i decided to join this forum as have been lurking awhile.
there are lots of interesting topics on here that appeal to me.. i have been a witness for almost 3 decades and am very disillusioned with the organisation at this time.
i am beginning to see it in a new light as i am getting older.
Welcome to the forum UTC. Good to know that J.W.'s continue to lurk/join due to "mother's" abuses.
I hope you'll quickly appreciate your freedom to discuss information and express your thoughts here - something which is sinisterly forbidden by the WTBTS and labelled as "independent thing."
kenneth copeland ministries europe (kcm) are a uk registered charity running their christian mission from bath.
the magazine cover below is their latest edition of 'believer's voice of victory'.
the quality isn't great so i've transcribed the lie below.. healed of autismwith two young autistic sons, deborah and christopher mcdermott faced each day with little hope of ever having normal lives.
People like this give charlatans a bad name!!!!
friday, september 30. one thing i have asked from jehovah—it is what i will look for—that i may dwell in the house of jehovah all the days of my life.—ps.
27:4.. as part of jehovah’s organization, what joy we now have in telling others about god’s promised new world!
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"There will be no more oppression, poverty, and hunger."
I wish the "faithful slave" would make up its damned mind!
Their version of the millennium is going to be hellish, so where's the good news?
september 22, 2016 to all congregation service committees in the united states branch territory re: 2017 special conventions.
2017 special convention application.
instructions for entering special convention groups and applications.
Requirement to attend Special Convention: "Applicants should be exemplary publishers".
Not exemplary Christians?
Thank you wifibandit!
looks like we lost ben emmerson for the england inquiries.
does anyone have an update on what's happening in the uk?
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I'm on the same page as Cofty.
Are there people in seriously powerful positions who are trying to railroad the inquiry for "personal" reasons?
Such concerns have been raised regarding the horrendous scenario in Belgium. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jan/25/worlddispatch.dutroux
i was 19 and being considered for ms. i went out of town to see my jw girlfriend during co visit and he was so butthurt he decided i wasn't ready!.
i thought jehovah decided?.
go figure.
#1 Are you favoured by the elders in your congregation?
#2 Does your monthly report show that you're doing enough to support the org?
If 'Yes', excellent! Your obvious "spiritual" qualities demonstrate that you deserve to be elevated selected by the holy spirit to be "an appointed man!"
Don't be overly concerned about "widows & orphans" - either before or after your promotion.
i have no idea.... .
any ideas will help.... .
What else could it be? Chris Rea's "The Road to Hell."
so yeah, i was thinking about this.
marrying an unbeliever is considered to be wrong, but at the same time, it is not a disfellowshipping "offense".
well, the reason is simple: there is more to gain than to lose by not disfellowshipping.
Past experience has demonstrated that it was the J.W.'s rejection of the elders' counsel [command] not to marry the "unbeliever" which brought retribution, rather than the marriage itself.
I know of a J.W. who has been "marked" and shunned by many in the congregation for getting engaged to a non-J.W.
this is a report about the successful implementation of the patientbloodmanagent in germany and prof. zacharowski as well as the business trip of his life with shocking facts about transfusions in his bag.. http://screenart.tv/portfolio/gefaehrliche-bluttransfusionen.
this year 2016 president obama and vice biden awarded german physicians prof. kai zacharowski with humanitarian award for patient safety.
the patient safety movement foundation set the goal to massively reduce the number of preventable deaths of hospital patients worldwide by 2020.
Most if not all surgical procedures involve risks to a patient, however the transfusion of one person's venous blood into another individual, presents various risks which the National Health Service in the U.K. acknowledge and address via their website for health professionals, SERIOUS HAZARDS of TRANSFUSION. (S.H.O.T.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i97qudi-jwe.
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a-19-e 10/15.
LOL - Specialists in contaminated ground and environmental issues!
