i saw this on pinterest, and it made me think about the great global preaching campaign of august 2014. this is what i think whenever i absentmindedly take a flyer from someone.. .
when someone hands you a flyer it's like they're saying "here you throw this away.
" mitch hedberg.
When I give someone a tract, I'm saying "Here's your chance for everlasting life. Take it or leave it."
"God is going to condemn to death anyone that does not recognise that the tract contains their chance for everlasting life." That realisation was a bit of a turning point for me.
i saw this on pinterest, and it made me think about the great global preaching campaign of august 2014. this is what i think whenever i absentmindedly take a flyer from someone.. .
when someone hands you a flyer it's like they're saying "here you throw this away.
" mitch hedberg.
I saw this on pinterest, and it made me think about the great global preaching campaign of August 2014. This is what I think whenever I absentmindedly take a flyer from someone.
When someone hands you a flyer it's like they're saying "here you throw this away." Mitch Hedberg
if so, i was just wondering if there are any books or steps (classes, etc) you took or recommend to really learn it.
and for what you recommend, what exactly do you do?
(long term, short, daytrade, calls, sell high buy low, buy low sell high, etc).
Me. I am more of the Warren Buffet school of thought of buying into good value companies for the long term. That way you do not have to be concerned with bull and bear markets. There is also great tax benefits, at least in Australia, since you do not pay Capital Gains tax until you sell, and then only on 50% of the gain.
Day trading is risky, particularly if you are just planning on getting into the market now, when the market is already very high.
this was the last sentence my dad wrote to gb in his letter explaining why he is disassociating from jws.
it seems gb did not send copy of the letter to the body of elders!
sometime later two elders visited him to encourage him to rethink his decision.
That is quite a remarkable comment from the nurse. As much as JWs sprout being the only ones with a hope, they have no more faith than any other person.
josh here, new to the board.
glad to know this site is here.. i would not be writing this if it were not 2014. i was a ministerial servant and regular pioneer who left the jehovahs witnesses back in 1995/96, around that time.
i left suddenly, didnt fade away, just left when something clicked one day in my head during the morning shower and made me realize this religion wasnt true.
Welcome. It is great to see the religion through the eyes of someone who has been away for so long. I knew it wasn't true in 1995, but hung on for another 10 years, and have now spent another 10 years actively involved from the other side. So the changes appear more gradual and not so shocking.
I had a dicusssion with my brother in law after the 1995 generation change saying that the Watchtower obviously did not believe the end was any time soon. He said "we'll know soon enough." I think he probably had in mind that the end would definitely be here by 1914. I wish I probed him for what date he was thinking, and what he would do if it was no here by then. Like your friends, back then he would have had such a cockey attitude about it he could have declared it was not the truth if the end was not here by 2014, but now he finds new ways to justify this system continuing.
"from time to time, there have arisen from among the ranks of jehovah's people those, who, like the original satan, have adopted an independent, faultfinding attitude...they say that it is sufficient to read the bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home.
but, strangely, through such 'bible reading,' they have reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentaries by christendom's clergy were teaching 100 years ago.
the watchtower, aug. 15, 1981.. .
It is one of the most damning of all Watchtower quotes. Fancy admitting that Christendom teaches what the Bible alone says, but to understand Jehovah's Witness doctrine you need additional literature from their leaders.
hi, to everyone my username is enzo, .
recently a saw a video presented by john cedar presenting steve hassan as a cult expert.. .
but read this reviews presented on cult news about steve hassan's books, and it's up to you make your own opinion about the video.
What books do you recommend for assistance in identifying cults, and assitance in leaving?
this is my first time posting here, although i have been a visitor to it for around a year.
after doing a simple google search under "jehovah'switnesses" over a year ago, i found ttat.
i was deeply unhappy with the congregation and decided to educate myself, and boy what an education i have gotten so far.
Excellent letter. Though short, you manage to incorporate so many powerful and thought provoking points.
our go-to wack-a-doodle elder moved to a new congregation a few years back.
the position has been vacant since then.. we had an elder move in a few months back.
he appears to be angling for the position of resident wack-a-doodle.. at last night's service meeting, he said (paraphrased): "as a congregation, we've been busier than ever before with our special campaign.
Great thread.
At my cousin's wedding the elder said that she should consider herself to be like a chair, there to support her husband.
howdy!.
it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.
i am, and am having fun doing it.
https://bitcoin.org/en/innovation is interesting. It seems Bitcoin suffers from an identity crisis. Bitcoin has the reputation of being a valueless, speculative geek currency, or maybe a 20th century barter card. Yet the article shows that it incorporates a means of securely transfering payments. Maybe that aspect needs a new identity such as Bittorrent, no that's taken, Bittransfer or Bitpay. Can the transactional side be separated from the currency, or is the currency required for the payments to take affect?
