i always preferred the back of the hall.
here, i could go to sleep, read the latest awake!
if you're at either end of the middle row of seats, you can see who has studied their watchtower and who hasn't.
I remember some in the hall I went to actually had their favorite seats with friends and would ask you to move because that is where they sit all the time. They had the nerve to ask new ones to move also after they got comfortable.
truthseeker said: (some can actually sleep with their eyes open)
They were watchtower zombies
i've been grappling with going to my very good friend's brother's funeral in a nearby hall where everyone knows me.
if i go to the service it is only to show respect to my friend and the relatives (some are jws, some not).
my friend said that if i didn't go, he would understand but i'm torn.
juni, Yes our pets become a part of us and they are almost like a our own child.
I have many wonderful memories of my daughter-in-law and I do hope to see her again in the resurrection. Thank you for your thoughts
i've been grappling with going to my very good friend's brother's funeral in a nearby hall where everyone knows me.
if i go to the service it is only to show respect to my friend and the relatives (some are jws, some not).
my friend said that if i didn't go, he would understand but i'm torn.
Thank You mouthy....At first I thought about not posting her death on the board but reading this message just made me want to say something in her behave. She had no chance to live past six months, the Doctor told her. She died after 7 months. The last week was the worst for her. My son is taking it very hard. I will go out there to visit him in March when my husband can stay home with our dog.
The dog is doing find and you wouldn't know he was blind. He can go anywhere in the house except up or downstairs and he avoids the stairs now because he fell down them once just after he bacame blind a year ago. When he has to go out in the yard he lets us know and we pick him up. He sniffs the bushes and wanders all over for about 30 minutes then barks to come back inside. I am amazed!
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this is a very simple question which came to my mind shortly after i broke free from the jw/fundamentalistic mindset.. assuming (1) that "god" didn't do and say everything that the bible texts record him doing and saying, and (2) that the writers were not cynical, machiavelical atheists forging a "god" for the sole purpose of mind control, but really believed in their "god", the question is: how did they dare make their "god" speak and act?.
this question, of course, is pointless to you if you believe (1) that "god" did do and say everything that the bible texts record him doing and saying, or (2) that the writers were cynical, machiavelical atheists forging a "god" for the sole purpose of mind control.. but if you are somewhere in between, as many of us are (i think), this is a fascinating question which can help us get a better idea of the true nature of faith, between passive "fear of god" and the audacity of literary creation.. any taker?
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html
113. His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?" "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."[Saying probably added to the original collection at a later date:]
114. Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life."Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven."
Selection from Robert J. Miller, ed., The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version. (Polebridge Press, 1992, 1994).
I can see why these words were cut out of the scriptures...cookoo-cookoo
i've been grappling with going to my very good friend's brother's funeral in a nearby hall where everyone knows me.
if i go to the service it is only to show respect to my friend and the relatives (some are jws, some not).
my friend said that if i didn't go, he would understand but i'm torn.
Minimus, I think you should go and give your respects to your friend who's brother died. Sounds to me like you want to go. My daughter-in-law passed away last week from cancer. She and my son are both JWs. They are having a talk (service) for her this Saturday. I am sorry I cannot go as it is in a KH 2000 miles away. My Husband and daughter are flying out there as I write. I have to stay home with my diabetic and blind dog as he needs 2 insulins injections a day and I know of no one who can take care of him. Otherwise I would be there. She was a good person with a heart of gold.
to be studied on febuary 5th.
blondie will do her usual "comment" later.
i just want to point out how they start the 2006 study article, the first paragraph only.. a young man wanted to be more useful in his congregation.
WHO writes that stuff??? I call it emotional torture!
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..are you proud or embarrassed?
Bull01lay, Simply tell them ... wrong religion
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this is a very simple question which came to my mind shortly after i broke free from the jw/fundamentalistic mindset.. assuming (1) that "god" didn't do and say everything that the bible texts record him doing and saying, and (2) that the writers were not cynical, machiavelical atheists forging a "god" for the sole purpose of mind control, but really believed in their "god", the question is: how did they dare make their "god" speak and act?.
this question, of course, is pointless to you if you believe (1) that "god" did do and say everything that the bible texts record him doing and saying, or (2) that the writers were cynical, machiavelical atheists forging a "god" for the sole purpose of mind control.. but if you are somewhere in between, as many of us are (i think), this is a fascinating question which can help us get a better idea of the true nature of faith, between passive "fear of god" and the audacity of literary creation.. any taker?
Good Morning to friends on this side and Afternoon to my friends on the other side of the world.
Narkissos, I will read the links you have provided....Thank You for the research. So much to read and so little time.
You will find a lot in the links I provided on the top of this page (especially the Pseudepigrapha section at www.earlyjewishwritings.com). About early Christian literature you can check all the non-NT texts on the other site and, for Gnostic Christian writings, http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html. On the canon you can start with http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/NTcanon.html
olny srmat poeple can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht i cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht i was rdanieg.
the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid,aoccdrnieg to a rscheearch at cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihing is taht the frist ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
Hto dnam! Tath wsa colo
who is the watchtower's latest campaign against higher education aimed at?
who are most likely to comply with their demands?.
what congregations are presently growing fastest in the u.s.?.
AND the WTS have the nerve to say...it was the publishers that misunderstood about 1975 being the end of this system.
