Amidstheroses

How much of your boat’s DRAFT is leaking?
 

Inspired by other current events (like Anne's designation of me as "prophet" 🤣) I decided to jump out of a fishing boat and walk on water. The water was so shallow that I couldn't decide whether to "row versus wade."

Is that the smell of "Musk"? I smell a muskrat.

Did I mention that, inspired by current events, I’m buying this forum?
All you people had better start kissing up—that’s all I can say.

Almost in the same breath you’ve answered your question:
Any number of times you’d said how you don’t expect to survive Armageddon. Why don’t you repent and turn around from whatever is causing you that little problem? If you have faith in Christ, and unless you are a practicer of sin, the ransom is supposed to give you confidence. They teach about the ranson sacrifice of Christ at the Kingdom Hall.
Will you even be doing the Memorial this year? Or will you be holding out for the really big holiday two days away involving the Easter Bunny?
If I was on a boat drifting toward the falls which I did not expect to survive, I would not be using all my energy hollering to those on shore how they are doing everything wrong.

Well, you do have to turn your obnoxious boom box down after midnight.

Today I opened the official National Redress Scheme website.
WT Australia has long refused to join this program. But I see a change. JW has teamed up with many other institutions.
Two things are interesting.
First: The tacit confirmation of the GB leader that the CSA is an institutional problem within WT Australia (and globally for the whole of WTJWorg).
Second: Paying damages to victims is cheaper this way than through litigation.
https://www.nationalredress.gov.au/institutions

And of course, Christendom has Easter eggs, chocolate rabbits, dyed baby chickens, sugar coated marshmallow animals, and lots of sacramental wine!

No, they are opening to read your announcement of why you left, after which they will close again.

It may be they fear you will be one of those who, if attending in person, will forget to lower your hand after comments, a carryover from Zoom days.

Interesting info, in my opinion…

Trying to make sense out of life China-Russia.mp4  Trying to make sense out of life China-Russia  
 

They better not do it too soon. He may have to go up the International Space Station to retrieve the American astronaut and perhaps even the Russians ones who have displayed solidarity with Ukraine. Putin may just leave them there.

Tell Dimitar it’s a joke. Jokes are funny. It’s not necessary to downvote them.
If it helps tell him I heard it from a loyal and faithful Bethelite right there at Bethel.

The reason this matters is because the first entrepreneur of the Bible is Pharaoh’s daughter, who withdrew a small prophet from the Bank of the Nile.
It all fall apart if she withdraws a small seer.

Well I wouldn’t let them around my kids…alas the days are dark…and they at times seep into the congregations…it’s a sad fact..and hard to understand  at times….but inevitable…
But Jehovah has had complaints according to revelations… with all his congregations down thru times….we really are no different than the Israelites that were in the wilderness…once we understand  that…REALLY understand that….the walk will become easier…and as you reminded us….Paul had to deal with false brothers as well…..but he also dealt with such great faithful ones with all their faults..whom he loved…so it was certainly worth it in the long run for him.

It is worth noting that there were plenty of false brothers in Paul’s day and they made considerable trouble for him.
“ in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers,  (2 Corinthians 11:26)
Having said that, I don’t know that those in Matthew’s past were necessarily false. They were just pieces of work.

I am happy you have found comfort with another family…but Mathew please understand that there are others who have been badly hurt within their congregation…you described your terrible conditions inflicted on you…well I can honestly say my appalling experience within the cong was far worse than that…and it took me some time to come and see that it was done by individuals who abused their positions of power with in the cong,…I also have seen what I call false brothers and real brothers ….there are some I will call made up of fairy floss and no real substance to them….but there are many who are fighting to be as good as they can in a world full of wickedness …and are weary with the stake they carry…and I hope one day that your wounds may heal a little..perhaps the time is not now….but future…I genuinely wish you nothing but calmness and peace..and please don’t hate us all…we are not all the same…for myself I know full well I certainly am a broken Cracked vessel …and many of us are not worth anything really but stand before our God like Joshua did in rotten dirty clothes .
Take comfort in that Jehovah sees all…and he remembers your tears
 

Wasn’t he second only to Pharaoh himself? If so, that would make him Kamala Harris.
Uh oh.

Re-read the Acts of the Apostles, the book of Revelation and the Yearbooks especially the ones on Germany and Malawi and see if you still feel so.  Will quote one from the book of Revelation.
 
Revelation 12:9-11:    9 "So down the great dragon+ was hurled, the original serpent,+ the one called Devil+ and Satan,+ who is misleading the entire inhabited earth;+ he was hurled down to the earth,+ and his angels were hurled down with him. 10  I heard a loud voice in heaven say:“Now have come to pass the salvation+ and the power and the Kingdom of our God+ and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God!+ 11  And they conquered him+ because of the blood of the Lamb+ and because of the word of their witnessing,+ and they did not love their souls*+ even in the face of death."

A serious question for me? You can't be serious!
In the Jewish calendar, the year 2023 AD starts at midnight on January 1, 2023 in at least 24 different major time zones. (Technically, there are about 40 time zones, when you include those minor time zones in a few places that are drawn at intervals of only 30 or 45 minutes. So some purists like to give precedence to the time zone in Jerusalem.)
When 2023 starts on January 1st, it will be the 8th of Tevet, 5783 in the Jewish Calendar. Tevet 8, of course, would have actually started at sundown on the evening before: December 31, 2022.
If you were specifically asking when the year 2023 starts in the Jewish Calendar, then it started about Tishri 1, 1739 BCE. This could have been around the time of Hammurabi, or Joseph in Egypt. 3,760 years ago.
Of course, I suspect that you were really making a reference similar to the one that early Watch Tower magazines made when they would imply that the Jewish year 1915 really starts in October 1914, or something like that. That kind of implication is not accurate. However, if that is what you meant then you may have had in mind Rosh Ha-Shana on Tishri 1, 2022 (a.k.a., September 25, 2022 after sunset). But that is technically the new year 5783, not 2023.
Hope that answers your question.

I was looking for the month of PESACH for the festival of unleavened bread.
Rosh Chodesh Nisan 2022 
Friday, April 1
Saturday, April 2
1 Nisan 5782
Rosh Chodesh Nisan 2023
Wednesday, March 22
Thursday, March 23
1 Nisan 5783
 
But since you mentioned, 5783 that’s fine.

When I was younger the only dates I cared about was in an alley behind an Italian Restaurant, sharing a plate of free spaghetti and meatballs, with a big eyed Cocker Spaniel……

Pe·sach /ˈpāˌsäKH/ noun
1.Jewish term for the Passover festival.   
Month of Nissan. I just want to see if you are still critical with words with me, when you're not with others. I see you still are. 
 
However, thanks, now I know why you're so conflicted with 607 BC.
In 2021, we are in year 5781 of the Jewish calendar (September 19, 2020 - September 6, 2021), and in
September the calendar enters the year 5782 (September 6, 2021 -May 19, 2022).
Rosh Hashana & Vayalekh (And He Went) 25 Sep-1 Oct 2022 (29 Elul-5782-6 Tishrei 5783
 
I'll ask @TrueTomHarley next time. Maybe he will give the visitor a better answer.

In short, Wickedness so great that an action must be taken.