hi scholar, .
i asked you a couple of questions but received no reply.
i actually was asking out of sincerity as i would like to know the answer.
It's just an inventive way of counting time preaching. No good for placing publications, but, perhaps he answers PMs, which he could count as return visits.
If your PO or CO knew what you're doing you feet wouldn't touch the floor. "Be no part of this world.". How can you love Jehovahs Organisation if you are diobeying it's rules? No justification period.
You remind me of my father, deluded, blinkered, hypocritical and a PO.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/international/middleeast/05jerusalem.html?ex=1280894400&en=3c435bc7bd0cd531&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
a fellow, a biblical researcher, was on the radio (adler online, for those who tune into it) a few weeks ago saying that king david never existed and at that time, jerusalem only had mud huts.
apparently, he was wrong.
Well David had to put his army of 1.1million men somewhere (1 Chronicles 21:5).
hi scholar, .
i asked you a couple of questions but received no reply.
i actually was asking out of sincerity as i would like to know the answer.
*double post* Them "repitition for emphasis" demonz
hi scholar, .
i asked you a couple of questions but received no reply.
i actually was asking out of sincerity as i would like to know the answer.
I think Jw apoligists do the most damage to their own religion.
Which is why it's a disfellowshipping offense to talk to apostates and/or discussion spiritual things with them. Even the WT organisation cannot even successfully defend their doctrines, let alone some pompous apologist, who is just after attention (Scholar & defd both)
in a recent post, sir82 wrote that a trainee missionary attending the school of gilead emailed the following..
"it was brought out that christendom and the world smacks of .
baalism today.
The WT wants them all to be more sheep like.
Say no to Baal-like, and yes to Baa-like!
it seems that the watchtower has not learnt any lessons regarding their involvement in the united nations.
perhaps they think the outcry that a few witnesses made a couple of years ago has died down.
they have been silent about the united nations for about 3 years until they published an article in the sep 15th watchtower, "walk by faith, not by sight!
It's gone from the UN being the disgusting thing that will turn on and devour Christendom, then on Jehovahs people then the end will come to " Elements within the United Nations will be involved in the execution of divine judgement". Geez, can it get any more vague.
Is this going to be watered down to nothing like 1914 was?
i'm wondering if anyone here has devised good techniques for handling regret.. i've been thinking about high school a lot lately, and "what could have been" is eating away at me.
i still had the dub mentality, and i didn't really associate with many people.
i was constantly called a 'snob' because i kept to myself, and i had people asking me to do things after school all the time, people who could have been life-long friends.
Sonnyboy,
I know exactly what you are going thru'. It has always been a big problem for me in my life. There are times where I gringe with regret when I remember some things I've done. At times, it can be all consuming. One bad memory leads to another, leads to a feeling of empty regret and worthlessness, then to a depressive episode.
Some things which help me :
Being brought up a JW gave me a skewed view of the world. It retarded me socially and emotionally. It also put me on a perpetual guilt trip. Acting irrationally, stupidly and unkindly were to be expected and all part of the learning curve to becoming a 'normal' human being. If you hadn't had done them you would not be the person you are today. The fact that they are so regrettable proves how far you've come.
After leaving the JWs at aged 18 I was on my own emotionally. There was no family support for my actions, no one to go to for help, so I was finding my own borders. You have to cross borders to know where your own are. Plus even people with normal upbringings have difficulty with this time of their lives. I worked at a restaurant when I was 17. The boss organised a staff party, JWs and non JWs. It started at 6pm. I was drinking the cooking brandy slyly and was mangled by 7pm. My parents were called to pick me up because I was so drunk. I acted like an ass and was made to feel really guilty - not because I made a fool of myself, but because I gave a bad witness. Skewed logic.
I always try to be positive. Look to the causes of your actions and figure out why the reasons why they were right at the time. Were your reasons correct but you unable to express yourself to get heard? Were violent actions the only way to get heard? I suffered with a lack of empathy. I'd barge into partners lives, take whatever I wanted and dump them, moving on to the next woman and it would happen again. No empathy had ever been shown to me by family or the congregation, no one really cared, so I never did, not thru choice, but it never occurred to me I was doing anything wrong.
You also cannot change the past. You are the sum product of your history, good or bad.
