what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?
@ notsurewheretogo,
"These materializations occur by a power which the demons posess of being able to draw out of the mediums body connected streams of the cells of which her body is composed, and then changing the form of these living cells into any desired appearance."
In the world of the paranormal that is known as ectoplasm. The image below shows what these 'spirit mediums' are doing. It's fake of course and the Witchtower falls for it.
my cousin phoned yesterday to tell me my jw sister sent her a sympathy card for her husband's death and tucked inside there was something else, she lowered her voice.
what was it i wondered?
a nice letter, pictures of her new grandchild (she lives many miles away)?
"Didn't trust myself to speak."
I have bitten my tongue on quite a few occasions but in retrospect I always regretted it. Those people should know where we stand and exactly what we think of them.
when i was an elder we had a sister who was known for providing oral pleasures to some people in the congo.
i was on the committee.
this girl for some odd reason was put on public reproof 4 times for the same thing.
doesn't matter what brand of christianity - this cartoon says it all:.
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after leaving the dub religion behind, i read everything that i could get my hands on, be it about other religions, beliefs, gods, occult, evolution - you name it - i read it.
i did this to 'catch up' and to educate myself, so that when i can to a decision it would be an intellectual / educational one.
not just because some book or person told me to believe it.. i have over time and with reading aids come to totally believe and accept evolution.
Ain't Grandma beautiful?
sickening to see the photo of the religious zealots all stood around the governor signing into law the right for people to discriminate against others (gay, lesbian, trans-gender) based purely on religious dogma.. if religious people want those freedoms then the can't have it both ways - they cannot complain if *they* are discriminated against.. "sorry, we don't like zionists, get out".
"oh, it's some special mass and you can't work your shift?
you're fired!"..
EndofMysteries,
"...initially the 'activists' were going for equal rights, not trying to force anybody or shove things down throat, peacefully and decently winning over support. Then suddenly laws start getting changed and they start getting more rights."
Their aggressiveness is the result of decades worth of resentment at how they've been treated in the past.
"Tons of people and businesses who'll love getting tons of extra business from others turning down gay clients."
That's not likely to happen in a small one store town.
sickening to see the photo of the religious zealots all stood around the governor signing into law the right for people to discriminate against others (gay, lesbian, trans-gender) based purely on religious dogma.. if religious people want those freedoms then the can't have it both ways - they cannot complain if *they* are discriminated against.. "sorry, we don't like zionists, get out".
"oh, it's some special mass and you can't work your shift?
you're fired!"..
Cofty,
"Feed the hell out of it. Kids are always embarrassed by their parents. When their parents are shamelessly mocked for being utterly stupid, the kids with figure it out. Homophobic bigotry will drop by magnitudes in a single generation."
Disagree. The culture in which those kids are raised in reinforces/normalizes such thought and behavior in school and elsewhere. They're not going to be embarrassed by their parents unless perhaps they're living in a mostly liberal region.
I doubt that homophobia will drop anymore than racism has in the red states.
what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?
How the sisters have to wear a veil when teaching in the presence of a brother even if she's thirty years his senior. Yet, if the sisters are simply in the hall they don't have to wear the head covering like the apostle Paul commanded and they can comment even though Paul said that a woman should not be allowed to speak in church.
I remember being in high school when, during lunch break, I walked into a library room where a sister was conducting a study. Upon seeing me she stated that she had to wear a covering. Having no such thing she improvised by pulling her sweater up to her head. Cute.
this is my first year i will not attend memorial.
to be honest if it wasn't for my husband i would probably be going still.
he says what's the point, don't be one of those people who doesn't give a sh** but just shows there face once a year.
So you'll be not, non-partaking?
it just seems to me religion in general primarily makes truly bad people worse, not genuinly good people better; and in many cases has even made good people do bad things in the name of their religion.
just curious, a personal poll if you will.
what are you guys' current views on religion as a whole?
@ EndofMysteries,
"500/1000 years ago when much of the world was warring tribes religion is what brought peace."
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
Come now, are we living on the same planet?
Over 1500 years ago - it's referred to as the Dark Ages - Europe was a barbaric feudalistic region with constant warfare amongst them. Throughout that time period we had the holy wars of Constantine; the inquisitions with its victims often times burned at the stake; the Catholic Protestant wars; the Taiping civil war in China and so forth.
In the United States you had the puritans hanging women simply because they belonged to another religion.
It was when Europe became secularized that we had advancement in civilization.
Look at the fruit of Christendom's reigned of terror:
