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yesterday i got visited by the dubs!
" then he said, only jehovah can judge the heart etc., you know, the usual inconsequential drivel all witnesses must spout when faced with this very important question, so i said, "so all those people are going to die then?".
Hurry up and get yourself "Gentile Times Reconsidered" It really puts the lie to all the crap about "more earthquakes" etc, etc, etc.
And there are plenty of sites about JW prophecies that didn't quite make the grade. I have those sites on my other computer and when I can get back on there I'll post them for you.
during my... adventure, with these people, i have raised a question with them.
who writes the articles?
makes the rules?
Obviously, there has never been a Jehovah's Witness prophet.
it's written in the bible that we are all sinners, right?.
it's written in the bible that god forgives, right?.
it is impossible for us not to sin, so what difference is there if we sin alot or sin a little?
Now that's never been a question for me. The only question I've ever had about that was where do I draw the line? And it came to me in a dream once that the line was with animals, gays, and ugly women. Other than that, I'm game. (No offense now; ;let's not get anythig started here. Just a little humor)
this may seem like strange questions, but is for some research i am doing.
if you could give a short reply, it would be appreciated.
i would very much like to hear the views of any who live outside the usa but have heard something about tennessee.
The drive crossing the mountains between Asheville and Johnson City, TN the winter of 67 just after a snow storm that left even the smallest twig white with snow - everything was white, and me crossing the mountains between those two cities in my '65 Corvair Monza Convertible with the snow tires. Alone.
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some say god exists outside of time and space therefore he can predict the future.. any comments?
I don't believe the question has been properly put. Let's play a variant of Jeopardy. Here's the answer.
God has no location in space and exists outside of time.
Thus God can exist nowhere IN time.
according to the pay attention book no observers are allowed.
how ever please note what a paragraph from the following letter says.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
to all circuit and district overseers may 6 2002 page 3 para 2.. assisting elders with judicial matters.. while it is best for a travelling overseer not to serve on judicial committees, he can assist by being an advisor when needed.
That depends on how determined you are and how much spine you've got. You're not dealing with a legally constituted court of the United States or of any other country. This is merely an eccliastical court of kangaroo characteristics which takes itself way too seriously. If I wanted observers at one of these jokes, there would be observers or there would be no JC.
And another thing. I would not participate in a JC that was held anywhere but in my own home. I certainly would not participate in one being held in the Lion's Den of the local KH. It would be held in the Lion's Den of my own home or it wouldn't be held.
These characters essentially are "fools, folly-like, controlling skill" and they could take themselves seriously with someone else. They represent a cult attempting to act like they know what they're doing and pretending to represent God while they're doing it. Screw them and that.
My home. My observers. At my convenience. You can't be walked on unless you lie down first.
.....and that's why i hate, dislike, can't stand, anyone that used to be an elder???
..........after reading so many "bad elder" stories, i can understand why some might feel that they were just one of the rank-and-file and were treated poorly vs. someone like an elder that could have authority and try to intimidate those that they felt they could push around.
I don't know if it was because I was living with my uncle who was the congregation overseer before the elder arrangement was arranged, or if it was because I was unimpressed by elders in general, but I never had a "just a publisher" mentality.
My uncle predicted that the elder arrangement was going to be a failure. And it has been. The men appointed as elders are no more appointed by the Holy Spirit to be elders than I am appointed to be floor monitor in a girl's dorm. These men are not qualified to be elders any way you want to slice it.
At work these "elders" walk around some plant or other changing burned out light bulbs. After work they're supposed to be some sort of spiritual lights? My ass. They are no more fit for leadership positions than I am for birthin' babies. The elder arrangement is a total, unmitigated failure and should be abandonded. Now.
mrs ozzie and i have been trekking slowly but surely to the top of this magnificent globe on our latest r&r.
from the former soviet bloc we have headed by steamer hoping to try to get as near to the northern polar region as possible.
we got close enough, around the 75th parallel, but it sure is cold up here!
When you say "top of the world" do you mean Arctic or Antarctic? All 'pends on your point of view, y'know?
the bible states mankind was made by god from plain old dirt.
science however, has shown that we are in the nieghborhood of 98% monkey (chimpanzee).
was god lazy, in that he didn't start from scratch in making people, but used animal parts to assemble the human body?
"Doesn't mean there aren't supernatural causes, but just that science is not able to deal with it very well."
Now we're getting somewhere. When science is better able to deal with quantuum physics, we will make great leaps at closing the gaps existing between the purely physical and the purely immaterial.
IMO
No wonder we kicked youse guys out as undesireables back in 1778.
