Posts by tenyearsafter

Both were wishy-washy and passive in the face of challenge (Buchanan in the face of slavery and the rising Confederacy and Carter on galloping inflation and an emerging radical Iran)

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New paper article on JW's Neighbor.... to funny

by Peaches1978 in

http://tinypic.com/r/21azhgw/7.

good morning everyone,.

i just thought i would share a good morning laugh, this was an article in city paper here in philadelphia in the love & hate section, and this is what made my morning laugh harder then ever.. i thought i would share it with ou guys.. .

tenyearsafter

Yikes...it sounds like someone has anger management issues! LOL

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Things in the past that show you that your doubts started earlier than you thought

by sabastious in

i was just talking to my wife this morning about underlining or highlighting the wt paragraphs.. when i was 13 years old i would fight with my dad because i refused to highlight the answers.. the reason was because i wanted my comment to be genuine.

i felt that highlighting the "answer" made me lean on just using that as a crutch and not truly putting it in my own words.. i still hold that argument now, and i am 26. the only reason you would ever have to highlight something in a study book would be if you needed to remember it, maybe it is fairly complicated or subtle information that could be easily forgotten.. so many times in the wt the "question" has the same phrase that's in the paragraph!

it's literally like playing connect the dots.. so what i would do is not highlight during the family study.

tenyearsafter

As long as I can remember back into my early childhood, I hated field service or talking to others about my "faith"...if it were the most important thing that God wanted us to do, why did I feel that way? It just took 40 more years for it to actually sink in and make me act on it.

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Interesting question to ask a Witness

by sabastious in

if you are ever in a situation where a witness is seemingly interested in what you have to say and believe ask them this question:.

"if what you believed about the witnesses and the watchtower organzation was false and there was no hope of paradise or anything else, would you want to find that out?

or would you like to be kept in blissful ignorance and die believing it was all true.".

tenyearsafter

Excellent wobble!

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Have any religions in history ever died out?

by mamalove in

i looked this up just now and came up with this list:.

following are the religions that no longer exist.. .

1. sumerian religion.

tenyearsafter

I don't think there are any Heaven's Gate adherents left alive...

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Judicial Committee versus Sharia Law...

by tenyearsafter in

has anyone thought about how similar jw judicial committees are in function to islamic sharia courts of law?

they both judge people using religious standards and can hand down "death" sentences for those violating those standards.

granted, jw's can't physically kill you for violating the wt standards (though they would if it is was legal), but they can "kill" you in the eyes of your jw friends and family...and they believe you are dead in god's eyes as well.

tenyearsafter

Darth...I see it more as a similarity between man-created control mechanisms...do what I say or else!

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Judicial Committee versus Sharia Law...

by tenyearsafter in

has anyone thought about how similar jw judicial committees are in function to islamic sharia courts of law?

they both judge people using religious standards and can hand down "death" sentences for those violating those standards.

granted, jw's can't physically kill you for violating the wt standards (though they would if it is was legal), but they can "kill" you in the eyes of your jw friends and family...and they believe you are dead in god's eyes as well.

tenyearsafter

True Vampire...but if you could legally be stoned for being an apostate, guess who would be flinging the first rocks?!

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Judicial Committee versus Sharia Law...

by tenyearsafter in

has anyone thought about how similar jw judicial committees are in function to islamic sharia courts of law?

they both judge people using religious standards and can hand down "death" sentences for those violating those standards.

granted, jw's can't physically kill you for violating the wt standards (though they would if it is was legal), but they can "kill" you in the eyes of your jw friends and family...and they believe you are dead in god's eyes as well.

tenyearsafter

Has anyone thought about how similar JW Judicial Committees are in function to Islamic Sharia Courts of Law? They both judge people using religious standards and can hand down "death" sentences for those violating those standards. Granted, JW's can't physically kill you for violating the WT standards (though they would if it is was legal), but they can "kill" you in the eyes of your JW friends and family...and they believe you are dead in God's eyes as well. Despite the similarities, JW's would be the first to point out how inhuman and cruel Sharia Law is...especially in denying Moslems the choice to change their belief systems...ironic, huh?

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Going door to door to recruit members doesn't work

by JH in

when you look at all the hours they do going door to door world wide and then you look at how many hours preaching it takes to bring just 1 person to their organization, it's not efficient.. my mom goes to a baptist church now, and i was surprised to know that 500 go to that meeting on sundays and they don't go door to door to go get these people.. there might be 80 witnesses at my hall and going door to door doesn't make much of a difference.

maybe it's even counter productive since people don't like being pested at home..

tenyearsafter

eric,

I agree with you...I wasn't arguing for or against the stats other than to point out how numbers can be manipulated to create confusing information. The JW's do have some growth in the USA, but the greater increases are outside of the Western countries. If we really drilled down into how the increases were determined, I am sure that the majority of increase among JW's is from the addition of the children of current members to the "new" membership roles. The Pew Report also notes that JW's have the highest attrition rate of "born in" members. If we were to determine net growth rates of JW's solely by their addition of recruits from the door to door work, I would guess we would see a zero or negative growth rate in the USA.

TYA