today's text:.
saturday, april 30. the little one will become a thousand and the small one a mighty nation.
i myself, jehovah, will speed it up in its own time.—isa.
Classic brainwashing.
Closing branch offices.
Reducing the frequency of meetings.
Reducing the # of hours required to call yourself a pioneer.
Firing special pioneers.
Didn't they close Gilead too?
Selling off the world headquarters and downsizing.
Stopping publications.
Wow.
i see the jw rumour mill is going into mad overdrive about prince.
the stories seem to be more and more unlikely.
so i thought as a bit of fun how about us here try to make up our own rumours?
Prince was a regular publisher.
He counted his hours based on the play time of his songs that used backwards masking to witness.
i think that's the correct phrase?
anyway when i first came here, that little picture that "the rebel" hides behind, was a self portrait of a very sad man, who simply had too much knowledge.
now i feel after 7 months here, i should repaint that " avetor" give some happiness to the eyes, and a contented smile to the lips.. in short my " avetor" was a self portrait of a man with too much knowledge.
Mine is a photograph of me ;).
I am drinking espresso, because that's symbolic of me. Behind me is Niagara Falls, which is symbolic of where I'm from.
i heard this on "the story of god".
his blood trickle down through the rocks into adam giving.
him life.
His blood trickle down through the rocks into Adam giving him life.
Whaaa...??? Adam was resurrected because Jesus' blood dripped on his remains? What happened to Adam after that? Did he go on to form a punk band?
so over the course of three days he had a trial which doesn't seem to have bothered him much.
he got whipped ok that would have been agony and then put on a torture stake/ cross/ whatever yes that would have been hell.
but he was on it for a day and the whole thing lasted for three days.
Psychologically speaking--in this scenario that didn't even happen IRL to a nonexistent son of a nonexistent god--Jesus' death experience would be much less damaging than it would have been to a normal human.
He knew the outcome was not only resurrection, but everlasting life ruling the universe. When I say "knew", I mean he really knew it--not in the sense most believers "know" Heaven is real. He really saw it with his own eyes.
He also knew at any moment he had the power to stop his own suffering.
after reading the content of the 1 day assembly on another post, please tell me wt are trying to suggest members cant follow super hero movies/characters etc.
the whole of my ex family wouldnt have a life if this happened!
surely a wake up call for them....... but doubt it
Their powers come from demons.
interesting article i found about prince and the jw religion.
i guess they are trying to get their 15 minutes of fame.
i find it disturbing that the elder stated if prince had an addiction to prescription drugs, that is a personal matter but the hundreds of intrusive jw rules like going to college (not scriptural) and growing a beard (also not scriptural) are not also considered a personal choice.
Jehovah’s Witness tradition that a person’s body must be cremated within a week of death.
Elder Cook also said the church does not have a problem with Prince’s reported addiction to prescription drugs because ‘that’s a personal matter’.Finally, the truth is spoken. They do not have issues with alcoholism or prescription drug addiction. Only illegal drugs are from Satan.
‘We are in to homeopathy and things like that, because nothing is 100 per cent.'
And I'm so glad he came clean about their belief in useless water--I mean homeopathy--having magical properties to heal. So glad to see this in writing.
interesting article i found about prince and the jw religion.
i guess they are trying to get their 15 minutes of fame.
i find it disturbing that the elder stated if prince had an addiction to prescription drugs, that is a personal matter but the hundreds of intrusive jw rules like going to college (not scriptural) and growing a beard (also not scriptural) are not also considered a personal choice.
hi, only just joined.
going through a rough time at the moment and maybe this could help.
any body around 27 year old age.
You will find major things in common with people from all countries, genders, and ages. :)
Feel free to share your troubles. Lay it on us. We've been there.
"we are saddened to hear about the death of prince rogers nelson, who was baptized as one of jehovah’s witnesses in 2003," the church said in a statement obtained by people.
the church said that prince "found fulfillment as a witness and in sharing his faith with others.
http://www.people.com/article/prince-dead-jehovah-witness-release-statement.
OMG I can't believe they acknowledged him at all. Obviously they do have a publicist--cartoons, a website, dancing and signs at the conventions--their publicist is normalizing them. This is dangerous, folks. Normalizing something makes it grow.
I wonder if, when his cause of death is released, they will regret claiming him.