Try and dwell on successes. What is the best ever moment of your life? Try to relive it, feel your emotions, the physical sensations when it was taking place and how you felt afterward.
Memory is a deceptive tool. One persons memory of a situation is totally different to someone else's. I remember a wedding where cousins were arguing about what happened 40 years ago when they were kids. To hear them you wouldn't believe it was the same incident. Your brain corrupts the memory. You put a 'regrettable tag' on a memory and you it will intensify every time you remember it. Feeling bad about something that other people have forgotten about or didn't think was that bad to begin with is pointless.
I hope this helps.
Si
PS I'm going to regret this post aren't I? - :-))
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i was watching a bbc programme on islamic extremists and their attitudes that brought back deja vu memories of jw attitudes to me last night.. for a fact i know, that jws do not condone in their teaching violence against others, but they do believe,as do the islamic extremists that those not believing in jehovah, (allah) will be slaughtered by god in due time.. what i found interesting was the attitude that they did not have to obey laws in the country they lived in that went against their belief system rules.
their religious laws came first not the law of the land, to which they owed no loyalty at all.. one extremist also informed us that since we in the uk had been 'warned' by the terrorist, bin laden that we must revolt and take arms against the uk government, the fact that we, the ordinary uk folk did not jump up and do as we had been told, meant that it was open season on the uk citizens for not following his warning.. extremists all come out with the complete belief also that they and only they themselves are the only true religion which every one else must follow or die.. if that in itself doesn't prove that the jws are an extremist cult, then i don't know what else does..
I don't think cold blooded murderers cannot enter Islamic heaven.
LOL - well spotted Danny a double negative!
I was trying to say that they do it to get to heaven and couldn't get there if they considered what they did as murder. :)
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i was watching a bbc programme on islamic extremists and their attitudes that brought back deja vu memories of jw attitudes to me last night.. for a fact i know, that jws do not condone in their teaching violence against others, but they do believe,as do the islamic extremists that those not believing in jehovah, (allah) will be slaughtered by god in due time.. what i found interesting was the attitude that they did not have to obey laws in the country they lived in that went against their belief system rules.
their religious laws came first not the law of the land, to which they owed no loyalty at all.. one extremist also informed us that since we in the uk had been 'warned' by the terrorist, bin laden that we must revolt and take arms against the uk government, the fact that we, the ordinary uk folk did not jump up and do as we had been told, meant that it was open season on the uk citizens for not following his warning.. extremists all come out with the complete belief also that they and only they themselves are the only true religion which every one else must follow or die.. if that in itself doesn't prove that the jws are an extremist cult, then i don't know what else does..
I don't think cold blooded murderers cannot enter Islamic heaven.
LOL - well spotted Danny a double negative!
I was trying to say that they do it to get to heaven and couldn't get there if they considered what they did as murder. :)
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i was watching a bbc programme on islamic extremists and their attitudes that brought back deja vu memories of jw attitudes to me last night.. for a fact i know, that jws do not condone in their teaching violence against others, but they do believe,as do the islamic extremists that those not believing in jehovah, (allah) will be slaughtered by god in due time.. what i found interesting was the attitude that they did not have to obey laws in the country they lived in that went against their belief system rules.
their religious laws came first not the law of the land, to which they owed no loyalty at all.. one extremist also informed us that since we in the uk had been 'warned' by the terrorist, bin laden that we must revolt and take arms against the uk government, the fact that we, the ordinary uk folk did not jump up and do as we had been told, meant that it was open season on the uk citizens for not following his warning.. extremists all come out with the complete belief also that they and only they themselves are the only true religion which every one else must follow or die.. if that in itself doesn't prove that the jws are an extremist cult, then i don't know what else does..
Mainstream islamic religion believes that, not only extremists. Extremists do not believe it, they believe that they themselves must do it.
This is not strictly true. Each extremeist is only a tool to be used by Allah - there is a difference.
If a suicide bomber detonates a bomb in crowd of people, it is Allah who decides who should die - not the bomber. If it is Allahs will that no one should die, no one will, conversely, if Allah decides everyone should die then that too is Allahs will. This makes the bomber blameless and, in their eyes, not murderers but martyrs.
I don't think cold blooded murderers cannot enter Islamic heaven.
