saw the news story on jw.org this morning about all the help they are sending to congo after flooding there.
yay for them!
oh wait!.
I believe the "Good Samaritan" was known for helping out someone of a
DIFFERENT religion!
Isn't there a scripture that says something to the effect "you who are
teaching others do you not teach yourselves?"
I think there should be JCs set up for those who don't follow such basic
Scriptural teachings
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well, very little, to be honest.
the structure and commitment of the ministry provided discipline necessary to my life.
therefore, i did it, as required, and felt some sense of fulfillment at the bible study stage.. i do like talking to people.
I loved meeting people
when not dead tired (most of the time)
over many many years
my best times were alone
my most memorable calls were a Moslem from Yemen,
Evangelical Trinitarians,
A disillusioned ex priest
a dying woman,
Recently (as an exjdub) a Sikh
People really open up if you're respectful and they sense that
you're not trying to jam something down their throat
I love people
And I learn a lot from them
another time I'll tell you about my last door 🙂
People are more informed now which can be fun but NOT if you're a jdub
apologist
Good luck to them because informed people won't talk to them!!
Thank you for the great post
tepid
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gorby went to the kh for family reasons today.. and landed right away middle in a pseudo history watchtower article.
just that aspect of the jw belief he is so sensative about.. so 1918 and 1919 are changed with one mark of a pencil.
the argument of change was in the past the argument of the doctrine.
I was still a teenager in the 70s
And I remember quite clearly being upset
At learning and memorizing points
That were all changed in the latest issue of the Watchtower
I thought it my responsibility to know the information well
To relay it to the people I was studying with
After all lives were involved
Truth be told
We didn't know it then but
We were in fact
Playing with people's lives
:(
gorby went to the kh for family reasons today.. and landed right away middle in a pseudo history watchtower article.
just that aspect of the jw belief he is so sensative about.. so 1918 and 1919 are changed with one mark of a pencil.
the argument of change was in the past the argument of the doctrine.
in the movie's story, ray kroc, the man who is in charge of franchising mcdonalds restaurants, is finding himself in a situation where he is doing gangbusters at creating the stores, but is going broke on his contract.
he gets help from another fast food executive who examines his books.one aspect of the business jumps out.
the stores need land to operate on, and that money is going to the land-owners who lease the land to the stores.
in the movie's story, ray kroc, the man who is in charge of franchising mcdonalds restaurants, is finding himself in a situation where he is doing gangbusters at creating the stores, but is going broke on his contract.
he gets help from another fast food executive who examines his books.one aspect of the business jumps out.
the stores need land to operate on, and that money is going to the land-owners who lease the land to the stores.
I was saying to a friend a few years ago
While I was studying the history of WTS
This is a Franchise structure
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so, today i went to a different church than the jw's for the first time in over three years.. it is a protestant african church.
my first thoughts: for people who are 'trapped in babylon the great (according to watchtower) these people really seem genuingly happy and sincere in their adoration for god.
what a freedom compared to the witnesses!
so, today i went to a different church than the jw's for the first time in over three years.. it is a protestant african church.
my first thoughts: for people who are 'trapped in babylon the great (according to watchtower) these people really seem genuingly happy and sincere in their adoration for god.
what a freedom compared to the witnesses!
Comfort and communion
are two things for which religion was invented
You might think of a mother with her child when that child is frightened
Sadly has largely been replaced as a way to control people
Fear Obligation and Guilt are the order of the day with most Abrahamic
religions
Sadly
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(a true story...)not the other story.
little rock, arkansas many years ago.
we were stranded.
I always enjoy your writing Terry!
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an atheist (never jw) friend of mine is an rv for a jw who he is trying to deprogram.
he started this totally on his own and just telling me about it.
it's quite amusing what he comes up with.. point 1: why the s & m stuff with foreskins?
You know Salome gets all the heat but the that was ONE man!
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Was this Mikal? I wonder what she was thinking, OOH David what a man!!
