here is a question i've been wanting to ask hubby: "why do you want to be a jw?
" and i don't want ethereal answers like "they have the truth" "everlasting life" and other such nonsensical ramblings.
i am not a member of any organized religion and i don't see the appeal.. can anyone answer the question with a concrete reason?.
Thanks OTWO. I want to take those two reasons away because, in my opinion, they are cop-outs. I think you are right that they want to "belong". I also feel that, in hubby's case, many religiosos need stiff-handed direction.
I want to ask hubby so he will THINK about why he wants to be a JW.
here is a question i've been wanting to ask hubby: "why do you want to be a jw?
" and i don't want ethereal answers like "they have the truth" "everlasting life" and other such nonsensical ramblings.
i am not a member of any organized religion and i don't see the appeal.. can anyone answer the question with a concrete reason?.
Here is a question I've been wanting to ask hubby: "Why do you want to be a JW?" and I don't want ethereal answers like "they have the truth" "everlasting life" and other such nonsensical ramblings. I am not a member of any organized religion and I don't see the appeal.
Can anyone answer the question with a concrete reason?
work with me here...this occurred to me last night as i was trying to get back to sleep after waking up with a 2-year-old, so i'm kinda fuzzy.... god supposedly watches everything you do, judges you, then you get the "gift" of ever lasting life.. santa supposedly watches everything you do, judges you, then you get gifts on christmas morning.. sound familiar?.
so, why is it that "god" is real but "santa" is fictional?
hmmm?
Work with me here...this occurred to me last night as I was trying to get back to sleep after waking up with a 2-year-old, so I'm kinda fuzzy...
God supposedly watches everything you do, judges you, then you get the "gift" of ever lasting life.
Santa supposedly watches everything you do, judges you, then you get gifts on Christmas morning.
Sound familiar?
So, why is it that "God" is real but "Santa" is fictional? Hmmm? No one has ever seen either one in the flesh, right?
When hubby decides that he needs to tell our 2 year old that Santa isn't real, my answer will be to tell her that "Jehoover" isn't real either.
Thoughts?
my vote for the worst watchtower term is:.
circumcision of the heart!.
i can't believe that there are people who can not only say "circumcision of the heart" with a straight face in front of the congregation, but defend its 'meaning'.. other runners up in my opinion:.
Here's one that hubby used that made me want to hit him "Jehovah hates a divorcing".
I also can't stand "arrangement" thrown in where it doesn't belong: "marriage arrangement" being the one I can't stand the most!!
my little boy, aged 4 1/2 loves his bedtime stories, and also loves "jesus stories" as he calls them... .
now, i have never gotten around to going to a book store and actually buying a childrens bible story book from the shops (yes...i still have a bit of a mental block and some deep seated issues about any religious literature).
my mom gave my kids a copy of the bible story book, as well as listening to the great teacher (the new soft cover book - think it is called that?
Heck no! Dr. Seuss is appropriate, Goodnight Moon is appropriate...even Harry Potter, but nothing published by the WTBTS is appropriate for children (or adults)!!!!!
we all know dubs can't do any holidays because they are pagan or such.
even though nobody doing the holiday knows crap about the origin and is not doing it for that historical reason.. so why do dubs say our old teachings of the 1880-1950's don't matter?
because the light has gotton brighter and those old brothers went through a cleansing of thier teachings.
Good catch Oompa. I have used that argument (omitting the bible verse) with hubby. He was going on and on about holdiays and I said, what do you care about origins? Your religion was founded by some guy from Pennsylvania and they even used to celebrate Christmas... I got the pat JW response, "we don't do that now". Origins only matter to JW's when it's someone elses origins.
It's weird how that mind-set grabs JWs, that history really doesn't matter. I was in counseling with hubby and he didn't want to talk about our history that had gotten us into therapy...root cause type stuff, because that was "done". They train their minds to only look at "present truths" and that's all they can see.
my sister-in-law is recently divorced and went to a witness online dating site.
she mentioned that many of the witnesses specified that they wanted a white or latino only.
of course there is nothing wrong with this (personal preference), but i found it interesting.
Would and have. Daughter #1's daddy is black and hubby is mixed (mom black, dad white). To me, race, nationality, color, ahem, religion...doesn't matter as long as you're a good person who I get along with and like to be with.
i come in late on many threads here because of the demands of my job and other responsibilities.
i did not get to participate in a couple of recent music vid threads.. so i guess this is my own selfish little bid for attention!!
lol!!
I'm really conflicted! I was in a band and we did Comfortably Numb. I hate the song...I love Van Morrison and am not a big Pink Floyd fan...so here's the conflict...David Gilmour gave me goosebumps in that video and I think Van stunk it up with his part! Van's getting old I think...
he uses terms like: .
~ its okay if you dont recognize gods sovergnty .
~ its okay , you dont know better, if you knew what i knew then you wouldnt (celebrate xmas) lol .. i told him i knew what he knew, and its irrelevant, havent gotten to the fact they can play with pinatas because they dont mean the same thing they used to.
Goodness Gracious, welcome and I feel your pain. I, too, was never a JW but have married one who decided to go back after we were married. Good luck. It's a long hard road.
in the jw's teaching that there will not be endless punishment of the wicked, but that the unrighteous people will be annihilated and cease to exist.
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what bible verses to they use to support this teachings?.
They pull it out of their a$$es and call it "bible-based" beliefs.
