the april wt is out, get it while you can.
what caught my attention was the first article.
some quotes:.
One Watchtower article, so much anger. If this article prompts so much anger outside the organization, is it possible it may also jolt a few sleepyhead Witnesses into examining what they're doing in this creepy, controlling, fact-twisting religion?
I doubt it. I don't think JWs read the WT. Just ex-JWS.
a ny bethelite is in town.
he arrived yesterday.
his dad is not doing well.. he has no idea i was a jw, let alone apostate.
I used to be a Jehovah's Witless, now I'm just witless.
this has been discussed before in other threads and probably in threads of its own, but it is probably time to re-hash the topic.. when paul told timothy that "all scripture is inspired of god..." what "scripture" was he talking about?
did he have the ego to include his own personal letters to the congregations?
did he also mean to include the books and letters not written at the time that the catholic church would choose for its canon a couple hundred years later?
Luke was inspired to write by God, that is a given <-- that's where you lost me
when you were in the org, did you ever really have a relationship with jehovah?
if so, how did this relationship manifest itself?
was it just a warm fuzzy feeling when you prayed?
Ho boy...
my sil has been fighting stage iv leiomyosarcoma (which in incurable) for over 2 years now.
there have been quite a few ups and downs in her treatments and her prognosis along with way.
she is a full time pioneer and has been since shortly after her diagnosis.
Methinks James Maloney = James Baloney.
my sil has been fighting stage iv leiomyosarcoma (which in incurable) for over 2 years now.
there have been quite a few ups and downs in her treatments and her prognosis along with way.
she is a full time pioneer and has been since shortly after her diagnosis.
Prayers may help (placebo), but not because a personal god is looking down and deciding to grant the supplication.
An interesting website, sometimes cited on this forum, has to do with why god does not answer the prayers of amputees.
The site is called something like "Why does god hate amputees?"
Google it.
In a nutshell, people can pray until they are blue in the face and an amputee will NEVER regrow a lost limb. NEVER EVER.
All things are possible with god .*
*Except regrowing limbs for amputees.
a witness related an illustration they heard at an assembly.
and sadly,they thought it was so profound.
it was brought out how some young people feel the restrictions of the "truth" cage them in.
A JW with an imagination would have made the cage in the illustration a shark cage.
But what can you expect from a brain-dead JW after hours and hours and hours of mind-numbing meetings?
so says jordan maxwell and he backs up the statement with years of research and knowledge.. at 1:25:00 he speaks about the eerie death of chas.
taze russell.
he died at the stroke of midnight on halloween, a high occult occasion.
Marked. (Why not?)
you'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea earl nightingale quotes (us motivational writer and author, 1921-1989).
let's forget that most members leave due to the wrong beliefs,doctrines and practices of the wts!.
i was bored out of my mind from the repetitive: talks,prayers,ministry school demonstrations,field service talks(peddle magazines),assemblies,special talks and watchtower magazine study articles.
I seem to recall every meeting I ever attended as a mind numbing waste of time.
Weekly waste of time = (5 hours) * (number of congregations in world) * (number of attendees)
i was thinking that maybe they must be, as the wt recently told the jws that following the gb was like following god (no mention of the f&ds).
can someone post that wt quote from a few months ago?
jws must have noticed that the faithul and discreet slave were left out and they will start asking- "where are they?
"Pay no attention to that man [men] behind the curtain!"
