please add or correct the following written by helge kare fauskanger.
"for starters, imagine a distinctly insular form of protestant fundamentalism minus the trinity (god and jesus are held to be separate beings, and the holy spirit is god's active power rather than a person).
note: since the witnesses want to think of their faith as something absolutely unique, they themselves will not agree that they are either protestant or fundamentalist.. * very important to call god by his proper name of jehovah, and as noted, you must not get him mixed up with jesus.
I don`t recall anywhere in the Bible that it says JC went preaching from house to house ?
Acts 20:20 speaks of Paul doing this not JC nor is their any instruction anywhere that followers of Jesus Christ were to do this .
It was just the way Paul did it and as far as I know it was to give encouragement for beleivers anyway.
i found out that a uk hospital (nnuh) uses kingdom melodies as hold music, apparently for some years!
i called and heard it myself.
i wrote an email to the complaints team and await a response.
Have they now changed their tune ?
new canadian movie : you can live forever 2022 (2023).
when lesbian teen jaime is sent to live in a jehovah's witness community, she falls hard for a devout witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.. https://youtu.be/s70moil45xi.
Is that right their have been about eight movies made about the JW`s and their religion ? I maybe new about 2 or 3 but not that many ?
Thanks for that ,I might seek if I can check out a couple more.
new canadian movie : you can live forever 2022 (2023).
when lesbian teen jaime is sent to live in a jehovah's witness community, she falls hard for a devout witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.. https://youtu.be/s70moil45xi.
As is noted on another thread "can" is the operative word in this title.?
My response to that was .I "can" become a millionaire in this world I live in ,but I don`t think that`s going to happen .
ever since the annual meeting last october and the letter to bodies of elders stating that "exceptional young men perhaps in their early 20's could qualify for appointment as elders.." it even states this in the updated elders manual!
have any of you pimo's, pimq's, or those on here with family/friends still in hear of any young men being appointed as elders yet?
i am talking 21, 22, 23, 24 etc.
Have any of you PIMO's, PIMQ's, or those on here with family/friends still in hear of any young men being appointed as elders yet? I am talking 21, 22, 23, 24 etc.
Hang on : The first congregation I attended in Melb,Aust.Vict., what did they call them back then ,the overseer ? and the assistant overseer his brother were both in their early twenties , and their mature aged parents were both in the congregation .?
And this was in the early 1960`s ?
They didn`t call them Elders then ,but it fits the criteria doesn`t it ?
I kid you not.
w56 6/1 p. 346 par.
rebellion against the slave is rebellion against god.. w57 6/15 p. 370 par.
7 - it is vital that we appreciate this fact and respond to the directions of the “slave” as we would to the voice of god, because it is his provision.. w10 9/15 p. 23 par.
w56 6/1 p. 346 par. 11 - Therefore the slave’s will is Jehovah’s will. Rebellion against the slave is rebellion against God.
Doesn`t that statement say it all ?
you can live forever on blu-ray now available for pre-order from kino lorber - releases on june 6th 2023.. this canadian movie was made by ex-jw sarah watts.
it is about a forbidden lesbian love within the jws.. https://kinolorber.com/product/you-can-live-forever.
I can be a millionaire in this world I live in ...... But will I ? I don`t think so.
for newbies, who was carl olof jonsson?
he was a jw in sweden who was challenged by a householder in the 1960s, who pointed out to him that secular history books don’t agree with watchtower that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, but instead place the event 20 years later.
the reason the date is important is because it is the starting date for jw chronology which leads to 1914 as the end of the gentile times, and the beginning of the last days, as jws understand it.
RIP , COJ .,I concur with what LMsA says above.
it somehow never set well with me that if a boy got baptized that his mother couldn't pray or hold a study with him or in his presence without a headcovering.
maybe some of you were baptized as a boy in the home...how did that make you feel?
( like knowing you had rank over your mom???
How about Mary, a human, being the mother of GOD ? I Know I`m a bit off topic here as well but there you go.
Jesus being the third person of the trinity doctrine.,one of the GODHEAD.
enoughisenough ,you make good pointing out just one of the absurdities of WT theology ,however WT isn`t alone their.
Show me a religion that hasn`t ? Made a dick of themselves. ?
former jw chorus member, original song performer and jw movie actor by day (and nightclub singer by night, not a bethelite & never was) nicolas king still hasn't come out about his sexuality or 'spiritual standing', although the clues have been accumulating for some time.
some new ones to add to the list...... you might remember fellow jw singer alex ashley, with whom he partnered last year for a concert.. .
well later that year (2022) alex ashley posted this intriguing message to facebook:.
I guess we need to stay tuned ?
