minister walks into an costco store and saw labels on the.
bible $14.95, fiction.
the news media contacted the office of.
I wonder was the person who made the decision to label the Bible as fiction just uneducated or was it a deliberate act?
It would have to be an uneducated person to categorize a story about a talking snake, or a global flood as fiction. And what about Jonah and the whale? These events don't defy science or logic in the least.
as a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .
if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .
if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .
Fo' shizzle
i used to always see them preaching.
now, it seems as though they rarely are around.
the only witnesses i see, every once in a while, are the hispanic ones..
I never see them in my neighborhood. I'm starting to see them more frequently at the laundromat I go to. They've interrupted me a couple of times when I've been reading my book. Who does that?
over many years i have looked at jwn.
in fact barely a day goes by without my fix.. .
it is a site of contradictions.. .
I can't speak for JWN as whole, but I have zero tolerance for anyone who doesn't agree with me.
there are no convincing arguments for god, but some are worse than others.
i thought it would be interesting to see what people consider the best (of the bad) arguments for god?.
in my oppinion it is the fine-tuning argument from cosmology.
The best argument is the Watchtower society. Only a wise, all-knowing god could establish such a pure and loving organization as his earthly representative.
Crisis of Conscience and Gentile Times Reconsidered. Read half of In Search of Christian Freedom, but never finished it.
how many here are (a) ex-jw, (b) non-jw with jw relatives or spouses, (c) inactive jw, or (d) active jw who stay in for your own reasons?.
Technically still a JW, but only because I never DA'd or got DF'd. Haven't been to a meeting in 8 years.
so what is your story?
who did you leave behind?.
we got some this in a previous thread, but i am always interested in hearing more about you all.. .
Born-in. Started having serious doubts when I was in my early twenties, but wasted another ten years trying to reconcile those doubts. I finally made a clean break, about 8 years ago.
i just caught this in an upcoming study article which will be "studied" in the congregations the week of 11/18-24/13:.
he and his wife were elated when their eldest daughter, age ten, told them that she loved her parents, loved the brothers and sisters, and loved jehovah very much.
she said that she wanted to dedicate her life to jehovah and get baptized.
It breaks my heart every time I hear about a child that young getting baptized. Every single one I've known personally, without exception, were disfellowshipped at some point when they were still teenagers. A ten year old isn't even prepared for the challenges of adolescence, much less the weight of a lifelong commitment, that has dire consequences if you break it.
finally, i've found the reason why some men become homosexuals.. the 1976 book "your youth: getting the best of it" explains it here in great detail.... .
This is exactly why I don't watch Glee. Why take the chance?
