a reporter tracks down the remnants of harold campings apocalyptic movement and finds out you dont have to be crazy to believe something nuts.. .
an excerpt of his write-up:.
another engineer i came to know had spent most of his retirement savings, well over a half-million dollars, taking out full-page newspaper ads and buying an rv that he had custom-painted with doomsday warnings.
Great article, it helped explain what I went through but:
Did I miss something?
I did not see any mention of Jdubs or their beliefs in the article or any of the comments even though Miller was mentioned.
the bORG is so puny in the eyes of the world that much of what they do and believe go's without notice to the world
i found it interesting - the twist at the end was unsuspected and thought provoking:.
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Just watched the trailer, it looks interesting.
I think I'll rent it
i was raised in a witness family but never got baptized.
i have been studying with an extended family member for a while after 20+ years of being away from the kingdom hall.
i asked them about the paradise earth after armageddon and if we will become robots if we survive.
The understanding when I stopped going, 4 years ago was:
When paradise is established there will be a thousand years of life without Satan and his demons, they will be abyssed (I don't think that's a word in the dictionary but it made sense to me). Then Satan and his boys will be released from the abyss for one last attempt at tempting humans. Satan and the boys will be somewhat successful because the ones retaken by Satan will number as the grains of sand. Then, Satan, his boys, and all those tempted will be destroyed by God. The rest, still alive, have free will but without the wicked temptations. They will be educated about what just happened, God's sovereignty and all that, and they will just toe the line evidently (to use a phrase the bORG often uses in their propaganda) because they know if they don't they will be ZAPPED.
So the question
Is it really free will if they know the consequence of their decision is total annihilation?
To what extent is free will really free?
synopsis.
forty-year-old andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there.
he is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife.
It's on Netflix and it can be streamed.
Sounds interesting
in the typical do as we say , not as we do type mentality - the wt society puts forth in this current wt study article ( jw's only wt ) - that it's not " advisable " or " reasonable " for jehovah's witnesses to seek entering their own business ventures , or further themselves by getting a college education, or even have a career - due to the imminent coming of the alleged " end of the system " or alleged " paradise " .
the guilt and control used here is ridiculous.
in the article titled , " why put jehovah's service first ?
because who is going to pay for all the CO's and DO's and BO's and ZO's if all the masses go into minimum wage work and can't take care of themselves,
much less their organization!?
There will always be some of them who will ignore the crap and do what they want despite what the GB says. They will then be guilted into providing for all the fools who did the bORG's bidding and then they will all just eek their way through life claiming that Jehovah is providing just what they need and the wealthier brothers are so generous and loving and they take care of them and yada yada yada
Isn't this just amazing bullshit in fact now I think the bORG is spreading the GB's shit on their WT and AW rags in addition to bullshit. Makes it more from God that way.
how many times have you heard a jw say something along the lines of "this must be god's organization because of [insert reason here]".
most of those reasons could equally apply to almost any organization on earth, including secular businesses.. the most recent one i heard was from an elder trying to convince someone why the watchtower is god's organization.
his reason was because "it [the watchtower] wouldn't have lasted this long without god's backing".
It's just as unbelievable as he is
if you knew that a murder would take place and did.
nothing to stop it would you share some responsibility?.
if you knew that your neighbor was going to be robbed.
Sounds to me like God would be bloodguilty.
funny video never saw dave allen before
as some of you know, i started college 5 years ago for the first time at age 27. i had been out of the "truth" for 9 years at that time, but had just broken free of the mentality.
well, on saturday i walked across the stage with the 130th graduating class at rocky mountain college!.
after 5 years of working several jobs, taking care of two little boys as a single mom, and trying to get the most out of my college experience, i earned my master of accountancy, bachelor of science in business management, and minors in writing and organizational leadership.
Well done, you worked hard. Contratulations
so i was doing research on yhwh in the hebrew scriptures.
i see that the wt admits that yahweh is a more accurate hebrew pronunciation of yhwh.. but, is jehovah an acceptable way to translate yahweh into english?
if not, what is the best way to translate yhwh into english?.
Why should I care?
My Father had a name "Joseph" I don't know if I ever used his name when talking to or talking about him.
