wt dec-2014 page4: "a bulgarian woman named irana rigthly observed, -it is not posspible to be close to god if you don t know his name.
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if so many know his name, why this debate "jehovah vs yahweh" then?.
because it might be jesus. everyone knows that name, who it represents, what he did, how he died and the fact that he is ruling.
its his name every knee shal bend to.
its in his name that we are saved. he died for us so that we may live.
jehovah did not.
page 15.
"take for example a christian couple in asia.
in their younger years, they admired those who could afford to own a house.
so now they are investment advisors?
this article from 2012 published by the birmingham news showed up on my facebook page.. what i would have liked to see in the statistics is the inclusion of total jws refusing blood transfusion and their survival rate not only the ones taht surviced, taking about only survivors is not like for like comparison in my opinion with patients who take blood transfusion and then dont survive.. .
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its always preffered to have surgery without blood, for obvious reasons. one being that when they put the volume into you often times a weal heart cannot pump the quanity and they suffer heart failure. this is a mistake on the hospital staff.
however only when your life is being threatend and there is no other way would I accept one. blood looses its oxygen in 72 hours, id did my father no good.
the injection that many thing is better to get to imporve blood count is also very dangerous. sometimes we just cant make miricles happen. we do what we can at the time.
as for the belief that perhaps G.C may have, let me ask, are you under the law of moses? if so, why are you not doing all the other laws and sacrifices?
jesus fullfilled the law. but did he get rid of it? he was bound by it. he spoke of it, so I dont think so, but paul said we do not have to be under the law to have Gods grace. we cant cherry pick which laws to follow, as for me, im not an israelite, thank you very much, so im good.
sorry i still dont know how to spell check on here my computer wont auto do it on this site.
i have about 30 old books that i have collected over the years and i don't know what to do with them.
i wouldn't mind getting a little money for them, after all, i did contribute and spend tons of money in car gas.
i have: you may survive armageddon into god's new world; what has religion done for mankind?
before you chuck them see if they have any subliminal images in the photos, there are loads in the live forever and revelation book nad lots of watchtowers.
and get youyrself a mirror too so uyou can mirror the images starting from the edge workig to the middle, you might see several demons and molech and symbols from freemasonry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjppkvhy79k#t=82.
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well i got a week to pack my 'go bag' right?
i literally just sat there with my mouth open.
sometimes the delusional mind of jws takes steroids.. it was during the draw close to jehovah study where they praise the mosaic law and how perfectly wonderful it was.
you should have seen the almost giddy attitude the conductor had and the comments from the audience.
you know, you got to wonder whos writting this stuff ans what they hope to accomplish by it. surely they know there are many who find it absolutely bazzar.
so last night i was talking to my sister about how i admired president obama's speech to the u.n that happened earlier that day.. i then compared the extremism of isis to how much of a fanatic my jw bil is.. at the end of the statement , my mom walked in to the kitchen.
she was standing in the living room and she heard everything i said.. she called the elders that night to tell them what i said so they can counsel me.. i'm going to meet with them after the meeting on sunday!.
what do i do?!!!!!.
call me dense, but, are you a teen still living at home ? Im not sure why your mom said this to you if your an adult.
but still, does your mother have authority over you at this time? why oh why does she not have the inteligence and maturity to discuss this with her own child? has she given up her RIGHT to parent? she cant deal with this on her own?
does she understand that the elders are not there to be treated like the some secret service agents and shes thier informant? they are only there for spiritual help, not everyday nonsense. just dont go to the meeting, be busy or sick.
id not go to the meeting ever again. Id tell her thats the last straw, If my own mother rejects me critisizes me and belittles me and judges me, how does she think
God feels about her choice to treat her child like some criminal? that a sure sign of cult like behavior. shes lost her own mind.
why did she not simply ask you to explain?
my mother has already told me that I need to talk to the elders about my questions.
I said to her "mother, you are older than they are, so why cant you answer them? how many years have you been studying the bible and you cant tell me what YOU think it means?"
she changed the subject.
how many people on here who were or are jws, owned or ran a buisness who would not willingly let people at the k hall know, maybe to avoid feeling like you had to give your fellow brothers and sisters a discount, or free help, or out of fear of being judged.
did you only help out the pioneers?
and not the poor ones?
so, no matter what religion you claim to be, these problems remain. lol. being unaware of anything going on in any congregation I attended, Id have never guessed that people would take advantage of someone else. thats how nieve i was, i always held everyone in such high esteeme.
its amazing all those jws living a double life, lol! i for one never asked even so much for a ride. so im good.
how many people on here who were or are jws, owned or ran a buisness who would not willingly let people at the k hall know, maybe to avoid feeling like you had to give your fellow brothers and sisters a discount, or free help, or out of fear of being judged.
did you only help out the pioneers?
and not the poor ones?
how many people on here who were or are Jws, owned or ran a buisness who would not willingly let people at the k hall know, maybe to avoid feeling like you had to give your fellow brothers and sisters a discount, or free help, or out of fear of being judged. did you only help out the pioneers? and not the poor ones?
for example, if someone was a hair stylist, in the cong i left, shed never ever consider offering the poor sisters or brothers in the hall a free or discounted, haircut. and some of them really needed a haircut. or would you cut a pioneers hair?
or a brother who owns a car lot wouldnt help one of the poor ones find a real cheap car ,
or someone who i know was a mechanic yet always expected to be paid , so the poor ones never asked even for so much for a tire to be changed.
where was all the help that we were supposed to be doing for each other. i was a housecleaner, and id get asked or id offer, to clean elderly sister or ill sister or brother so n so's house becasue of illness or something, and i never got paid nor did i expect to. but i find out later who owned what and I d think geeze, the ones I knew who could have been helped and wasnt!
jusy curious
what was the most outrageous comment you ever heard during a wt study?.
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please share your experiences..
an elder once said from the platform
It is a sin to miss a meeting.
and at a convention once a district overseer was giving some experiences where some brothers and sisters were hiding others from getting arrested and he made this comment.
'its ok to lie to protect your brothers and sisters.'
and i just thought,,, omg, so why then did not ALL those others brothers and sisters not lie to protect themselves from getting killed in other wars or ethnic cleansings?
I never forgot that, and from that day on I knew this wasnt a true religion.
