the science is in: god is the answer.
research shows kids raised with spirituality are happier and healthier in the vulnerable teen years.
why arent we all signing up?.
It's part of our evolutionary heritage to live in close, tightly knit groups that rely on each other for survival. It is in villages and tribes that our psyches prosper. We, in the Western World, are an alienated society with very little or no community ties. Almost any well adjusted group could provide the sense of community that most of us crave for.
It's a pity that the Watchtower and other poisonous religions take advantage of that inborn need to belong to something.
i was wondering ... what are all of the "official" reasons provided by elders for disfellowshipping someone?
i know the most common reasons are adultery and fornication, but what about the others?
a couple of years ago i traveled back to my hometown` and one of my old jw acquaintances told me that her grown son had been disfellowshipped for refusing to stop associating with another disfellowshipped person.
Disfellowshipping for associating with any df'd person was common knowledge in the 1970s. But starting around 1980 the Watchtower started disfellowshipping for associating with disassociated persons. That is how Raymond Franz was disfellowshipped and they applied it retroactively.
Also, not believing that the Watchtower is God's organization falls into the Apostasy category.
http://www.pamplinmedia.com/ht/117-hillsboro-tribune-news/255785-125363-jehovahs-witness-sex-abuse-case-in-feds-hands.
lawsuit seeks $10.5 million from hillsboro church, watchtower society .
attorneys for a 40-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man who say they were sexually abused nearly 30 years ago by a church elder in hillsboro want to have a lawsuit filed by the pair last fall placed back in state court jurisdiction.
Flipper, "...they've already admitted to it in court."
I hope that information can be made available to other courts with similar lawsuits where the Watchtower lawyers might deny their existence. Do the attorneys in these cases have any cross communication? If not it would be good if they collaborate with each other.
so i chose to attend the memorial last night.
it was a hall i don't usually go to but chose to go there because i felt like it would be the closest.
mind you i am not a jw and was never raised a jw and don't have any family who are jw.
http://www.pamplinmedia.com/ht/117-hillsboro-tribune-news/255785-125363-jehovahs-witness-sex-abuse-case-in-feds-hands.
lawsuit seeks $10.5 million from hillsboro church, watchtower society .
attorneys for a 40-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man who say they were sexually abused nearly 30 years ago by a church elder in hillsboro want to have a lawsuit filed by the pair last fall placed back in state court jurisdiction.
why didn't jesus ever write anything?
why are there no letters to jesus?
no painting of jesus from that time?
"Why didn't Jesus ever write anything?"
He never thought he would have followers into the indefinite future. He didn't even think there was going to be a future except for "The kingdom of heaven" which was imminent.
"Why are there no letters to Jesus?"
Why write to him if you were following him?
"No painting of Jesus from that time? No busts or sculptures?"
Paintings and busts are made of historically important people which Jesus was not until the Christian church took control a couple hundred years later. Then they made plenty of paintings of him though none are likely to be realistic.
"How is it that Paul, a man who never met Jesus, became the founder of the Christian church?"
The same way Jesus got his followers. Through force of personality.
"Is Jesus a man turned legend? Or just a myth all together?"
Legend but not myth. These religions are always founded by a charismatic individual who makes a deep impression on his followers.
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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