"They are plugging the holes in the dyke with their fingers" - LostGeneration
Don't they realize that this sort of conduct is a DISFELLOWSHIPPING offense?
i came in during all the hype over 1975. the predictions about that date were the real driver behind all their activity.
since then, they haven't had a good goad to prod the sheep.
they seem to be smart enough not to try another date.. i think they plan to use fear instead.
"They are plugging the holes in the dyke with their fingers" - LostGeneration
Don't they realize that this sort of conduct is a DISFELLOWSHIPPING offense?
hey everybody, here is our latest video on the jw summer conventions as well as our bunker skit!!!
:).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz1mio38jts.
If this production does not win a TELLY AWARD I am going to be very disappointed!
the cover of the 2016 september watchtower has an islander couple preaching.
the brother looks like he may be fijian in a traditional skirt standing in a river, doing a presentation on an apple ipad.
i can't imagine there are many families that can afford an ipad in the pacific islands.
Hey, religious I-pad man...................if I join your church, can I keep my native cultural dress too?
i came in during all the hype over 1975. the predictions about that date were the real driver behind all their activity.
since then, they haven't had a good goad to prod the sheep.
they seem to be smart enough not to try another date.. i think they plan to use fear instead.
The Catholics have Hellfire to keep their adherents in line.
Jehovah's Witnesses have Armageddon to keep their adherents in line.
If it's one thing that religions understand, it's that FEAR works every time!
i came in during all the hype over 1975. the predictions about that date were the real driver behind all their activity.
since then, they haven't had a good goad to prod the sheep.
they seem to be smart enough not to try another date.. i think they plan to use fear instead.
The Catholics have Hellfire to keep their adherents in line.
Jehovah's Witnesses have Armageddon to keep their adherents in line.
Same method, similar FEAR tactics!
i was visiting with my family and it seems the rc was worse than i thought.
now they all seem to think that "we are so close to the end" and that the "brothers are really preparing us for the gt".
some even saying that soon our message will change to a judgement message for mankind and talking about how we need to improve "everything we do".
Governing Body(tm) of Jehovah's Witnesses, 'fiddling around' with the mental, emotional and spiritual well being of their followers for over 100 years!
in a discussion about the best flavour of ice cream everybody's opinion is equally valid.. in a discussion about the shape of the earth or the origin of species everybody's opinion is equally irrelevant.
only objective facts and evidence matter.. confusing these two categories is a common feature of conversations in this forum.
people deserve respect, errors do not..
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
i was speaking to my mom the other day.
she stays in the group to retain a relationship with the rest of our in family.
she told me that she heard from one of my brothers that the reason lett makes all those weird facial gestures has something to do with a stroke or aneurysm when he was a younger man.
Yeah, Lett probably had quite a few 'STROKES' when he was younger, when his parents weren't looking!
again, i'm a decade removed from the faith.
i'm catching up now, and can't believe what i'm seeing.. i get that jw leadership faced a dilemma.
there is no intellectual apparatus within the faith.
"The JWs don't have the guts to proclaim the radical end times junk as much as they used to" - oldskool
You are on to something, oldskool. Can you imagine Nathan Knorr announcing Caleb and Sophia as the new 'mascot' of the Jehovah's Witness religion in his concluding comments at the end of an 'International Convention'?
what do you guys think?.
are they only some uber religious zealots or do they pursue hidden agendas beyond religiosity?.
The Governing Body (tm) is composed of god intoxicated, religious zealots who have no hidden agenda, per se. They are self-deluded humans who think that they are carrying out the will of god on earth and feel that they have a 'commission' from god to 'govern' other human beings and thereby save their souls from eternal destruction. Remember that 'most of the evil committed in the world is by people that KNOW that they are right'.
"WE'RE ON A MISSION FROM GOD." - Elwood Blues