what does the name jehovah's witnesses mean?
jehovah is the personal name of god, as found in the bible.
a witness is a person who relates facts from direct personal knowledge or proclaims views or truths of which he is convinced.
If this was an advert for a product, say, alcohol, food or a car and it told as many half truths and blatant lies as the JW site does, the Advertising Standards people would jump on them from a great height. It would be taken out of the public domain and they'd have to pay a hefty fine.
What's the difference?
They are both sales pitches, to separate you from your money. The only difference is the JWs want your soul as well
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i'm always willing to give a religion a chance, especially when i don't know much about it.
does this represent islam's view of women?.
Quotes from Ayatollah Khomeini:
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the child then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister.
It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.
A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.
(Quotes above are from Khomeini's book, Tahrirolvasyleh, vol. 4, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990,
'Nuff said.
hi - all these posts re "coming out" seem kind of paranoid or,what's the word or phrase, like delusions of grandeur, i mean no offense with this but it just seems like few jws would care who you are - at least now they wouldn't care if you done left already - am i missing something?
This is a totalitarian and mind controlling cult, being a JW is your life - not just a meeting or two a week. You have to be determined and singleminded to leave. You can't just wake up one day and say "I've had enough." and go. You have friends, family to consider, the whole fabric of your life is turned upside down, this is a very stressful time.
"Coming out" is the first stage towards this. A proclamation of rejecting the JW lifestyle and starting out again, with all the problems and uncertainties that entails. Telling all and sundry here, at the hall or at home.
but it just seems like few jws would care who you are
It is not done for their benefit.
IMHO belittling a statement of a very important decision, something that took real guts to admit, is not very constructive and possibly damaging to those who need need our support - not criticism.
my husband is half- finn.
his father (full-blood finn) drank coffee constantly, and smoked like a chimney and was an alcoholic.
he came down with type ii diabetes about 30 years back.
I've drunk coffee by the bucket load over the years, but was diagnosed type II diabetes at age 37 - I'm not overweight, I run as a hobby and with no family history of it. If I hadn't have drunk so much coffee maybe diabetes would have struck alot earlier. Hohum.
....and to top it all off....I could write another 300 melodies
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prince might be the most prolific proselytizer ever.
If Prince has produces an album where all the tracks are preaching the JW dogma, he could count the time.
Say the album is 45mins long, it's a big hit and goes Platinum. That 45mins times 1,000,000 which is 750,000 hours, not to mention air play on the singles, interviews etc which he could also count. He could have over 1,000,00 hours in field service, without having to knock one door and all to a funky beat.
Together with the contributions he must be giving, because he ain't the most wholesome figure in the celebrity world is he? Why would a fundamentalist Christian cult want a guy in their ranks who wrote such classics as "Darling Nikki"??? - if not for money.
They might put a Prince slant on some Bible stories to sell a few more CDs - how about the story of the flood. "...and it Purple Rained for 40 days and 40 nights.........."
*** g73 5/22 p. 13 is there life beyond the earth?
well, to this day, after many probes to mars and thousands of pictures of it, there is not the slightest shred of proof that life exists on mars or other planets in the solar system or on any other planets in the universe.. the christian, particularly, knows that even a million landings on mars, venus, jupiter, saturn or any of the planets and their moons will fail to reveal evolution of life.
well let's just wait and see shall we?.....
Re: Watchtower prophesies against life on Mars [or elsewhere]
Does Elsewhere know about this????
you might be an apostate if...........you find your forsaken bookbag , covered with mold,,and the issues of the wt dating back to 1975,,,,,and the end didn't come.. you might be an apostate if.........you have a wiener roast and use the bound volumns to start a bon fire in the front yard for all the elders driving by to see.
sumpin,,,,,,,,along those lines........i am sure ya'll can come up with some things better than this .
but , ya get the idea.
You might be an apostate if during the Memorial, if you put cheese on the bread and say, "it tastes just like Ryvita" as you munch it.
You might be an apostate if when answering a question during the Watchtower study, you say "Resistence is not futile".
You might be an apostate if during a District Convention you streak across in front of the stage, shouting "Look, I've got more balls than the lot of ya..."
The governing body show the world what they really think of the rank & file.
..for around 320 / $590 per week.. http://www.jah-jireh.org/index.html.
take a peek at the application form too!.
englishman.
Also, to clarify, these are not Watchtower nursing homes, they are a private enterprise. They are a business, and no business exists not to make a profit for the owner.
But according to the web site they have a charity registration number, so how is this possible?
Oh, it's just like the WBTS, they are are a profiteering enterprise, but they also claim to be a charity - a charity registration number each Kingdom Hall in the UK (thx Englishman)
