Farkel,
I couldn't have said it better myself! On the other hand, this guy may be smoken something that might be pretty good! Sure would like to find out what that is!
Cyber
lets admitt it guys, this org is the closest that anyone will ever get to the truth, i am not saying they are perfect, but maybe they just need a few modifications to some of their doctrines.. after all they are not that bad.. they don't execute people.
they promote unity and peace among people.
they encourage people to live good purposeful lives.
Farkel,
I couldn't have said it better myself! On the other hand, this guy may be smoken something that might be pretty good! Sure would like to find out what that is!
Cyber
in the question from readers, watchtower 2011 8/15 p. 22 it made the following comment:.
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
the governing body does not keep a list of all partakers, for it does not maintain a global network of anointed ones.".
Technically, the statement is correct, because they do not know (they choose not to know), because that particular information from publisher record cards is not sent to Brooklyn. However, the statement that they don’t know who these people are seems begs the question as to how theycollectivelyprovide the “spiritual food at the proper time!” Obviously, this is a deception!
it used to for me, and now it doesn't.. i'm not sure how i was able to accept that argument now that i don't, but perhaps it was connected with my increasing compassion for people and their personal suffering as i've grown older.. now it seems like a sick excuse.
more like a bar-bet with satan and all of creation suffers.. i read paul's words and he has no rejoiner except to say in effect "sucks to be a vessel of wrath...glad i'm not one, but who are you to complain anyway, huh?
who's bigger, smarter and more powerful than you, you, you complaining vessel of wrath, you.
So God makes bets with the devil? Oh really? After taking another look at the book of Job, it seems that the court scene with the devil making bets with God is really a literary device. It’s like saying “what if” the reasons bad things happen to good people is because of some heavenly debates or challenges in the spirit realm. The entire book is full of “what if” conjectures. The final conclusion is that man has absolutely no knowledge or understanding about what happens outside his realm (and even inside his earthly realm he knows virtually nothing), thereby, conclusions based on faulty conjectures are futile, worthless.
my first two exams were this week.
things didn't go well.
the classes are tough -- math and science.
Hey Billy! Hang in there buddy! Don’t give up! I really enjoy your posts here! It’s been over 30 years since I was in Bethel. But I still have flash-backs like you, especially when there’s any kind of pressure. That place was one of the most abusive circumstances I’ve gotten myself into in my entire life! I was spiritually and mentally rapped! So, I understand in many ways!
Here’s an e-hug! ;)
(I’m sending you a PM.)
anerson cooper is looking for experiences.
maybe if enough ex-jw's sign up, producers will see a potential to look into it ...... sign up sign up.
http://www.andersoncooper.com/be-on-the-show/209.
I haven't spoken to my brother in while. Yeah, the CULT keeps us from talking. Let's hope time will change this!
elder resignation and withdrawal!
today i added a new article to my blog showing the result of watchtowers means and methods on the ranks of good folks within the community of jehovahs witnesses.
this article contains a set of letters that are self-explanatory.
Blondie-
I don't think they would even let him into the front door without calling 911!
(b) from where do false teachers often come, and.
false teachers are like dried-up.
about false teachers.
Blondie-
Yep, this was said to me and that he considers me a "disassociated" person, because I no longer want to go to meetings. If this is a new directive, I can't help but think that it's going to backfire on them. For now, I've given up caring and will no longer seek to have anything to do with these theocratic monsters.
are there any jws on this site???
i think i may be in the wrong place.... why am i only seeing atheists and other denominations of christians?.
WELCOME! and please visit often! There's a lot of nice people here!
(b) from where do false teachers often come, and.
false teachers are like dried-up.
about false teachers.
Hey Blondie,
This WT was designed (in MHO) to DF or DA all those who left, but who were not officially DF’d or DA’d. Do you see that too?
A long-time “friend” of mine, a previous missionary, CO, DO, Branch Overseer, blah, blah, blah, (and slave beater!), said I DA’d myself by saying that I could no longer wanted to go to meetings! This was recently, after 8+ years of him not treating me this way (he's in his late 70s). Not only did he drink the Kool-Aid, but he bathed in it! Swam in it! (Evidently, he did some back-flips off the high-board after reading this crap, and immersed himself in this poison-the wife too!) So, yeah, these little demons in Brooklyn-the mini-popes, are responsible for this latest delivery of poison, but there’s accountability to go around. People CHOICE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO!
I left because I chose to no longer listen or follow the demonic teachings and influence of the hypocrites in Brooklyn! Everyone can choose too, if they want to! If they REALY want to! Agree? This includes family too! There's no excuse! This reaction from a "close friend" tells me who my real friends are, who my real family is. It also speaks to their claim to be God’s representatives! (I can’t even repeat all the self-edifying expressions they've made in recent years-I just want to gag thinking about it!) The more they spew out this piousness hatred, the more I recognize they have NOTHING to do with God, Christ or the Bible (or anything good, righteous, or just)! But then again, they started-off as a demonic-cult, looking to the Great Pyramid as their prophetic instrument to salvation, a calculator to determine when Christ (actually a demon-God as I see it) would return and make them “special!” Good grief-what the hell did I get myself into when I was a young boy and joined this cult!
Thanks again for your coverage, but this was very difficult for me to deal with. (Maybe this is my fault for still trying to hang-on!) But it's hard, even at my age (and I'm around your age, Blondie)!
Warmest!
Cyber
just would like to have a place for those who went today to post their experience and the reception of the 7/15 study article on apostates..
Serenitynow! You folks take the prize! Too funny! I love it! I'm rolling on the carpet! I wish I could do what you do! I don't even know what to say! Is this for real? Wow! OMG!