the report is out!.
http://www.watchtowernews.org/2007report.pdf.
cooking the books with 3% increase??.
The U.S. posted a 3% increase -- no doubt due to massive increase in the illegal alien congregations.
I am not so very certain that will play well in the numerous englisch-speaking congregations that have suffered significant losses in the past few years. Perhaps this report will actually be bad for morale in those congregations where for years they've seen little or no positive response in the Field Ministry and have watched as an entire generation of "raised-in" JW youths has evaporated.
back when i was just lurking on this board, someone posted some information from an old wtower or awake!
that showed the society was against disfellowshipping.
the society said it hurt people, and that if people choose to disagree with the borganization, they should have full liberty of conscience to do so.
I believe the article you seek is "Dwell in Peace" from April 1920. Sorry -- I don't have a copy handy.
let me start = "kiss" stood for knights in satans service, "ac/dc" was anti-christ devils children.
"hotel california" was demonic who knew!
"yummy yummy yummy i've got love in my tummy.
Based on the fact that half the time one can barely understand what they're singing forwards [sic!], it seems unlikely one would understand anything at all when it is sung or spoken backwards. And in any event, if a faithful Witness heard something that objectionable (even subconsciously), wouldn't that neccessarily result in an unwillingness to continue listening to the song?
-- bennyk (of the "yeah, my little sister tossed my Led Zeppelin albums" class)
hello my friends.
well , my son got the latest, i think last letter for awhile, hopefully from his witness mother .
of course she put lots of guilt on him again about not being a witness !
You can always visit the Kingdom Hall nearby you. It doesn't cost a thing.
It may cost you a great deal: Your family, your friends, your sanity, your future, -- maybe even your life.
the generation seeing the sign .
' previously, this journal has explained that in the first century, "this generation" mentioned at matthew 24:34 meant "the contemporaneous generation of unbelieving jews.
not the whole magazine, but this is the new light article.. .
Does anyone know of the thread that mentioned that this was actually a teaching from the 1930s ?
(Actually, 1927) Your wish is granted: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/143844/1.ashx
this is the third elder that tells me that the body of elders will recommend me as an elder in the next visit of the co.. what do you think i should do?
some facts:.
i am still 'in' because of my family.i am ms.i am doing 10+ fake hours (well, some months it is fake), so they see my "spiritual" progress.-ootb.
Skeeter1 writes:
But, what will you do when it comes to a serious issue like pedophilia & blood?
I am unwilling to give you advice on this subject -- except: Do NOT accept an appointment as Elder if you will be unable to do the right thing when push comes to shove.
http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/auxiliary/psychology/frank/thirdwave.html.
this is a fairly long read.
please read it.
there was another one where people were instructed to give electric shocks to people to the point of (as far as they knew) killing the subject and most followed the instructions of their superior.
Right; documented in Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram. Scary stuff.
it's a little-known fact that stingrays like foreplay, as i will show you here.... .
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"I'm dead, Jim." -- Dr. Leonard McCoy (Star Trek)
The nurse reached in under the covers to feel the patient's feet: "He is yet alive. No one ever died with warm feet." The man opened his eyes, briefly. "Joan of Arc did..." (true story)
"I sure hope I don't have another night like that one..." -- Humphrey Bogart (and he didn't!)
in another thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/147300/2.ashx .
don cameron quotes ray franz:.
"it would be an insult to christ jesus to say that he selected this organization on the basis of what it had been teaching as of 1919.. to which teachings would you say he was referring?
(Recycled old post [23. Oct. 2006]:)
W 01. April 1986 QfR:Do we have Scriptural precedent for taking such a strict position? Indeed we do! Paul wrote about some in his day: "Their word will spread like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of that number. These very men have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they are subverting the faith of some." (2 Timothy 2:17, 18; see also Matthew 18:6.) There is nothing to indicate that these men did not believe in God, in the Bible, in Jesus’ sacrifice. Yet, on this one basic point, what they were teaching as to the time of the resurrection, Paul rightly branded them as apostates, with whom faithful Christians would not fellowship.
This is most fascinating. When the F&DS was supposedly appointed in 1919, the Watch Tower Society was still teaching that the Resurrection had begun in 1878 -- a teaching not altered until 1927 -- and which teaching the WTS now rejects as false. Does it not bugger the imagination to believe the Lord appointed over all his belongings an organisation that (by its own published standard) would be 'rightly branded apostate, with whom faithful Christians would not fellowship'?
it's your decision to make.
it would be as wrong of this community to insist everyone donate blood as it is of the cult to insist otherwise.
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That is the case; however:
On May 28, 2002, the United StatesFood and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least 6 months in certain Western European countries, (or 3 months in the United Kingdom), from 1980 to 1996. (wiki).
