There's been a problem with authority since the Garden of Eden. As much as I want to have respect for females, no matter how logical you appear, sooner or later you all revert. The best I can provide is good vodka, good manners and financial considerations which you may interpret as love.
Posts by freyd
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69Do Ladies Prefer Gentlemen?
by compound complex indear lady friends,.
i'm massively naif when it comes to the ways of the world.
and 40 years a wta has not given me a great sense of what's real: crazy rules and regs on "appropriate behavior.".
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Is that a pumpkin in your window, brother?
by Fatfreek inthe circuit overseer, henry judson, came up to me during the circuit assembly.
"brother miller, it's been reported that your family may have a pumpkin in your window.
" he waited for an answer although he never asked a question.
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freyd
Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. God lifts you up, takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. He opens you up, touches you deep inside and scoops out all the yucky stuff-- including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside you to shine for all the world to see. This was passed on to me from another pumpkin. Now, it is your turn to pass it to a pumpkin. I liked this enough to send it to all the pumpkins in my patch. Happy Fall!
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elders. IS going to or throwing a birthday party a DFing offense?
by ?me? inas i recall reading in the flock book (maybe i overlooked it).
it is not actually a dfing offense.
it may be "looked down upon" but can you be df'ed?
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freyd
And because it depends upon the boe, that's the reason no elder can be trusted. And for that matter nobody in the organization can either.
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elders. IS going to or throwing a birthday party a DFing offense?
by ?me? inas i recall reading in the flock book (maybe i overlooked it).
it is not actually a dfing offense.
it may be "looked down upon" but can you be df'ed?
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freyd
They don't have unity. What they have is uniformity.
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JWs Use A "Very Powerful Weapon" to Silence Ex-JWs
by AuldSoul ininsight on the scriptures volume 1,p.787expellingone who was cast out as wicked, cut off entirely, would be considered worthy of death, though the jews might not have the authority to execute such a one.
nevertheless, the form of cutting off they did employ was a very powerful weapon in the jewish community.
jesus foretold that his followers would be expelled from the synagogues.
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elders. IS going to or throwing a birthday party a DFing offense?
by ?me? inas i recall reading in the flock book (maybe i overlooked it).
it is not actually a dfing offense.
it may be "looked down upon" but can you be df'ed?
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freyd
The elders can turn it into anything their twisted logic would care to. I don't know if there are any published df'g offenses per se. It's just whether the boe wants an excuse to do it. Then being elders, they are told that their sins can be overlooked so that they can remain elders. It's like all the other crazy and stupid things that go on in this world. There doesn't have to be a good reason, only a reason. Like a person once told me, "I never do anything without a reason and it only has to make sense to me."
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Bets on when the UN prophecy will be dropped?
by marmot innow that i'm free to bet, i figured it would be neat to start a pool on when the watchtower is going to change light bulbs on the prophecy about the united nations turning on worldwide religion.
there is no doubt in my mind that this prediction will be dropped.
not only is this the longest-running unchanged prediction in the wt's history (1925 and 1975 had much shorter gestations) it's the last detailed concrete prediction the society has left in its bag of tricks.
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freyd
QUOTE: PROPLOG2 "The UN prophecy will be dropped when the UN is destroyed by a nuclear blast along with the rest of Manhattan & the Watchtower headquarters."
"Why should we allow our failure in chronology to hide the beauty of our basic church doctrine? This church does have the answers to nearly all the spiritual questions you may have (our experience has shown). Send in your question. Put us to the test! email [email protected]
To see our basic church doctrine please visit www.biblecodeintro.com and have a look and the index to this site.
As regards our latest prediction for the first birth pang of the Kingdom of God...
We no longer have a scriptural mandate to publish in advance the precise day of the first birth pang of the Kingdom of God which we understand to be a terrorist nuclear bomb or dirty bomb hitting the UN plaza in Midtown Manhattan. But we now have several flexi-proofs that this event will occur sometime during the month of 2007Nisan. -
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Freemasonry?
by inkling inok so my cousin (raised as a witness but never took it serious) recently has.
become a freemason.. i have always thought of them as a odd but likable and harmless "club", but.
all this thinking makes me wonder if there is anything dark and sinister my.
