jehovahs beaming eyes examine all.
ot 8--achan.
ot 9 - solomon.
I remember how after an article like this, the elders would comment to each other that a number of people would come forward and "confess" and they would have a busy few weeks with Judicial Committees.
Fear. Its the key to the WTS power.
Even now its hard to shake the feeling that someone is looking over your shoulder and will break in at any minute and drag you into a Judicial Committee.
and damm i love to shop...even on black friday.
i have a feeling it is just because i have never done it and it was forbidden...but so was sex once and i jumped all over that one!
is it because i do not believe jesus was not god nor his son?
Looks like I'm the lone man out here. I love Christmas. I feel like I'm catching up on 35 years of deprivation. I love the suspense my kid feels before Christmas morning. I love that everyone is sneaking away from work early to do shopping and everyone backs off a little bit on the adversarial work related BS (if only for a few weeks). Were decoraing the inside of the house for the first time. My wife is paranoid that the gestapo will come and announce us DFd and that will end all of our family ties. I even like the Christmas music.
And no- I don't believe in or care if Jesus was born on 12/25.
Lrkr (of the sap class)
well i hope none of you think i went over to the dark side, lol!.
we (gf and i) went to see a presentation of handel's messiah.
i was impressed with the beautiful choir voices and the string quintet and other players.
Good to see you-
Churches interest me very much. Because now, I can see them not as a den of demons- but an attempt by people (architects, sculptors and artists, usually) to express or experience the divine through a built space.
So much more interesting than Kingdom Hall architecture! And the music and sermons can be very interesting and uplifting also- they really are much more layered and interesting than the repetitious mind control drivel that you hear at the KH.
Not that I believe in God- but going to church can be an occasionally nice experience.
do the witnesses believe that their religion is the only right one?anyone who is serious about his religion should think that it is the right one.
otherwise, why would he or she be involved in it?
christians are admonished: "make sure of all things; hold fast to what is fine.
Lets simplify their answer:
Part 1- No we don't think you have to be a JW to be saved
Part 2- What about those who were alive before there were JWs
Part 3- If you live today- you could still become a JW
Conclusion- we don't really judge anyway
So.....we asked the wrong question- Do JWs believe that only people who are JW's (or never heard from a JW) when the Great Tribulation comes will be saved???
Answer- Yup.
....following a false prophet?.
jesus and the bible do not at any point mention birthdays, xmas etc.
however it does have clear rules regarding following false prophets.. .
Worse- is ceeding control of your life to someone else based on an interpretation of 2000 year old manuscripts.
http://news.aol.com/article/palins-celebrity-status-still-on-the/257306.
is she in the news constantly and getting all this attention just because her high degree of milfness or is it something else.
i mean i must admit right now i would rather be nailin palin.
Hopefully she'll try to run for president in 2012. Tina Fey has too much talent for it to go to waste.
complete the following:.
even if its not the truth...... .
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Even if its not the truth-
Then lets just publicly admit that its not- so that when people die from not getting a blood transfusion, or decide not to go to college or otherwise screw themselves over- at least we all know that it was their decision and not because someone said that "its the truth"
is this a sign?
is it banning all religion there or what does it mean?
http://www.zeenews.com/states/2008-11-16/484112news.html
We can only hope. Maybe instead of all religions causing a disturbance, they'll outlaw all religions. Then society can grow without the severe influence of fairy tales and the invisible government of the religious heirarchy.
(PS- I hardly think that some swami stating his opinion will bring the end of the world- any more that me spouting off will.)
so what is a " phobia " ?
in hassan's book " releasing the bonds " he states it as , " a persistent, irrational fear of an object or situation.
all phobias are triggered by a cue that initiates a closed cycle of fearful images, thoughts, and feelings.
The more I read his book (the first one), the more shocked I am at the similarities between JWs and other cults. So far, he doesn't mention JWs- so I guess this book might have predated Randy's conversations with him. Randy recommended these books to me some time ago as good for "getting rid of the guilt" I had no idea what he meant until reading the book
when you think about it, there's a lot of things about jehovah's witnesses that isn't easy to understand.. try to explain all the details about the blood doctrine to half a normal brain.. the majority of jws cannot explain who exactly the "faithful & discreet slave" is.
most will mix it up with the governing body.. the new world translation has "jehovah" in it over 7000 times.
ask a witness if the manuscripts that were found had the name "jehovah" in it.
If religion is the truth, you should be able to explain it to a 5 year old and him/her not have any logical problems with it. Try that with:
-Why go to 2 hour meetings that are repeditive and impossible to understand.
Why Jehovah hates Santa Claus
Why its is pagan to celebrate birthdays.
Why Jehovah doesn't want us to play little league or be friends with the next door neighbors.
Why it is wrong to go to college.
(I haven't even started on F&D slave, 144,000, time of the end, rasom, etc, etc, etc.)
