my ex-wife has her cousin soon to die, the dub familles that she is related to and would not even tell her till the last few days of his life, geee that's so christian what a find example of gods people to be, a theatrical spectacle to the world; praise the lord and pass the ammunition.
with familles like that who needs enemies.
~tin man
Wow. I guess your ex-wife's cousin needs someone to decide whether your "ex" is a worthy associate or not. This cousin cannot decide on his own?
These JW's, they really take the cake for arrogance!
-J.R.
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mine would definitely have to be the young ones.
i'm such a sucker for brit humour.
just the thought of viv and rick - cracks me up.. what gets you giggling away?
Oh no, the thread's almost been hijacked.... So I'll reach way back into the past:
1950's: Honeymooners, Your Show of Shows
1960's: Get Smart, That Girl (I liked it as a kid...)
-J.R.
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as i was posting a reply to another thread i started thinking about my two favorite sitcoms when i was a kid.
welcome back kotter, and happy days.
i always wanted to be as cool as vinny barbarino (john travolta), or arthur "the fonz" fonzerelli(henry winkler).
Where's Arnold Horschak and Potsie Webber in this? I wanted to vote for them... oh shoot, okay.
ARTHUR FONZARELLI
On one episode, Fonz went and got a library card. The following week, hundreds of thousands of American kids went and did the same thing!!
What did Barbarino ever inspire? Spitwads in the classroom?
-J.R.
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mine would definitely have to be the young ones.
i'm such a sucker for brit humour.
just the thought of viv and rick - cracks me up.. what gets you giggling away?
1970's: M*A*S*H (very funny, yet made you think!!)
1980's: Cosby Show (great urban family interaction)
1990's: Simpsons (great urban family interaction)
2000's: reruns of the above
-J.R.
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the watchtower says it's ok to lie if it's "to protect the interests of god's cause":.
*** w60 6/1 351 questions from readers *** .
from time to time letters are received asking whether a certain circumstance would justify making an exception to the christian's obligation to tell the truth.
Double post.
-J.R.
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the watchtower says it's ok to lie if it's "to protect the interests of god's cause":.
*** w60 6/1 351 questions from readers *** .
from time to time letters are received asking whether a certain circumstance would justify making an exception to the christian's obligation to tell the truth.
This bothers me a lot....Who decides "who is entitled to know" the facts? I have seen elders lie, er, theocratically war, to preserve their own reputations in front of fellow elders! It doesn't matter who gets hurt, as long as the congregation stays stable, which means the elder body must stay intact.
Does each elder have carte blanche to exercise theocratic warfare however/whenever he sees fit? Or is it just the presiding and circuit overseers (and above)?
-J.R.
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its occurred to me that one of the main reasons i even came to this website was not to bash my fellow jws (dubs) or trash the manmade,self-appointed sole channel of god's truth and salvation, but to develop a healthy thinking pattern.
to challenge myself and my beliefs.
just as others have commented i'm personally going to try and be more positive and considerate of others.
I think when we speak about being more positive, it means to respect other members of this same board. We all have a right to choose our path, whether to be religious or not, etc.
But as far as commenting on the WT Society and their actions, part of our growth has to come from realizing we believed wrong things, and were led down the garden path by an organization that promised the moon and delivered crap.
It's just calling a spade a spade. Many excellent posts here point out the fallacy of many past and present Society doctrines. Now if we bash individual JW's, we may be going a bit too far.
So Society-BASHING doesn't have to be the MAIN reason a person comes here, but a little of it can be psychologically healthy (as long as doing so helps you let go of it!!).
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J.R.Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
should we love god and have faith in him because we are afraid of being annihilated if we don't?.
should we love god so we can be paid for it by getting a "mansion in the sky" or everlasting life or some other reward payment?
RWC,
Interesting definition, fear = respect. Sounds good on its face.
Can you explain fear in the context of Hebrews 12? I'll quote verses 25, 28 and 29:
"25 See that you do not beg off from him who is speaking. For if they did not escape...much more shall WE not if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven.... 28b ....render God sacred service with godly FEAR and awe. 29 For our God is also a consuming fire."The fear hear sounds like the quivering kind, as the comparison to fire indicates. We naturally have a fear of an uncontrolled (consuming) fire.
So the apostle Paul is telling us to serve God out of fear. Right?
J.R.Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
this will be my last new thread for a while.
i am not leaving, but plan to confine my comments to the threads started by others.
i will finish my jfr-trial series elsewhere, and maybe at some time in the future i will post the balance here.. a plan: over the weekend, i watched the threads bouncing up and down on the active screen, and saw some very good ideas.
Good post. I hope to see the remainder of the JFR series. I don't know why you are choosing not to put up new threads, you can still honor the rest of your post and still create new threads! But of course it's up to you. (I rarely start new threads myself, so I'm not one to talk.)
It's evident from this and other posts that this board is now in another self-healing phase. This board is an awesome organism. Thanks to Simon and cooler heads. Hey, we all can be "cool heads", that would be cool!
J.R.Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
so many say they are leaving.
so many keep coming back.
we all have something in common.
Amen! Post and let post, live and let live! Wonderful poem. Wanna be our board's own Walt Whitman? (Walt Whitbeans?)
J.R.Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
