Welcome Cjamie.
You set 'em up....we'll find someone to knock 'em out!
sorry to trouble you all, but does anyone have a scanable copy of the march 2011 kingdom ministry (british), or know where i could possibly download a copy?
have managed in previous months to find them online, but this one is proving elusive!.
not attended the meetings in ages been to ill, and it now appears the congregation's forgotten about me!
Welcome Cjamie.
You set 'em up....we'll find someone to knock 'em out!
i remember reading about the after effects of armageddon throughout the years, how the birds and beasts will ,eat their fill of the dead bodies.. pictures in the books and magazines showing how people will be destroyed by fire, weather, and earthquakes.
then reading a real insightful post somewhere on this site which was titled something along the lines of "diary of an armageddon survivor".. but now that i have left this religion, i have never really understood accurately just how the wt society believes that the earth will be cleaned up right after the big a.. when the witnesses were studying with my parents back in the mid 70's the po had the idea that god would somehow use matter/antimatter to clean up all of the bodies.
animals eating them all was another point, and the one where survivors would actually have to go around and bury them all was just totally bizzare to me.. (watch the series band of brothers, episode titled "why we fight" this is where the soldiers find a concentration camp,,,, it is a very frightening thing to watch to believe that god would make rightous survivors spend time doing this in the paradise cleaning up without looking for survivors.
This approach to the subject really strikes an emotional nerve.
If there is a loving God/Father, and it is going to bring an end to "wickedness", it will be up to that creature how it is done.
Speculation just fuels apostate anger. Great for getting the blood pressure up there, man in black.
currently mine are: peking duck pancakes, a sexy danish guy ( love those danes) and sleep.
yes thats right, have spent 4 nights without sleep,... the old withdrawal symtoms still banging on don't ya know!.
am currently at the point where smashing plates seems like a very refreshing and appropriate activity.
What is a "well packed foot long"?
if you are an elder or an ex-elder please add a comment.
i hope that the governing body will see this.
it is too bad it has to be on an anonymous forum.
Great letter. May not get the GB's attention, but a good piece for an email blast, flyer for the Kingdom Hall parking lot, or letter to fellow congregants.
Pretty impressive. I'm rootin' for Ken though.
Of course!
i just looked up some population statistics.
i saw there are over a billion children under the age of 10 on the earth today.
(didn't research too hard - just googled it.
When I became inactive, I stopped participating in the feud between the Almighty and one of his many rebelious sons. The God of the Bible is too much like men.
yesterday, i went out for lunch with my parents when my mother made mention of something she had read in the newspaper about some new discovery of species that went extinct millions of years ago.
she asked my father what method is used to determine the age of something, because of course, this flies directly in face of the biblical account of life on this planet being only a few thousand years old.. anyway, my father related a story that some brother he ran into recently at the assembly told him.
this [unnamed] brother related a story told to him by another [unnamed] elder who knew an [unnamed] circuit serpent who was "really chummy with one of the [unnamed] executives at the royal ontario museum".
I thought the creative days were 7,000 years long. We are in the 7th day, a day of rest for Jah. We are "approximately 6000 years into this 7th creative day, and the 1000 year reigh of Jesus is coming soon. When that's over then Jah will be done with his day of rest, and can get back to creating. Do I have the latest light on the subject?
i would assume that some or a good number of us here as normal humans in this society - consider " lawless " actions to include murder , robbery, extortion, rape, child abuse, war , terrorism, etc.
the wt society has their own definition of what's considered " lawless ".
anything that's considered a disfellowshipping offense in the jehovah's witnesses is now considered " lawless ".
Eggnog should have saved this for April..
good grief!.
how dumb can this future landfill waste magazine get?
take a look at the march issue, "five keys to better health".
They have a "simplified" version of the Watchtower coming out. Can't wait.