i've read some posts here and i could see that you were helping each other so i thought i could post & maybe get some answers :-).
i've known the jws since i was little my mom was going to the kingdom hall but then we stopped cos our life was too complicated and we didn't have time for that thought we kept studying at home with a jw as i got older ( teen years ) i hated the study book but never told my mom or anybody i didn't wanted to hurt my mom i love her so much!.
a few years ago i finally told my mom that i hated to read thoses books because i get so bored & that i wasn't interested in it , i do believe in jehovah's and jesus' existence thought but i so hate what the org ask us to do like don't dress like that , go to meetings .... first reaction i got from my mom was so you wanna die but then after a long talk she understood , no matter what i'll love her forever.
Hi cookiegirlie, here's a link to some info on the cross/stake question. It's a long read, but worth it.
http://www.freeminds.org/doctrine/cross.htm
One thing to think about from that article,
Unless I see in His HANDS the imprint of THE NAILS, and put my finger into the place of THE NAILS, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe. (John 20:25, emphasis added)
Hope that helps,
ig.
Right, I'm going to have to go and buy the Kaiser Chiefs' album today. I saw a bit of them playing in the american live8 gig, and I thought I Predict a Riot was fantastic!
ig.
sorry if this is a repost.. thought it was funny..
numerology of the beast
666 the number of the beast 667 the neighbor of the beast 660 approximate number of the beast dclxvi roman numeral of the beast 666.0000 high precision number of the beast 0.666 number of the millibeast /666 common denominator of the beast 666*sqrt(-1) imaginary number of the beast sin(666) transcendental number of the beast 1010011010 binary number of the beast 6666 6666 6666 6666 credit card number of the beast 666-66-6666 social security number and taxpayer id of the beast 6-6666-6666-6 isbn number of the beast's book 1-666 area code of the beast 00666 zip code of the beast 66 & 66/100% purity of beast's soap 1-900-666-0666 live beasts!
LOL. Well I've not seen them before, and they made me laugh.
I liked 0.666, the number of the millibeast.
ig.
ok, here's a picture from mikes bbq, you know what to do.
i know some of you guys really crack me up at this, but i'll have the first go, .
'hey, check this new mobile phone out... it's got smellivision' .
LMFAO @ confession, that was very funny!
ig.
ok, here's a picture from mikes bbq, you know what to do.
i know some of you guys really crack me up at this, but i'll have the first go, .
'hey, check this new mobile phone out... it's got smellivision' .
"So I press this button here, and this inflatable `Man from Del Monte' comes out of the screen, and he say YES"
i was assimilated at birth... .
my maternal grandparents came to england in the early 1940s, and learnt the troof here.
my grandfather opposed my grandmother for a while, but then he decided it wasn't worth the fight and studied the blue "troof book" and my grandparents got baptised at the same assembly.
My mum was "caught on the doors" so to speak when I was about 9 or 10 or so. For reasons I can't quite recall now, I just swallowed the whole JW thing hook line and sinker and went along with my mum to meetings. My father never once talked to me about it, as he had this strange "zero involvement" policy in the political/religious development of his two sons.
He never really tried to talk my mum out of it either. From what my mum says, she was just desperate for someone (i.e. my father) to give her the love and attention she craved, and when he didn't give it, she got a substitute from the witnesses. His response to my mother saying she was having a study with the witnoids was to open an o-level book at the evolution page and shout "that's how we got here". End of conversation. If he'd have just bought my mum a bunch of flowers and promised to take her out more often, I probably wouldn't be posting here now!
So knocking on doors does work, not often, but you just have to get lucky and find a suitably vulnerable person.
ig (has good relationship with his parents these days though!)
not an apostofest, just a beer and a sandwich.
is anyone up for it?
Yes, sounds good.
Hey, we could invite slimboyfat too. Would keep the conversation lively!
ig.
jehovah's witnesses demand complete opening of finacial records to public!
they want to see where the money is going and since the governinng body is the head part of the faithful and discrete slave they should humbly and willingly comply in the intrests of christian unity.
what if someone started a champiagn like that were they sent emails and letter to circulate throughout the entire brotherhood.
HS - if you're querying whether spellchecker is or isn't a composite word perhaps German isn't the language to do it in!, sie ist doch die Sprache, die uns z.B. "Schadenfreude" und "Zeitgeist" gegeben hat.
ig (apologies to all for my very bad German)
hummm. there are two possibilities.
1) I like the company of people who have freedom of thought but know what it's like to have previously surrendered that freedom to an outside agency, or
2) I have no real friends.
I hope 1, I fear 2.
ig.
the bible doesnt mention them at all.
so what the hell?
Hi dorayakii,
LOL! It was a response to yesterday's word of the day thread from xjwms. Just a joke, no need for you to get yourself all awfulised about it (runs for cover----->)
ig.
