no doubt this has been discussed before, but if the 1975 event had never happened where would watchtower be now.
comments please..
I doubt half the people in my local congregation would be there today if it wasn't for 1975. Whenever you ask most of them were baptised in 1973, 1974, or 1975, and studied the blue Truth book.
Whatever went down in the mid 1970s it must have been pretty exciting, I kind of wish I had been around to see it. Ha!
one or two notable points from chapter 18 of "god's kingdom rules.".
“it will never beg nor petition men for support”.
7 brother russell and his associates refused to imitate the money-raising schemes so common in the churches of christendom.
Yeah, they certainly wrote that before the 2015 broadcasts, cut backs, and money grabs!
richard eyre's film adaptation of ian mcewan's book the childen act has it's world premiere at the toronto international film festival in september 2017. the children act.
emma thompson and stanley tucci star in this adaptation of the novel by ian mcewan, about a high-court judge who finds personal and professional crises colliding when she is asked to rule in the case of a brilliant 18-year-old boy who is refusing the blood transfusion that would save his life.. adapted by booker prize–winning author ian mcewan from his own novel, this riveting drama stars two-time academy award winner emma thompson as a british high court judge tasked with making a decision that will speak to our most fraught questions regarding religious tolerance — and could mean life or death for an innocent young man.. judge fiona maye (emma thompson) is married to her work, which has become a problem for her husband, jack (stanley tucci), who announces that he wants to have an affair.
treating the matter more as an annoyance than a life-altering crisis, fiona kicks jack out and focuses on her current case.
I like Ian McEwan, one of the few novelists I bother to read: Saturday, Cement Garden, Amsterdam, On Chelsil Beach. He specialises in writing about how chance events can change the course of a person's life, especially in his most famous works, Enduring Love and Atonement, both made into popular films.
I've not read The Children Act yet, but I gather it centres on a judge's encounter with a young JW needing a blood transfusion and how it alters her life. McEwan is known for doing lots of research for his novels. But I gather in this novel he made some basic mistakes about JWs.
i was told this when i was an aspiring jw, aka unbaptized publisher.
the above explanation didn't make sense to me then and it never did make sense throughout my jw career.
over time, it appeared to me the real purpose of field service time reporting was to gauge one's spirituality and for the ceo *cough* co to make sure the elders were on top of things during his visit..
Well I always enjoyed reading the worldwide report in the yearbook, and I realised they could only compile the report if I submitted my report. So I had no problem doing it.
so i looked up the 2016 numbers and the top 25 countries:.
united states.
mexico.
I was going to say that, but wanted to check first. One of the major surprises last year was a 22% increase in Congo.
i've been hearing this from what i'd call 'dyed in the wool' type jobos.. 'it's not the same as it was a few years ago.....'.
i believe from what comes back to me via my spies -.
the dyed in the woolers are referring to how the gb are now blatantly pontificating threateningly it seems, about wanting money even from children, all the time.
There was a public talk recently where the speaker listed the things that could cause people to leave the truth, and the one he focussed on was, "all the changes we have seen recently in the organisation." He talked about people missing the group studies, the new cart witnessing, and the move toward downloads and away from printed literature. He said the changes have discouraged some people
I've heard people say they don't like Lett or Morris on the videos, that Jackson didn't do well at the ARC, and more talk about the abuse scandals generally.
I only have limited exposure, but that's what I've heard.
Not heard any comments on the ice cream money video.
just thought i'd start a thread about favourite movies.
mine, in no particular order, are .... alien - a great visual film.
the chest-bursting scene is still great to watch, no matter how many times i've seen the movie.
due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
Maybe it was Cedars who reported them. Ha!
(Sets cat among pigeons and walks away)
what are your biggest, funniest, scariest, etc.... wait wt says there are non hahahah.
Charles Taze Russell agreed there are mistakes in the Bible.
There are certain parts of the Bible that are purely historical. The Books of Kings and Chronicles and the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are purely historical, and there is no particular need of inspiration in regard to these, unless it would be that divine providence would guide them so that they would not leave out what should be in. But where a history is written, it is not of necessity that it should be inspired, because all truth is good. If Saint Matthew, for instance, wrote that Jesus said thus and so, he is merely telling what he heard, what he knew to be the facts. He did not need to be inspired to tell the truth, any more than you need to be inspired to go out of here and tell what I have said: you should tell it straight; so there is no need of any inspiration about it. Now, I would say there are passages in Kings and Chronicles where evidently an error has been made. These are historical books, and there are little slips somewhere in the way the thing has been recorded. Both books cover the same period of time, but one gives it a little different from the other. We may see some day just how they can be harmonized, but at present we do not.
andrew schofield, a spokesman for jehovah’s witnesses in britain, states: “for almost 60 years, our administrative operations for britain have been located in london.
however, larger facilities became necessary due to the increased demand for bible-related literature and materials.
we began site preparation on the 34-hectare (approx.
It's up there with the classic Sam Herd comment: "we need to cut back because we are rapidly expanding". Forget the exact quote.
