i've been having a bit of an email exchange with elder dad and i need some advice.
i thought i was getting through to him but i think my criticism and tone became a bit too strident in my last email and now he thinks that i am attacking him personally.
i think he has dismissed everything i said because he perceived me as 'overally critical, and rude.. .
Prior to Noah's flood, the cleaner fish cleaned up the scraps of coconut husk that the shark used his teeth to crack. The coconuts were from trees that grew near the water; the coconuts fell and then floated out to sea.
Next question?
You laugh, but I can think of a good half-dozen JWs who would come up with some variation of the above as an explanation.
I know a Witness (not that old) who still thinks dinosaurs were alive at the time of flood and were there to clean up dead animals.
thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.
one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?
if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.
I know a sister who had a history of depression and mental illness who killed herself.
I also know a guy in his twenties who hanged himself in the New Forest after being exposed as having child porn on his computer. The sad thing is that this was just history repeating itself as he had been abused himself.
the annual meeting of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses will be in october 2014.. .. in november 2013, just after the last one they published this now famous statement in the 15th of november 2013 watchtower page 16 paragraph 17 says:.
"at that time, the lifesaving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.
all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.".
The translation work was highlighted by a foreign language overseer in a very recent talk to an English speaking congregation in the Mediterranean.
He said that it is currently around 600 languages and they want 1000 by September. This will never happen in the timeframe but I think there is something in the multi-lingual side of things. I think they (a) may relate it to bible prophecy and use it as a way to get out of 1 billion people not having any meaningful access to the D2D/cart preaching work, (b) want ever bigger numbers to compare to wikipedia and google language numbers and (c) try and reach more peoiple via the website
the best thing to come from the regenal convention this summer, is to see women used as attendants at the end of the program.
they were used in distributing the new publications to convention delegates..
There has been female attendants at UK comventions for years but their role has been limited to looking after the needs of the infirm and any female related special need. This includes monitoring the queue for the ladies loos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzaw1xe8q70.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqru9keiw4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlsfyfiyzgg.
Local Witnesses joyfully open their hearts thinking the leash has slackened!
Is this a harbinger of a change for the better?
No. The leash will snap tight after the last delegate flies back home.
Spot on Steve!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzaw1xe8q70.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqru9keiw4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlsfyfiyzgg.
Change my arse. Try having a band play at KH for a wedding and see how far you get.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28275535.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzaw1xe8q70.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqru9keiw4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlsfyfiyzgg.
Yup, cos there is nothing even remotely bizzare about dancing in suits and ties in a car park, or cheering like a bunch of fans at a movie premiere for some people who managed the ridiculous feat of getting on a plane, flying to another country and then going on a bus trip. In a suit.
Oh, and it proves white people can't dance. In (or out of) a suit.
I just wish they would admit they are having a 100 year birthday party. In suits.
there are certain "junk" words that litter our brain, pollute our vocabulary, and play fast and loose with our reasoning.. one of those junk words is spirit.. the words means nothing, but extrapolations of its metaphorical pretense are everywhere!.
we have five sense connected with our body link to brain.. hearing, vision, taste, touch, sense of smell.. with those five we are in touch with things as they exist.. reality is what it is.. through technology, science has been able to amplify our senses with microscopes, telescopes, x-rays, mri's, space probes, atom smashers, etc.. but--i assure you--none of this has produced evidence of "spirit.".
the last thing that happens when you die is this.
Healthy skepticism requires that our beliefs should be commensurate with the available evidence
Even when I was completely "in" I always thought of myself as a skeptic. Perhaps I was enough of one to enable my waking up to the reality of the JW religion but the second greatest realisation I have had other than the deconstruction of my faith is that my skeptism was really at infant levels and not healthy at all.
Understanding that has really helped me to keep my sanity as my entire points of reference have disappeared and I have had to seriously consider what I really believe and how I go about choosin what to accept or not accept. Healthy skeptism is not necessarily cynical and allows one to be open minded with far less risk of taking on board beliefs and concepts that effectively put one back in the same place as when a Witness.
Asking for reasonable corroborative evidence is not the same as closing your mind.
mc happy?
auditions?
the cockney man was an authentic touch.
My wife remarked that it seems strange to have to have a video telling witnesses how to be friendly to other witnesses.
