If you make an agreement based on a lie, is it reasonable to renig on that agreement, once you discover it is a lie?
Abso-bloody-lutely it is. Give up on the lie people and step off into the rest of your life.
once upon a time, there was a world in flux, undergoing change and diversity at an imperceptible pace.
only with hindsight was it possible to catalogue the various paths being born that led to a word and humanity so very different one hundred years later than compared to any time in the homo sapiens past.. technology, warfare, the universe, the discovery of atoms... born in stars, all things forced upon the fragile minds of mortals in a short period of time.. these overwhelming changes led to the birth of many things, including comforts and hopes that were far to readily available to grasp ahold of.
as the founders of these comforts could not themselves grasp the world they found the self in, they sought the worlds they knew, the past, 4000 years in the past......the technicalities and truths were to be ironed out at another time, a time never reached.. some had no choice in the matter, the grasping was done by their parents, their grandparents, their great grandparents.....when the time came for personal analysis, not only had they inherited comfort but great, great fears.
If you make an agreement based on a lie, is it reasonable to renig on that agreement, once you discover it is a lie?
Abso-bloody-lutely it is. Give up on the lie people and step off into the rest of your life.
what is the focus for this one.
is it "well lads ring the legal department but if anything goes wrong, you are on your own.
the cs deals with all that".
How to enforce GB rules in the congregation.
How to be an asshole basically.
has anyone watched the videos for children on jw.org?
i feel sick.. in one video a little girl dreams about paradise: the blind can see again, the deaf can hear again, and of course, she gets to hug a cute little panda cub.
not until the end of the video is her wheelchair revealed.
How is this not "Sunday School" for kids?
I remember JWs bragging for years we didn't need a seperate lesson just for kids.
this was a service at a southern baptist church for the father of a teacher at my son's school.
we had developed a friendship with her over the past few years, and i had met her father, knew about his terminal illness, and i wanted to pay my respects.. i have to tell you, it was a better show than the average jw "ceremony".first, lots of personal tributes about the man they were memorializing.
uplifting stories, funny stories, serious stories, describing a real life individual that many in that room knew and were going to dearly miss.. lots of singing!
It is interesting to experience the way different groups of people celebrate someones life when they pass,
as you say not the dry, unappetizing infomercial we hear at the hall. I attended several different groups
before becoming a witness so I already knew how bland the JW services were in comparison.
people stay jehovah's witnesses for several reasons.
the foremost is because they are taught that they could cheat death and not have to die or even better yet not have to get old.
the second is they can see their dead relatives again , who have a direct pass to paradise, and that we must obey to get there to see them in the resurrection.
I thought it said wet dream.
Though that pic may induce a wet dream in somebody with a panda fetish.
so recently, several over-righteous ones in the cong were discussing "how amazing it felt when they got baptised".
statements like "how awesome did it feel as you got raised back out of the water?!".
or the classic "i felt so close to jehovah as i came out of the pool"!.
I felt on display.
There were quite a few pervy bro's looking forward to seeing me in a wet t-shirt.
How do I know?--a girl just knows.
How can anyone in good conscience remain an elder or ms?
on jw.org.
http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/whiteboard-animations/stand-up-to-peer-pressure/.
it says be your own person at 0:53. .
The difference in content and tone between the awake and the study watchtowers is quite shameless.
i certainly wouldn't.
and if the elders wanted to have a meeting with me, i would respectfully decline.
if the elders wanted to deal with you, would you talk with them?.
An elder and the CO turned up at my door the other day.
Luckily I heard a car door followed by the front gate looked out the window
and saw who it was, so I didn't answer it.I have no idea what they wanted,
but it couldn't have been good.
JC , nooo, not a snowballs chance in hell.Catch me if you can.
on jw.org.
http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/whiteboard-animations/stand-up-to-peer-pressure/.
it says be your own person at 0:53. .
The awake mag is intended for public consumption, for recruitment purposes, and as such seem almost normal.