please click the louis armstrong video and read.. dear jehovah i approach you in jesus name this is what i want to say:.
yesterday i tossed my farvorite toy "sparlock the warrior wizard" in the garbage can because my mommy who is one of your witnesses said it would make you sadly depressed.
i beg for your forgiveness in jesus name, if i had known before hand i would have never excepted this gift from johnny my worldly friend who mommy said was most likely going to be destroyed at armageddon because his parents are worldly and make you very sad because they are not jehovah's witnesses like my parents.. and after thinking the matter over i decided to burn sparlock just to make sure you forgive me, i'm so so sorry i made you sad please don't take my life at armageddon.
If burning Sparlock is not enough to make you happy again and get over your sadness I would gladly do anything else just to make sure your OK and not sad
Jehovah wants you to pioneer for three years while standing on your head. That will make him happy again.
i have failed to welcome any of you individually so i wanted to make a thread to formally thank you.
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i know that your presence, wisdom and the courage you're demonstrating by being here will help many.. .
Welcome. Nice to hear your numbers are growing on the JWN. Heres to a clean break from the tower when possible.
congratulations to justitia themis on all her hard work at putting herself through law school.
after being raised in the watchtower organization and having survived all of what that entails she has picked up the pieces, analyzed her strengths and has made choices to better herself and the community.. .
i am so proud of her.
That's great...well done Justitia.
what if i asserted the following as true?
the watchtower bible and tract society has no interest in an effective evangelical program of conversion.. .
would that sound silly?
To me it makes sense that a big part of Rutherfords power trip was to gain wealth and power by owning and controling real estate. Ray Kroc of McDonald's fame found out early when he hired Harry Sonneborn that the real money to be made in Mc Donald's was by leasing and then subleasing real estate to the franchisees not selling burgers.
I remember in the years just before 1975 it was seen as a lack of faith if you were saving money to purchase a home. I knew JWs who sold their homes in order to be able pioneering. Many of them never recovered financially. Little did I know that at the same time the Watchtower was on a buying spree purchasing real estate.
Rutherford never minded throwing his witnesses under the bus as long as it got attention and he wasn't one of the ones being run over. The same holds true with the Governing Body.
Good info.
i like terry's topic about noah's day not being armageddon enough.
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Is very egotistical to believe that the most thing to happen in all human history will happen in your lifetime. Many people over thousands of years have believed this and they were all wrong. Why are you so sure you are any different than them?
http://www.executedtoday.com/2013/04/27/1940-wilhelm-kusserow-jehovahs-witness/.
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There is a misconception that Jehovah's Witnessses don't go war because they are pacifist. They don't to war because the the Watchtower tells them not to join the military. They just do whatever the Watchtower tells them to. They have no problem with all the wars and killing done in the Bible in the name of God because the Watchtower tells them it was ok. Do Jehovah's Witnesses even understand this?
special assembly day (sad) bethel speaker ( a very good speaker i might add) in his talk " follow your spirit-directed conscience gave example of and elder and his family.
he noticed his wife and daughter spending a lot of time morning noon and night on facebook, it almost seemed like that is all they did, so as a spiritual head decided to see what they were constantly looking at, "let me see what you are spending so much time looking at on facebook said the elder".
the wife explained this is how we keep in contact with the "friends", elder started to look at her page and she was correct, there he found friends in the cong.
The nosey elder was right about one thing witnesses don't talk much Jehovah crap on facebook if they have non JW friends on it. I guess being JWs at this assembly especial it didn't bother them that this guy was nosing around his family members fb accounts. Did he ask at least ask their permission before doing his snooping? He should be told to join facebook and friend the people whose conversations he is interested in instead of eavesdropping on them. That just good manners.
I don't think it is easy to be witness on facebook. They have to worry about what goofy jw things they, or their witness friends say that would expose how really weird their beliefs are. They also have to worry about what they, or their non jw friends say that would cause their jw friends to report them to the elder.
so i get a text message this morning from an elder (also an old friend) from my hall.
(mind you i haven't been to meetings in months) he says the following:.
elder: did you hear about what happend in bos?
I think it is their JW egos that makes them get excited when tragedies happen. They have wasted their entire lives in an endtimes cult preaching the end is near and that Jehovah is going to kick everyones butt to the curb who isn't a JW. And guess what after all those years nothing has happened. Anything that can be interpreted as a sign than what they have been preaching is coming true is consider a good thing by them. It is really a sad way to live.
you know those articles from the wt are coming, along with emails from jw friends and family.
all the shameless self-attaboys, and fictitious observations by non-jws remarking on how jws provided the most and best assistance to the victims..
Yes I'm sure they were right there offering copies of the Watchtower and Awake magazines to the injured. Just what you need when you have been severly injured by a bomb.
The Watchtower has had long held policy of denying their members a chance to get an education beyond high school so the chances of any of the doctors, nurses, paramedics on the scene being JWs is pretty much zip.
A lot of the people injured needed blood to save there lives. Would you really want a JW involved saving your life under these conditions? If you need blood it would be: "Oh well there goes another one. Can't piss Jehovah off".
my computer crashed so i am not fully informed of the recent antiwatchtower organization.
i must vent, however.
perhaps i am the only one on the face of the earth (or the entire universe) but i found cedar's opening announcement insulting.
ShirleyW Slavenomore explained it. Bob Dylan's (I don't know him well enough to call him Bobby) Subterranean Homesick Blues..."don't follow leaders watch, the parking meters"
