if the gb.
me the school because it would allow more time for brow beating in the service meeitng wihch would be one hour.
then no one would complain about thier kids being up way past thier bed time on school nights..
we had a CO about 6 years ago come through who noticed there were no contribution boxes at the book studies. He had the congregation have some made up and put there
As far back as I can remember, there never was a contribution box placed in the BS homes. This CO must have made it a local or regional thang. I bet the WTS found out somehow and told him to stop it. To put CB's in peoples homes is going waaay overboard.
i just read a post today that caught my attention, and gave me an idea.. name off some scriptures the society rarely or never quotes and the subject they pertain to.. job 1, 1-3 and job 3, 1-5, birthdays..
Hebrews 11:13-16 ---
13 In faith all these died, although they did not get the [fulfillment of the] promises, but they saw them afar off and welcomed them and publicly declared that they were strangers and temporary residents in the land. 14 For those who say such things give evidence that they are earnestly seeking a place of their own. 15 And yet, if they had indeed kept remembering that [place] from which they had gone forth, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they are reaching out for a better [place], that is, one belonging to heaven. Hence God is not ashamed of them, to be called upon as their God, for he has made a city ready for them.
Primarily versus 15 & 16. I recall one evening at the meeting I poked my wife and told her they wouldn't address these scriptures. Sure enough, the bro going over the chapter during the number 1 talk didn't even talk about it. He went over verse 13, but skipped on over the rest. I nudged my wife and said, "I told you so." She had that bewildered look upon her face as if thinking, "How did he know they would skip over those scriptures??"
if the gb.
me the school because it would allow more time for brow beating in the service meeitng wihch would be one hour.
then no one would complain about thier kids being up way past thier bed time on school nights..
One hint. Which of the meetings do not have a contribution box?
Sounds like we need Babyface Nelson from Oh Brother, Where Art Thou to take care of a few cows for us...
how do you feel about some christians getting all hot and bothered about "keeping christ in christmas"?
last time i checked most people just do the holiday because their kids get excited, they have some time off to hang out with friends and family, and getting wasted becomes socially acceptable.. gbl.
Christ could not have been born at this time of the year, as we all should know. Why then was his birth date moved to this time of year?
I have always found it amusing that even in the Catholic Encyclopedia it says:
Inexplicable though it seems, the date of Christ's birth is not known. The gospels indicate neither the day, the month, nor the year.
So what caused Christmas to be tied to Dec. 25th? The CE continues:
Though the substitution of Christmas for the pagan festival [Saturnalia] cannot be proved with certainty, it remains the most plausible explanation for the dating of Christmas.
There ya go. From the originators of Christmas themselves.
just wondering if anyone still does not celebrate xmas since leaving jws.....or like me do you think"to hell with it", and join in the festivities.
if you do celebrate it, do you still have pangs of guilt for celebrating this "pagan" festival???.
chukky.
Not here. Even if I were part of a family that did, I wouldn't care to participate. Everyone says that it's all about family getting together and other such wonderful bliss, but I see it for the commercialized reality that it actually is. Case in point -- We've all heard of Black Friday, right? The day after Thanksgiving. Did you ever wonder how that Friday came to be called Black? It marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season that tends to put most retailers into the "black" - black, meaning turning a profit.
If much of the world's economy is dependent on a psuedo-religious holiday for monetary gain, there is something definitely wrong with the world. I'd be willing to wear a pair of underwear for a week and then eat them if Christmas was to ever go away. But since our global economy is so closely tied to Christmas, the powers-that-be would never let this happen. And so it goes, I wouldn't have to eat my shorts. But I'll stand by this self-made bet until I die.
how do you feel about some christians getting all hot and bothered about "keeping christ in christmas"?
last time i checked most people just do the holiday because their kids get excited, they have some time off to hang out with friends and family, and getting wasted becomes socially acceptable.. gbl.
hi everyone, hope you all are doing ok!
long time no talk.. .
have any of you seen the new dvd "an inconvenient truth"?
this JW thinks theres really no point in even trying because, quote, "one person can't change anything".I wish they applied this same reasoning to field service.
That's why they go out in two's...
when you will have been an exjw for as long as you were a jw?.
i was raised in the jws from before the age of 10, and stopped going to the kh at the age of 31. i was involved with the jws for a total of 23 years.
i will be 54 years old by the time i have spent more of my life as an exjw than i did as a jw..
I'll be three years shy of getting nothing from Social Security.
just want to get some ideas.
i haven't had much of a free time in last two years particularly last year or so, well till last week anyway.
recently, i've tried taking latin dancing lessons but managed to get only to first session (well i'll go again this week but have already skipped two) this morning i've visited local sport center and tomorrow night i'm restarting my old flame as it were :) martial arts.. why am i saying that?
Let's see....
But as my avatar shows, I wouldn't be able to go on living if I had to give up vb. It is a huge part of my life and who I am. You know it's bad when you have to decide between getting shoulder surgery(out for at least 3-4 months) or trying strengthening excercises with cortisone injections to see if that will help ease the pain from a tear. As of right now, I'm opting for the least invasive procedure to see how it turns out.
