jw strive to follow golden rule by treating others the way themselves would like to be treated so they want to be shunned because they shunn others.
There were no conditions placed on the prodigal's son returning as per the bible story.
If it were WT he would have had to live as a homeless person on the edge of the property for a few months.
Then, he could live in the barn and have bread and water for a few months.
Then, he could have a meal with the fam once a month for a few more months.
Then after a year or two it would be "my son, my son has returned. Kill the fatted calf we are part-ay-ing tonight!"
have you all noticed the obsession witnesses have of putting jw.org on all their social media sites like facebook, twitter, instagram etc?.
so many put it in their bio section...like some sort of loud proclamation to other witnesses that they are righteous and spreading the message.. it's also very lazy.
now with no personal effort at all, they can just say jw.org and be "witnessing".
The Blue (depressing) Borg (collective)
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
i was reading in another forum, that a letter to the elders instructed them to speak to anybody who persists in wearing tight pants.
if changes don't happen then the instructions are to disqualify him from being a publisher but it won't be announced to the congregation.
i am am curious to see if this letter will surface.
Everybody's talkin bout my tight pants...my tight pants...got my tightpants....
Hmmm, maybe the tight-panted hottie brothers were getting hit-on out in FS, and some were accepting the offers.
Everybody's talkin bout my tightpants....
have you all noticed the obsession witnesses have of putting jw.org on all their social media sites like facebook, twitter, instagram etc?.
so many put it in their bio section...like some sort of loud proclamation to other witnesses that they are righteous and spreading the message.. it's also very lazy.
now with no personal effort at all, they can just say jw.org and be "witnessing".
Well we just advertised for them in several comments in this post alone - pretty clever marketing huh.
in the very near future the gang will be down in a bunker,cellar awaiting the police,military to break in and take them away to camps or executions .
(paranoid much) this is the foretold "prophecy" of the governments turning on religion and saving them for last.since the couple portrayed as simplifying their life by getting rid of a lot of material things is shown to be (about) the same age in the bunker we know it must be any minute now that it will happen.
i have been out for over 35 years and things seem to be getting more bizarre each year.. when did this doctrine really become main stream?
What the abuse cases in the public eye, the Bethel lay-offs, stipends being withdrawn, HQs getting sold off and the GB moving to their own bunker I'd say most have already been primed for "persecution" and the GT.
JWs will swallow whatever happens as persecution rather than simply cause and effect.
WT reaping what it itself has sown.
via reddit.
here are the morning program highlights.
will update for the afternoon once it's all over.
BEB ...."This will escalate to the Revelation Climax."
Sounds like a prophet's wet-dream.
maybe it's time for a less serious thread .
i have just finished watching dirty dancing ( again ) .
what is your feel good movie , the one that makes you smile and cry happy tears ?
Groundhog Day
Naked Gun
Zoolander
The Great Race
in this link (http://defendingjehovahswitnesses.blogspot.com/2013/11/walter-martins-kingdom-of-cults-amounts.html) you will find an article written by bar_anerges (jehovah's witness and most likely an elder.
popular on yahoo answers and else where..) in the article he quotes from an apostate named james penton (see link below).
is it possible for jehovah's witnesses to peruse penton's work without putting their relationship with jehovah in jeopardy?
The simple answer is all's fair in love and theocratic warfare.
Now how do you spell hippo...crud.......hypo..crite.....oh yeah J.W.
why is this the first time i have come across this?
my husband showed me a video about how the jws invest in stock like cinemax, disney, companies producing war weapons, alcohol and much much more.
if this is true, there are tax records to show for it right?
ah yes... how do the words attributed to jesus feel now?.
"you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free ".
knowing "the truth about 'the truth'" puts so much extra meaning into those words, right?.
Truth is verifiable fact, reality, not a religious organization.
Truth is indifferent, it doesn't care if I like it or not, it just is.
Truth will piss you off first, then, if you act on it, it can set you free.
Like en vogue said "free your mind and the rest will follow"
