i need your advice: i have written a letter to my branch office regarding my problems with the 607-chronology 60+ pages with short references about the issue, that i have collected through the past 9-10 years.
at the end of my letter i asked 14 questions 7 questions regarding the biblical evidence against the 607 bce-chronology and 7 questions regarding the historical and astronomical evidence against it.. the letter i received as an answer did not contain anything that could qualify as an answer or even an attempt to answer my questions.
i called the branch office by phone and talked to the brother who had written the answer.
My advice is to quit trying to reason with liars. The WTS is full of liars and decievers.
Take up a nice hobby that provides you with enjoyment and satisfies your inner need for accomplishment.
If you find yourself anywhere near a Kingdom Hall, immediately turn in the other direction and head that way.
Peace be with you and enjoy this life to the fullest.
from addendum to crisis of conscience (1995).
for chapter 12. available http://www.freeminds.org/history/franz_ad.htm.
what then is the significant difference?
1972 - the "Great Tribulation" occurred INVISIBLY
1975 - Armageddon took place INVISIBLY
1980 - We have been living in an INVISIBLE paradise earth AIN'T IT GREAT?
Welcome to my new religion. Now shut up and drink that Kool Aid!
Drahcir bin Yarrum
for all you american's on the board, are you a republican or democrat of independent?.
read http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=12506&site=3 for background.. seems like quite a few democrats here.. slipnslidemaster: "those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- ben franklin
If I viewed government as being my parents, I would probably be a Democrat. However, I view government as a minimal necessity. Ergo, I am philosophically a libertarian who happens to vote Republican.
Let me clarify with a few bullet points:
. If women wants to kill their unborn children, it's fine with me.
Just put more effort into taking care of the ones born. Abortion
has no place in political debate after almost 30 years of being
a legal option.
. If drug addicts want to kill themselves with drugs, go right
ahead, be my guest. But if you rob or harm someone else to
get your drugs, you should be locked up for a long time.
. The government can spend my tax dollars to help the needy. But
don't allow people to run a game and become dependent on welfare.
Squirt out more babies than you can afford and you should get less
welfare, not more.
I am warm and cuddly aren't I?
Drahcir bin Yarrum
have sex with a blow-up doll?.
englishman.. nostalgia isn't what it used to be....
Eman:
This discussion reminds me a little bit about the debate some of my JW bethel buds would have as to whether sex with a condom was truely fornication, since vaginal tissue was not contacted and fluids were not exchanged. I was willing to accept the notion that it wasn't fornication. Sometimes it helps to have a Levitical scholar with one while dating.
Drahcir bin Yarrum
terror .
terror noun.
4. violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.. - ['american heritage dictionary,' 3rd edition, from microsoft bookshelf '98 cd].
seeker:
You spend way too much time worrying about the world hating the United States. I don't know where you are from, but we have more people moving here every day than move to other countries. You keep saying the world hates us. Prove it! Don't just keep repeating a set of words because it's your opinion.
terror .
terror noun.
4. violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.. - ['american heritage dictionary,' 3rd edition, from microsoft bookshelf '98 cd].
seeker:
I don't live in Africa. I live in the United States in the year 2001. I don't care, in the context of the attack of September 11th about any acts tribal warfare and civil wars that happened half way around the world at another time.
Life isn't fair. All wrongs can't be atoned for at all times. You want perfect justice and it doesn't exist. Your insinuation that I only care about terrorism committed against white people is a cheap shot and perhaps you can confirm that all of the people killed at the WTC and Pentagon were white. I hadn't given it a thought, but obviously you have.
Your alligator tears don't impress me.
terror .
terror noun.
4. violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.. - ['american heritage dictionary,' 3rd edition, from microsoft bookshelf '98 cd].
I'm not wasting my time reading pacifistic, nonsense. Make a point so we can respond to it. When 6,000 to 7,000 innocent people are killed for politico-religious reasons, then the shear degree of terrorism has little if any equal. So TERRORISM does not equal just plain vanilla TERRORISM in this instance.
i will let you all hang who ever the heck wrote this crap.
november 8, 2001 awake page 9: some battered women may need to seek assistance from the authorities.
at times, a point of crisis-such as intervention of the police-can cause an abusive man to see the seriousness of the action.. page 12: should the battered wife leave her husband?
Here's some sound advice for women of any religion or cult:
If your fiance, boyfriend or husband punches you, burns you with cigarettes, pulls hair out of your scalp during arguments or in any other way causes you physical pain and anguish. . . LEAVE HIS SORRY ASS. You cannot change him. You can only save yourself and your children if you have any. Don't listen to any pleas by your parents, clergy, congregation elders or best friends, to give him another chance.
Having just posted this, I know that too many women will not heed this advice.
Drahcir bin Yarrum
friends,.
this article was sent to us by one of my husband's best friends.
mississippi had the guilty parties been white boys with .
circe:
You seem to worry as to whether or not Bush might be too trigger happy.
It's been 16 days now, since the terrorist attacks in NY and DC. Let's compare that to the reaction of his predecessor, who launched missle attacks against the people on Yugoslavia and Iraq for weeks and launched missle attacks against targets in Afghanistan, coincidental to information about a certain blue dress being made public. I like Bush's measured response to this much better than you know who's.
I'm not certain that I've met anyone who thinks the United States can do no wrong. I just reject the notion that any wrongs done by the United States have anything of any relevance to do with the terrorist attacks in New York or D.C.
i will let you all hang who ever the heck wrote this crap.
november 8, 2001 awake page 9: some battered women may need to seek assistance from the authorities.
at times, a point of crisis-such as intervention of the police-can cause an abusive man to see the seriousness of the action.. page 12: should the battered wife leave her husband?
Is there cause for alarm if a woman is beaten by her husband? Well, consider this true story circa 1965:
A witness woman in Colorado complained to the then "congregation overseer" and his assistant that she was being regularly beaten by her husband. Would it be okay to leave him? The counsel provided was that she continue to live with him and by setting the proper example of field service and meeting attendance, and of course wifely recognition of his headship, win him over.
The result was that her relatives, after days of not having any contact with her, found her eviscerated body in plastic bags in her freezer. Her husband was subsequently arrested and sentenced to prison. As far as I know, he never did become an active publisher.