i was a younger dub at the time of this release, and stopped watching this movie near its beginning, when john cleese was stoned with the huge rock for saying jehovah.. this was despite having been (and continuing to be) a major john cleese (and monty python) fan.. any fans of this film?.
I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!
Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.
What? Well what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!
He is! He is the Messiah!
Now, fuck off!
How shall we fuck off, O Lord?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p46pnudcub0.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpqeptnux3o.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijg_-bz-k8.
"Stilted and robotic".- Vanderhoven7
Right on, Brother.
tell him that jesus probably didn't get married or it would have mentioned it in the bible, but at the same time we can't be 100% sure he didn't get married because it doesn't specifically say he didn't get married.
stand back watch fireworks.. i thought it was a pretty reasonable thing to say.
pop.
sir82, I remember that line of reasoning also. To me it never made a bit of sense. Jesus didn't give up 'jack shit' by not being married. He lived for countless millions or billions or even trillions of years as Jehovah's 'Master Worker' before he came to Earth. In his lifetime he had already seen everything and had his 'finger' in all known creative works. In Noah's day, it was a sin for the 'angels' to materialize and get married and have children. Would it not be just as much of a sin for Jesus Christ (who was Michael the Archangel according to Watchtower teaching) to do the same? At any rate, we have Jesus who lived supposedly for countless eons of time, came to earth for about 33 years, was killed and remained dead for parts of 3 days. Then he was resurrected to immortal life as a spirit creature; never to experience death again. Why would he waste his time having a wife and children and live with a 'limited' material body? I don't believe any rational creature that was given a real chance at immortality in a non-material body wouldn't waste their time as a puny human tied down to a wife and children.
is this the same religion?.
a whim isn’t falsifiable.. .
answer: is it testable?
RELIGION: (3) An inexhaustible mine of meaning for the mentally lazy. - Thomas Szasz THE UNTAMED TONGUE
by reliable sources, bethel us has recorded in 3 years:.
- 80 "out of the closet" confirmed.
- 200 departures requested by bethelites, where same reason is suspected.. - 20 censured ones "returning to the flock".
Richard_I...........I left Watchtower Farms in 1976. After I left, pornography was found behind a toilet in my old floor bathroom that I was assigned to. Friends told me that some quick thinking STOOGE blamed it on me and so the matter was dropped. Guilty in 'absentia' ................ah the LOVE shown at Bethel. The funny thing is that I was such a moralist that I never even purchased a 'skin' magazine until long after I left Bethel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/criticism_of_jehovah%27s_witnesses.
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Very comprehensive article. You can't argue with the FACTS!
warwick article.
CALM DOWN ABOUT THE LITTLE LEAGUE FIELD AND THE BOY SCOUTS! I HAVE FOUND THE SCRIPTUAL REASON AS TO WHY THEY ARE DOING THIS:
"The form of worship that is clean and undefiled from the standpoint of our God and Father is this: to look after Boy Scouts and Little League teams in their tribulation, and to make for yourself a GOOD SPOT in the world." - James 1:27 NWT Revised 2013
What a difference 30 years makes!!!
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=u&feature=vm&video.
One good thing about his skirt is that it is modest. You can't see through it and discern what sort of underwear he is wearing. Maybe he should be 'cut and pasted' into the resurrection video!
my rant tonight is against the quasi religious apologists that post on this board.
those who at once rail against the jw's then later talk about how "orderly" and "neat" the witnesses are at their conventions.
those who site the benefits of bloodless surgery to some who have the luxury and time to actually make an educated choice, while ignoring the tens of thousands who've died because they happen to be in an accident or succumb to a disease for which there is no other treatment.. i understand the power of cognitive dissonance.
Some apologists still have the 'herd mentality'. They like to stray from time to time because they have a normal independent spirit. However, if they stray too far, sometimes they imagine seeing 'Satan the roaring Lion' over their shoulders and so they run back to the herd in fear through intellectually defending the herd.
