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compared to where they are heading if they don't accept jesus as their personal savior instead of the wt organisation.
any comments?
Compared to where they are heading if they don't accept Jesus as their personal savior instead of the WT organisation.
that is only if the jesus MYTH turns out to be more than such.
your statement is typical of the GOD loves you, burn in hell mentality common among the religious entranced
for those interested in an alternative to the jws, check out http://www.bibledecoded.com/index.html .
the lws claim to be the successors to the jws!
they have their own chronology, disfellowshipping rules, etc.
we went from JWs to LWs? what happened to the KWs?
these people seem like manic depressives on their bi-polar manic phase, spewing out all sorts of numbers, dates, codes and seeing all sorts of patterns, not unlike that movie -- A BEAUTIFUL MIND about the math professor who was delusional.
i was a jw for 40 years.
although as an individual/cong/body of elders holy spirirt was prayed for, i cannot think of one moment when i thought..right now i have gods spirit acting upon me.
it was never described adequately for me to completely understand and i suspect that others felt the same, yet everyone talked as though they knew exactly how it worked.
I would say I have experienced THE FORCE.... I have had some ultra-natural occurances which I do believe come from other realms which I do believe to be ultimately natural, just not natural to this one.
if you hold your hands in front of you with palms facing about 3-4 inches apart and move them back and forth very slowly, you can often sense what feels like two same pole magnets pushing each other apart.... if you dont feel it you can sensative your hands by rubbing them together a minute or two before trying....
one time this gal I worked with was complaining about her ankle.... I told her to let me try something, I put my hands about an inch from her ankle and just concentrated on that force feeling...and suddenly both of us felt a strong jolt and she said her ankle felt better....
reminds me of laying on of hands.... no?
this, i find, is always the bottom line.
'" "'you are my witnesses,'' is the utterance of jehovah, ''and i am god.
as his name is jehovah, the people must be jehovah's witnesses.
| Isa 43:7 | [Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. |
if Jehovah were a real God, the JW might have a leg to stand on...however they are not the ONLY ones who are called by that name nor Yahweh...there are lots of little cults around doing this.
however since YHWH is just a jewish myth, the only people who can even remotely accept that JWs are his chosen are those who accept that this god is real.
so study of the new brochure- keep on the watch started this week pretty much world-wide.
this is from page 1. .
note the religious scene comment...it says .
by condemning child abuse publickly
they give the impression that they could never be involved in such a thing
as they did with the subliminal scandal in the mid 80s even when blatant examples were produced...
many may have come from the magazine ads they pilfered without permission.
which reinforces in the minds of the average borg drone, that all statements to the contrary are just malicious lies
i was working yesterday so i wasnt at the meeting but the speaker in his talk made comments about 1914 on several occasions and towards the end of his talk he mentioned that if any new ones in attendence didnt understand the signficance of 1914 or how we know that christ started ruling in 1914 that they were invited to ask any jw in attendence to explain these things to them and they would be happy to.
this really got my wife to thinking because as a 28 year old jw who was raised as a witness and who has always been very active in the ministry she couldnt explain 1914 or any beliefs that we have as witnesses in regards to 1914 other than things havent been the same in the world since this pivotal date.
something as simple as this comment from this speaker can be the first step into seeing the errors in the wt belief system.
This scripture---absolutely essential in the JW theology about the tree representing God's Kingdom and that that 2,520 years would pass until Jesus started ruling "invisibly" in 1914 is plain horseshit. There is absolutely NOTHING in the book of Daniel to indicate it's referring to anyone else besides Nebuchadnezzar......there's nothing to insinuate that the 7 times means anything other than the 7 literal years that Nebuchadnezzar was bonkers eating or smoking grass and living like an animal.
even if a case could be made, Neb had a fully restored kingdom after his 7 times.... what happened to JC? Got mugged by Satan?
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i remember in the kh i went to there was always at least one desperate singleton who would sniff around the single women particularly the ones which were his own age...he was mid 40s i seem to believe...never had a girlfriend and would have married anybody who wouldve had him.
there was no real harm in him...just lonely i expect but i think he made most women skwirm.. what about you...did your hall have its own resident 'single sister stalker'?
slight hi jack
but was it common in your cong's like mine, that about a year after a sister was married she ballooned.....
I am married now, I can EAT!!!!
it's called "the history of god... the 4,000 year quest of christianity, judism, and, islam".. i just read the introduction so far and from what i can tell the author shows how the idea of god changes with every generation.
and the way the 3 main monotheistic religions have viewed god over the centuries.
looks very interesting.
if that is the one written by an Ex-Nun, I did read it...
shows how Jehovah started out as dropping in in human form, having dinner with Abraham, gradually becoming invisible and transcendant and totally unreal....only to come back as Jesus
i went to a friend's house last night.
i was talking with him about religious issues.
i told him i no longer feel that the witnesses have the truth.
I guess most of my fears vanished when I tried to find the historical Jesus and watched him vanish into a puff
of mythological smoke....
years ago when h2o was the rage, some unbelievable discussions used to go on.
as a just lurking witness, i found the exchanges to be quite stimulating.
all of the old soldiers were there, the ones that busted any view that jws "could" have "the truth".
I still have KISS HANK's A$$ from H2O on my website
this site is easier to follow
