and by the way, she will be unfaithful.
believe it was god or satan???.
the book of hosea.
Well, Ezekial was commanded to lie on his left side for 390 days. Then lie on his right side for 40 days. During this time he was told that all his meals would be the strange "Ezekial bread" "using dried human excrement as fuel". After complaining about this terrible assignment, Jehovah allowed him to use cow crap instead for preparing his bread.
Prophet of Jehovah is just not a good career choice.
i attended the regional convention (district convention) over the last weekend, and thought i would spend a few minutes putting down some thoughts, for your amusement.
i will bounce around a bit, as my notes and thoughts were a little craaaaazy.. we met at one of the smaller venues on the west coast, with attendance around 7,000.
(28 baptized.... <.04%) we were tied in to the international convention in arlington, tx.. my first thought, only about 2 hours in, was how much this sounded like a plain old sales meeting!
"One of his parts he mentioned that we are SUPPOSED to go over the Daily Text every day with our family."
Losch didn't really mean that. What he meant was that families in the future are supposed to go over the Daily Text every day.
a discussion of this talk on friday morning deserves its own thread.
as i said elsewhere, it was a remarkable one.
the speaker was manfred vencebi (google him - he's a bethel bigwig) and some of his remarks are real gems.
"Yes, people live longer today, but what is the point of having a longer lifespan and better health...? 100 years ago, people may have lived 40, 50, 60 years"
Ah for the good old days when all the GB farts would have all died at 40!
how's these comments in this weeks study?.
i understood that i had neglected my children when they most needed my guidance and affection, admits eduardo.
i had not been there to read them bible stories, to pray with them, to cuddle them, and to play with them.
Par. 19 "People comment how happy Jehovah's Witnesses are."
Let me guess. The 'people' that are making these comments just happen to be 2 dudes in the Writing Department that can't tell the difference between genuinely happy people (like I will be when I land a good job) and zombies that are in an over-medicated stupor (like I used to be).
okay, some good takeaway:.
i have never been to a convention quite like this before.
a very friendly vibe all around, lots of banners and posters with sayings like "sending love to all our brothers", "see you in the paradise", "ecuador sends greetings", and "jehovahs-witness.net" (okay, i lied on that last one...).
"But, for all the text that has been ranted over Loesch in the past, what really struck me was that he is really a very boring speaker."
His delivery is a rather slow-paced monotone. It's some of the bizarre material he comes up with when he's not given a manuscript or comprehensive outline that really sets him apart as cray-zeee!
Indeed, I shall forever remember a morning worship which he delivered in his slow, monotone, 'matter of fact' way, where he explained to the entire bethel family (including the tie-line to Wallkill and Patterson) that in Genesis where it stated that the woman's craving for her husband... wait for it... was sexual craving. He explained how Genesis was correct in showing that women have an innate, out-of-control, sexual craving for men. I think he went so far as to reason that christian husbands need to be understanding of this and be ready to satisfy their wive's womanly need for sex. It was over the top, totally embarrassing for those of us that were awake and paying attention. And I heard many clarifying remarks afterward from both husbands and wives that women don't crave it nearly as much as men wish.
when i was kid, when we would pass a church, my dad would point to it and say, "look!
there's a goat factory!
he never explained that he was trying to be funny and young kids take things quite literal.
I most frequently heard churches called 'goat sheds' or 'institutes of the blind'.
i had my first real birthday party yesterday.
call me an irredeemable pagan, but i was massively excited about this, the whole thing was very special, i got a little emotional and i think my friends must have found it a little strange but it was just nice to be creature worshipped.
when i was a child my parents always used to tell people i didn't miss out by not celebrating my birthday but i did miss out.
Happy first birthday!
I still haven't had a real, official, cake and presents, first birthday party yet.
A head on a platter birthday cake would be pretty cool!
the old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.
intact- is viagra for the guys.
funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.
Up next: Hobby Lobby owners paying illegal immigrant children less than $1 per day for 18 hour workdays to make Christmas ornaments... because that's their religious view.
a discussion of this talk on friday morning deserves its own thread.
as i said elsewhere, it was a remarkable one.
the speaker was manfred vencebi (google him - he's a bethel bigwig) and some of his remarks are real gems.
"We have our own Bible."
No. WT corporation took the Catholic Bible (including the fabricated word "Jehovah" that a monk came up with centuries ago) and doctored up their own translation (by unnamed and unqualified "scholars") to favor the WT version of deceptive teachings and false prophecies.
i am not talking about posters here on this board ( otherwise i wouldn't be here would i) but in general.. si i am talking those ex j.ws in my community and we just dont get on.
well ok its a bit of an exaggeration to say i don't get on with them, we just dont associate.
this botherd me at first as i thought we would have much in common, but it wasn't so, and it's just the way it is.
Loving every other exJW isn't a mandatory requirement to be an exJW.
That was one of the things I hated about being a JW. It was a requirement that you had to love, even be willing to die for every a$sh*ole of a brother. It was even worse in bethel.
Other than that, there are plenty of exJWs in my life and on the forum here to address that aspect of my life. But I don't feel the need for it to be the only aspect of my life, or force myself to have a close relationship with exJWs I just don't click with. It causes me particular pain when I see someone make the smart move to leave the JWs, but then go on to make a lot of terrible choices in their lives. The more I move on with my life, the more I feel like this is an important abuse recovery network. Consequently, I don't want to immerse myself in the exJW world because it will always remind me of the pain, deception, and wasted years.
