miss k and her friend miss w arrived promptly today.
our scheduled topic of discussion: jesus' claim to be "the way, the truth and the life..." john 14:6 since she was basing this topic choice on the fact that i had quoted that verse, i'm not sure why... she spent what seemed like a very long time, hopping through scriptures that all said that jesus was the truth, the way, or the life.
ok, so we agreed... i kept waiting for her to get to a point, or sway from this principle.. of course, she summed up with scriptures that show how jesus submits to the father, and what does that mean we should do?
"So she kept pointing out how Jesus submits to the Father. Ok. Got it. So therefore... we submit to Jesus, and do what... ??"
She's not getting her JW facts right. She doesn't submit to Jesus, she submits to the GB, the travelling overseers, and the local elders. The scripture says that the head of the man is Christ. JWs don't believe that. They don't have a direct relationship with Jesus, they have a WT directed intermediary.
That's exactly how Christian-based cults work.
look at this pile of steaming horse sh*t. this is meant to soften the horror of this god of war destroying 7,000,000,000 men, women and children in a holy jihad.
draw close book p 65 .
19 consider an illustration: suppose that a mans family was being attacked by a vicious animal and that the man jumped into the fray and killed the violent beast.
Adding to gingerbread and objectivetruth...
"The father also kills some of his family because they didn't tell everyone else what a wonderful and perfect father he was."
so its now all clear!.
the reason why that damned wt article several months back said the quote:.
"we may be asked to do something by jehovahs organization, and we should be ready to obey even if it doesnt seem reasonable from a human standpoint or not".
More and more this makes me think of the Twilight Zone episode "Nick of Time."
Rather than it just being a "Mystic Seer" machine, it's Watchtower Corporation. Rather than just taking a few coins, WT will take all your money. And rather than letting you just walk out of the Busy Bee Cafe, WT will persecute anyone who dares to walk out of a Kingdumb Hell. WT can't tell the future any more than a cheap penny fortune machine. But woe to those who believe WT, they'll wind up like the poor miserable couple at the very end of the episode. They were ready to obey, even thought it wasn't reasonable.
is this where i can introduce myself?.
nice to meet everyone.
thanks for your patience while i learn how to post on this new site.. <3 beth shan.
Welcome!
Love the memes. Here's one of my favorites:
leaving the university with my degree!.
exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before i walk.. i was certainly stressed about doing this.
i'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close!
Ugh! I should have stayed home last night.
It's not that I didn't have fun or did anything "bad". But when I got up this morning (well, it was morning somewhere), I looked in the mirror and discovered 5 hickeys, love bites, or whatever you want to call them. Two are well below collar level. Two will be pretty well hidden by my collar tomorrow. One is just slightly looking over my collar, ready to shout to the world, "Guess who got lucky!"
Of course, my JW parents will be at the graduation tomorrow. If it was just going to be my faded siblings, I'd wear my badges with pride. Instead, I'm gonna try ice, brushing, massage, and concealer. Either I'll have sufficiently faded hickeys, or my entire neck will be one large bruise.
leaving the university with my degree!.
exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before i walk.. i was certainly stressed about doing this.
i'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close!
Not only will I be getting a "worldly" degree, but I'll be wearing a flowing gown and fancy hat when I get it!
across that stage tommorrow dressed in graduate garb picking up a masters degree.. .
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I hope you rock your gown like I'm rockin' mine!
the gb can kiss my ass.. i'm writing "0" on the little slip of paper they pass out.. hey here's a thought:.
you know that "widow's might" stuff they're always talking about?
well i'm pretty dang sure that the lady was giving from the heart not because she filled out some dumba$$ piece of paper pledging two small coins several months previous!.
The illustration was supposed to be:
"if you had three kids, and had saved up $10,000 each for them for any emergency health needs, and Watchtower told you to give them the money because your family needs to learn to rely on Jehovah instead of "worldly riches", would you hesitate to use the money saved for your three kids to help Watchtower make even more money after recently selling about a billion dollars worth of real estate*? Thats what the GB is asking us all to do worldwide...to stop putting our trust in unrighteous riches and give them all our money"
*A billion dollars is only an estimate since WT never, ever allows for any outside audits or public accounting for how their money is made or spent.
dear brothers:.
we are writing as a follow-up to the letters dated january 24, 2014, and march 29, 2014,. to all congregations regarding the adjustments now underway to accelerate construction of king-.
dom halls and assembly halls.. .
Watchtower doesn't have a biblical precident for this, but I think it deserves a couple:
before i stopped attending i noticed that several members left our hall.
i also noticed that when family members gave talks there was an infux of visitors too support their relative.
still i noticed, that our meeting attendance would go way down then all of a sudden our hall would be full of people we'd never seen before.. is this the new thing...the elders sending their families and ms servants to other halls to make it appear there is a lot of new members when the co comes to visit or when certain talks are given?.
Did any of the visitors look like this?
It's the latest for increasing the attendance and diversity in you local congregation!
