after a one year sucessful fade and no longer associated with any congreation, i was visiting my sister this week (who goes to the meeting to please her husband for now; i am slowly planting seeds though) and they decided to year this weeks midweek meeting via the telephone.
since i was a guest in her house, i sat with them in the living room to hear the meeting.
to my surprise (especially growing up as a gay jw with still alot of anger in my heart over how i was treated), the talks 2 and 3 where on, of course, homosexualiy.
'society in general will pay the price for allowing same-sex unions' - ridiculous comment!
Same-sex couples are a tiny minority (c.5%) of society and do not wish to convert anybody!
Also, it never fails to astonish me how obsessed the Society is over certain sexual acts.
Anal sex, for example, is most certainly not exclusive to gay men - it no doubt happens among heterosexual couples.
i think my earlier post " what is a fact" has run it's course.
in this thread i would like to present the same question " what is a fact" from a different viewpoint.. many j.w children have loving parents ( that is a fact) but parents who insanley demanded unquestioning obidience to their deranged standards.. so " what is a fact" to innocent children is that a god who they have never seen nor heard, will destroy them if they dont live to the g.bs deranged standards.. so basically these children have been taught the wrong meaning of words:-.
love is conditional.
I agree 100% with your OP, new hope and happiness.
LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL.
i've heard about his bombastic, overly patronising, cartoon-ish delivery before, but i'd never actually seen it...until now.
and i should add, this religion bears little to no relation to the one i left 6 years ago.. .
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I've only seen this guy speaking once - I clinked on a 17 min link on JWN. I get the feeling he's a failed actor, he seems to love the limelight. He overemphasises some phrases and speaks long words slowly, as if he regards his listeners as educationally slow.
The youtube video I saw is hard evidence that Lett and the others have no special connection to God and don't know their @rse from their elbow.
i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.
i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.
what did you love about the 80s?
I grew up in the 80s and thought nothing of it.
Looking back, there was great music, such as Joy Division/New Order, Prince, Human League, Duran Duran and U2.
I think The Elephant Man, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Empire Strikes Back and The Terminator were great films.
I'll 80s fashion and hairstyles a miss, however.
a genuine question really.. do they actually make desicions or are they simple sock puppets for the lawyers?.
are they just a front (like the queen is in the uk), with little or no desicion making input?.
do they just give talks and make appearances?.
@punkofnice
I pretty much agree with your opening post. I think the GB decide most doctrinal matters and act as figureheads.
They also manage to dress themselves every day.
shocking and sad news.. i cannot begin to express how i feel.
it is the stuff of nightmares.. may his family have peace.. .
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'This would be far more kind/merciful than they deserve' - you're quite right.
Perhaps all the people who usually concern themselves with 'proportional responses' might like to consider that the only proportional response to this atrocity would be for the British authorities to take an islamist currently being held in a British jail, behead him and record it.
while these idiots think beheading innocent aid workers journalists who have the welfare of the people at heart in these circumstances and then butchering them in such a barbaric manner is going to swing public opinion in their favour is beyond me .. if their is ever a reason to go on the ground including going into syria to rid this pox off the face of the earth this is the last straw and needs to be done now.. no more now pussyfooting around with barbaric medieval murderes , go in and annhillilate the bastards.
in the air on the ground and whatever it takes.. smiddy.
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'Anyone would think that this contempt for religion extends to Islam, but no, it doesn't.'
Here in England at least, most christians are white-skinned and most muslims are brown-skinned.
Fear of being called racist is a powerful thing.
shocking and sad news.. i cannot begin to express how i feel.
it is the stuff of nightmares.. may his family have peace.. .
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@Finkelstein - you may be right. The Iraqi army seems to be a poor fighting force and the Peshmerga won't, understandably, fight further than their borders.
The situation in Syria/Iraq is a complete nightmare.
shocking and sad news.. i cannot begin to express how i feel.
it is the stuff of nightmares.. may his family have peace.. .
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Too sad for words.
I hope the family of this decent man get the support they need.
I also hope that the murdering b*****d who did this gets a 500lb bomb dropped on him.
i'm being deadly serious - many, many years ago, an english (uk) visiting speaker, giving a talk on science and the bible, made the statement:.
"as we speak, there is a probe that is nearing uranus.".
myself and one other brother were just dying trying to control an explosion of laughter.. i so desperately wanted to yell out: "and they're searching for klingons.".
@bigmac - reminded me of a conclusion I heard in a brother's talk 'remember, brothers, humans don't have souls - we are souls'
He was a good laugh, he knew what he was doing there.
