Why was he so carefully guarded as if he were a real President? Were there some people that wanted to get the Judge?
He says we simply try to do what the Biblbe says and don't try to twist it to serve our own ends? Of course they made their own translation of the Bible to say what they wanted it to say.l
its been a long time coming but i kinda think im finally at the point of no return....... right or wrong, i have spoken to my 'friends' about my new feelings and the fact i no longer believe that this is gods chosen people etc etc... and have already been told that if i was to now celebrate my childs birthdays , her 'truth' friends would not be able to come to sleep again and associate with her... (she is 7).
this is despite the fact they are allowed to play with there non witness friends who live down the road....why??
the explanation is that their daughter would perhaps feel it is ok to do this when it is not... i ask why could they not just simply explain it is not our family's belief anymore (as my husband is with me on my decision), and my response is that it would be difficult to do that as we once were witnesses and now are not so it would confuse her daughter and make her think its ok to do these things now... .
Just curious as to why you would choose the Mormon Church? They also seem to me to be kind of an extreme group, why not a more laid back church if any?
who will be the great statesmen and philosophers of our age the voltaire's or ghandi's, or martin luther king's who will keep setting the mark of human dignity high and be brave enough to bring the religions and governments and ideologies together, not to compromise necessarily but to agree to keep the dialogue of peace on going.. or will it be ordinary folks like us, working in our communities, volunteering, voting, feeding, caring.. i spent time with my 19 month old grandson today, he held my hand as we walked along the streets of a familiar beach community i've know since i was his age.
i hope he'll walk those same streets with his son or daughter some day, in peace.. .
jehovah in the age of perestroika was a novel i started in the late 80's, i never finished it, i changed my point of view..
Well how about Jehovah in the age of banker bailouts, tying Jehovah into any political era or event would be correct because the witnesses take whatever is going on in the world as a sign that were living in the time of the end.
For stateman and philosopher-I vote for Ron Paul. He never votes for a bill that's unconstitutional. He doesn't take payola and he actually reads the bills in congress before he votes for them.
the organization is like a tree full of monkeys, all on different limbs at different levels.. .
some monkeys are climbing up...some down.. the monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces.
the monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but a$$holes..
Crappy assholes.
how can the gb teach that the number 144,000 at rev 7.4 is a literal fixed number?.
they teach that the 12 tribes of 12,000 each at rev 7.5-8 are symbolic and the anointed don't have to be literal israelites.. so either all of it is literal or all of the descriptions of these numbers in rev are symbolic also?.
the prospector.
So if you take Revelation literally there will be 144,000 Isrealites here on the earth after Armegeddon and everyone else goes to heaven or hell?
The Societies interpretation is all over the map and doesn't make sense.
there are countless issues that people have with the society and which together have led to many people realizing that it is not what it claims and pretends to be.
these include things like the secret un affiliation, contradictory and hypocritical stances, (malawi vs mexico vs un/ngo), the ever changing blood policy and ever changing doctrine, failed predictions for armageddon etc, etc, etc.. but what is the consensus about what the fundamental flaw is?.
what i mean is, many jw's hear about these various issues and manage to make endless excuses for them, even though this involves gross hypocrisy and excusing the society for things they would never excuse in other religions and which the society itself has ruthless condemned other religions for over almost 100 years.
No matter how stupid no matter how many time wrong you have to believe that they are God's spokespersons because...they say they are.
this quote came from the czech republic .
someone over there has it figured out.
we have a lot of work to do.. .
Barack Obama is just George Bush'es third term, he follows the same policies. Look at who is in Obama's cabinet, it's all Wall Street Bankers. He is doing the same thing as George Bush did, fighting the same wars, pushing for the same banker bailouts, running up the deficit even more, wildly spending even more. Like Bush he is making us a third world debtor nation, and signing the same Unconstitutional Bush Patriot Act into law again. If you loved George Bush'es Presidency you should love Barack Obama's , if you hate George Bush'es policies you should hate Barack Obama's policies.
Anybody that votes for another main stream Republican or Democrat will get more of the same policies of Bush/Obama.
if in the beginning when god (supposedly) created adam & eve, with the prospect of eternal life without sickness etc.
why did he create plants with medicinal values that could treat sickness & ailments?
hope that makes sense.
Yeah, on the other hand what if a perfect man fell and broke his neck? Was the original man and woman built differently so their injuries would heal instantly, even a severe burn or cut?
some friends of mine at bethel had slightly disfunctional families at home....nothing huge, just dad was a bit loud....sister had depression at times mum was abit emotional etc etc {all of them faithful witnesses though} ....i was amazed that even at assemblies when they came from interstate the bethelite friends would "shy away" from their real family.
they would always be too busy, or have something to do....one family drove home in tears because their bethel son did not seem to "have time for them...".
e.g fredrick franz 1939 when he was told by his mom his father died franz told her due to press work at bethel he can't make it!!!
Bethel like pioneering has a sort of we versus them mentality, also the suffering martyr complex they just don't understand the sacrifice were making. Also their is a certain amount of mental illness caused by trying to fit into the Bethel mold.
temecula california.
a decades old muslim community is building a mosque across the street from the calvary baptist center.
pastor bill rench declared the two religions 'mix like oil and water' and does not want to see the new mosque flourish and spread.. how will two religious groups who think each other is headed for hell get along.
The Witnesses are just as extreme and believe Moslems and Baptists should be killed, they just let their God do the dirty work
