Topics Started by Hecce
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As a JW: major personal blunders
by Hecce into make mistakes is human, to make mistakes dictated by faith is also human but foolish.
i am pretty sure that as jws we all have made decisions that later on we regretted, in some cases they have been minor and in others they had profound effect in our life; major items were like blood and education related.
i am going to post one decision that was a major disaster for the person involved and if you know of something similar please contribute.. in a spanish speaking country where "machismo" was the norm and it was common for a man to have several mistresses, there was a sister married to a wealthy man and they had four children.
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Rare Video Scenes from Folkestone Kent in 1904 YouTube ^ | 04-21-2017 | Guy Jones
by Hecce inrare film footage of people and life in folkestone uk from 1904. some of the scenes are too brief but there is some excellent footage of people leaving church and later people promenading on the boardwalk by the sea.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_fw7a6jlbe&feature=youtu.be.
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Any news about changes in the Elder’s arrangement?
by Hecce innot based on any major reliable information, just spiritual gossip among some very weak spiritually friends.. since the wt has made monumental changes in personnel, including bethel and cos; some are speculating that eventually there will be a cutback in the number of elders in a congregation and a return to the 1930-1970 servant’s model.. i can see some good reasons for this:.
poor quality among the elders, maybe one or two are really carrying the entire load.
the merging of the congregations will create a glut of elders strange to each other, the more that they have the more conflicts in the making.. the duties of the elders have been decreasing and most of the decisions are made upstairs.. the pre 1970 arrangement worked really well and it will take the wt less than 1-3 to find a biblical basis to bring it back.. friends, just some saturday morning thoughts.. thanks for reading..
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Baseball: Jackie Robinson in Cuba
by Hecce inshould jackie robinson's widow, rachel robinson, go to estadio latinoamericana in havana on tuesday, she'll see a game at the same site where her husband played 69 years ago just before breaking baseball's color barrier.. rachel robinson and her daughter, sharon, traveled to havana sunday aboard air force one for president obama's historic visit to cuba, including tuesday's exhibition game between the tampa bay rays and the cuban national baseball team.. jackie robinson's groundbreaking 1947 major-league season began with spring training in cuba as a member of the brooklyn dodgers' class aaa montreal royals farm team, playing games at what was then called el gran stadium.. as a kid growing up in cuba in the 1940s and '50s, my father, cesar, attended games there, watching his favorite team, almendares, one of havana's four professional baseball teams that played in the cuban league every winter.. the cuban league, which debuted in 1878, had been integrated since 1900 with white major- and minor-league players having negro league players and black cubans as teammates every winter..
it was the reason then-dodgers' president branch rickey relocated the team's spring training base from jim crow-era daytona beach, fla., to havana in 1947 as he prepared to elevate robinson to the majors.. .
my father didn't get the chance to see robinson play in cuba, but he saw many others, including future hall of famers ray dandridge, monte irvin and tommy lasorda and a then-little known dodgers minor league player named kevin connors, who would go on to find more fame as hollywood actor chuck connors in the rifleman.. when i was a kid, i would listen to my father's stories about the different american players — both black and white — who would play in cuba each winter.
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The Watchtower and Islam
by Hecce ina few times we have commented in the forum about the lack of information in the watchtower publications about the islamic religion.
we have to go back to 1951 to find a very comprehensive analysis of mohamed and his religion that is in the book “what has religion done for mankind?”.. this subject is discussed on page 278 and chapter 22, under the title “islam, mohamed religion of submission”.
the information is written with the watchtower detailed style for those days and there is a lot of history to be learn in that chapter.
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2007 Andrew Young Obama’s candidacy remarks
by Hecce inthe associated press published a story about civil rights veteran and atlanta former mayor andrew young going on an atlanta show saying that he thought barack should run for president in 2016, because he is too young to run for president and that he thought, essentially, the clintons were as black as barack.
here’s what they quoted from the young interview:.
“i want barack obama to be president,” young said, pausing for effect, “in 2016.”.
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Recap: Hamerton Zoo staff member dies in 'freak accident' after being mauled by tiger
by Hecce ina female zookeeper died after being mauled by a tiger in a "freak accident" at a cambridgeshire zoo.. officers attended what was initially described as a "very serious incident" at hamerton zoo park, near huntingdon, at around 11.15am today (may 29).. a police spokeswoman confirmed this evening that the zookeeper died of her injuries at the scene.. she said: "a tiger entered an enclosure with a keeper.
sadly the female zookeeper died at the scene.. "at no time did the animal escape from the enclosure.".
the incident is not being treated as suspicious.. a statement from hamerton park zoo read: “this appears to have been a freak accident.. “a full investigation is under way and we hope that more details can be announced as soon as we are able.. “at no point during the incident did any animals escape their enclosures, and at no point was public safety affected in any way.. “all our thoughts and sympathies are with our colleagues, friends and families at this dreadful time.".
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Feelings of Betrayal After Catholic Church Is Leased to Coptic Parish
by Hecce ininteresting article showing the different attitudes between the watchtower and the catholic church.
when a kingdom hall or assembly hall is sold, we will have witnesses that are unhappy; none of them will dare to express that in public or do anything about it.
they know that one way or another that will result in retributions.. since their church was shut down in a round of parish mergers in 2015, the group has been fighting to reopen it through prayer vigils and a continued legal appeal before the vatican.
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Chilean cardinal summoned by state prosecutor for alleged abuse cover up
by Hecce inchilean cardinal summoned by state prosecutor for alleged abuse cover up.
by staff reporter.
posted wednesday, 25 jul 2018. .
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Opportunism=Watchtower
by Hecce ini hope not to offend anyone with the title.
it comes as a result of my personal experiences while seeing the wt practices..
is a policy used for everything, congregational matters, finances, legal, government and whatever?