my dad used this one alot: it compared raising a child to holding a spring.
if you let go too soon the spring will fly off in an uncontrolled direction.
if you hold it too long you will wear your hand out and the spring will be no good.
If your doctor tells you to abstain from alcohol you wouldn't hook up an iv and inject it directly into your veins; blood is the same.
A more fitting illustration: If your doctor told you to abstain from meat, would you then avoid getting a kidney transplant?
when king saul wanted to know if they should continue to chase after the philistines, the high priest would ask jehovah by rolling the "jehovah dice {urim and thumim} "yes" or "no.
" i find this interesting that god would use a dice to decide a major battle plan....anyone else smell a rat?.
I never understood this.
the amount the times i browse the board and read some great posts destroying ideology that was once almost indestructable in jw world.
surely with all those great thoughts we can construct something to really bring down down what is ineffect a man made idea.
this will not happen overnight, but think long term 20 or 30 years.
Aw, I came to this thread because I thought there was gonna be candy.
I've heard evil described as the absence of good, in the same way that darkness is the absence of light.
my jw elder friend said to me that the nwt is the best translation of the bible and that scholars have said as much.
is this true and is it the best?
are there scholars who disagree?.
some feel that it is enough for the witnesses to understand a few major doctrines correctly.
whatever doctrines are important to you--trinity, hellfire, the soul, etc--if the jws are in agreement with your own beliefs on the subject, is that enough to make them a religion worth being a part of?.
the society is fond of using the illustration of a beautifully prepared, tasty and nutritious meal.
The options are not just between dog doodoo and a lovely, but poisonous meal. Would being presented with those two choices prompt you to eat the poison? Would you not sooner seek out a new menu or prepare your own meal or just go hungry?
some feel that it is enough for the witnesses to understand a few major doctrines correctly.
whatever doctrines are important to you--trinity, hellfire, the soul, etc--if the jws are in agreement with your own beliefs on the subject, is that enough to make them a religion worth being a part of?.
the society is fond of using the illustration of a beautifully prepared, tasty and nutritious meal.
lol when I look at trinitarian doctrines it's a meal of mostly dog doodooes with maybe a piece of carrot on the side.
I believe that the disrespect the WTS has shown for the sanctity of life (blood doctrine, alternative service, etc) is a far greater affront to God and Jesus than overestimating the divinity of Jesus. Your opinion of the importance of the trinity over the importance of other doctrines is just that: an opinion. Unless you can prove biblically that believing that Jesus is subordinate to God is of greater importance than obeying the two commands that Jesus said were most important (love of God and neighbor, which necessarily assumes respect for life). Jesus made a far bigger deal over the importance of mercy over sacrifice than he did over his status as a divine being.
Special Pleading is a fallacy in which a person applies standards, principles, rules, etc, to others while taking themselves (or those they have special interest in) to be exempt.
has anyone on here heard of this rumor or even know if this is true?
supposedly, on an episode of jeopardy, one of the questions asked was which version of the bible was considered the most accurately translated from the original hebrew and greek text and the answer was the new world translation.
i tried looking this up online to no avail.
PS, since no one got the question correct, no money was awarded. Do unanswered questions affect game play?
Holy carp!
"remember jehovah in the days of your youth".
this was a list of my experiences as a young dub that i penned about a dozen years ago.. it was based on the theme in the watchtower article referenced below that i remember reading all that many years ago.. *** w71 6/15 367 remembering your creator in the days of your young manhood ***.
12:1.. the sole purpose of the article was to convince young people to dedicate their younger years to preaching for the watchtower bible and tract society and practicing their policies and doctrines at all times.. many people who become jws as adults, and later leave, have at least some "normal" remembrances of a "traditional" childhood.
Then there was this Watchtower stuff about "Jehovah's Witnesses don't need holidays to be generous. They do it all year around," is a total bunch of crap from my personal exeriences. It never happened for me, and it never happened for any of my young Witness friends, either.
I never minded that I didn't get Christmas or Birthday presents. I did hate that we told this lie. What would have been wrong with following through on it?
