christmas celebrations.
wearing of the cross and crown.
birthday celebrations.
Don't forget picketing churches and wearing placards with incindiary phrases.
By the way, what will a good JW say about all this outdated, obviously incorrect non-sense? "It served its purpose." When a baby takes a dump in its pants, does that "serve a purpose," or is it just plain wrong?
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anything that you think effectively gets a jw to re-think their position on things or their beliefs, in general?
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It was said that the average Roman worried more for the pebble in his shoe than for the well being of the Empire. It's not uncommon to hear rank and file Witnesses say things critical of their elder body. That's one opening to get them thiniking about the SUPREME elder body in Brooklyn. But in the end, it has to be an internal realization.
today i have seen the movie ?pleasantville?.
two young people get absorbed into a 50?s tv-soap.
all is black and white.
"Blade Runner" raises some religious issues as well, i.e. a creator's responsibility to his creatures. Few or no JWs would understand that the God of Genesis works against mankind, though.
i am lazy and never read too much about speculative topics such as metaphysics but,
somewhere in this board you make reference about a guy who, imo (not that i know much about him), made a lot of speculations
as carl sagan once remarked, it's remarkable that a religion so transparently dishonest has any adherents at all, but that's a measure of the gullibility of the ultra-religious mind.. .
A little known bit of trivia is that his son was a staff writer on Star Trek Voyager.
find one really bad, depressing issue in the world.
take this negative news item and blow it out of proportion.
make it seem like there's no hope (true in some instances).
You forgot one step... gloss over the fact that God's Kingdom will solve this problem by wiping out 99.999% of the earth's population... No Apologies
"Without apologies" is more like it.
wednesday, december 22, 2004. .
blood substitute vexes jehovah's witnesses.
polyheme will be tested on injured patients, many without consent.. by doug guthrie.
Hey, likening blood trasnfusions to spiritual rape is progressive thinking for some JWs. I once got in a fight in a very different forum for defending the spiritual standing of people who got blood transfusions against their will. Most of the Dubs on that forum thought you were still damned even if it was forced upon you while you were unconcious.
the true meaning of ...(brummie dots).... .
it's in the cookies i baked yesterday, on winter solstice.. .
instead of thumbprint cookies with chocolate covered cherries, these are now officially ...brummie dots... .
I dunno, Brenda... Maybe offering THREE instead of two is overly encouraging!
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3072021.stm .
men could reduce their risk of developing prostate cancer through regular masturbation, researchers suggest.
they say cancer-causing chemicals could build up in the prostate if men do not ejaculate regularly.
This is what having a healthy prostate looks like:
a few days ago there was a thread in which we were discussing the blood issue and jehovah's witnesses.
someone brought up pets and blood.
i was curious at that point if there was blood in our dogs food and were my wife to find out, i wondered how she would respond.. i did a little re-search on pet food and it's ingredience and here is a little what i found.. .........the protein used in pet food comes from a variety of sources.
True Christians would do well to ask themselves what God's viewpoint might be of their domestic animals engaging in sexual relations (coitus) without the benefit of the marriage arrangement. Might this stumble others in the Christian Congregation?
thread to this article is long and incomplete.. "dread foundation" is the name of a reggae band who just released their first album.
they sing a lot about (jehovah), and how people should be (disciplined and committed) to him.
sound like anybody we know?.
Yeah, I'd read that the Rastafarians use the NWT b/c it contains God's name.
