it's amazing what you notice when you go through the bible again with a changed worldview.
this week's watchtower-assigned bible reading is the opening chapters of 1 samuel.
this little gem just jumped off the page at me:.
I am assuming the picture is not of a woman holding the remote, demonstating that the man has given his manhood to the woman, but that the picture is of a woman holding a case in which his testicles are placed so she has control.
Either way, he has surrendered them.
It's an optical illusion.
Or he has three hands.
i have not attended any meetings for three months but recently i was struck by a strange recollection of something common to most meetings i attended.
at every meeting, regardess of the time of day, frame of mind, secular workload, etc, i would feel i was being lulled into a numbing sleep.
it was not that the material was boring to me (i have attended many boring secular conferences and never experienced the strange effect that a meeting had on me).
I think this may be an unintentional consequence of two things;
Watchtower literature is written by the uneducated, for the uneducated. If they put anything remotely thought provoking in there people become frustrated because it's "over their head". The literature is meant to be read and understood by people with naught more than a gradeschool education. So why did we feel zombie-like? Our minds weren't challenged.
The Church has had vast resources, and paid some amazing musicians, to write music for them. For a long time, if you wanted to make money, the only thing you could write about or depict in art was religious crap - because the church and the King were the only ones buying. The WTS doesn't have those kinds of resources, so their songs sound like something a 6th grader with a keyboard might come up with.
it's amazing what you notice when you go through the bible again with a changed worldview.
this week's watchtower-assigned bible reading is the opening chapters of 1 samuel.
this little gem just jumped off the page at me:.
Snowbird that has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote - you may as well have posted a scripture from Chronicles on some Jewish family tree. Biblically, Satan and the demons do not have the power to kill people. They certainly don't have the power to manipulate the DNA of the entire human race. Only Jehovah can do that.
it's amazing what you notice when you go through the bible again with a changed worldview.
this week's watchtower-assigned bible reading is the opening chapters of 1 samuel.
this little gem just jumped off the page at me:.
Satan caused the death of the entire human race.
He doesn't have that kind of power - biblically. No, it was another supernatural being that caused the death of the entire human race, according to biblical lore. Whether you believe Jehovah manipulated Adam's DNA post-sin or booby-trapped him to start, either way Jehovah took direct action to engineer the death of the entire human race.
Satan doesn't have those skills.
Very cool. Thanks.
it's amazing what you notice when you go through the bible again with a changed worldview.
this week's watchtower-assigned bible reading is the opening chapters of 1 samuel.
this little gem just jumped off the page at me:.
Ancient holy texts, including the bible, when read without a preexisting theological lens, are all appalling.
"Jehovah" and his buddy Jesus have gone through a myriad makeovers since then, to make them more appealling to our modern tastes.
Belief in things like guardian angels and divine intervention is a dangerous theological path.
set yourself free .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxgnpukowhu.
The parallels are stunning, especially in regard to original sin doctrines - and the idea that we somehow "deserve" our alleged plight.
that is exactly what i told someone in field service once.
i went to the door with another brother, and started my presentation.
i noticed the lady was crying and asked if everything was ok. she said that they just got back from the vet, and that they had to put the cat to sleep.
It could have been worse....
What if you had run over her cat?
"Sorry about the cat, but would you like to have a Bible study?"
That has all the makings of an EPIC district convention experience. Imagine the applause...
