the craziest thing I've ever heard a witness say to a householder was: "Jehovah's witnesses base their beliefs on the bible and not the opinions of some clergy"
also, i think this thread may be in the wrong category
a hungarian brother used to come up with some humdingers.
he was a child when his family escaped from hungary when the soviets came storming in about 1957. he would be at the door, a young person would answer, and he would ask him, 'what do you think of the situation?
' meanwhile the person is thinking, 'huh?".
the craziest thing I've ever heard a witness say to a householder was: "Jehovah's witnesses base their beliefs on the bible and not the opinions of some clergy"
also, i think this thread may be in the wrong category
..specifically, the suffering of animals.
you can talk about free will/sin/people choosing to not listen to god etc to explain human suffering being allowed.. but how can you love a god that allows animals, that haven't sinned or chosen to not have anything to do with god, to have their short lives ended in often long, drawn out, painful ways.
i could list stories i've read that would probably make you feel ill, but i'm not looking to shock anyone or start an emotional debate.
That Epicurus guy knew what he was talking about.
jw's often say they don't serve with any dates in mind.
but the fact is many of them can't fathom why the end just hasn't come yet.
since 2014 marks 100 years of invisible rule many witnesses can't help but think this has some special meaning.
At the covnvention this year they're mentioning where 100 years of satan's rule has gotten humankind or something like that. I don't think they're predicting anything this time but they aren't making it difficult for the regular, tired of waiting, jw to speculate.
Which, I think, is the gb's whole plan to ramp up the activity. If you hint at the possibility of something happening by a certain time, you get all the benefits of saying an exact date, without having to deal with the embarrassment of getting anything wrong.
long story short, i have to go to the kh on tuesday with my mum and i havent been in at least a month now.
the reaon im going is because when i got my mum to finally let me make my own decision about whether or not i want to be a jw she made me promise that i'd go to the memorial, assemblies and if she had a talk.
she's already told me that people have been asking for me and only a few people in my cong know that i dont think it's the truth.. when i was trying to leave a couple brothers really piled on the "encouragement" and i dread to think about what it will be like when they see me again.
Laika the hotel room was booked the day as the announcement was made at the kh and she isn't gonna leave me on my own for a whole weekend. It'll be alright though because I can tune things out pretty easily according to her.
One of the things they love to talk about in my kh with me is school. I can't wait to tell them that I'm planning on going to Uni in a few years and they can't even go behind my back and try to get my mum to talk me out of it because she's the one who suggested it. While I was still "in the truth" as well
this is an offshoot from the jws then and now thread...it made me wonder what exactly people find attractive about the cult today?
why are they joining?
any thoughts?.
Yeah emeth we all know that last part isn't quite true. Everyone is invited to an assembly. I have been going to assemblies for about 7 years now and I have never qualified as someone who was interested and having a regular bible study.
i agree that a lot of people who are attracted to the org like how "smart" they appear to be about stuff when in fact they're just reciting pre-written responses to the same old questions
this ties in with my previous post on the history of jws and pyramids, tied to the occult!
check it out.... .
this is the latest cover of the awake, can you spot the pyramid?.
stuck is right. whatever point you're trying to make adjustments, isnt worth looking like a complete crazy person.
You're acting like a troll and that's literally the worst thing you want people to think after reading your arguments
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvzpebrkxg.
to go along with this video if you look closely at any cover of the latest wt or aw magazines you will always find (if you take your time) a pyramid or triangle in some shape or form even if it is not completely symmetrical, check it out on the jw website.
also virtually all kingdom hall exteriors will have a pyramid or triangle shaped roof, take a look at your local hall or google kingdom halls.
I've heard stuff about free masons and stuff and my "research" if you could call it that just showed that people just like to slap labels on things they don't understand. But with that particular picture you didn't actually say where the pyramid was.
The reason I don't look too deeply into these things is because i dont care. If a group of devil worshippers want to run the world in secret and slip a few triangles into some pictures then I'm not really bothered.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvzpebrkxg.
to go along with this video if you look closely at any cover of the latest wt or aw magazines you will always find (if you take your time) a pyramid or triangle in some shape or form even if it is not completely symmetrical, check it out on the jw website.
also virtually all kingdom hall exteriors will have a pyramid or triangle shaped roof, take a look at your local hall or google kingdom halls.
no I can't and I didn't know pyramids were occult
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvzpebrkxg.
to go along with this video if you look closely at any cover of the latest wt or aw magazines you will always find (if you take your time) a pyramid or triangle in some shape or form even if it is not completely symmetrical, check it out on the jw website.
also virtually all kingdom hall exteriors will have a pyramid or triangle shaped roof, take a look at your local hall or google kingdom halls.
Adjustments no need to worry I'm already out. I was asking if this was real because there are a lot of memes that parody this type of post where someone says something has evil symbols hidden in it.
long story short, i have to go to the kh on tuesday with my mum and i havent been in at least a month now.
the reaon im going is because when i got my mum to finally let me make my own decision about whether or not i want to be a jw she made me promise that i'd go to the memorial, assemblies and if she had a talk.
she's already told me that people have been asking for me and only a few people in my cong know that i dont think it's the truth.. when i was trying to leave a couple brothers really piled on the "encouragement" and i dread to think about what it will be like when they see me again.
Village girl when I said long story short I forgot to leave a link to the long story in the OP.