making up my mind on how to teach my son values in life seems to be an on going struggle of what is right and wrong.
being raised in a sheltered jw life until after leaving high school seems like going from one extreme to another of being over restrictive or under.
trying to find that balance.
Don't JWs and other Christians ever wonder how the heathen nations worked out that murder, stealing, lying, adultery, assault and envy are wrong, thousands of years before Moses climbed Mt Sinai?
Presumably it was their non-existent gods that told them? Why didn't the dick end choppers work it out for themselves, like everybody else?
i used to be able to put in a date and a reminder 2hours in advance.
i updated my sw and now cannot set reminders.
so now i need a paper diary.. .
I used to be able to put in a date and a reminder 2hours in advance. I updated my sw and now cannot set reminders. So now I need a paper diary.
are there any statistics to show that proportionally the jw's are growing at a greater rate outside of western countries and, in particular, the african continent?.
if so, anybody's guess ?.....
1] by what year would the organization be predominantly african in membership?.
You can bet the ebola stuff is being bashed on the drum in African nations. Pestilence and food shortages...
making up my mind on how to teach my son values in life seems to be an on going struggle of what is right and wrong.
being raised in a sheltered jw life until after leaving high school seems like going from one extreme to another of being over restrictive or under.
trying to find that balance.
You can ALWAYS raise good kids as long as they are not mentally sick.
The gods you believe in are not the crucial factor. Chinese believed in the Jade Emperor. You name them , somebody believed in them, and a stable society results...
Jdubs say that without belief in a " god" - that is THEIR God life is no more meaningful than that of a squirrel
So what about all the other moral systems that believe in other gods... They produce fine upstanding individuals, without the slaughter of Joshua or Judges.
Morality is a product of human evolution. It enabled us to work together and survive.
The god of the Bible resembles a primitive King. The same egotistical homicidal rants we read in the records of non-Jewish nations.
So : YES
hi folks:.
i've been lurking here all summer and i finally decided to take the plunge and join you all.. i'm a single, 53 y/o black woman living in the nyc metro area (usa).
i was brought up around jws:mom's mom, mom and my favorite auntie were all in.
Welcome! Just remember to beware of men in tight pants.
what are your thoughts about this topic , pros and cons.. smiddy.
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China does not seem interested in controlling and influencing the world other than countries directly around it's borders . If it does become the leading world power it will be more by default as other countries decline economically.
There are also more Chinese than anybody else.
i have been looking high and low for a hard copy of "crisis de conciencia" for the past 4 years now... i've yet to find it anywhere new or old.
if i could, i would purchase at least 16 of these books and mail them to 16 spanish-speaking jws i know in the states and south america.
it would definitely cause at least 7 of those jws to wake up... i just know it.. now i know it's available in pdf, but most latin american countries are not into e-readers when reading voluminous writings such as this book.
It should be available in more than two languages!! It is so good.
Spanish speakers tend to be less well off so can't buy readers when choosing between that and food for the kids.
The new Kindle is $200.
from barbara anderson, former watchtower headquarters researcher and writer, on another recent thread:.
it is expected that at the 2014 annual meeting, usually held the first saturday in october, will serve watchtower leaders well to cover-up all the 100-years of prophetic nonsense.
rumor has it they are going to celebrate their 100-years of announcing the kingdom in an adroit way by featuring a move of "great" significance to do with the expansion of the governing body to an "apostolic" 12 or some other fantasy idea.. .
On another thread, a CO was reported as saying the new announcement will shock the old timers. Expanding the Gibbering Buddies to 12 is hardly a shock. The numbers have gone up and down for years.
What date is the AGM anyway?
is it worth queing two weeks for a phone?
i mean why que two weeks for something we already have a phone?.
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Shirley W -
I am sure your pink high heels make you taller like all the others. But: Are they JIMMY CHOOs?
as a father, made in god's love, that has troubled me for a very long time, is that god, as described by the wts, is soon, going to slaughter every, roughly, 7.9 billion people on the planet, because they have figured out a way to come know him as a father according to the wts.. .
as a father, dear apologist, why would you kill/murder a one-day old baby?.
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Let's face it: reading the bible it is obvious that whenever there is a problem, Jehovah tells one angel or another "this is FREAKING me out! Go kill somebody."
