one of the cornerstones of jw's is counsel.
they just love to give counsel and many times they will literally make things up just for the sake of counsel.
i was once counselled for joking around too much.
1) Being in Amway
2) Being too friendly with neighbors who were studing with another sister, we were 'taking her study away'
3) Having too old of a car in 1986. Had a 64 Chevy Impala
4) Not wear a belt
5) Working for a security guard service, my wife was sent to a casino to stand by the entery and keep a headcount for tax reasons
6) Playing chess
and it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead,17and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.18here is where wisdom comes in: let the one that has intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is a mans number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.. in these few verses alone, they talk about a mark on the right hand and forehead, as well as not being able to buy or sell without that mark, and finally the number of the wild beast 666.. after studying the revelation climax book a couple of times with the jw's, i still don't recall a clear explanation for these verses above.. if we are so close to the end, wouldn't they know what 666 means by now?
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I agree with Clam, chips, facial recognition systems,barcodes and or serial numbers are tools for the mark. In the USA, you can hardly do any major transaction or even a job application without your social security number.
To take the mark as to be some sort of willing submitting to someone or something. The National ID card is comming soon
so often, you see people all up in arms because it is revealed that an individual is "gay".
do you really care??
personally, i don't.
Hey, more gay men just mean more women to go around. Gay women I guess balance the numbers out. I met some lesbian women I considered hot, but most of them I didn't find actractive anyway. Gay men don't bother me if they leave me alone. If a gay woman hits on my wife, I react the same as if a man was trying to take her away.
i still believe in god.
still believe his name is jehovah or something like it.. still believe that jesus is his son, and he isn't god almighty.. don't believe in the trinity.
i believe in the resurrection.
Hellfire-no
Trinity-no
ressurection-yes
144,000 literal- ?
paradise- yes
Jehovah's name- yes, to use Yahweh, you have to change nearly every other name in the bible
1000 year reign, yes, but what will 144,000 do after it?
Ban on blood transfusions, no, but taking one is still not a good idea if not life threatening
shunning-no, lest they be judged
Grace-yes,yes.yes
if sex isn't for the pleasure should you do it after you can't have children?.
should old guys like me still try?
my wife said making love to a 70 year old is like playing pool with a rope.. she was just kidding, at least i hope she was.. ken p..
I think WTS downplays sex because members might be too tired for fs Saturday morning after a virgorous Friday night.
HA HA fooled them, I like sex in the mornings, too
anyone remember back 15 years or so ago when some brothers used to think mars bars were made with lecithin derived from blood .. we had a sister call the company and interrogate them.
funny.. .
I remember a rumor from the 60s that 'Tiger Shake' a chocolate drink mix, contained blood because it was iron fortafied.
Also remember being told not eat hot dogs and cold cuts that contained euthrobate ar euthroblast because 'they were made from blood'.
i recall wt article titled "is it wise to examine your relgion" and encourged it.s use in fs.
funny they don't want rank & file examing them.
I always felt strange that I was asking them to examine their religion, using WTS publications, but could not examine wt from their materials
i recall wt article titled "is it wise to examine your relgion" and encourged it.s use in fs.
funny they don't want rank & file examing them.
I recall wt article titled "Is it wise to examine your relgion" and encourged it.s use in fs. Funny they don't want rank & file examing them.
i've often pondered the impossibility of arguing with an armageddon-believer.
it's like, the only way you can prove they are wrong is out-wait them.
and if they refuse to set a date, well, you'd be staring the poor prophet down when you are wobbly, grey, and snaggle-toothed.
Since WTS oes not teach hellfire, the rapture etc., The big A is their scare tactic. I never was worried, wts teaches that their good news must be preached over the entire earth. Look at population to publisher ratios for many countries and see they are nowhere close (esp. non-Christian countries).
with cash flow problems, wonder if d&b has dropped them any?
Outlaw.
Are they timely about paying their bills?
