with many strong feelings or beliefs either way for christianity, atheism, jw would you be willing to die for your beliefs, or are they just feelings that never come from the heart?
if faced with death for your beliefs, would you?.
abr.
According to JWism, I am going to die for my beliefs.
By walking away from promised everlasting bliss with pandas and watermelon and David and Job, we have all proven that we are willing to die for our beliefs. Does that make sense or am I losing it?
i believe we all want to think that we are very much loved and respected.
when we were in the "truth", we used to say that we knew our brother or sister would die for us----if they had to.
but in reality who really loves us???
I've pondered your questions for some time now. For me it boils down to logic. I know I would sincerely "give all", die, make great sacrifice for many. Logically, I am sure that many,many others must feel the same towards others as well.
Here enters the complication. The many disappointments we've all suffered, and sometimes been the source of, have taught us that those we most expect to "go to the wall" for us often don't. On the other hand, we are often surprised by the acts of kindness and altruism of those whom we are little aware of.
I can't believe that it's all a sham( the whole love thing), but I do think that we tend to, as a rule, misplace confidences and loyalties.
Nvr
it's been about a year since i joined this board.
the progress i've made since then has been nothing short of amazing.
i confronted the doubts i've had head on and discovered i'm not made of glass.
Never let the bastards bring you down!
Nvrgnbk
with many strong feelings or beliefs either way for christianity, atheism, jw would you be willing to die for your beliefs, or are they just feelings that never come from the heart?
if faced with death for your beliefs, would you?.
abr.
According to JWism, I am going to die for my beliefs.
watch out for the questions from readers in the may 1st 2007 watchtower.
"when does the calling of christians to a heavenly hope cease?
" it's a good'un.. included are the statements:.
So what's the consensus? Is this change as big as the "generation" change, about the same, or nowhere near as big?
Inquiring minds want to know! (As an old poster used to say)
Slim
None of the 6,893,968,942 people on the face of the earth who are neither active JWs nor ex-JWs care.
The WTS should be prosecuted if only for killing the poor innocent trees used to print this irrelevant crap. I just can't believe how much life we all gave to them. I'm beginning to understand Danny's anger a little better every day that passes. They're a bunch of arrogant a**es.
Hey, I'm a poet and didn't know it.
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an ex-jehovahs witnesses planted a seed of doubt by stating that she felt to be a good .
witness an individual had to be a conformist.
Hello Blondie,
Yes, if that bread loaf pan is dented, everything that comes out of that pan will be flawed
Why does that sound so familiar?LOL
No insult intended to any segment of the population, but their only growth is coming from poorly educated immigrants that really need to believe in something better than what they've got now.
a couple of my old witness girlfriends came over last night (note-i only recently left the org.
like 2 months ago, so people are still trying to get me to come back and "reason" with me)...and they used that stupid "counterfeit money" illustration.
i swear, every time i tell people i don't think it's the truth, they put that old illustration on me!
Do you know it? It goes like this..."You don't have to study all the counterfeit money to recognize the real thing. Just study the real dollar bill and you won't HAVE to study the others."
Never heard that one. Typical cult BS.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/millerite_1843_chart.jpg
1844, in 1874, in 1878 as well as in 1914 and 1918. Looking back we can now easily see that those dates were clearly indicated in Scripture and doubtless intended by the Lord to encourage his people, as they did, as well as to be a means of testing and sifting when all that some expected did not come to pass. That all that some expect to see in 1925 may not transpire that year will not alter the date one whit more than in the other cases."--May 15, 1922 Watch Tower, p. 150.
Thanks, M.J. for this quote. What a bunch of unmitigated BS! Testing and sifting my arse!
whenever i would go to conventions, i thought it was weird how at the end of the brothers' talks (especially the older ones like from the governing body or whatever), they would start getting louder and louder and louder.
ie; "in this time of the end, we need to keep on the watch for our adversary satan is roaring about like a lion!!!!
do you agree??".
they knew everyone was falling asleep
Even they were falling asleep from the mind-numbingly boring information.. So primarily, they were trying wake themselves up.
