i am from a se asia country.
was not long in the truth.
only 3 years.
welcome to the forum.
How can I be out of the body?
I guess we should call you "lightweight", maybe. It's called astral projection. Most JWs learn how to do this during meetings. Only they just seem to call it "mind wandering". We all want to be somewhere else. Glad you could establish some common ground here.
I THINK BARNEY IS BACK.
ok, so if they change the rules and allow everyone who feels the spirit to partake of the memorial then that means that there may be no limit on how many are sealed.... am i right?
if thats' true then ther's no longer a 144k?
if that's true, what does that mean about the great crowd?.
The 144,000 were resurrected and left at the time Jesus was crucified.
It's right there in the scriptures. Matthew 27:52-53. Go read it.
Part of the diversion is that wbts picks and chooses what you read.
about memorial.....
"An ethnobotanist in Santa Cruz, California, thinks Jesus was munching magic mushrooms at the Last Supper. Clark Heinrich says man has enjoyed the psychedelic effects of mushrooms since thousands of years before Christ -- and figured the King of Kings probably turned on as well.
Heinrich says the mushroom resembles pita bread and when soaked with water it feels exactly like human skin. He figures that's the bread that Jesus was referring to at the last supper when he said "eat this bread, this is my body."
Heinrich is the author of a new book, "Magic Mushrooms In Religion And Alchemy" " | |
but they'll have to come out formerly and denounce the 114 if numbers rise beyind that. Won't they?
Dawg...really...who would know for sure what the numbers really are? All you know for sure is what THEY TELL YOU in the publication. All you can see for yourself is in your own little congo. Those published numbers can be skewed any way they want to. And paperwork can get lost.
I think their purpose for this is twofold: to uphold the new light on "generations" and to get and keep new members
I am a firm believer if you give someone enough rope they will eventually hang themselves.
So think about the impact and reaction this will have on the long time members. Those who have been so down-trodden and tried so hard to be perfect. Then along comes some newbie partaking in memorial. And you know this person has not had the years of truth and discipline you have had. Nor the trials. You know you are wiser and more tested.
Don't you think a big resentment will creep into the congs? Just my opinion.
But look farther down the road, dawg. What do YOU see happening when this actually comes into play?
hey friends, please check out the new video on u-tube and let me know what you think, so we can debate it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfdirpdbqgw.
no, it's not mine, i just feel like debating it.
The comedy of it held my interest. If it had been more serious, I doubt I would have watched the whole thing. Thank goodness, Brenda is meeting her struggle with humor. I know when I was hanging out with JWs I became a much more serious person...hardly ever laughing or smiling for a long time....and that was just not my personality that I had been all those years before. I think all that gloom and doom drowns your bubbly parts. Everything becomes too serious.
I think she would do well with a SNL focus. At least she might give the average homebody a few good lines to one-up those pests and make the JWs WANT to leave instead of being TOLD to leave. She needs to decide who is her target market and gear the videos in that direction. If its intervention...maybe she should reveal some of the flip flops and secrecies. If it is prevention...teach people how to knock 'em down at the door and leave them speechless. Teach people how NOT to feed them so the JWs can't walk away feeling persecuted and "more special".
I think this cult is so dark that humor is the balance it needs.
If she can portray the JWs as the joke they are...well, there is truth in jest. Sometimes being made fun of hits them harder in the gut. Sometimes being serious right back can give the wrong impression that JWs have something credible to say.
Brenda, its a good start and a very good effort. I truly think humor can cut it to its core and you have a great flair for humor.
Come up with some skits and send it to Lorne Michaels. Maybe an outline for South Park script. Don't try to do it all by yourself.
You may be able to enlist the aid of some other comedy writers to help and be a consultant to them.
I keep seeing you as playing the part where Sissy Spacek shoots her husband as as he is laying on the floor bleeding to death she turns to him and asks "would you like some lemonade?"
Comedy can be a powerful weapon.
list all debt other than your home.
then, if you are buying a home list that beside it.
think about what it would take to make a real difference in your life.
SO why are you asking oompa?
Did you win the lottery and you're going to send us all checks?
i read the topic on the girl who was forced a blood transfusion because of her crohn's disease- .
i have a jw friend that has this disease, does anyone know anything about this disease?
are blood transfusions often necessary??
http://www.crohnszone.org/index.php?POSTNUKESID=dbbc3e97897a7e6a85f059b2c6a6adc7
Kundra, this is an excellent website and discussion board for crohn's. You will get a lot of answers there.
hi i'm18 and am a pb going to college.
i have not been inmeaninful contact with anyone my age for the last 2 years.
no prom for me.
Hi. Welcome to the board.
Have you signed up for your first philosophy class yet?
It will probably be an eye opener for you, but don't tell your parents you are taking the course, or at least don't discuss it with them.
If they are paying your tuition, they will pull you out of school.
It is good for you to get out and make some worldly friends. All you know about non-JWs is heresay. Discover for yourself there are some really nice, loving, moral, kind people out there. And they will be good support for you when you want to ask questions and voice doubts or debate the wbts stance on things. After all, you are in college to broaden your horizon.
What is your main area of concentration right now? Have you decided on pursuing a specific degree...or just testing the waters?
Welcome to the board. I love your accent.
Dvobs...
J-Dubs
Dubs....short for the pronounce W (say it like "double U")
JW
It is board slang...you know, like watchtower has it special phrases, we have our slang also
seems to me that the primordial religion, if it could be called that, is a form of paganism that has pantheism, animism and shamanism.
also, it may contain sun worship.
in this 'religion', they felt a connection w the land, had respect for nature and the animals.
Y'all are building a good case for evolution of the mind here.
It sounds like we were an experiment all along.
Maybe we are headed "Back to the Beginning"
"Now, yet another example of the Environmental Religion comes to the forefront. It now appears that the writings of the chief prophet of the United Church of Environmentalism are now being placed in a hotel in place of the Gideon bible, long a staple in American hotel rooms. Gaia Nappa Valley Hotel and Spa will find an edition of the prophet’s writings, “An Inconvenient Truth.” "
go to this anagram site and type in your name: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/.
you might be shocked!
here were my favorites:.
I had to dig for this: TULA
Luta - an industrial conurbation in northeastern China on the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula; it now includes the cities of Dalian and Lushun
As of 2001 India census GRIndia , Atul had a population of 5356. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Atul has an average literacy rate of 84%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 55% of the males and 45% of females literate. 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.
UTLA is not available in the Wikipedia encyclopedia
UTAL is not available in the Wikipedia encyclopedia
and then, there is altu often we look for things that are not there.
now here is a little different subject we haven't discussed much.
i read a book a while back about dreams called, gestalt therapy verbatim , by frederick perls, a well known psychologist .
his take on dreams, without getting too deep, was we dream about unfinished situations in our lives which are troubling us still .
I keep having a recurring dream for the past few weeks.
Scully is there.
And she keeps putting tape over my mouth.
I woke up one time and was having an asthma attack.
