yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
Welcome Viviane!
Interesting that you chose your first post on this thread. Isn't it nauseating to think that we used to worship such a weak and loveless god that is still harboring a grudge because a naked lady listened to a talking snake and ate an apple?
i havent been to a meeting in four years.
during that time i completed a successful fade from the organization after almost 40 years being baptized.
it seems nothing anymore will surprise or shock me with these latest bunch of brooklyn leaders.
"If they are smart, they are looking for ways to grant themselves access to view your internet usage, both at and away from the KH. I'm not sure what is legal, but I'm sure there are ways to track users somehow."
We're talking about mostly elderly people with barely a high school education. They don't know how to erase their own browser history, let alone monitor the usage of others. I wouldn't be surprised if the elders and their kids are the most likely to find a way to use KH wifi to access porn.
i havent been to a meeting in four years.
during that time i completed a successful fade from the organization after almost 40 years being baptized.
it seems nothing anymore will surprise or shock me with these latest bunch of brooklyn leaders.
I think it's fantastic that they have suddenly stopped condemning the Internet and are trying to embrace it. It used to be that JWs could only get their litteratrash from the KH counter. Now they're encouraged to use the web. So instead of going to the KH litteratrash counter...
here comes a WT style illustration...
they have to go to a library completely controlled by satan's system, and have to walk past pornographic bookstores, prostitutes, every other church, apostates, atheists, and more pornography before they can get to The Watchtower.
I find it, well, happifying.
my wife is preparing to spend hundreds on a lap top to take into the field service.
i carefully mentioned that the wts has gone from condemning the web to now using it.. her reply" no they never condemned it just said to people to be careful in using it".
my memories of convention speakers must be different and" this is the way things are now; its all downloaded from the web".. with that as a given then why isnt the wts issuing computers to any one who wants one?
The beauty of the JW strategy is that TTATT is just a click away. Google "Jehovah's Witnesses" and you get the top links to their site. Fourth link following that is to this site. Which is shoulder to shoulder with an endless array of nonJW and exJW sites.
bulletin.
the wt has signed an agreement subject to ... blah, blah for an 80 acre site near chelmsford in essex.
they have just though bought new accomodation in mill hill.
Now if Britain would revoke their tax-free status for not being charitable, I just might start to believe that there is a god.
1) the signs of the times are qualified:.
luke 21:.
then he said to them: nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
But Jesus also said that it was coming as a thief in the night without notice. How can he say it's coming without notice when there's this long list of identifying "signs" that it's about to happen?
It was also said that the end would be as the days of Noah with people eating, drinking, taking no note. But the bible also says that there will be famine, disease, and total misery in the Last Days.
So which is it?
As we see with JWs, if there's a famine it's proof that the end is near. If there's a bumper crop it's a proof that the end is near.
And then you also have the "it's coming when you least expect it" and the "always be in expectation of it." It becomes mutually exclusive.
ever since mitt romney turned the spotlight on the lds church a growing tsunami of disaffection has been accelerated and brought to a head.. the lds core faithful members are leaving in increasing numbers such that growth has not simply stagnated in the west but it has actively reversed.
to their credit the church is responding aggressively but not only is it too late, it is an impossible task.
you can only paint sh*t so many ways.
Interesting update. Just like JWs, they are ready to blame those who leave rather than admit that the problem is the church itself.
you can't make up this kind of religious nut-job fanaticism:.
http://www.4utah.com/story/utah-man-fasting-to-stop-same-sex-marriages/d/story/k9sjvlgmmeuberqg9aeobq.
although in retrospect, it's no more extreme than those jws who die refusing blood.... adam.
Is it just me? When I hear of something like this, I automatically put him in the category of those preachers and congressmen that hate gays, but then are later found with a boy toy.
has this been covered yet?.
i was looking to download the new nwt from jw.org and stumbled across an awake on creation - march 2014 edition.
and it always interests me to see the latest spins they'll try to make creation sound plausible.. seems now they are implying the sun, moon, and stars were created when god said "let there be light".
Gen. chapter 2 contradicts chap. 1 by explaining how Adam was created before there were any plants. Animals would have had to be created later since there would have been nothing for them to eat.
Genesis is clearly a variety of legends that are very poorly pasted together.
many other so called ice cream at grocery stores as well.
have you noticed how it seems to be different than from a couple years ago?
that it doesn't melt, it just warms up and becomes like a whipped cream texture?
OUTLAW: That is truly priceless!
