i never understood the point of being good and righteous if the only punishment for not doing so was "nothing" i would die and nothing would happen.
just nothing, no hell, no pain, no regret... just nothing.. on the other hand if i am good.... i have to deal with the jw's and their rules and boring meetings forever!!!
no worldly girls to sneak around with on saturday night.. no keg parties to sneak off too on friday?....
The starting point of "Good" for the purposes of this conversation shall be following the Watchtowers rules so as not to incur God's angry wrath at armageddon and be humilitated and put down like a rabid dog. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Remember this is about a teenager asking his JW parents to please explain the point of all these stupid rules again...
no military
no football
no dances
no dating
no holidays
no birthdays
get the idea?
i never understood the point of being good and righteous if the only punishment for not doing so was "nothing" i would die and nothing would happen.
just nothing, no hell, no pain, no regret... just nothing.. on the other hand if i am good.... i have to deal with the jw's and their rules and boring meetings forever!!!
no worldly girls to sneak around with on saturday night.. no keg parties to sneak off too on friday?....
Ya I screwed it up MadSweeney... You can tell you reads the original post and who doesn't.
i never understood the point of being good and righteous if the only punishment for not doing so was "nothing" i would die and nothing would happen.
just nothing, no hell, no pain, no regret... just nothing.. on the other hand if i am good.... i have to deal with the jw's and their rules and boring meetings forever!!!
no worldly girls to sneak around with on saturday night.. no keg parties to sneak off too on friday?....
I meant Good as in obeying the JW rules... not refraining from murdering and raping my friends.
i never understood the point of being good and righteous if the only punishment for not doing so was "nothing" i would die and nothing would happen.
just nothing, no hell, no pain, no regret... just nothing.. on the other hand if i am good.... i have to deal with the jw's and their rules and boring meetings forever!!!
no worldly girls to sneak around with on saturday night.. no keg parties to sneak off too on friday?....
I never understood the point of being good and righteous if the only punishment for not doing so was "nothing" I would die and nothing would happen. Just nothing, no hell, no pain, no regret... just nothing.
On the other hand if I am good.... I have to deal with the JW's and their rules and boring meetings FOREVER!!! No worldly girls to sneak around with on Saturday night.. No Keg parties to sneak off too on Friday?...
I told my parents as a teenager all of this. They looked at me like I had horns growing out of my head.
already had doubts from the time i got pubes... but i was about 15 and we were studying the revelation "book" for the upteenth time.
i realized for every actual bible verse they qouted there was 2-3 paragraphs of conjecture, assumption, faulty logic and just plain stupidity.
that's when i began to plan my escape.
I see High Dose recovered from her Euphoria.
already had doubts from the time i got pubes... but i was about 15 and we were studying the revelation "book" for the upteenth time.
i realized for every actual bible verse they qouted there was 2-3 paragraphs of conjecture, assumption, faulty logic and just plain stupidity.
that's when i began to plan my escape.
Yup, all in the old Testament as I recall.... Thank good ness the Spirtist x-catholic priest Johannes Greber was appel to chanel the Spirit's for the brothers to provide such great spiritual food for Jehovah's people by inserting Jehovah in the New Testament.
already had doubts from the time i got pubes... but i was about 15 and we were studying the revelation "book" for the upteenth time.
i realized for every actual bible verse they qouted there was 2-3 paragraphs of conjecture, assumption, faulty logic and just plain stupidity.
that's when i began to plan my escape.
Good point Dinah... I remember when I started actually reading something besides the NWT. They can't hold their doctrine up with any other translation.
already had doubts from the time i got pubes... but i was about 15 and we were studying the revelation "book" for the upteenth time.
i realized for every actual bible verse they qouted there was 2-3 paragraphs of conjecture, assumption, faulty logic and just plain stupidity.
that's when i began to plan my escape.
There is actually a page in my old book where I was 12 and doing the math of how old I would be if Armageddon came at 2000 (which I thought it might) I calculated I would have exactly 4 months of binge drinking and other immorality before I had to straighten up for God's big temper tantrum.
i mentioned to an elder/friend the other day that it occurred to me that there really doesan't seem to be any scriptural precedent or mandate for the tradition of praying before we eat.
i said that jesus blessed the loaves and fishes when he performed that miracle, and he blessed the wine and bread at the last supper, but i couldn't think of any other example of it.
i also suggested that the tradition of praying before eating was probably rooted in giving thanks to the various gods of nature and the perception og god as being involved in the outcome of the harvest, and that, by that way of looking at it, we probably shouldn't pray before eating....silence..
So you can be like the Phairees and show off how pious you are by embarassing everyone with you at Luby's.
hahahahahahahahhaahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
i mean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!heheheheheheheheheheheheeeeeeeeeee!!!.
totaly !!!!!!!
Nope still nothing... Would you please not use the term "everyone" so loosely. It offends me. Feel free to say Everyone except Brocephus if you must.
