this little nugget was found in the wt this morning, although 99.9% of people will not see it the same way i did.
"how did noah hear about jehovah?
he no doubt learned much from his relatives.
Yep I saw it,,,,,, overlapping generation of 366 years. Hilarious,,,,I turned to the regular pioneer sitting next to me and said "this is evidently what jesus meant" He just raised his eyebrows and smirked. He is also pimo waiting for the right time to pomo.
jtg
many years back, my younger brother and i were the most mischievous kids in the kingdom hall.
we would mischievously take away things like the bible , study magazines, etc from meeting attendees.
soon, they will suspect us if anything went missing.. our parents were annoyed with our conduct and behaviour.. they requested an elder to talk to us.
It seems even to this day he is missing!! and none of us had anything to do with it
jtg
p.s. its a ripper joke, great..
it's goodbye to bristol - hengrove congregation of jw's and the inmates ... err ... members, will be sent to two other bristol congregations either side of it.. i'm told by two elders from bristol, england it is being disbanded on may 1st 2018. this is the 2nd congregation in this circuit to be disbanded recently - the 1st being portishead in late 2014.. hooray!.
well folks,
For wot its worth. The word on the street in Melbourne Australia is that Williamstown, St Kilda and Kealba halls are earmarked for sale and congregants will need to travel elsewhere. There have already been some shifts with Vietnamese and other foreign groups. At the recent MS school the attendees were told to expect a reconfiguration of territories and meeting places. This was met with riotous laughter untill the speaker stated "We are not joking, be prepared". So, there you go,,, we will see.
jtg
Will keep you posted of developments. The speaker stated this would happen within the next twelve months.
will our fearless leaders the gb call a news conference and invite all the major news networks and outlets and put their asses on the line and declare "you are all doomed!
" or will they have the rank and file do all the dirty work while they sit back in their gated corporate country club?!
ask any jdub that question!.
Well, for wot its worth. in the months and years to come, they could always twist their "join us or die" message as having been a judgement message since 1914 !?. I raised this aspect with a 'pee in your ear' eldub and believe it or not he said "you know what,, you may have a point" Unbelievable!!!!!!!!
jtg
edit,,,, of course with no scriptural basis.
i know of some congregations and even circuits that have already met this fate recently.
are there any more to come for certain?.
Hey stuckinarut2, in Melbourne its starting also. Two bayside khalls are earmarked for sale and congregants will be told to go elsewhere. A foreign language group has already moved to another hall.
jtg
with hundreds, if not thousands, of letters being sent in to the society asking for answers re their child abuse policies and poorly supported doctrines, what does the watchtower decide is the most important question from readers to answer this month?
why is paul always depicted as bald apparently!.
???????
In the actual quote from wikipedia regarding the above mentioned apocryphal book. He was described as 'middling', not short. ,,,
"Paul is given a full physical description that may reflect oral tradition: in the Syriac text "he was a man of middling size, and his hair was scanty, and his legs were a little crooked, and his knees were projecting, and he had large eyes [8] and his eyebrows met, and his nose was somewhat long, and he was full of grace and mercy; at one time he seemed like a man, and at another time he seemed like an angel.""
fwiw.
jtg
acts 2:9. old text:.
acts 2:10. old text:.
acts 2:11. old text:.
Love your work triple M,
And thank you for it mate,
jtg
here in australia, during the service meeting this week, the local needs part was taken up to quickly discuss a letter from the organization stating that there will no longer be a annual meeting part to discuss or remind the congregations about their blood cards.. i found this quite odd.. its not like that there is a shortage of meeting time to discuss this issue, as the society has recently been hijacking more and more local needs parts for its own messages.
and for a supposedly important doctrine, you would think that it should be mentioned more often rather than less, to keep everyone in line.. could this be a beginning of the movement away from the blood doctrine, through the process of gradualism?.
no-zombie .
Our meeting was Thursday night and we just got a re-hash of disaster bags. Melbourne.
Keep Ya posted on next weeks meeting.
jtg.
hundreds baptized at jehovah's witness convention.
at first sight this afican rc looks as though it's acheiving the quantity of baptisms of another era.
348 is a substantilal number and impressive until you see the sunday attendance 28,300. so a baptism rate of 1.2%, in africa.
Well, for what its worth, in Australia.
Regional convention last weekend in Melbourne at the Assembly Hall, recently re-furbished for just under 2 million dollars. Figures are as follows: Attendance 1,656
Baptized 7
Ages approx. 11, 12, 15, 19, 25, 45, 90. (first three born-ins)
So, am I correct in seeing a less than .5% increase??
However, the weather was not too bad for Melbourne and I enjoyed many a long walk through the grounds thereafter,,,,,,, It's healthy to walk I'm told.
jtg
so this is an honest question that i have been thinking about for some time.. do regular jehovahś witnesses in other countries (other than the usa) take the governing body in new york seriously?.
i mean, i cant help but wonder about the publishers in japan, or south africa, or mexico, or new zealand, or even the uk, or spain, or italy...... or russia?.
not you and i (we know what you think of them), but the regular jwś...... do they take these american buffoons seriously?
Um, from my position in Oz, land down under also, NO.
jtg...
PS I got a few in friends that are with me on this.
