WTW-
The contract thing and baptism can only apply to those dunked as adults. Minors cannot enter into a legal contract.
the governing body are fighting for corporation survival here, and now and they are only going to get worse as the child molestation lawsuits must be paid out so expect more in real eastate sell offs and kingdom hall scemes to rip off the rank and file for every single penny they can get out of them praying on their extreme gulibilty to the limits another words to the breaking point.. this type of double dealing with the hard earned contributions given to support the kingdom halls will very quickly back fire on them causeing more extreme measures to pay the plaintiffs in child molestation lawsuits.
it is a snow ball rolling down the hill..
WTW-
The contract thing and baptism can only apply to those dunked as adults. Minors cannot enter into a legal contract.
my mom told me that she, my brother and his wife really didn't like this new bible.. when i asked her why, she said they dropped the headings on the top of the pages and that just wasn't as good.. have you heard any pros and cons about the new good book?.
Wasanelder -
The King james says man became a living SOUL - so they can still prove their ideas on this using a WICKED babble pulished by christendoom.
The Noo NWT just says person, allowing the comeback " yes - a person with a SOUL". Are animals called persons on the babble??
WHAT A SHOT IN THE FOOT!!
those of you who served as elders, did your wife or other family members / friends find your secret shepherd the flock book?
how did they react?
how did you react?.
They claim that the book has nothing printed in it that hasnt appeared elsewhere in the litterature, so youre not missing anything.
What they really dont want you to see is all the written notes in the margins, dished out at elduhs school.
25 year old farzana iqbal was stoned to death by a crowd led by her own father and two of her brothers outside the high court in lahore yesterday.. her crime was to reject her cousin, who her family had decided she should marry, and fall in love with a man of her own choosing.. thousands of women are murdered every year in so-called "honour killings" but convictions are very rare.
pakistani law permits victim's families to forgive a murderer, but in these cases the killers are family members who are nominated to carry out the execution by the rest of the family.. this is what happens when you allow a mysogynistic religion to influence secular law.. reuters report...l.
kate - it is a pity you didnt tell the driver and demand that the transport police be called. You had witnessed an assault on public transport. he should have been arrested then and there.
Women on busses should gang up on a man like that and make him regret his sorry existence.
When will muslim women start to fight back??
my mom told me that she, my brother and his wife really didn't like this new bible.. when i asked her why, she said they dropped the headings on the top of the pages and that just wasn't as good.. have you heard any pros and cons about the new good book?.
Nasty, nasty ungrateful Sparrow- you have made Jehoobie very sad, mean and mad.
Now we will have another rainy summer, no sunshine and thunder. Seriously tho, the new translation sucks. They don't indicate where words and the name of the Stone Age death god have been added, and they have decided to edit out passages that in the past were left in and the reader cd draw own conclusions on authenticity. Gad help you if you still use the old NWT, which was the bestest, even though marshmallows did not exist in Job's day.
interview with joel the unwitness:.
http://youtu.be/bpwylueul44.
an outstanding experience of unwitnessing occurs when a former jw happens to find himself at a mcdonalds around 11am on a saturday.... does pandemonium ensue?
I just wonder - despite rejecting the dubbies, do they hate FAGS like God does? In which case their love is just as conditional as any other cult of hate.
http://o.canada.com/news/national/blood-transfusions.
thoughts?.
I must say however - I have personally known dubbies, including my mother, and an uncle who refused blood.
For hemorraging ulcers, cancer and heart bypass surgery, among others. In all of these the doctors did remark on how unusually well they were doing. When others were still lying about looking dreadful.
This is still ANECDOTAL evidence - that is: all I can say is what I saw and experienced. But saying that, if what we see and experience is to be dismissed as anecdotal, and therefore not provable, we might as well shut the lawcourts, and stop asking for testimony from witnesses.
Even worse, why not dismiss the testimony of child abuse victims - mere anecdotal evidence, non corroborated??
HB
alan feuerbacher has written a tremendous critique of the march 2014 awake!, which contains a grossly dishonest discussion on creation.
the pdf file can be downloaded from awake_march_2014_creation_critique.pdf.
it highlights watchtower use of poor and contradictory reasoning..
Alan F has a professional background in science. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and worked in the field of microelectronics, designing microcircuitry and processors.
scientific training hones the mind and critical skills, as can be seen in many of his articles, some of which can be found on the Talkorigins website.
tried accessing a picture linked and got this... access deniedyou don't have permission to access "http://assets.jw.org/assets/m/w14/20140315/w14_20140315.art/2014205_univ_lsr_lg.jpg" on this server.. reference #18.39e24cae.1400781585.632ce346.
They should be aluminium hats so the kid cannot pick up apostate thinking.
i have lots and lots of watchtower literature... and i don't know what could be useful in the future to have as a reference or as a keeper.
i am definitely keeping the 1993 and 1994 bound volumes of the awake!
(no, we are not false prophets... down in the same page, the generation of 1914 will not pass... also the youths who put god the watchtower first).
"Never said these are the words of Jehovah??"
thats is a LIE - in an article from the 70s they said that when they have said something they back it up with the scripture "These are the words of Jehovah."
i think it was called"They will know a Prophet was among them"- don't have the litterature myself anymore. So I can't post it.