i`m typing with one hand,i hit the wrong key..sorry guys..i`ll start again.......my answer on another thread made me think of this:.....the history of the wbt$ and the jehovah`s witness`s is:"the wbt$ believes,the jehovah`s witness`s are dispensable..and..the wbt$ can always get more!
".....your opinions please,"jwd"...outlaw
Yes, they belive that people are easily replaced. They somehow feel superior to all others and if you don't share their feeling then you are "not of their sort", or so they say.
What they don't know is every human being has intrinsic worth and they are by no means the judge of anything.
i'm noticing a trend in the modern world.
everything comes with a scare story.
this was prompted by the shark steak thread and the talk about mercury in the food chain.
I agree that the fear of suffering is much more acute than the fear of being dead. It's how you get there that matters. There are much worse things than death. This thought enters my mind every day, as I watch people suffer for years. Severe Chronic pain, in itself is by far the worst sentence a person can get. And that comes while you're very much alive.
for some reason, we havn't been going to the meeting as regular as we should... .
mom's as brainwashed as they come tho.....i dunno what's going on.
we havn't been going to sunday meetings especially, but mom's work schedule messes it up a a bit.
Sounds like something is up, something good. I think the people at the halls are getting pretty burned out. Good luck to you and your family.
to get ahead, did you get do more during the circuit overser's visit to make an impression?
did you cook him a meal or take him out dining??
did you auxillary pioneer when he came by?
No, I usually tried to hide when the CO and his wife came around. I realized when they announced their next visit would be their last, that I had never had a conversation with them. The whole atmosphere at CO week made me want to puke.
hello friends its me, mutualrespectplease.
i messed up my earlier registration, so now i am mrp2.
i have been doing a bunch of research on the different responses i got from you regarding my posts from the beginning of august.
I realize that they were doing exactly as you say. The problen ensues when they refuse to let their followers get involved in politics or organizations to do some admirable things for their communities. They cannot get involved in making their towns or schools better, so why the double standard?
When they give their followers the freedoms that they choose for themselves, then things would change. I guess they would have to quit calling the UN the wild beast of Revelation too?
The real problem is not that they tried to get established in other countries. It is rather that they lied and sneaked around. I think that is called hypocrisy.
dinosaurs are a bit of an embarrassment for the watchtower.
what did you hear about them?.
- were they a 'creative' experiment by god?.
Since they are never mentioned in the Bible, they are a problem, aren't they? My son was extremely fond of dinosaurs. The borg teaches that they were possibly lost in the flood. But why doesn't the Bible mention them?
They do have a dilemna on their hands don't they?
we know that we can't always take the direct approach and we know that even a short, reasonable discussion is often out of the question with jw's we may love dearly so we often try to place a little doubt in their minds.
we want them to start questioning cherished beliefs.. is this fair of us?
are we placing our our own agendas ahead of their needs?
Certainly not ethical unless you are willing to be there to pick up the pieces when their world dissolves. I think most here would be there for them.
so i had a thought today, that may spark some interesting conversation......
if you were able to die.....totally, and utterly dead.and see what there really is for your own eyes/soul after death......not what the bible says, not what your mom, dad, preacher, rabbi,faithful and discreet slave, conscience ...whatever says will happen....but what really happens......( who can say for sure they know by the way), and then somehow you were brought back,
would you live your life differently?
That is kinda hard to answer without knowing what you might find out. Life is what you make it and I think death might be the same. I was watching Bill Maher last night on tv and his biggest complaint about religion was that nobody can tell you what happens after you die, so why all the preaching?
If we were meant to know what happens after death, I think someone would have figured it out by now. Near death experiences do interest me, especially young children. But you can have out of body experiences with hallucinogenics, as one poster mentioned. It does change your viewpoint about what is real. So much of life is an illusion, you must strip off several layers to even get to the real you.
To answer the question outright, no I would not change anything. But we don't have that option anyway, or do we?
jesus said these words:.
"if you desire to be perfect," replied jesus, "go and sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have wealth in heaven; and come, follow me.".
i never heard elders ask jw's to reach out into their abundance and help poor jw's....have you?.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Love your enemies.
get hemoglobin from blood donations), why don't jehovah's witnesses.
is it true that you people were a part of.
3)objection:.
Interesting. I don't know how far a jw would read. Depends on the person. I liked them a lot though. You say you helped some to realize the error of the teachings? How did you do this?
