Excuse me, aren't they the MEDIATORS for the R&F?
They need intersessory prayer from the sheep?
As spotty as Jehovah is on answering prayers for the R&F, I think the GB is in big trouble.
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We Pray For The Governing Body...
by jw07 inat the meetings i've noticed over the past 2 years or so brothers asking for 'special blessings' for the governing body.
it was everyonce in a while at first.
now it is almost at every single meeting!
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What is with the WT obsession with King David??
by BU2B init seems like at least once a month he is brought up as a good example in the study wt.
it seems like he is given more praise than jesus.
have you noticed this?
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If you type in "House of David inscription" and search it out. In 1994 there was a basalt stele from @ 900B.C. found at Tel Dan with a reference to the "house of David".
The long bit of writing by a professor at UCLA explains the complex of issues in interpreting the writing.
There may be a kernel of truth to some of the David story, but it is thought that later writings inflated the basics. That was my take away from reading.
It seems the bible account doesn't reflect strict "Truth" unless its writers intended us to be happy with a very loose rendering of it.
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Jehovah WILL provide......
by quellycatface inhi guys.. just found out today that my landlord is selling my apartment.
he says he selling it with me as a sitting tenant, so should be okay.
i'm still a bit apprehensive as i've been here nearly 8 years and my son is in year 9 at the local school.. my mum's words of wisdom, were, of course, "jehovah will provide.".
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Here's what I know: we humans are as hard to kill as cockroaches.
If you wake up tomorrow and they are throwing you out on the streets, you will scramble like hell to come right-side up. And you will, and the people who see you gutting it out will help. If they love you. And anyone with a heart will give a hand. And if no one is there--you'll live anyway and your child will keep on loving you.
That said--I hope you get to stay without any major problems,quellycatface.
Meow,I don't think Jehovah is in the mix, Maeve
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Imagine A World Where Being "Gay" The Norm & Being "Straight" Would Be The Minority!
by Dis-Member inimagine a world where being "gay" the norm & being "straight" would be the minority!
[short film].. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnojgdw0gpi.
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Dis-member--YOU wrote that tirade against homosexuals??? The one LisaRose so eloquently answered?
!!!!after putting up that video? Did I ever misunderstand you!
How can you miss the damage to a person to be hated that way?
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"They are only human"
by Georgiegirl in(sorry for untitled post before - my pc must have the demunz).
am i the only one who gets incredible irritated by the excuse "they are only human"?
geez, i had no idea.
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"They are only human."
And they are prophets speaking for God? Then what does that say for the rest of the Bible? Paul, Peter, Luke, Moses, etc.?
It's a bottomless pit.
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Imagine A World Where Being "Gay" The Norm & Being "Straight" Would Be The Minority!
by Dis-Member inimagine a world where being "gay" the norm & being "straight" would be the minority!
[short film].. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnojgdw0gpi.
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Viviane, Maybe comments are the effects of being raised "in the Truth"
Edit:No one should need an "agenda" just to live without being hated.
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Imagine A World Where Being "Gay" The Norm & Being "Straight" Would Be The Minority!
by Dis-Member inimagine a world where being "gay" the norm & being "straight" would be the minority!
[short film].. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnojgdw0gpi.
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james brown, I think the OP is named for the film that is posted above--the actual proposal is not to create a gay world. That is not being proposed-
-The film shows what happens when you are born one way and you are subjected to majority rule. The film puts the shoe on the other foot---
It's only 19 minutes of your time. Look at what it is saying first.
Maeve
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Imagine A World Where Being "Gay" The Norm & Being "Straight" Would Be The Minority!
by Dis-Member inimagine a world where being "gay" the norm & being "straight" would be the minority!
[short film].. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnojgdw0gpi.
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absolutely, valkerie- none of mine were well planned and only 2 were deliberate.
Maeve
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Imagine A World Where Being "Gay" The Norm & Being "Straight" Would Be The Minority!
by Dis-Member inimagine a world where being "gay" the norm & being "straight" would be the minority!
[short film].. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnojgdw0gpi.
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Getting to the personal: Years ago, before I was a JW, I knew a kid in the community who everyone knew had an "identity" problem--as in sexual id. In early teens it was obviously not gay, but not lined up on mind/body for gender. Later, changes were made surgically and that individual disappeared from the community. Family accepted a "re-assigned" person.
Another instance. I attended an old primitive Baptist church n the back woods for a while and there was a quiet 40-ish man who was named Francis who still lived with his old mom and dad. Everyone in the tiny stone church knew that when he was born he was named "Frances"--They were not entirely sure if they had a boy child or a girl child. Puberty came to Frances in her dresses but when it was over he was wearing trousers--and they spelled his name "Francis". No surgery--just nature.
This is real stuff. We are born the way we are born. Is it a mess-up? Can't blame them, can't blame God. Life on earth won't end if they find a mate and make a family.
Go with it people.
I am a woman--I've birthed 7 children. That's the way I was born. I know gay men and gay women. They are good friends. One of these friends whom I met while I was a JW asked me this year why I became her friend and didn't cut her off because she is gay. I told her that I just knew it wasn't right.
Let them alone to find their way. Life should not be harder for them than it is for heteros. It is no harm to anyone.
Maeve
Edit: I'm glad you posted the video, Dis-member. Well done.
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Is it possible for believers to ask for something in prayer that doesn't......
by punkofnice in....involve someone else being controlledor affected by your chosen god?.
if someone else is controlled or affected, doesn't this mean that freewill is out the window?.
surely god either does or doesn't answer prayers?.
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Sure, pray to have good sense and be genuinely fair and kind in dealing with others. If that has an effect on them it's not that it undermines their free will.*
*Edited: Of course this is in line with the quote provided by ADCMS by Epicurius. We must do this ourselves.