i seem to hear more and more on the news about the bed bug epedemic.
today they were talking about it on tv and they said they are spreading ,among other ways, at theaters and libraries.. i love going to the show and my grandchildren are spending a lot of time in the libraries at their colleges.. it's just a matter of time before someone close is exposed to them.. what do you do?.
i know for myself i am fearfull of going to the theater now.. they were talking about it in illinois and i am in missouri..can bedbugs swim?
I'm just waiting to see how the JW's spin this to show that it's another part of the "composite sign" showing the end is close.
I was already told by one that the oil spill in the gulf was another proof that the end is close. With man ruining the earth etc. etc.
yes-lotta nonsense; a self-proclaimed "slave class" that is not a prophet but like a prophet, giving so awfully embarrasing opinions that are supposed to be automatically acceted by all of us jws...pretenders...mistakes... and moves not "discreet" at all- like the ngo united nations membership they secretly had for awhile....terrible, isn't it?.
i mean, look at the inspiring example we have in churchianity: such wonderful dogma- such as the three sadist-gods who have been torturing billions of men, women, and children for thousands of years- with eternity to go...and god making the universe in 72 hours...and backing the wars of their governments- "god and country!
", as they send their men out to war, telling them they will be blessed for it, and so many more wonderful revelations: the rapture, once-saved, tithing, etc.
12- Prejudices are destroyed; no racial, financial, educational or any other divisions.
hahahahaahahahahahahahahahaha
Since JW's teach that the anointed (144,000) are bought (purchased) from the Earth per Rev. chapter 7 and also chapter 14, why are there no Oriental or Latino brothers on the Governing body? Only just recently (last few years) they finally added a black brother (Samuel Herd) to the GB. I guess the heat was getting too hot in the kitchen so they had to do something to prove it wasn't an all white club at the top.
But guess what? Before Samuel Herd, in the preceeding one hundred plus years, even though there were anointed in various lands around the globe according to their yearbooks(statistics), it was an all white boy club.
And by the way, I'm white, yet from a very young age I saw this as I would look through the society's publications and read the life stories of the GB.
OMG Qcmbr!!!
In your post above #1664 you summed up in one short paragraph what most people will probably spend a lifetime and not realize.
It was both informative and funny at the same time. That deserves two thumbs up
dear ones.
rather, it is our adversary who says we will do anything... anything... to avoid it.
a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. even curse god to his face.
Well after reading through all these pages there is one thing that is very clear.
Notverylikely and AGuest have the HOTS for each other. Oh sure they will both probably deny it.
Just like kids on the playground at school that really like each other but not sure if the other one likes them back, so for securities sake they pretend not to be head over heels in love with each other.
Notice how each of them earlier had already said they weren't coming back to this thread and yet each did.
Opposites attract.
One is male other is female. One is spiritual other not so much so. One is black other is white.(Or I think so from my reading)
It's probably going to be hard to keep them off each others threads from here on out.
LOL
I try to love my neighbour,
I tried to LOVE my neighbor and she called the cops on me.
what went on in my old congregation will shock you all !!!
as it's late i will post asap and leave nothing out!!!.
ps.
Welcome to the board Hairyhegoat!
Just be careful here. There are those about that might try to sacrifice you upon the WT altar.
I try to encourage all goats, rams and sheep to not stand still in one place to long.
If you see a poster named Alice come near you....RUN
She will try to offer you up as a burnt offering to the Watchtower.
we've seen this, or have heard of it..... a tragic death happens - often it's even caused by watchtower edicts, like shunning or "no blood" policy.... and the brainwashed - or brain-dead - witnesses resort to yammering watchtower propaganda - "at least he/she died before 'armageddon', so maybe he'll / she'll have a chance at being 'resurrected'...".
we've all seen the insane level of hypocrisy within the watchtower society... i've several examples in mind, wherein the witness parent shunned a witness child, leading to the child's suicide or indirectly to his/her death, and then the witness - make that witless - parent stands there at the funeral mouthing that "at least he/she died before 'armageddon', so maybe he'll / she'll have a chance at being 'resurrected'..." line of b.s.
