nu 31:17-18 moses, following the lord's command, orders the israelites to kill all the midianite male children and "... every woman who has known man ...." (note: how would it be determined which women had known men?
one can only speculate.
dt 21:10-13 with the lord's approval, the israelites are allowed to take "beautiful women" from the enemy camp to be their captive wives.
Sometimes, you HAVE to learn the hard way- and that is how mankind is learning! They are learning the folly of setting up their own way of ruling & living that is so selfish, so ignorant!
After thousands of years with a body count in the billions, they sure are sloooooooow learners.
is it true that jw's now refer to themselves as jehovah's christian witnesses?
Exactly.
is it true that jw's now refer to themselves as jehovah's christian witnesses?
Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is basically the Service Dept.
So the rest of Jehovah's Witnesses are not the Christian Congregation? What congregation might they be, then?
is it true that jw's now refer to themselves as jehovah's christian witnesses?
The return address on the last letter I received from Patterson, NY (Aug. 2005) says "Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses". Maybe someone can confirm with something a bit more recent.
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board will talk about freedom from the watchtower society.
some members even have their handles containing the word freedom.. not a literal prison sentencethankfully, i have never seen the inside of any state institution, .
I was "in" for over thirty years. I was young and could have accomplished so much. When it all came crashing down, and I realized it was not true, I had the rude "awakening" and realized that I am now 55 years old, no college, no friends, no retirement, very few vacations to see any other parts of the world, and no idea what to believe. It's sort of like coming out of a coma.
"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." (Friedrich Nietzsche) This is the philosophy I embraced after my 30+ years in the Borg. I don't have a college degree, a booming MLM business, or a winning lottery ticket. It was a matter of starting over with my life after exiting the Borg. I felt like someone who had served their time in prison (albeit a spiritual enslavement which nonetheless affected every aspect of my life) and finally exited the Watchtower gates into the "new light" of freedom. The religion of the Witnesses is not your usual brand of Christianity, IF it is Christianity at all. None of the mainstream Christian religions manifest the same overbearing control as does the JW religion, with its overlords bent on maintaining a tight rein over their "skinned sheep". That's why there are so many more ex-JW internet sites than ex-Catholic, ex-Methodist, ex-Lutheran, etc. sites. The frequent changes in dogma regarding blood, transplants, anointed ones, etc. demonstrate that the WBTS is actually a continuously morphing organization, making one doubt if their fickle god Jehovah (Mal. 3:6 "For I am Jehovah; I have not changed") knows what he's doing. With each change in doctrine, the Borg is actually throwing down the gauntlet and challenging its enslaved minions to accept or reject its "new light". At each turn, some leave, but most stay, indicating the power these purveyors of doom hold over their "flock". Right from the get-go you're told "we're not a cult". But how far from "the truth" they really are.
i strolled over to the "book search" computer, and typed in "jehovahs witnesses".. i got 84 hits !!!!!
a few repeats, but at least 60 hits were different book titles, all against the watchtower society.
this was very impressive!!
Hey Hubert! Finally got to change your avatar, huh? I was hopin' to see a C-5 Galaxy, bro'!
many of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.
for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.
for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.
I have found that MOST of the witnesses that I know, elders and all, DO NOT believe this crap. They just enjoy the parties every other weekend that witnesses give. As one elder said, he is waiting for new light, "Because the current system is NOT believable to an intelligent person". Wow, from a 20 + year elder on every circuit assembly.
Livin' a Lie by Timmy and The Lords of the Underworld
does anyone have a pic of ted jaracz that i could "borrow"?
the larger the pic the better!
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Mary, did you catch Teddy while he was shape-shifting?
many of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.
for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.
for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.
Amen.
many of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.
for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.
for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.
Even IF they(my family) comes out of the Organisation, I can't say we'll all be happier because their hope will be gone and my grandkids won't have lions and tigers and bears in a new system of things with no more troubles.
Eventually we ALL learn there is no tooth fairy. I realize one's involvement with the religion is much larger than this, but as for the truth, it is what it is.
