2 jdubs were at my door yesterday... so one of the questions i asked them and now i ask you is this.. why should i believe the bible is the gods word?
if i put on the table the book of mormon and the bible side by side what will be the criteria to decide which one is gods word?.
this is what the book of mormon says in 2 nephi 33:1.
If you woke up this morning and found that somehow overnight the whole population of the planet had become Muslim, including you, well, that would only mean that one half of the population (the females) would still be second class citizens.
Same is true if you woke up and everyone was a Christian.
If, on the other hand, you woke up and everyone was a secular humanist -- ahhhhhhhh.
my son in-law.
he has been in the borg all his life, 40yrs.
old.. df two or three times, never a ms or elder.
Yes, I've met a lot of them.
This type of JW are the most difficult to talk too. Because they are idiots.
They feel the WT education have given them A special insight...
That's what it's all about, folks, it makes them feel SPECIAL. Human nature, everybody wants to feel SPECIAL!!!
"Look at me, I'm so Spiritual." <-- Translation: "Look at me, I'm so Special."
the year is 1969. faithful followers of the watchtower society are gearing up for the imminent end of the system of things just as they had been for the previous ninety years.
a young witness named andrew is trying to decide what to do with his life.
andrew is a smart kid and he has an entire lifetime ahead of him.
Great job, Mad. I would leave the ending as is. It has a nice Hemingway kind of feel, like "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," one of my favorites. If you haven't read that short story, check it out.
"higher education: jesus warned against seeking your own glory.
(john 7:18) whatever you decide as to how much secular education you will obtain, have you made sure of the more important things?phil.
1:9,10.. grzegorz, the computer programmer, made some changes in his life.
Have you ‘made sure of the more important things’?
Yeah, like have you made sure you're not in a goddam cult?
i was just reading of a dude who is going back to the matrix.... to save his wife?
to meet a wife?
to divorce scripturally his wife?
To help curb my masterbation habit.
i love the movie fight club.the theme being that you are your own person.you do not have to bend to the will of others.what do you think about fight club?.
d.
Mum's the word.
i've read some random articles of late and have found a recurring factor which could well be answered effectively by many of the posters here.
basically the notion relates to what makes one vulnerable to indoctrination into a high-control religious cult and goes lke this .
while most, if not all humans seek group approval and association to some degree .
My mother was a 16 year old mother, again barefoot and pregnant (with me!), with a 7th grade education, married to an alcoholic abusive mostly absent child-man, daughter of functionally illiterate abusive alcoholic tobacco share-cropping divorced parents.
She was desperately in need of a daddy and a substitue husband.
One fine day, Jehovah knocked on her door.
Need I say more?
i'm thinking he traveled east and learned the wisdom of the orient.
no way the watchtower line about him being a carpenter's assistant all that time is possibly true.
he was way too learned about the ways of people to not have been educated and his ideas seem very eastern to me.. anyone got any good books, articles, blogs, websites on the topic?.
Those were his Amway years. He took those MLM principles and...well, you know the rest of the story.
tuesday night, i drove to a couple of older sister's homes, and dropped off their magazines, and kindom ministries.
thursday night, i went to the meeting and cleaned and locked up the building.
i also dropped someone off who earlier recieved a ride to the hall but their ride couldn't come back to take them home.
yeah yeah whatever, get throat cancer and die, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
That's classic!
i was a junior borgite in 1975. i remeber looking at the calendar at work in october and thinking: 'armageddon isn't here yet.....and it doesn't feel like it will be here anytime soon either!'.
i was surprised that jehovah hadn't obeyed the superior command to bring the big 'a' as instructed to him by fred franz.
how dare god disobey the jw leader!!!!!.
In the summer of '75, I was 17 years old and living a double-life, having just scraped together $375 to buy a ragged out 1966 Dodge Charger, trying desperately to get laid before the proverbial shit and fan meeting scheduled for October of that year (per F. Franz).
