what a terrible way of wasting valuable time.
going to meetings is the biggest scam.
you get nothing more from going than you would if you read a publication in the comfort of your home.
So now I figure I'm like everyone else on the planet. I dont know what's going on. Unlike a lot of people, I am aware that I dont know
Jaguarbass,
Thanks for doing all that study and reading for me. Now I'm aware that I don't know what's going on either. But ya know there's a certain peace in knowing that you don't know. And it has also become fun to search for somthing to know again. That's what makes life interesting.
If I keep digging, will I find gold?
LD
i have been to mexico twice and canada twice.
she has been to canada once, and she lived in germany when her parents were in the military.
Mexico, Canada, Guatemala, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, China, Estonia, Poland, Finland
LD
if an elder or elders demanded that they wanted to talk to you, what would you do?.
if the elders began "questioning" you, how would you deal with them?.
I don't get too much attention from the elders that I served with for nearly 25 years. As an ex-elder, I think they are all slightly frightened of me.
DITTO LD
do you remember that question that was asked of jesus by pontious pilate almost 2000 years ago?.
well i finally heard the best answer yet last night at the emmy's by tommy smothers.. he said, "truth is":.
"whatever you can get other people to believe".
You don't believe what I just said or you wouldn't have posted this thread or responded in the way you did.
Inunya, lighten up please this is a philisophical discussion here. Take it easy you sound stressed.
do you remember that question that was asked of jesus by pontious pilate almost 2000 years ago?.
well i finally heard the best answer yet last night at the emmy's by tommy smothers.. he said, "truth is":.
"whatever you can get other people to believe".
Truth is a Person, not someone's personal philosophy.
OK, now I believe what you just said. Anybody else got a definition of truth they want to try and make me believe? LD
do you remember that question that was asked of jesus by pontious pilate almost 2000 years ago?.
well i finally heard the best answer yet last night at the emmy's by tommy smothers.. he said, "truth is":.
"whatever you can get other people to believe".
Do you remember that question that was asked of Jesus by Pontious Pilate almost 2000 years ago?
Well I finally heard the best answer yet last night at the Emmy's by Tommy Smothers.
He said, "truth is":
"whatever you can get other people to believe"
He got me to believe that.
LD
i was at the circuit assembly today.. during the last talk the district overseer said the following:.
satan is trying to destroy god's people by any means necessary.
remember the catastrophic massacre events in rwanda and burundi in 1994?
So, it all makes sense now. The world trade center buildings were taken down to get to the JW janitors that worked there. Or they were really trying to fly into the Watchtower bldg's and missed. Satan is really out to get them in fact everyone is out to get them. My diagnosis is paranoid shizophrania.
LD
geat ready to gag.
you just can't make this stuff up.. .
subject: fw: book study change in 2009. .
OMG,OMG
I'm speechless
LD
here's the text of the letter:.
christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses.
to all bodies of elders.
Somebody just above mentioned a very intreaging idea: The JW organization is slowly and irreversably become more Mormon-like in their organization.
So I wonder if they're passing out red underware and annointing oil at Patterson to the PO's/coordinators?
not sure if this has been discussed already.
two things stand out to me in this piece.
one, the vatican does not recognize "jehovah" as one of the accepted pronunciations of the tetragrammaton (yhwh).
In my opinion does God really care whether we call him by a name or a title? Isn't he perfect which to me means he can overlook anything humans do in their desire to want to please him in anyway they think possible. So again some group of religious fanatics are trying to tell God's children what to or what not to call him.
What matter's is what each individual want's to call God. If I want to call God Jay, or Yah or "the big guy" or "big daddy" or anything else that makes me feel close to a creator it's my business and not the business of some religion that is defining the way I worship God.
If God really cared about what people called him then why didn't he inspire someone to write the simple statement in the scriptures:
"This is what I want everyone of you people to call me:............."
LD
