i don't post very often on this board and when i do i'm quite laconic.
it's my nature, im a person of few yet concise words.
that being said i would like to share my brief thoughts on the blood issue as i see it.. all jws are familiar with the words at luke 22:20 as they are read ritually every memorial: " ...this cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which is to be poured out in your behalf.".
Luke 14
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Then he asked them, "If one of you has a son or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull him out?"
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And they had nothing to say.
Jesus said that saving even the life of an ox was more important than obnserving the sabbath, a sacred law. Saving of life overides laws. (example..in the US you have to stop at red lights..but if you have to rush a dying person to the hospital lest he bleed to death, running the red lights would be acceptable)
-Dan
hello guys,.
i must say that being labeled an apostate has made my life quite interesting.
i'm shunned every day at cosmetology school and the town i live in is small and i run into jw's all the time.
Sales schemes that shamelessly use your friends and family to make sales is so evil. I mean, c'mon! They are imposing on friendships. Hey good friend, come over, im having a party...a mary kay party (dum dum dum) Now normally, declining a party invite is rude, but you know that this isnt a normal party but a friggin sales presentation!!! The fact that you dont 'have' to buy anything makes no difference. If you dont, it will also look rude. The profit ultimatley goes to mary kay. You are aiding an already bloated corporation. If your friend invited you over to demonstrate her cool new product that she herself made, thats slightly different. Its still imposing on your friendship, but this time it more genuine friend party.
-Dan
i desparately tried to avoid this thread about anglo & american superiority.
i truly did, until i read the "poppycock" about the british war efforts in the last century.. perhaps anglophiles should refresh their ancient and modern memories a bit before launching such laughable tirades of triviality and supposed triumph.. first, did not the english employ mercenaries during the battle of hastings to win the 100 years war?
(since "expatbrit" is correcting me--i am modifying this)-- excuse me for my trivial error).
The british gave us kit-kat bars, crunchie bars and yummy nutella. Plus they have the best techno next to germany. Recently, they have treated us to the white guy shaven head look which for some reason just about everybody in england seems to wear. You guys trying to look like bruce willis??
hello guys,.
i must say that being labeled an apostate has made my life quite interesting.
i'm shunned every day at cosmetology school and the town i live in is small and i run into jw's all the time.
The first thing you should know about Mary Kay is that it's a cult. They don't want to come right out and admit this, but Mary Kay is just as much a cult as Hale-Bopp, the Peoples Temple, the Church of Scientology, the Shriners, the McLaughlin Group, the Fingerhut Corporation, Pottery Barn, or Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
All the necessary cult elements are present: a messianic leader, a stable of devoted disciples, an evangelistic message, a wacky mode of transportation. Hale-Bopp had a spaceship. Mary Kay has a Pink Cadillac.
Run far far away from Amway, Quixtar, Raddison Vacation 'Deals', and especially Mary Kay.
:i welcome those of your quality of character and refusal to sink into the mire of atheism or deep cynicism, .
i found these words to be so interesting.
i have seen posts (albeit few) that discuss the bible and whether or not it is of god.
I still have trouble with the evolution from primates to humans. There are so many varieties of apes, yet where are the intermediate varieties that depart from simian and evolve into quasi-humanoid?
Simian and human DNA differ by only 1%. We are litleraly close family members. Look at us, we have a tail bone but no tail anymore, we have wisdom teeth that are solwy evolving away as our diet changes. We have a now useless appendix that was once used to digest raw meat and bones. We have left over code in our DNA from our previous lives.
Why must rejection of the Christian/Judeo-Christian god mean dispair and hopelessness?
You can beleive in an afterlife without the outdated vengeful god of the old testament.
God did not order the torture of those people, he ordered their complete destruction. At least SOME of those people were committing horrors far worse that death. They were sacrificing their OWN children to a god in fires, burning their children in flames.The same God who ordered the destruction of those evil people also has complete control of life, death, pain, suffering, etc. He can restore life, He can end suffering.
I'm sure God, in his infinite wisdom, killed the evil babys and infants. Really, why didnt god just make the evil nations barren, the women unable to conceive and the men infertile..have them die out peacfully. Is it just to punish innocent babys for the ins of their fathers? The bible says no, yet god did it all the time.
How is this less evil than child sacrifice?
Do we hold our own governments to that kind of standard? In world War II, do we think Harry Truman was a monster for ending the war with a horrible bomb? Every time there is some kind of a war innocent people are brutalized. I think most people think that is ok, after all it had to be done to END evil.
No we do not, because our governments are made up of imperfect men. God however, is PERFECT and has PERFECT justice and PERFECT wisdom. God can easily make it so innocent people are not brutalized. Didn't he get Lot out of soddom so he would die because he was innocent? Why not just torch the entire city and kill lot along with it. After all evil must be ended. Just because you do evil in ridding evil dosent make it any less good..does it?
-Dan
we have been discussing the special meeting being held in various locations on october 7th.
note, this is the day after the annual meeting, not part of the annual meeting itself.
reports have come in that certain individual congregations have been invited to attend.
They better serve refreshments
does anyone remember a few years ago when the society supposedly made a rule about kingdom ministries, that only publishers putting in service time were supposed to have them?
well, about 3 years ago, i went to a bookstudy, after being inactive for awhile and trying to go back to meetings, anyway, one of the elders saw a kingdom ministry in my bookbag and asked me," where did you get that "?
i told them an elder had given it to me.
Kingdoom ministries are printed on the cheapest, low-grade peice of crap paper available in the world, there are people in 3rd world countries who would not use the paper for toilet paper, and the Society is trying to control how many get given out???? Talk about penny-pinching bastards.
-Dan
10. no one will kill you for not drinking beer.. 9. beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.. 8. beer has never caused a major war.. 7. they don't force beer on minors who can't think for themselves.. 6. when you have beer, you don't knock on people's doors trying to give it away.. 5. nobody's ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured over their brand of beer.. 4. you don't have to wait more than 2,000 years for a second beer.. 3. there are laws saying that beer labels can't lie to you.. 2. you can prove you have a beer.. 1. if you've devoted your life to beer, there are groups to help you stop.
10. No one will kill you for not drinking Beer.
9. Beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.
8. Beer has never caused a major war.
7. They don't force Beer on minors who can't think for themselves.
6. When you have Beer, you don't knock on people's doors trying to give it away.
5. Nobody's ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured over their brand of Beer.
4. You don't have to wait more than 2,000 years for a second Beer.
3. There are laws saying that Beer labels can't lie to you.
2. You can prove you have a Beer.
1. If you've devoted your life to Beer, there are groups to help you stop.
anyone know where i might find some good pictures of armegeddon in wt publications on the net?
any help would be appreciated.
Yay! All our neighbors and casual aquantinces are ashes!
Gezundeit
okay, so i woke up this morning with a nervous lump in my stomach and feeling quite like a little lost child.
my dreams hardly ever affect me.
i am remember naeb's dream about a jade monkey and a dog and thinking--okay, maybe my dream can be interpreted as well?
This dream mean you are crazy. Have yourself commited immidietly.
