good day,.
this week is the super special week of activity with one of our favorite jw celebrities...the circuit overseer!!!.
in last night's talk, he gave sooooo much encouragement...just hearing him made me want to fall to my knees and worship him!
Brother KERR (GB member I guess if I'm spelling it right) had later told him (our C.O. who I guess was there with them. b/c you know how these "stories" usually go. told in 1st person? 3rd? whatever).... he told him "This was not an attack on this country...(pause for effect)...this was an attack on JEHOVAH'S ORGANIZATION" (low-sounding gasp by audience)
I'm so cynical anymore that it would have been difficult for me to contain my laughter had I been in the audience. Classic!!!!
i'll just come out and say it... i don't give a f**k about my birthday.
it's only a painful reminder that i'm one year closer to my grave.
i'm not here to pick a fight with those who do celebrate.
Ohhh........thanks for the clarification, Vamp. Good to see you're alive and kicking too, Vamp! Hope all is well with you bruh.
i'll just come out and say it... i don't give a f**k about my birthday.
it's only a painful reminder that i'm one year closer to my grave.
i'm not here to pick a fight with those who do celebrate.
No holidays across the pond eh? Sounds like my kind of place as Scrooge is running through my veins. I hate all this commercial crap, although I did cave in and get my mother some flowers last night. Today walking through town on my lunch break people didn't realy seem to be in the mood for V-day, more like D-day.
interesting.. http://www.observer.com/2012/02/jehovahs-witnesses-raking-in-real-estate-dough/.
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Gotta love it, and the average discouraged from seeking an education forget about a career JW isn't seeing a dime of that money.
so hyped.
i can believe this world is still here.
i know that i've been in a cult...the future is in my gasp, and i am in full control!!!!
You and all of your flowers are soon to be destroyed during the Day of Jehovah, the Great Valentine Ruiner. No seriously, happy B-day and 2 year anniversary, Jol!
the more i'm waking up to ttatt the more i'm realising how much it is living in the ot rather than the nt.
jesus is side-lined by the gb, they say we are in his 'presence' yet they are the ones telling us what to do (rather than the head of the congregation, christ).
they behave like pharisees yet can't see it (the blind leading the blind).
More like.....cultic.
not sure of the validity of this but i thought i would put out there.... danny hazard seems like a loose cannon...but...your thoughts?.
associated jehovah's witnesses for reform on blood are announcing the beginning of the end of the jehovah's witness blood doctrine.. since 2000 the watchtower society was forced to change their semantics on how they handle punishing its members for taking blood transfusions to save their lives.the european court of human rights negotiated this change when the country of bulgaria refused to acknowledge the watchtower society as a religion, due to the fact that the watchtower punished its members for accepting needed medical procedures to save their own, or their children's lives with blood transfusions.. but ajwrb has been tracking the development of these changes, and we have searched for any actual occurrences of a jw (who wants to stay a jw) getting disassociated for taking a blood transfusion.we have not found a one.
in the past we have not been able to get watchtower service dept.
This is semantics to a degree, however there is some validity to the opening post. I don't have my KM book handy, or the notes from the KM School from a couple winters back, but the wording on investigating wrongdoing as it pertains to blood transfusions is to me at least, very obviously worded so as to be a loophole. Disassociation voluntarily as a result of consenting to a blood transfusion is only to be the case for the brother/sister in question, if they lack remorse for their action/inaction. For instance, the first investigate situation I dealt with after getting appointed was related to a sister who had multiple surgeries that required blood transfusions. An older brother who's one of the HLC's heavyweights in this area, suggested it would be good experience for me to tag along with him in investigating the matter.
He explained to me beforehand, that we were to ascertain whether blood was adminstered with the sister's consent, or even someone elses in the family, such as her brother specifically. He also schooled me that even if either did give consent to the transfusion done, we need to verify remorse for their action, and if that's the case, provide some counsel and move on. That was directly in harmony with what's in the KM book, and what was relayed at the KM School for Elders. Well we met with both the sister in question, and her brother, both together, and also seperately to ensure that their stories jibed, which in fact was the case. We reported it to the rest of the body, and moved on. Case closed, and forgotten.
Granted, what's on paper as far as policy & procedure as directed from the WT, is subject to interpretation by individual congregations, as some elder bodies are liberal and mercy leaning, while others might be ultra conservative and have a tendency to lean towards punishment with a misguided zeal for keeping the congregation clean. So what happened in our case my not be how it always plays out.
edit post: I don't believe for a second that this policy will ever be rescinded. I know Randy suggested that after Darth Smalley and Fred Rusk croak, that it's very possible the policy will be rescinded, but I can't help but think that the WT would leave itself open to lawsuits.
i am working on a paper about the suicide and economic index of happiness, reuters shoots her death, pass my desk, "sh*t , i think" life can be so brutal.
with this in mind, i would like to ask you if you are happy, with your current life, if not are you working towards it?
there is a decent size group of ex-jws and jws who have "checked out of this existence" mentally, and allow shi**y people to screw their brains up.
At first, I admit, I had Ms. Houston confused with other singers.
I think she was probably one of the nicer individuals within the contemporary music scene, as an artist there is no question that she has endorsed, or at least permitted, an immoral brand of sex and sensuality to be used to sell her music. While no where near as brazen as Madonna, aren't videos like "Saving All My Love for You", a blatant celebration of adultery, just another, more subtle side of the same coin?A coin that has now taken her life.
LOL OMG, LOL. I swear you remind me of the scene in No Country for OLd Men when Carson asks Anton if he's aware of just how crazy he is, and Anton replies, "You mean the nature of this conversation?" Carson replies, "No, I mean the nature of you."
my daughter told me about last weeks service meeting part on facebook.... the brother doing the parts asked for a show of hands who had a facebook account.. apparently a number of elders did.. (she did not put up her hand...in fact recently deleted all jws off her friends because she doesnt want them to know anything about her life).
i thought that was a dirty trick to pull.. oz.
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"The Sheppard" made a lot of noise about how HE handled that part on the service meeting....
What I'd like to see, is the OFFICIAL Watchtower Corporation's printed OUTLINE for the talk...
Not "his" special little version of it...
There is no outline for this, it was left up to the discretion of the speaker and based on articles from the 7/2011 Awake, and most recently 2/2012 Awake.
