have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
Maybe it was especially harsh for some reason... or maybe not. Maybe this is how they are dispatching people from bethel these days.
According to the 2016 and 2017 yearbooks they got rid of something like 6000 or 7000 bethelites in one year. That's more than a quarter of the total number, and totally unprecended in their whole history.
So in that kind of upheaval I guess things like this can happen, more by bureaucracy than any particular malice.
have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
I would hesitate to contradict his story. Evidently something happened that shook him up. And billing him for fruit seems odd, but with people "following rules" you just never know. The trouble is his story is not very clear. He seems a bit traumatised to me.
have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
Do I understand this former bethelite right? He says he was told he was being laid off because of downsizing, then they came to clear his stuff straight away. He skipped breakfast and lunch, but when he took some fruit at tea time they sent him a bill as he was on his way out?
in 1924, judge rutherford published an article which referred to the great pyramid as "the scientific bible" and added that measurements on the grand gallery inside the great pyramid confirmed the dates 1874, 1914 and 1925.. 1925 was the famous blowout date for the return of "ancient worthies" about which the judge said, "i made an ass of myself.".
just four years later, rutherford did one of his famous about-face reversals.. whereas previously the watchtower had taught that the great pyramid was probably built by melchizedek, or shem;*.
rutherford now said the great pyramid was constructed "under the direction of satan the devil.
Is that Rutherford doing the backflip on the pyramid, nine pictures down?
if watchtower has no reason to df ones.
they have just become inactive.
do you all think wt will begin a witch hunt (df'ing) for these inactive ones?
This happened already, no? In the convention or WT where it said no to associate with inactive people if their "lifestyle was objectionable", or something like that. Some JWs and elders interpreted that pretty broadly as an excuse to label all inactive JWs bad association and avoid them. As so often, because the instruction was vague, there was room for liberal or conservative interpretations.
in 1924, judge rutherford published an article which referred to the great pyramid as "the scientific bible" and added that measurements on the grand gallery inside the great pyramid confirmed the dates 1874, 1914 and 1925.. 1925 was the famous blowout date for the return of "ancient worthies" about which the judge said, "i made an ass of myself.".
just four years later, rutherford did one of his famous about-face reversals.. whereas previously the watchtower had taught that the great pyramid was probably built by melchizedek, or shem;*.
rutherford now said the great pyramid was constructed "under the direction of satan the devil.
There are some pictures of Rutherford scrambling about the pyramid too. Looks like the heat is getting to him.
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.
He's been getting poorer. Early books were the best.
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.
