sometimes i get a strong curiosity to start dabbling into other religions, other faiths, you know?
really different ones such as islam, judaism, hinduism, etc.. has anyone here looked into something else?
has your spirituality been satisfied by any other than christianity?.
If you are going to choose Christianity, choose Orthodox
All the tradition of Catholicism without the top down papacy
If you are going to choose Islam, choose Ismaili as it lacks the legalism and inferiority complex of sharia islam.
If you are going to choose a Dharmic religion choose Sikh, because turbans, swordfighting and soup kitchens are awesome.
http://rt.com/news/270121-church-facial-recognition-software/.
churches are joining the widening club of entities using big brother-style facial recognition software to track people.
and they are doing so in secret, according to a producer of a specialized program designed for religious institutions.. churchix uses cctv footage or photos to match churchgoers against a database of high-resolution pictures that a church has to compile on its own.
my kids were rotfl when they saw daria (remember her on mtv in the 90s) the other day on hulu.
there isn't anything offensive about the show that their mother can put her finger on, yet.
they aren't ready for catcher in the rye, but daria explores many of the same themes of phonyness and shallowness in a way that a ten year old can understand.
i was inspired to post this because so many of you lovingly support your spouse by going to meetings conventions etc .knowing the crap your going to have to put up with , hoping that someday he/she will wake up to the bs.. and your willing to do this for as long as it takes .i take my hat off to you all.. it must take a lot of intestinal fortitude and love to do that .. smiddy.
i came across this a few weeks back while doing some online research http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/ (i hope that's how you post links) and i'm curious to know if any of you have done research into this book and what are your comments/thoughts on it?.
i've read through the watchers and the adam and eve story, quite interesting opens up another angle of the whole "in the beginning".... how accurate is this book?
why was it left out of the bible?
I'm resurrecting this topic because this is the stumper. How does a Jehovah's Witness convince someone who believes that the Book of Enoch is Scripture that it is NOT Scripture?
If the Book of Enoch is not Scripture, then the book of Jude is not Scripture, since Jude quotes from Enoch. So for you to convince me that the Book of Enoch is NOT Scripture you must prove that the Book of Jude does NOT quote Enoch. Good luck clean shaven missionary.
watchtower, study edition, september 2015, "are you reaching the stature that belongs to christ?":.
paragraph 6: the mature christian shows humility in that he recognizes that jehovahs ways and standards are always better than his own.
[footnote: for example, older, experienced brothers may be asked to step aside from certain responsibilities and to lend support to younger brothers as they take on those responsibilities.].
watchtower, study edition, september 2015, "are you reaching the stature that belongs to christ?":.
paragraph 6: the mature christian shows humility in that he recognizes that jehovahs ways and standards are always better than his own.
[footnote: for example, older, experienced brothers may be asked to step aside from certain responsibilities and to lend support to younger brothers as they take on those responsibilities.].
have you seen this?.
http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/whiteboard-animations/social-network-smart/#?insight.
not sure how wide spread this is, but from my social media land i saw 2 separate videos, from two halls in completely different towns featuring their kids having a demonstration on the service meeting (i am guessing last night as i didn't go).
these kids are really young!
maybe this was just a coincidence at first i thought it was the same video then realized theses people live hundreds of miles apart.
for some background, i am still in.
still an elder.
very much awake.
