one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
Sir Step
You are right. I need to go help some elderly people clean their home. Thank you for reminding me. But you sound a little bitter. I am sorry if I hurt your feelings by exposing your limited knowledge of Hebrew. Maybe Akkadian is more of your forte.
Comfort
one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
incense
I did not say the earth was flat. Comforter told these peeps in this place that nobody on earth can prove that the earth is round. There's a differance.
Something may be true and we cannot prove it is true. If you prove that some things are true, then you will end up proving that they are false.
To give an example of what I mean by proof, you may exist, but can you prove you exist? I do not believe you can show a skeptic indubitable proof that you exist. The skeptic could successfully refute every piece of evidence you might bring forth to prove you exist. Even if you punched the skeptic in the head or did another unspeakable act of violence to him, he could claim that he was hallucinating or that he is a brain in a vat hooked up to electrodes sending messages to his brain telling him that you git him upside his head. Ever seen the matrix? What Comforter is saying is that some things are true but you cannot prove they are true by scientific or logical means. Every truth claim is always open to doubt.
Comfort
one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
We do not know whether they will use toilet paper or not in the new order. We will probably still use the bathroom though. Who told you that using the restroom was part of being imperfect?
Cleanliness is important because God is clean and holy and we must be holy. Some brothers and sisters are still working at being clean. They will keep working on being clean until they walk into the new order after Armageddon. They are sincerely trying to please Jehovah and believe in his Son. God will bless their efforts. He is merciful and compassionate.
Comforter
one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
oz and celia
both the greek scriptures and hebrew bible tell us to be clean. It is offensive to God to be dirty. Bad breath, stinky armpits and overall BO are insulting. I hate having to hold my breath when I talk to some people. It would be so much nicer that they would take bath. Cleanliness is next to godliness, some have said. Some are right.
Comfort
one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
Oz
Let see. We can't believe newspapers, jw mags. What can we believe? Ex-jw books and electronic boards? It figures.
Neon
I see you have fallen for the modern fallacy that the only thing objective in life is that which can be measured by scientific means. How sad. Strictly speaking, nothing can be proved. Even science cannot prove anything. Can you prove the earth is round? Nope.
You be content to think that jws are dirty. I think they are clean. We will see who wins in the end of this system of things. But I am not interested in arguing about some silly scientific experiement for cleanliness. I know what we teach and pratice and I believe we are the cleanest people on earth.
Comforter
one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
Dear oz
Your argument implies that any quote in the wt cannot be trsuted. Your reasoning is flawed. Are you telling me that an organization cannot report good comments that others have made about it?
And I have heard people in my community talk about how clean jw are. They like our haircuts, clean shirts and suits and neat cars. They also like the modest dresses of the sisters that don't reveal everything. One local paper even carried a story about a jw. The reporter says that she was impressed by the cleanliness of the jw. The reporter actually took a ride in the jw car.
Comfort
one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
Wolf
No one has ever taken a survey of how many clean jw there are. They have not done same with Roman Catholics either. How would you scientifically measure such a thing? But that doesn't mean what I said is untrue. Some things go beyond surveys and statistics.
Celia
Jehovah's people show a willing spirit in harmony with Psalm 110:3. They are like dewdrops. They do not want pay for their loving efforts. Churches hire janitors or their parishoners act as janitors, charging the church for services sometimes. The Witnesses don't want money for cleaning the house of God. They follow scriptures that say present yourself willingly.
Oz
Which worldly people? Have you not read wts and been to assemblies where they talk about how clean jws look, how neat their haircuts and clothes, how clean they leave the assembly halls? Maybe you need a sub to the wt.
plm
we still rotate in cleaning where there is more than one congregation sharing a hall.
You people also insult cultures that are in poverty or lack knowledge of basic hygene skills. Travel around the world and you will see that not everybody has same cleaning standard. Some people think it not necessary to take baths everyday. One person told me not taking bath preserves oil in skin. You better believe it does, along with other things. Like my man Arsenio talk about, the one with the smelly pits is always last to know.
Comforter
one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
Kist
What do you mean hasty? Jws have been the cleanest people on earth for years. Even worldly people know this. Nothing hasty about it.
Comfort
one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
Outlaw
What does your comments have to do with the thread? I refuse to be sidetracked by your word games. Get a life.
Comfort
one benefit that jws get from being jehovah's people is the knowledge of good hygiene.
before i came to be a witness, i did not think it was important to brush my teeth thoroughly or wash under my arms real good and use deodarant.
i also tended to be a pack rat with a messy car.
You miss the point, comf.
A few examples of bad hygene does not negate the fact that jws are the cleanest people on earth as a group. We are not perfect. But i would put our record up against any other group's anytime. Worldly people have recognized the cleanliness of jws and just go to bethel. You will see an exemplary example of cleanness at bethel. Because of this unclean world, those of us who came out of the world and its churches do need advice on how to be clean. There are some clean people in the world. But jw group is the cleanest. You ought to have seen how clean our assembly hall was when we left convention this year and last year. It was spotless. All praise goes to Jehovah.
Comforter
