i served for years as an elder in london ontario.
finally stepped aside because of the old boy network, elders covering up for one another, practice of elders and their wives party times with excessive use of alcohol.
the elders families getting slaps on the wrist for major sins.
JWs claim to be different but they are not. Nor does Jehovah save these people from anything either. All my family born on or before 1914 are dead. None of them saw Armageddon and 'the new system of things'.
All of them died of something not so great like cancer, heart ailment or other issues related to old age. Yep, no one lives forever. We all die. So knowing that, it's good to live your life as you wish, not as some wacko religion wants you to.
nasa's probe "new horizons" was launched in 2006 and since then has been speeding across 3 billion miles of space to the most distant planet in our solar system.. the first pictures arrived today with higher resolution images due tomorrow.. i fu~~ing love science.. more details from the bbc here.... .
Yeah... planetary shunning. This ousting of things seems to happen outside of religion as well.
Edited to add: Some of the comments made though about the data collected by New Horizons was that this dwarf planet is actually larger than what they thought. So maybe... just maaaayyybbeeee it will get re-instated into the collective...errr... family... uuummm... whatever.
in the article on the guardian ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/jehovahs-witnesses-evangelism-church-god-armageddon ) mentioned in another thread, there's this quote of mark omalley, who is assigned to the public information desk at the jehovahs witness uk centre in north london.
we now have more than 165,000 [literature] carts on the streets in over 50 countries.
it gives us visibility and availability.
let's think about this for a bit.
adam was tempted and sinned by eating of the fruit.
he missed out on immortality by being denied the tree of life.
Mr. Deity and 'the Boy' kinda sum it up here:
in the article on the guardian ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/jehovahs-witnesses-evangelism-church-god-armageddon ) mentioned in another thread, there's this quote of mark omalley, who is assigned to the public information desk at the jehovahs witness uk centre in north london.
we now have more than 165,000 [literature] carts on the streets in over 50 countries.
it gives us visibility and availability.
People will just ignore them. I highly doubt this will be any more effective in converting anyone. It may demonstrate to more 'worldlies' just how ill-informed they are.
When are they taking their apathy carts to the Amazon jungle to convert these peeps?:
nasa's probe "new horizons" was launched in 2006 and since then has been speeding across 3 billion miles of space to the most distant planet in our solar system.. the first pictures arrived today with higher resolution images due tomorrow.. i fu~~ing love science.. more details from the bbc here.... .
For GrreatTeacher: ;0)
this lengthy article was in yesterday's 'guardian', a national uk newspaper.
(comments following thearticle are interesting!):.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/jehovahs-witnesses-evangelism-church-god-armageddon.
'This allows people to come to us.'
Hmmm... to me, this has fail written all over it. It would be interesting to see stats on just how many converts are made this way versus the door-to-door work.
It does seem to confirm what we've been saying on the board here though. The traditional Field Serve-Us is ineffectual as too many people are just not home like they were back in the '50s and earlier. And the JWs just aren't knocking on the doors anymore. As I've said, I've been working from home full time for over a year now and prior to that part-time work from home for several years and they are just not knocking.
nasa's probe "new horizons" was launched in 2006 and since then has been speeding across 3 billion miles of space to the most distant planet in our solar system.. the first pictures arrived today with higher resolution images due tomorrow.. i fu~~ing love science.. more details from the bbc here.... .
This gave me goosebumps too. I love the heart on this little, dwarf planet.
It reminded me of the Voyager 1 space probe, which launched Sep 15, 1977, turning to take a picture of Earth, the pale blue dot, as Voyager 1 left our solar system Feb 14, 1990. Here is a link to where the Voyager space crafts/probes are now:
I hope we, homo sapiens, never stop exploring and discovering.
well another big bad elder here just wanting to say sorry.. i'm sorry that so many were treated like crap, and shown that god's love is not to be found around jehovah's witnesses.
i'm sorry that inadvertently i've likely taught many to judge and as such see that racism permeates every corner of the jw world, else why else would someone be of the world, or even inactive.
i'm sorry i sat in on a jc, and voted to df.
Welcome EN!
You are one of the ones who, when it came time, decided to be intellectually honest with yourself instead of lying to yourself. I think this is a pivotal moment each JW comes to sooner or later.
I, like you, never agreed with the blood policy. I was a teenager when that was introduced to me and I told my parents that life was more important than this policy.
It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned about the child abuse and how much of a problem it really is. There is no way an 'all-loving' god is any part of that crap.
Thank you for taking the time and mustering up the courage to join us. Every voice is important.
well, once again my "friend" has shared their notes with me from the latest co visit.
besides the usual 1914 assertions/ world getting worse all the time/ our day is the worst of all time nonsense, the co mentioned some interesting things.
number one won't surprise you.
