i know we must have alot ofpeople on here huge football fans like myself.
born and raised in boston, i am a huge sports fan, and of course patriots fan.
so anyone here go to another meeting, makeup some bs excuse, illness, flat out miss the meeting or anything else to watch game if your meeting happened to go from the 9am to the 3pm in january ?.
I was never a big football fan and even when we had Sunday evening meetings, it was not a big deal.
My only superbowl/watchtower conflict was when the PO wanted to do sheparding calls on Superbowl night. I had to leave a superbowl party attend this part of my service.
apologies if something has been posted on this before but if you go to jw.org and find the jan 15 2015 wt (study edition) please read the article before the study articles.
it is entitled "they offer themselves willingly in new york.
" please read it and let me know what you think.
im kinda mad, its hard to shake off the look of that little girls face...standing in someones basement, scared.. why the hiding?
if these people werent in this basement, would they be killed?
all them years of studying and being loyal, and its come to this.......being scared in a basement....all bad !
Oh the emotions that this generates. I can't imagine the discussions that my family members engaged in based upon this picture. This picture encapsulates everything that the Watchtower promotes as their end-time scenario. I am out for many years and see the religion as all crap; and yet I still have a few emotional chords ringing.
My hat goes off to the person or people involved in this picture. You get an "A+."
But then again, it is all fiction... but I still give an "A+"
if they are this happy, why do they keep taking down this video?
:).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evulyocziz8&feature=youtu.be.
I am generally a happy person. But, I have no desire to express this happiness in dance. Nor do I need to express my general happiness through a YouTube video. I do plenty of YouTube videos, but they are in the general topic of accounting - which is the source of my happiness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0blGexp58
My happiness is very personal. What others think is of no concern to me.
One wonders why they are so intent on showing others that they are happy. What is the point. I know I would not be happy swinging a toilet brush through the air. I find that a bit disturbing.
why do the jehovah's witnesses feel that paradise earth is a literal place?.
i posted this question in yahoo answers if anyone is interested: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150125163818aatmbtr.
why believe poetic promised land prophecy is to be taken literally, but scriptures saying the earth will end must be taken figuratively?
Why is a paradise earth used? Because it works! - it is the perfect carrot and stick game ever.
I have heard a variation of this conversation:
"Remember, if you don't work harder you won't be in the paradise and see your gran-mamma. What are we going to tell her when she is resurrected and asks for her favorite grandson..."
as an elder, i used to find a legitimate reason to wander.
Current JWs have it so easy. They have their iPads with them and can check email, surf the internet, and play candy crush while appearing to be doing serious research.
I can't wait for the special needs talk about that.
i was really overjoyed to hear a 10 year old in the hall say this the other day.
she was sitting behind us and whispered to her mum during the meeting:.
"so mummy, why are we supposed to be happy when jehovah kills people, including my friends at school?
so i live pretty close to the jw pyramid in pittsburgh and i have thought about going there and attaching a sign of some sort to the pyramid.
i was thinking of using a qrcode to link to something.
link.
does anyone have any news about charles sinutko, who give the infamous "stay alive till '75" talk?
forty years have passed since then, so is he still alive and still with the watchtower?
anyone heard anything?.
the current jws do not cease to amaze.
here's their latest video on youtube and straight from bethel.. there is a lot of work involved in this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwou6e5vwbo .