..... what can one say to block that self-congratulatory blather??
I usually say something like, "Well I was sure hoping he/she would be able to hold on until Armaggedon hit, so they could see all the dead bodies everywhere and the birds of heaven coming down to feast on their flesh and pick out their eyeballs. And get a whiff of all that stench of all those decaying bodies after a few days. I guess they won't get to enjoy that part like us now though huh?"
After saying this they usually back away real slow like, thinking that I enjoy that kind of carnage or something. But then I remind them, I didn't write it. So don't blame me for repeating it. It's in the bible.
i bet people has forgotten me but thats ok because i know they have helped me a lot on here.. .
anyways i think the last time i been on here i mentioned my jw sister not going to my wedding.
for those that do remember my story, the wedding was beautiful on the beach in key west, fl!
Alot has Changed and I'm going BACK
When I first read that title, I had to double check my calendar and make sure it wasn't April 1.
I kept waiting on someone to say "APRILS FOOLS". Then reality set in that this is September.
I can only assume from the title then, when you say a lot has changed, you are meaning with you and not the WT Organization.
Because last I checked they are still shunning people, talking about the end is so very close, that they are God's one true organization, making things up..such as the definition of the word "generation" etc. etc.
But if I'm wrong and you are referring to the Org. has changed,would you mind listing some of the things that have changed that I may not be aware of?
Oh and by the way, congratulations on the pregnancy. That is indeed a big change. Wishing and hoping you the best on the little one. :)
dear ones.
rather, it is our adversary who says we will do anything... anything... to avoid it.
a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. even curse god to his face.
The Issue is Not that God WANTS Us to Suffer...
EXACTLY.....The issue isn't that God wants us to suffer
The ISSUE is that God supposedly has all this power(Omnipotent) and all this Knowledge(Omniscient) and still hasn't stepped in to end all this suffering. Yet he will take time out of his busy schedule to talk to just a few people on earth either with a vision, a whisper,a dream, a prophecy, etc. in the same amount of time it would have taken him to talk to everyone around the world at one time. Talk about inefficiency.
What if God was held to the same standards we are suppose to adhere to?
Such as James 2:15-17 [NWT]
"If a brother or a sister is in a naked state and lacking the food sufficient for the day, yet a certain one of YOU says to them: “Go in peace, keep warm and well fed,” but YOU do not give them the necessities for [their] body, of what benefit is it? Thus, too, faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.
So God can feed and cloth every single person on this mudball planet, and it should be well within his power and yet he chooses to not do so at this time. I wonder how far we would get if we tried that same reasoning for not helping someone such as ...well you know the time just wasn't right for me to step in so they had to starve to death. But I woulda helped them next week on my schedule if they coulda just hung on a bit longer.
Edited to add this Scripture also:
1 John 3:17,18[NWT] But whoever has this world’s means for supporting life and beholds his brother having need and yet shuts the door of his tender compassions upon him, in what way does the love of God remain in him? Little children, let us love, neither in word nor with the tongue, but in deed and truth"
So thats how I view it right now. I don't want to hear about God's Love(mere words), I want to see it in action....like feed the starving in Africa..heck even here in the U.S.A. or keep the ones safe that get hit by a Earthquake,Tornado,etc..
But I know how it usually goes...someone going to say oh but this is God's way of allowing us to help all those in need and be like him. what if we don't make it in time. I think God should step in on those occasions and keep people from dying..Just my 2 cents worth..
today while i was home for a quick lunch break i got a knock at the door.
i opened the door and was surprised to see two elderly jehovah's witnesses women.
i haven't been called on since i've been out for four years, so this was a bit of surprise.
donuthole said:
It was a bit sad but also a little funny/ironic. I thought man, most people want to get rid of JW's when they come the door. I want to talk to them and they run away.
LOL...that's priceless.
Most witnesses spend all day out in field service hoping to get to talk to at least one person.
Here's a situation where they find someone wanting to talk to them and they run. I love it. hahaha
