Most hated religions are Muslems and Jews, most people just think jw is a legalistic small sect.
DITO!
well in the bible it says said by jesus christ himself... that "the true religion will be the relgion everyone despises and hates.".
is this not the relgion of jehovahs witnesses?..
look in the bible itself it says in john 15:18-19. jesus says, "if the world hates you, you know it has hated me before it has hated you.
Most hated religions are Muslems and Jews, most people just think jw is a legalistic small sect.
DITO!
wife swapping by definition was something that came from the care free sex days of the 1970's.
you know, before a thing called aids became something we worried about.
basically, it was a sex game of taking another person's wife home for sex, and you let them take your wife home.
when we had our boe meetings we would say an opening and closing prayer, very ritualistic and general.
during the meetings when there were difficult matters to decide, caring for widows or sick people or financial matters, i would suggest a prayer.
no one would agree to say one.
Never!!! It is not Jehovahs arrangement!
am i correct to say that the "annointed" are the 144,000 that will be with jesus in heaven, according to the watchtower?.
if so, in ....luke 23:43...jesus said to "dismas" (the good thief) who was also being crucified along with jesus, "truly i tell you today you will be with me in paradise".. wouldn't this make dismus "one of the annointed"?.
wouldn't this also show that dismus, who had no qualifications for being of the annointed, went to heaven with jesus and became one?.
when i was four, i believed that my life could be painfully and tortuously taken from me, in a ball of flame, crashing down from the heavens, just while i sitting down to a bowl of oatmeal in the morning.. when i was nine, i believed that my life, as i then knew it, would be drastically altered, that i would be tortured for being a jw, and after suffering for who knows how long, i would die (because i still hadn't lived up to jehovah's expectations).. when i was 13, i wanted to be a nuclear physicist-because it sounded cool, but in the meantime i believed that i would die in armageddon because i wanted to go to college, get really educated, and have a great, "worldly" life.. when i was 15, i felt guilty that i hoped armageddon would never come, because i so desperately wanted to go to college.. when i was 17, i was offered an honors early admissions in a prestigious program in a highly regarded engineering program.
my mother flat out said, "no!".
when i was 18, i scuttled semi-secretly to the local university, part-time, trying to hide my daily activities without actually lying to anyone.. when i was 19 i quit pretending and disassociated.
i was at a funeral this weekend, the first time i'd been in a kingdom hall in 13 years, the talk was short about a half hour, and all jw stuff as expected, but the one part of the talk made me laugh, the speaker said :.
"we (a group of elders), had the oppourtunity to speak with a member of the governing body at the assembly, and he said : "we the governing body are confident that armageddon is close, and are ready for jehovah's day, are you ready ???"".
i couldn't believe my ears, they will never learn.
When the gb speaks it is like Jehovah speaking himself! Recieving direct instructions from the mouth of a gb member is the greatest possible privilege. One must be very important to recive this privilege and the message must be ever so important and true. nevermind what non-jws think, the gb member are the greatest men on earth. ARE YOU NOT READY TO OBEY?!!! lol
did anyone read the recent wts "special article" about creation and evolution?
i read it and fell of my freaking seat.
get this, the wts now believes (and yes, they want everyone to agree or else) that god created the universe billions of years ago and that nothing was created in six days as shown in genesis!.
did anyone read the recent wts "special article" about creation and evolution?
i read it and fell of my freaking seat.
get this, the wts now believes (and yes, they want everyone to agree or else) that god created the universe billions of years ago and that nothing was created in six days as shown in genesis!.
As far as I know the society has taught this for many years !!!!!!!!
Dito! I remember that being taught in the blue creation book "Life, How did it get here?" (or similar title) In one of the first chapters it is explained that the six creative days beginn with Jehovah directing special attention to the earth, while the universe was created in an undefined time period much earlier.
I wonder when jws, mormons and other fundermentalists will find a good explanaition for the existence of the Neanderthal and human cultures dating earlier then Adams alleged creation.
i went to www.watchtower.org looking to sign up for a watchtower/awake subscription but didn't see anything like that offered.
i would like to atleast flip through them each month to see the doctrinal winds of change.
i also like to look for hidden subliminal demonic creatures in the illustrations.
Only if you have the sheep-like attitude and are making progress I was told when asking for that. Only in rare cases this is done due to cost reasons. fts
this guy is an atheist who has numerous videos on youtube.
i saw the cover of the tract on the picture of one of his videos so i clicked on it.
it's brief, but funny.... tell us what you think.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kautlb2crfa.
THX for posting.
Who the f*ck is Ted? I dont get it.
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