watchtower has been named as world's most published and circulated magazine in us.
amazing.
source:.
Years ago the Guiness Book of Records had a similar account of the most distributed books in the world and in the top ten were at least 2 JW publications ,one was "The Truth That leads To Everlasting Life " book and I think the other was "From Paradise Lost To Paradise Regained "
This was many years ago.
◄ joshua 10:11 ►.
and it came to pass, as they fled from before israel, and were in the going down to bethhoron, that the lord cast down great stones from heaven on them to azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of israel slew with the sword.. .
looks like the amorites came to the battle only wearing helmets.
The Bible always seems to give the death of the Israelites as zero when its a war Jehovah blesses .
Obviously its not though when you consider the death of Bathsheba`s husband .
it was announced today that we will have a special weekend meeting next month.
it will be 3 hours long and will include some streamed content.. no explanation was given as to what the meeting will be about, only that it will be exciting and we will not want to miss it..
They are masters at dangling the carrot in front of the faithfull to heighten expectations of some new revelation being revealed only to walk away afterward of feeling let down yet again.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/judge-orders-blood-can-be-administered-to-jehovah-s-witness-girl-1.4157892.
a teenage girl who urgently requires surgery can, if necessary, be administered blood or blood products against the wishes of herself and her parents, all members of the jehovah’s witness faith, the president of the high court has ordered.. mr justice peter kelly said he was satisfied, notwithstanding the views of the girl and her parents, the orders are necessary for preserving the girl’s life and not to permit them would be “hazardous”.. the orders take immediate effect, he directed.. david leahy bl, for the hse, sought the orders in an ex parte application, one side only represented, on friday afternoon.. a solicitor for the hse told the court he had informed the girl and her parents of the court application and the parents had indicated they were not attending court to oppose it.. the solicitor said the parents were not objecting to surgery but, should a situation arise where the medical team wanted to administer blood or blood products, they could not agree to that and wanted the team to explore all other alternatives.. they had also said they wanted the best for their daughter and would not stand in the way of a court order.. mr justice kelly said court applications for leave to administer blood or blood products against the wishes of members of the jehovah’s witness faith, while not a regular occurrence, are not unusual.. he referred to a number of decisions permitting that to be done in “exceptional” circumstances.. on the medical evidence, including that antibiotic therapy had not reduced the infection and the serous risk of sepsis if surgery is not carried out, he was satisfied she needed the surgery.. read more: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/judge-orders-blood-can-be-administered-to-jehovah-s-witness-girl-1.4157892.
More importantly, how did any government in this world ever let a religious movement get away with this type of doctrine religious or otherwise when human lives are at stake .? How ?
That is what gets my blood pressure up ? How ?
This religious doctrine of the Jehovah`s Witnesses about saying no to blood transfusions and correct me if I am wrong only came about in the 1940`s or theirabouts.And then they made it a disfellowshipping offence if a JW did accept a blood transfusion which involves a cutting off from all family and friends they ever knew if they were born into the religion that was adopted by their parents. ?
So in effect they are being blackmailed into staying with the religion otherwise you will lose all contact with family and friends if you leave the religion.
We will all shun you.and you will be on your own in satans world.Is what they in effect say.
How is it that no secular Government on this earth has never taken them to task for these cult like activities that has literally cost ex amount of human lives with their no blood policies and their untold number of marriage breakdowns in society ?.Not to mention of their number of suicides that are a result of their doctrines policies affecting young people. ?
i had to look at the meetibg part.
quote": variety of musical styles and subjects " bs.
bland music, lousy lyrics, no timing, singular subject.
I have a MP3 player I use for work, and that contains something like 2,000 of my favorite songs.
When do you get time to do any work ? Dont tell your boss this .LOL
Bland music, lousy lyrics, no timing, singular subject. Never pick up an african beat, use unusual (not western orchestra) instruments.
I go back thirty or fourty years ago and some of the Kingdom songs were nothing short of pathetic.
I should comment on the plagiarized music from the convention. People liked it and when I had it on my phone and played it they wondered where I found it. The look on their face when I show them the album cover is priceless.
Yes somebody please demonstrate this for all of us to hear.
i have heard from a reliable source that the witchpower libel and crap society with it's governing body stands unified by a 5 year plan to introduce what they call "pure language".the rank and file have accepted saying there is room for improvement in our language:in the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".
sertainly obedient servants of god's people will reseive this news with joy.
also the hard "c" will be replaced with "k".
It has a dollar sign but not a pound sign ? hang on neither does my PC .
Then again it doesn`t have any other currency signs does it ,imagine a keyboard that does .
Back to topic, i`m sure I remember many years ago maybe a Q from readers asking about what language would be spoken in the New system and the answer given was Ancient hebrew that was given to Adam as the most likely .
In the example given above I found myself reading it as Colonel Shultz from hogans Heroes .
sooo.... i've been perusing recent topics for a few minutes and seeing pretty much the standard jw fare these days - scandals, abuse, bad behavior, cover ups, bullying, shunning, family splits, torturous extrications from a cult, mind control etc.. i started to try and think of anything the dubs were doing that was actually beneficial to mankind in any way, and i'm struggling.
without being facetious, wtf do they do to make anybody's life better?
help me out here.. pros.
I have to admit to one (1) pro for myself in giving up smoking after being a chain smoker for many years .
However if I had the time I could probably list ninetynine (99) cons about the religion .
just saying.
just in case you needed these.. 2019-11-08-kingdom hall trust.
https://docdro.id/gvdxn0c.
petra!.
Peer pressure will come into play to follow the GB`s direction and it will,or has of course be adopted unanimously by the congregations.
today i searched and found the jw chart at the station square just across the corner of my work hq, were i had an appointment.
this time they were not located at the central square, but hiding just arround a corner.
i looked the jw's in the eye, a man and his wife, +/- 50 years old, and they looked very depressed, down and quilty.
This time they were not located at the central square, but hiding just arround a corner.
Maybe just maybe this will be their first move in waking up to the JW`s as a religion they shouldn`t be associated with ,we can only hope.
i read something today that immediate brought the watchtower/jws to mind.
something to share with jws the next time they come knocking at your door.
i'll even quote it from the nwt - luke 18:9-14.
Welcome bobfish ,obviously you now have a life to live and you are doing it and JW`s you know always call when they do at the most inappropiate times so thats probably why you never see them.
I`m sorry about your mom,so many old dears have invested so much time money and energy into this religion they just can`t bring themselves to admit they have been duped all of their lives .
