it came today, the dreaded envelope containing my personal copy of "return to jehovah" from my elderly, desperate mother.
it included a small note asking me to read it over and to let her know what i think.
she got it at her assembly.. firstly, i'm angry that she continues to push her religion on me, given that i stopped attending meetings over thirty years ago, and very offended that she assumes that i still want to be a witness, which is her choice of religion, not mine.
Virgochik,
My advice:
Love your mother.
Forgive her for her mistakes and stop letting her religion be the focal point of your relationship with her.
Love your mother.
Be patient. Be kind. Allow her to express herself and do not take away her trust in the Watchtower. At this late date in her life she needs to believe.
Put her before yourself.
Frank
inspired by the three recent threads on david splane's new video declaring, among other things, that there was no faithful slave for 1900 years, and there may not have even been any genuine anointed ones during those years, i decided to make this post.. here are the three previous threads on this topic:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/337200001/david-splane-address-bethelites.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/323160001/new-david-splane-video-no-1900-year-faithful-slave.
Br. Splane's talk was just plain stupid. The early Christians had the Bible. It was in the languages of the times. They did the preaching work.
He sounds like a man on the Titanic reaching for anything floating by.
The putrid smell of no substance reeks from his face.
Frank
last night a young man in a bar struck up a conversation with me.
our town is having our pride parade soon and he brought it up, the bible and how it's against the bible.
me being me, i said that i couldn't care less that it was against the bible and that it was a horrible guide for morality anyway.
Jesus believed it was. Are you saying Jesus was wrong?
Dear Lady, where did you get the idea that to refer to a Biblical story is to believe it literal? Interestingly, when referring to the Flood of Noah's day and men marrying and women given in marriage Jesus said nothing about angels come down to have sex with women.
He did not subscribe to that erroneous teaching.
the apostle paul warned the corinthians not to be too harsh in their shunning of a man who was guilty of sexual immortality / adultery:.
2 co 2:5-11: now if anyone has caused sadness, he has saddened, not me, but all of you to an extentnot to be too harsh in what i say.
this rebuke given by the majority is sufficient for such a man; now you should instead kindly forgive and comfort him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by excessive sadness.
Cappytan,
Adam had Eve. The only man on earth, had the only woman on earth. I'm sure he found his balls as some point. lol
Let me clear this up right now. Adam had nipples. I have nipples, my wife had nipples. This is proof that Adam had nipples.
Let us move on to more important matters: Why did Adam listen to his wife's voice? Was he stupid or just madly in love?
today a reader left this comment on my blog regarding research on watchtower's position on pledging national allegiance: .
i live in an african land as an elder who has stepped down due to being disheartened that all my life has actually been at the service of con men rather than to god.
i also began my search into what was really going on and confirmed my suspicions.
