i went on my tablet today and clicked "yes" that i attended the convention (they probably tracked my ip and two elders will show up on my door step).
i scanned through the new brochure on bringing those who have left back.
i noticed that not once they mentioned anyone who was df!
I think the new brochure is just to make themselves look like they are reaching out to those who have left. Most of my relatives who are still in don't bother me since I left around 15 years ago, however I don't live in the same hometown. I did tell my mother that I no longer want anything to do with that religion and if they wanted to shun me as an apostate that would be just fine because I don't need those kind of toxic people in my life.
LRG
.. i`ve just come across this... welcome to the official illuminati website.
.................. click the link below... illuminati official website - illuminatiofficial.org | contact or .... .. is it real?.....is it bogus?....is it a joke?...
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It's a Psyop.
LRG
i havent gone to meetings in about 1 year and a half.
one of my neighbors who is a jw-lady told me that the co on the last visit said that its very likely that right after armageddon (which is just around the corner) the present governing body members will be in charge of the united states since they are familiar with the culture.
and that the apostles and early christians will be in charge of areas like china.
Blondie:
How would the "acient worthies" rule the earth from Jerusalem since Beth Sarim was in San Diego, CA? I thought that is where they were going to live.
LRG
sickening to see the photo of the religious zealots all stood around the governor signing into law the right for people to discriminate against others (gay, lesbian, trans-gender) based purely on religious dogma.. if religious people want those freedoms then the can't have it both ways - they cannot complain if *they* are discriminated against.. "sorry, we don't like zionists, get out".
"oh, it's some special mass and you can't work your shift?
you're fired!"..
Has anybody ever seen a religious restaurant owner turn away gluttons on a basis of his sincerely held religious beliefs?
has anyone else seen the hbo scientology documentary 'going clear' - wow...cults are just mind-blowing you wonder how people can fall for that garbage, then you (those of us former/fading jws) look in the mirror.. i would love for someone to make a major jw documentary like this.
'going clear' is getting a lot of press.
poor tom cruise...he looks like quite the whack job in it too.
I have noticed the headlines recently about how John Travolta has commented that he has not seen the documentary and he continues to speak positively about Scientology just like other people in similar cults. A lot of people that are in cults do not have much concern for others pain or abuse. They only take action if they are personally effected. Do you think that could damage his popularity? Some people might be just seeing some of this weird Scientology for the first time. It’s hard for me to have respect for John Travolta and Tom Cruise and other celebrities that support dangerous rackets like this.
sickening to see the photo of the religious zealots all stood around the governor signing into law the right for people to discriminate against others (gay, lesbian, trans-gender) based purely on religious dogma.. if religious people want those freedoms then the can't have it both ways - they cannot complain if *they* are discriminated against.. "sorry, we don't like zionists, get out".
"oh, it's some special mass and you can't work your shift?
you're fired!"..
EOM
I love how you put all gays just wanting to be treated like everybody else in with these overzealous people wanting to shut this wonderful pizza establishment out of business. I guess us gay folk should just shut up and continue to be the doormat that we are. Maybe we should "wait on Jehovah" for society to come around and accept us just like southern folks in Alabama and Arkansas accepted blacks right after the Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka case.
LRG
"scientists may never resolve exactly how much of a role nature and nurturing play in same-sex attraction.
but one thing is clear: all humans are born with the tendency to succumb to wrong thinking and inclinations.
--romans 3:23. a youth who desires to please god must therefore conform to his moral standards and shun immoral behavior, though doing so may be agonizingly difficult.
Cofty:
Wouldn't the fact that sexual attraction is basically a subconscious response kinda rule out "choice" in the matter in a similar way that the "you don't pick who you fall in love with" argument?
LRG
"scientists may never resolve exactly how much of a role nature and nurturing play in same-sex attraction.
but one thing is clear: all humans are born with the tendency to succumb to wrong thinking and inclinations.
--romans 3:23. a youth who desires to please god must therefore conform to his moral standards and shun immoral behavior, though doing so may be agonizingly difficult.
I don't know of any straight people who have left the organization due to religion's view on the gay issue since most people do not leave the religion unless it is something that effects them personally.
LRG
apparently the very cool thing to do now is when you go to bethel you go and have your picture taken in the studio!
my uber elder cousin and his wife just did that back in ny.
it's probably not for everyone, my cousin's daughter and son in law are very "high up" in the org in "finance" and that's how they probably got to do it.
The Searcher:
You forgot:
The People's Temple - Jonestown
LRG
did you know there is nothing more insane than being partly indoctrinated and partly free?.
the level of cognitive dissonance is ridiculous!.
i have told this story before, so i'll shorten it to cut to the chase.. in 1987, i was dating a professional psychotherapist with a view to marriage.
Terry,
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that teaching from Genesis just what all Christian churches teach? I often wondered about that account in the Bible and how other branches of Christendom teach or approach that subject. I have a coworker who is very churchy, spiritual and religious, fasts on Wednesdays (not done because of a church requirement, it's just a personal vow she made to God) and sometimes you can hear her quiely whisper "thank you Jesus", however she doesn't push any of her religious views on anybody and she keeps them to herself. I asked her about this account in the Bible and she really didn't know what I was talking about!!
I also asked her about the account of Dinah since I saw the previews of The Red Tent and she wasn't familiar with that story. I guess her church doesn't bring up in discussing bad association, lol
LRG