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freyd
QUOTE: Jedi Master
"http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/images/t.gif"> Claims have been made that "Pastor" Russell (1852/02/16-1916/10/31), founder of the International Bible Students Association — forerunner of the Jehovah’s Witnesses — was a freemason; that the banner on the front of early issues of the Watchtowercontained masonic symbols; and that Russell’s gravestone bears a masonic cross and crown symbol. Russell was not a freemason. Neither the symbols found in the <i>Watchtower</i> nor the cross and crown symbol are exclusively masonic. And the cross and crown symbol does not appear on his gravestone in the Rosemont United Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — it appears on a memorial erected some years later. In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted mason. I trust we all are. But not just after the style of our masonic brethren." He further develops this idea: "true Bible believers may or may not belong to the masonic fraternity, but they are all masons of the highest order, since they are being fashioned, chiselled and polished by the Almighty to be used as living stones in the Temple Built Without Hands. They are <i>free</i> from sin, and therefore <i>accepted</i> by the God of Heaven as fit stones for the heavenly Temple." Later in this address, Russell stated quite clearly that "I have never been a mason." Those who claim Russell was a freemason quote this address out of context without noting the rhetorical imagery. Although Russell wrote about the pyramids and the Knights Templar, the pyramids are not a part of Freemasonry and Russell’s understanding of the relationship between the modern Knights Templar and Freemasonry displays an outsider’s ignorance of both organizations.
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/anti-masonry03.htm
Another Mason site saying NO!
http://www.masonicinfo.com/famousnon.htm#4
"There is no credible evidence whatsoever that Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Jehovah's Witness faith, was a Mason. Some have charged that his tombstone appears as a keystone (a symbol used in Royal Arch Masonry), that there appears on the stone a crown and cross and that the stone is in the shape of a pyramid. (Those who make the claim do so for their own ends ignoring the fact that the cross and crown have long been symbols of Christianity, that the pyramid is often used in one-dimension view to represent the Trinity etc.) A review of Russell's personal life would have likely found him unwelcome within a Lodge. A current author says of him "Russell's faults as a writer were perhaps the least of his shortcomings. Accusations of sexual and financial improprieties, for example, dogged him throughout his adult life. Russell's notorious difficulties with his long-suffering wife Maria, aired during a series of sensational libel, separation, and alimony suits near the turn of the century, became a particular source of embarrassment for both the pastor and his flock. (Russell's stature couldn't have been enhanced when a Pennsylvania judge concluded that his "continual arrogant domination" of his wife was enough to "render the life of any sensitive Christian woman a burden and make her life intolerable."4 This notwithstanding, Pastor Russell did, upon occasion, make reference to Masons. One internet supporter of Russell's regularly argues that Freemasonry was totally against the Preacher's philosophy but the argument he makes is based on his interpretation rather than facts. Those attempting to condemn Russell based on Masonic membership fail to produce any evidence of his membership (the name of his lodge or the names of lodges he ostensibly visited, for example) and his supporters use faulty logic in arguing against it. Russell is not mentioned in any Masonic reference works, a unique situation indeed if he were a Mason because of his notoriety. Oh, and did we mention?: the "tombstone" that's so often referred to is actually a monument erected to Russell by the Watchtower Society which has regularly criticized Freemasonry. Pastor Russell's actual gravestone is a couple of dozen yards away...." -
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Why would a young sister marry an old brother?
by JH ini recall a ms brother about 62 years old dating and marrying a sister about 30 years younger.
i respect their choice and if they are in love, well good for them.
but i don't think it's to the best interest of the younger one...... do jw's accept bigger age differences in marriage than other religions?.
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freyd
Hmmm....Older men and younger women. There's a real novel idea for you. The idea of someone becoming a rich young widow and you don't have to deal with somebody else's kids is kind of appealing. I need to think about this. Then again they might have something against Cadillacs.
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Missing the significance of Putin & Russia
by proplog2 injust as the watchtower has allowed russia out of .
its speculative cross-hairs the vast majority of .
people in the usa pay little attention to russia and putin.
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freyd
Anybody ever heard of Rasputin?
