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  Was Jesus disrespectful to his mother?

  by purrpurr in

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  the famous wedding/ water into wine scene where he basically tells me mother to hop it and that he's nothing to do with her is what i am referring to.. now the wt tries to claim that this is not disrespectful and that jesus says this in a kindly manner which somehow makes it all ok. but then the wt have never been big on respecting women so this probably would make sense to them.. but the fact is that in the ten commandments the jews were commanded to respect their parents, in fact if a child was disrespectful to the parents the parents were to stone the child and... if the parents didn't the tribe were to stone them too.. so by being disrespectful towards his mother jesus was breaking gods law, by not stoning him mary and joseph were breaking gods law and by not stoning them the tribe were breaking gods law.. what do you think?

  the wt's explanation of jesus's behaviour never did sit well with me.

  do you agree?

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  sparrowdown

  Jesus was half human and living in a male dominated society so his response reflected that.

  A modern reply would sound something like - "don't sass me woman! I got this"
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  Letter # 1 to the Governing Body of Jehovah's witnesses

  by WITNESS-FOR-WATCHTOWER-REFORM in

  1. watchtower
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  here is my first letter i posted to the governing body.

  i also hope that brothers on the writing committee who may be lurking on this site (and have some clout) read my letter and bring in change to this very flawed policy around confession of sins.. enjoy.

  the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses.

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  The GB are not in the practise of entertaining suggestions from anyone.

  They don't sit at a round table they sit at a seven pointed star table - and they already have the holy seven.😉
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  "Make America hate again"

  by MarkofCane in

  1. social
  2. current

  “trump is predicting he’ll be able to do all these things, but his workload will be pretty enormous and his power would be so limited by precedent, by the bureaucracy, by the constitution,” said robert dallek, a presidential historian.

  “even in trade and immigration, where trump says he will make revolutionary changes, congress has a say on those things.

  a lot of people have a say.

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  Trump is only there to make Hillary look like a safer option.

  Hillary is only there to make Obama seem "not so bad after all."

  This will be an election of relativism.
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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  The only people I have seen sliding like that were in vampire movies - eeeek!
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  LEARNING how to HATE is a Jehovah's Witnesses' "Christian" duty!

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  note:.

  one out of every 100 jehovah's witnesses is tossed out and 2 out of every 3 are never reinstated.

  the law of the land and god’s law through christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship.

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  sparrowdown

  The hate that can be felt within the Congregations at times towards certain individuals, families and groups is palpable. Everyone joins in with the latest "linchin" whether it be some poor sod being disfellowshipped out of existence, or a lower income familiy with problems being driven away because the congregation closes social ranks on them, or a lonely confused teenager being singled out for gossip because they dyed their hair or have a worldly friend. Everyone joins in the official and unofficial hate campaigns because as long as it's someone else's family getting annihilated at least it's not them or theirs.

  The GBs through the decades have created the evil petrie dishes where this kind of ambient abuse flourishes.
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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  On a funny note, I did notice how just to drive the heterosexual point home maybe, when Eve is presented to Adam he hands her a flower.

  Now call it crappy animation but the way Adam raises his forearm with the flower in his hand the only thing missing was the sound effect "SHA-WING" lol.
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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  I don't really care what subject WT takes heat for as long as they recieve some negative attention about something.

  If there are a variety of issues highlighted, and, let's face it there are plenty to choose from, child abuse, condemnation of gay/lesbian lifestyle, doomsday howling, anti-higher education, blood issue .....

  Someone who doesn't care about one issue may start looking into the others because the issue close to their heart has has been highlighted on social media.

  So, keep it with the dumb videos WT you just might be blessed with 15 minutes of infamy for each one of them.
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  Quotes JWs Don't Like...

  by JW_Rogue in

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  2. experiences

  "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take".

  "you always regret the things you didn't do more than the things you did".

  "think for yourself, question authority".

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  "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness."

  Alejandro Jodorowski
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  Quotes JWs Don't Like...

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take".

  "you always regret the things you didn't do more than the things you did".

  "think for yourself, question authority".

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  "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

  Thomas Paine
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  New ANTI-GAY video for Kids on jw.org

  by ttdtt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.

  disgusting!.

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  sparrowdown

  I was in the FS group of an elder in our cong. They had a little boy who loved to wear his older sisters clothes and handbags from when he was a toddler, he would cry when they took them away from him and smacked him and told him Jehovah doesn't like boys to wear girls clothes. He was a baby, he didn't understand this, he only knew what he liked. My heart broke for him, he was the sweetest little boy. I wondered what this was doing his psyche.