it was a simple question: isn't jesus my "mediator" if i put faith in him like the scriptures say?
the research to that answer, from the w79 4/1 p. 31, was mind blowing.
how dare they deny me a belief firmly stated in the scriptures?
"What research helped you see the WT for the false prophet it really is?"
There really wasn't a doctrinal issue that affected me prior to my disfellowshipping for apostasy. What irked me was the self worshipping attitude of the Watchtower who kept inserting themselves into practically every scripture - type anti-type teaching - and other self serving misinterpretations such as the "faithful and discrete slave".
am finding a whole lot of acronyms that are really foreign to me and i now have an appreciation for what cult language sounds like to non-culters.
wondering please if you can post your definitions so i can get up to speed.
otherwise, as an indoctrinated ex-culter, i am inclined to create my own new light and swiftly it will be gospel.
My humble contribution:
Bitchtower which is Putalaya in Spanish.
Septapope (meaning 7 popes).
Dingdong hall.
Faithless and Indiscrete Slave.
you can probably guess how this story goes.. i began dating a non-witness boy.
he knew i was a baptised witness and understood the consequences i faced for dating him.
we agreed to keep our relationship secret, which was easy considering our 200 mile distance.
Welcome young lady.
sugar water will show blue light over the sun.. salt water will show red light over the sun.. our body components, salt sugar water.. blue blood vein and red blood... definition of our body in his form.. this is the evidence, of our god..
The complexity of the present time seems to demand a refining of our hearts if we are going to survive. We can no longer afford to live with greed. Only a visitor of the dreamscape may engender this flow of presence.
You will soon be reborn by a power deep within yourself — a power that is sublime, interstellar. Crystal healing may be the solution to what’s holding you back from an unimaginable quantum shift of balance. Through feng shui, our lives are nurtured by energy.
Reality has always been overflowing with seekers whose dreams are baptized in conscious living. Humankind has nothing to lose. Throughout history, humans have been interacting with the quantum matrix via sub-atomic particles.
Nothing is impossible
Although you may not realize it, you are non-local. Being, look within and strengthen yourself. It can be difficult to know where to begin.
Yes, it is possible to extinguish the things that can sabotage us, but not without transcendence on our side. Turbulence is the antithesis of passion. Where there is delusion, health cannot thrive.
according to leading astronomers the probe philae that landed on the comet 67p last november may have discovered microbial life..... sadly neither the probe nor the orbiter rosetta are equipped to test directly but the evidence is interesting.
these are not easily explained in terms of prebiotic chemistry.
the dark material is being constantly replenished as it is boiled off by heat from the sun.
The only religion/s that will be impacted by the discovery of extraterrestrial life are going to be the Fundamentalist Christians and Orthodox Jews. There is nothing in the Bible on the subject and that will leave an open hole in their psyche..
Realizing that there might be extraterrestrial life goes against the major premise of their religion which puts man at the center of the Universe with Jesus dying for humanity due to the sins of a literal Adam and Eve. Are we to believe that Jesus died for the sins of E.T.? Has any extraterrestrial race gone through the ordeals of sin and death like their human counterpart?
Inquiring minds want to know.
this is in the july 2015 monthly program on tv.jw.org cedars wrote about it too.. starting at around 42:30 in the video, morris talks about the child abuse situation for almost 10 minutes.
link to video.
i'm writing a transcript right now.
ToMo, Victims "should never be discouraged from reporting the incident [abuse] to the appropriate authorities."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH7j2TrjXUc&feature=player_detailpage
i have just found out that my brother (who was one of a bunch that shared this login) has died.. he and his wife were living in another country where they once pioneered.
i didn't see him that often.. such an empty feeling.....
it will be interesting to see what will happen with the "beloved" 501c3 tax exempt status which the churches hold so dearly onto.
the first-century christians met in homes.
they did not have exemption from taxes to the governments.
As an atheist I can acknowledge the wisdom of giving churches tax free status even though I don't want them to have special privileges. The concept is based on the ideal of separating church and state and requires something from the religion in exchange for their tax free status.
It amounts to this: Churches don't pay taxes and in exchange they don't get involved in politics.
President Bush (Jr.) actually had the IRS investigate a church because it was speaking out against the Iraq war. Meanwhile conservative churches, particularly in the South and Mid-west are politicizing with impunity.
in view of the conti verdict of negligence by the org, are elders who are selected by the c.o.
now in a precarious position?
"charity trustees face potential liabilities in a number of ways.
say you could go back in time to when you were 15 years old.
no watchtower in your life.
but the experience you have now you could keep.
I would become a paleoanthropologist. Our origins as a species has always fascinated me.
And I would get married young in spite of my career.
