today i was studing for tonights book study lesson.
i got hung up on this paragraph.
i don't know why but something about the wording just does not sound right.
Some of the other posters suggest the bible is a fairy tale, I dunno, right now I'm at a crossroads and havent made a choice on that yet. It may be. What I am sure of is that our religion is based on lies and poor scholarship
I think what you should have said is ALL instead of OUR!
Yeah adam was made from perfect dirt because after he f*cked up the dirt became imperfect... What hall do you go to again??
you...you...people.
i blame all of you, every stinkin one of ya.
i just looked up and realized i lost 3 hours of my day to this place.
I am in awe of you.
You should be I ROCK!
Actually addiction is a funny thing I was discussing this with a rehab patient one time and he said he wasn't addicted... I asked him how so and he told me "your not addicted until you try to get off the stuff and fail, as long as you don't want to stop and don't ever try to stop your not an addict..." Maybe your an addict but until you try to stop you'll never know! Hope you don't try anytime soon!
in the light of thinking that i am a person of reason, having a measure of good sense, and not wanting to go against the flow of the main stream, i now look back and wonder "why did it take me 40 years to wake up and smell the roses" about the organization?
when the big fiasco, and i mean big fiasco, of 1975 came and went, didn't i know down deep that i had been chasing "parked cars" spiritually?
with my spiritual nose bleeding i just hung in there with the rest and didn't make a fuss.
FDS- The reality is that he got out! To say that your reasons for leaving or for wanting to help out other witlesses are MORE valid because they are more personal is nonsense! So in his case a date helped him to start to question and in your case (if you ever were a witness) it was the blood issue... So your both out, hooray lets throw a party in BOTH your honors!!!! This idea of your reasons being more valid because it's personal???? Pretty lame!
As to him saying why why why did I stay in this cult for so long that's pretty standard stuff it's a normal reaction and were all used to it around here. You just need to relax a bit my fine friend!
how can those doing the monitoring not be affected by what they read here?.
how can anyone not be affected by the paedophilia scandal, the un scandal, the 1975 debacle?.
how do they find someone to read here and still stay a jw?.
I'll bet they rotate... (ok go ahead insert sick joke here) but it has to affect them!
ok blondies review of the wt got me thinking, dan 12:4 speaks of somone 'roving about and knowledge becoming abundant'.
what a strange expression.
like most obscure passages they are easy to misuse as this weeks wt demonstrated (and others similarly)by saying roving about meant searching through the bible.
I don't know it seems pretty simple to me!
"This scroll is locked. Don't bother looking cause this one is locked up tight as a drum. Lots of a$$holes (read WBTS, Brownhole) will be running around trying to understand this but it ain't gonna happen cause this puppy is locked up! So if one of these loosers comes knocking on the door saying that they have managed to unlock it don't let them in cause they are evil and full of $hit..." markamiah 15:28
Maybe I'm the FDS class!!!!
can time be counted if one is not distributing literature?
Amazingly enough time can be counted while lying in bed with the PO's daughter! Or even while thinking about lying in bed with said daughter!!!
Yup I lied constantly! At first that bothered me a bit (like back when I was 12) then I realized it didnt' matter! I think that the poor guy who was assigned to call and ask always added a few hours too! I saw my pub record card one time and was amazed at the hours I was getting while never going in service! More even that the fudge time that I was giving!
how can those doing the monitoring not be affected by what they read here?.
how can anyone not be affected by the paedophilia scandal, the un scandal, the 1975 debacle?.
how do they find someone to read here and still stay a jw?.
HA Pole thats the only reason I've ever thought about going back!
How hard could it be get my share of the money flow! I wonder? It would easy to get in! I'm from a family that has a bit of prestige and never got df'ed or anything just faded they would welcome me back with open arms! If I back changed my major again and got an accounting degree they would love me because I would be a highly trained and VALUABLE slave (worth my weight in janitors!) So then how hard could it be too "cook the books" with the BILLIONS that come through that door to redirect a few million here and a few million there!
I'm also inclined to believe that if you got caught it would be swept under the rug! The scandle would be worse if they admited it than if they ignored it! The fact that brother X over the course of 5 years in bethel managed to take (I would say steal but how do you steal from a thief??) 15 MILLION dollars and it not be missed for so long! They love to poor mouth and to admit that there was that much to take is to admit that they DO make a LOT of money!!!
There's a plan for undaunted dan!!!!! Kinda like "sueing them" from the inside!!!!
i was just watching a sit-com and someone made a reference to boxer briefs as being a sign a guy is gay.
i like boxer briefs!
they are the best of both worlds... a combination of boxers and briefs.
no... Male thongs are gay!
i could get there early, and save you all some seats!
at least i would have someone to talk to after the meeting
GO sit in front and after they anounce it start singing "born free" at the top of your lungs! lol
hitting the road in something like this: .
chase the sunshine and warm weather... see the good ole usa in style... i wanna travel!
waaaaaaaaaaaa
HEY MY DAD IS SELLING HIS RV! IT'S A 26 FOOT C CLASS! WE SHOULD ALL GO IN TOGETHER! HECK 5 BUCKS PER-PERSON AND WE WOULD HAVE IT!!!!!
