so are individual witnesses being told to prepare bread and have wine on hand for the zoom memorial?
are they saying it’s “vital” or is it just a “suggestion?” .
The local elderette insists that my spouse and friend must have the emblems. So tonight at our house, they'll be playing 'hot potato' with the emblems.
Recently I learned that a Catholic Church has a special sink that drains directly into the ground in which to pour unconsumed communion wine.
my soon to be ex moved out over a year ago.
he left most of his things here ( i guess he thinks of my house as his personal storage unit).
one thing he left was his survival backpack, i assume his "go bag".
I was wondering that myself as my JW spouse recently felt the need to run out to Walmart to buy one. It's a carry-on size case. It's been sitting on the living room floor unopened since.
i don't know why but sometimes like to check up my old/self righteous friend, gary kennedy from bethel on face book....he is a pioneer in ecuador.
yes and just like most pioneers he likes to brag on his selfless life style.
he is serving the lord my sitting at home and writing out thousands of letters long hand all day long to count his time.
My JW spouse tells me to get stamps with birds or flowers on them. No flag stamps! Whatever.
what did you do with your jw literature when you left?
kept it, sold it or dumped it?
I cleared my jw dad's house when he went into a care home. several car trips to the dump--including all those damn books and tons of magazines--going back over 50 years. also a large cardboard box full of old congregation records. i never kept a single thing.
Same here with my ex-elder father-in-law. He had bound volumes dating back to the 50's and piles of books. The local KH didn't want it so we boxed it all up and hauled it in his old pickup truck out to the dump. I had thought about saving some of it for resale but our car was already packed with other stuff.
Ironically, his bound volumes showed me, a non-JW, the TTATT. I had stumbled across this website and initially thought some the claims and stories here were rather farfetched. When we would go to his place, I'd take some of the WT and Awake references and look them up in his bound volumes and found it was for REAL. Things like 1975, generation, blood, higher education, different bible, doctrinal changes, flip-flops, etc. It changed the way I viewed the JW religion.
here is a screenshot from a video on jw.org.
go to videos, our organization, history .
jehovah's witnesses—faith in action, part 1: out of darkness.
The image of Jesus' 1st century disciples walking about with "service bags", carrying scrolls from door to door, is one of those. Just so delightfully anachronistic.
In that time period, those scrolls would have had to be written by hand as they didn't have printing presses. What's more, the average householder would likely not be literate to read them.
i came across this article about a dental technician forcing her religion down a patient's throat (literally).
turns out the technician is a jw.
it would appear she can count her time preaching to a captive audience and being paid on the job.
I came across this article about a dental technician forcing her religion down a patient's throat (literally). Turns out the technician is a JW. It would appear she can count her time preaching to a captive audience and being paid on the job. Win-win for her. The article is written by the patient, a lesbian mother, from her viewpoint of the experience.
https://www.scarymommy.com/keep-your-religion-out-of-my-mouth/
my parents local congo has been participating is a food box program.
apparently the food is coming from a janesville hub and given to jws only.
does anyone know the source of the food?
As expected today, the food box was delivered to our house. Again through the USDA Farmers to Families program. It contained 2% milk, Yoplait bagged yogurt, Salisbury steak patties, chicken patties, apples, onions, cheese slices and potatoes. It also contained the same POTUS Trump letter plus Yogurt instructions.
my parents local congo has been participating is a food box program.
apparently the food is coming from a janesville hub and given to jws only.
does anyone know the source of the food?
My PIMI spouse's congregation gets theirs from Janesville also. It is the USDA Farmers to Families program. Surprisingly the letter from POTUS Trump was in there. I would have suspected one from the GB.
Two weeks ago, we went to the KH to pick one up. We drove up and outside someone placed it in our vehicle. No contact. Tomorrow we are supposed to get another one but instead they will be delivering it to our residence. It would seem more efficient for people to go pick it up and just deliver to the homebound. Did some higher-up put the kibosh on using the KH for pickup?
just a quesiton: can disfellowshipped individuals attend the video meetings.
if they can, do they have to turn off their video and sound?
can they attend with their family?
But if you wanted to get invited again, you shouldn't be wearing a Metallica t-shirt.
LMAO
bottom line is this.
she came in from the weekly meeting, we sitting and talking and she said.
the society is giving us some food.
My PIMI wife's congregation had the same thing. Apparently the assembly hall was the central distribution point. Some elders went to that city and brought food back for local distribution from their kingdom hall. Here is the message sent to my wife:
