http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1130strangepetlaw-on.html
cats, dogs living together a no-no in utah town
associated press.
I'd have sex with an alien in heartbeat, especially is she was Latina!
But I meant alien as in extraterrestrial. You see these shows, like Star Trek, where there's some hot chick from another planet and all she has is a bumpy forehead or spots on her temples, etc. Would that be bestiality, or not?
"you can live forever (and that's a mighty long time) in paradise on earth!".
is he baptized yet?
it would get him a lot closer to being an ex-jw and then maybe we could talk to him here!
How could you go to meeting with Prince? You come in with your $50 JC Penny suit, he's wearing a $5,000 one-of-a-kind designer 3 piece with alligator shoes. You mumble along to the opening song, he actually makes it sound like MUSIC. You give your part on the School, but kind of flub your gestures, Prince ROCKS THE HOUSE. Your householder," Jehovah Witnesses? I'm not interested!" His householder, "HOLY $#!+! You're Prince! HELL YES I want a free home Bibly study! You mean Prince will come to my house once a week for FREE? Can I have my friends over, too?"
Yes, how could you go to meeting with Prince?
in the waterbury conneticut area there was a circut overseer named caramelous (greek name not sure of spelling).
this brother more than 30 years back was having all the congregation servants removed because they where over weight.
i guess they used not moderate in habits (eating too much) as a scriptural reason.
Don't you just love all these OT stories the Watchtower cites about how Whatshisname murdered that fat guy and hid the weapon inside the body and sneaked away, and how Whatshername tricked that other guy, lied and got him drunk, then killed him while he slept by hammering a tent peg into his skull? **But JWs Christians would do well to stay way away from any God-displeasing forms of entertainmet that glorify violence of any kind.**
my mother died from breast cancer less than a year after my high school graduation.
right before her illness she had finally left my abusive step-father and was close to seeing the light about the borg.
then she got sick and the elders told her she needed to return to her husband or be out of jah's favor.
Wow. I'd say one measly Christmas is the least of your problems. I'm sorry to hear all you went through.
"you can live forever (and that's a mighty long time) in paradise on earth!".
is he baptized yet?
it would get him a lot closer to being an ex-jw and then maybe we could talk to him here!
I wonder if he's as good at basketball as Charlie Murphy says....
so often , on this board, we see imposters claiming to be interested in learning the truth about the "truth".
they may seem to genuinely want to know things and they might ask thought-provoking questions.....so how do you know if the person you're dealing with is the real deal or not??
any tips to help us know who those "fake apostates" are??
This thread is like on of those old hip-hop songs, where they'd have a rap battle about who is the fake MC. Yo DJ! Gimme a beat, son.
I'm a real apostate
Ain't one of the fakes
Can't dig Franz's books
But they love their Awakes
Ain't none of them true
Keep actin' a foo
Be checkin' they props
For the Ministry School
I don't wanna hate
But I gotta relate
It's a fact of life
I'm a REAL apostate
when does a high control group cross the line bettween being socially acceptable to being a "cult"?.
why do the marines or dod or cia earn special pleading to exempt them from being a "cult" when they seem to have most of the signs of being a cult.
is it simply the notion that theoretically they should be protecting our interest.
The Bible, the Koran, the Torah... And as for the Kama Sutra, well, like I said, some people like to be dominated!
ok so now you're wondering what i might be thinking.
well, its about the anointed, the spiritual jedi of the wt society.
(someone a while back said star wars was sooo jw.
Do annointed have midichlorians in their bloodstream, and that's how they know they're going to heaven?
"His midichlorian count is off the chart! Over 20,000. Not even Brother Russel had a count that high."
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1130strangepetlaw-on.html
cats, dogs living together a no-no in utah town
associated press.
If a human had sex with an alien, would it be considered bestiality?
when does a high control group cross the line bettween being socially acceptable to being a "cult"?.
why do the marines or dod or cia earn special pleading to exempt them from being a "cult" when they seem to have most of the signs of being a cult.
is it simply the notion that theoretically they should be protecting our interest.
drwtsn32- Decent enough link, but all of those warning signs might just as easily apply to any other religion. I like to compare lists like this against the largest Christian denomination, the Catholics, and see how they hold up.
1. Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability. Papacy
2. No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry. The One True Church
3. No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement. Who can count that high? Real estate, antiquities, etc
4. Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions. Hellfire
5. There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil. Must practice confession & eucarist for salvation, Excommunication, etc
6. Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances. Abuse, too much focus on doctrine, hypocrisy of members, etc
7. There are records, books, news articles, or television programs that document the abuses of the group/leader. Pretty much any weeknight on the History Channel
8. Followers feel they can never be "good enough". "Catholic Guilt"
9. The group/leader is always right. Infallibility of the pope
10. The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible. Doctrine of... some Latin thing! "Mother Church"
Happy Guy- It's not hard to imagine a few staunch Catholics in a church every bit as dogmatic as your worst elderette. Some people just want to be controlled. If one were to consider everyone ever baptized as a Witness, add that to the figures for what the WTS calls active publishers, then figure in the stragglers who come to memorial, and call these people Jehovah's Witnesses, you'd get a much different picture of the Dub community. I posit that the "core members" (JW publishers) of any religion are a group that wants to be told what to believe and how to act. Most religions place a measure of conrol over their members. Some just take that measure more seriously. Why are there no old cults? Everything defined as a cult is a new religious movement. The term "cult" is used maliciously by established religions to keep their theological monopoly over the masses.
As far as Rutherford, the reason I would quote him is for the irony of his statement. It's ironic for all the reasons you cite. It's not just for the irony that I like this quote better than, say, Marx's "Religion is the opiate of the masses;" "snare and a racket" just has a nice ring to it!
I don't think his opinion on any subject would carry the slightest bit of weight or credibility except perhaps to those he brainwashed.
Surely you don't think that! That's a classic ad hominem argument. Just because someone is a bigot that doesn't mean EVERYTHING they do or say lacks credibility.
