ok, i'm willing, and thinking about going to the meetings, but there is a catch.
i'm not, nor ever be a jw.
i know too much about their beliefs.
Hi Aroq!
If you want your children to know you have integrity, and are intellectually honest, don't go. I certainly am in 100% agreement with shepherdless's method. Teach your children critical thinking skills. It is a highly valuable skill they can use all their lives.
Have you asked your wife why she wants to worship a god who creates evil? (Isaiah 45:7)
just happy to be alive....can barely move ☺.. a girl who just got her license , and a new suv....thought it might be cool to pass the person in front of her....at a curve......on a two way road!!!!!😠😠😠.
very mad puppy.
Excellent news!
lf you were unlucky enough to be born into the jw sect the chances are high that you became a witness.the same applies to most things in life.lf you were lucky enough to be born into a very rich family the chance is that you to will be rich.lf you were born into a third world impoverished family chances are you will suffer your entire life.my point is there is always someone worse off than you.the mere fact that your reading this means you are probably better off than roughly a third of the worlds population.a person dies every 4 seconds of hunger or hunger related causes and yet there is plenty of food available for everyone.so really its just a matter of keeping a proper prospective on things.theres a lot to be said about a pma (positive mental attitude).
"The luck of the draw" is definitely true for the religion/belief system someone is born into. This is not a choice a child is allowed to make. It is thrust upon them. A child born in the middle east is unlikely to be a Christian. It is only as we grow up and become better informed that we realize we have been manipulated. For me, this is just one of the many reasons that refutes the existence of God. Some many different flavours of faith/belief. And all with their 'My god is better than your god' underlying theme.
Everyone has choices they can make in life.
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it?
If your world is all screwed up, re-arrange it.
Raise a little hell, raise a little hell, raise a little hell" -- Trooper
I think it is a human responsibility to try to make our world a better place. Because we know there are those that are only out for themselves.
"When we do go, we feel good."
And just for the record... I was born into the pseudo-Christian religion Jehovah's Witnesses... but I am NOT a JW.
my son asked me 40 years ago.
should we be glad adam sinned?
because if he hadn't, we would not be the person we are.. any opinions?
there are some people that do in fact want to die.
these people include the mentally unstable, emotionally imbalanced, and those suffering from ailments or diseases, just to name a few.. i've never met however, anyone, or heard of anyone, who is of sound mind, who just awoke one day and thought it would be an excellent day to die......naturally.. your thoughts?.
we all sin and some sins are worse than others but blasphemy against the holy spirit is said to be unforgivable.what is considered to be an unforgivable sin?
atomant said: lf there is a god how can he expect humans to make informed decisions based on garbage written 2000 years ago.?
Perhaps you could ask a minister or priest this question and see what they say. I think you already know the answer but it would be interesting to see what fancy footwork they demonstrate for you.
anna marie "patty" duke (december 14, 1946 – march 29, 2016) she won an academy award for best supporting actress at 16 for her role in"the miracle worker," starred in the sitcom "the patty duke show," etc.
she wasdiagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982 after which she had devoted much of hertime to educating the public on mental health issues such as with twobooks--"call me anna" and "brilliant madness: living with manic depressive ill-ness.
" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/patty_duke
As we age, more and more of the people we identify with and we 'know' pass away. Not one of the nicer sides of getting older. And yes, tal, I agree with your statement about Patty being a big deal, helping to put a public, well known face on bi-polar disease. RIP Ms Duke.
reading this and it made me think, god cannot do everything.
god is holy and he cannot.
sin.
James said: Heaven: OK that said it all," He create evil".
I do not understand why anyone would want to worship an entity that did this. It boggles my mind.
Edited to add: Zoos, another good scripture find.
reading this and it made me think, god cannot do everything.
god is holy and he cannot.
sin.
Isaiah 45:7: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. - KJV
Wouldn't the biggest sin of all be to create evil in the first place?
the wife and i went to the memorial strictly out of respect for my mother-in-law last night.
luckily our 20 month-old grand-baby was restless and making noise, so i quickly volunteered to take him in the back.
so i didn't have to listen to the presentation.
B the X said: Likening these guys to tomatoes is an insult to tomatoes.
Dang! Billy beat me to it.
