Dan-o You are soooo bad
Yeah, right. I'm evil. I'm the spawn of Satan. Don't let me see your kids' facial expressions, or else I'll capture their souls & lead them away from the Almighty. Be happy that I didn't upload the last MPEG I got in my e-mail. *LOL*
with all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, .
it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person which almost went unnoticed last week.. larry la prise, the man who wrote "the hokey pokey", died peacefully at age 93.. .
the most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin.. .
*LOL* When did the shaking start?
jehovah's witnesses use the number of the mighty 6 million (tm) to "prove" that god is blessing them over and above all other religions.
but with so many being disfellowshipped and leaving over the past decades, how many ex-witnesses are there?
with thousands growing wiser and more dissatisfied with wt doctrine, might the number of ex-witnesses over the years now equal the number of witnesses?
Islam also counts the 70 virgins awaiting each martyr. With every new martyr, the count goes up exponentially.
Happy now, Jo?
in the earlier days of the wtbts, they played hell with the medical profession and vehemently discouraged jw's or "bible students", if you will, from getting vaccinated.
yes, they said it was a cruel hoax on people by satan.
they said it was of black magic and blah blah blah .
Interesting stuff, amigo. As I recall from the 70s & early 80s, vaccinations were OK, so long as the vaccines were not developed thru the use of some animal's blood. For example, a vaccine developed thru eggs was OK, but one formulated thru monkey blood was not.
Having said that, I've never had a flu shot. Mrs. O shakes her head at me every winter & dutifully goes to the doctor for hers. But oddly, I almost never get sick.
Go figure.
I'll probably keel over from a heart attack or lung cancer in about 10 years. Or maybe my liver will finally tell me it's had its fill.
jehovah's witnesses use the number of the mighty 6 million (tm) to "prove" that god is blessing them over and above all other religions.
but with so many being disfellowshipped and leaving over the past decades, how many ex-witnesses are there?
with thousands growing wiser and more dissatisfied with wt doctrine, might the number of ex-witnesses over the years now equal the number of witnesses?
Hey, Ken? The Mormons have an unfair advantage. That polygamy thing allows them to reproduce at a faster rate, limited by only the number of wives a guy can support.
if the jw organization were considered a normal business operating without the protections of being a religion, it obviously would have to make some big changes in order to avoid being sued out of existence for sex discrimination.
i wasn't raised to think that women should be relegated to second class status or that they should have less opportunities than men or be relegated to a limited set of life roles.
however, when i became a jw, i freely accepted all the sexist nonsense that came with the territory without ever being bothered by it.
Gretchen, you uppidy, independent, stubbon woman, you.
Kitty!
if the jw organization were considered a normal business operating without the protections of being a religion, it obviously would have to make some big changes in order to avoid being sued out of existence for sex discrimination.
i wasn't raised to think that women should be relegated to second class status or that they should have less opportunities than men or be relegated to a limited set of life roles.
however, when i became a jw, i freely accepted all the sexist nonsense that came with the territory without ever being bothered by it.
most women can do what men do but most men can't do what women do
OK. I have to disagree with this. With the exception of breastfeeding & giving birth, I can do pretty much anything that Mrs. O can do, and vice versa. We each have our indivudual areas of superior talent or skill, but that's just the difference between two in-DUH-viduals ... not something that's based solely on our genitalia. She can build databases. I can bake one heck of a pecan pie. We can both rebuild carburators. We both understand how to work a washer & a dryer. And so on, and so on.
But back to the original question ... no the stuff at the KH never bothered me much while I was part of the org. But that was a long time ago, and it had been in front of me since infancy ... so it just seemed 'normal', if you will.
the july 1, 1962 wt.
asks "can the demons read our minds?
"" the demons.
I would look in the mirror and wonder how I could ever possibly control my features in unguarded moments.
Yeah, like what do these demons think of expressions on our faces when we're having orgasms?
