where mark sanctamonious sanderson makes ready use of the phrase "baptised disciples of jesus" instead of their typical catch phrase "baptised servants of jehovah".
the "jesus message" is somewhat unusual rhetoric for jehovah's witnesses.
why the big push for more baptism?
They interviewed the old JW croney, RP, but for some reason they left out his middle initial (I).
a few weeks ago i had an really interesting conversation with three male jws who were loitering around a trolley at the west end of princes street in edinburgh.. i managed to completely avoid giving any hint about my jw past and focussed on why they thought the bible was a reliable moral guide.
i used the subject of slavery to illustrate my concerns.. one of the three was in his early twenties, knew a lot about his own beliefs but nothing about the real life and it was difficult to get through his thought-bubble.
the second one was in his 60s and not very bright.
A tactfully and respectfully composed email, cofty. Being on the relatively brief side, it would not have been too arduous for him to read and comprehend. The absence of rhetoric is a standout. I suspect the reason he has not answered is he realized there is no defenceable response.
It must be extremely hard for an individual who has spent a lifetime believing something to admit to themselves that they have been misled all of those years .
Yes, it's known as "the sunk-cost fallacy": The more you have invested in something, the more sacrifices you have made for it, the less likely you will objectively evaluate it and the more likely you will feel more convinced about it because the alternative view that you are wrong is too horrible to live with.
