i was wondering as i have been lately; did i turn my back on god and am i wrong for turning my back on the organization?.
are there any of you out there that feel like you have a real personal relationship with god with or without religion in your life?
do you still call god jehovah?
Re...Prayer. It can help to focus your mind....akin to meditation etc. I would say you did not receive any divine help there. Thats not say 'prayer' does no good! As I said, it can help..........as could other things!
Re leaving 'Jehovah's True Organisation'.........you did. But so what!? J'ehovah' and 'Jehovah's True Organisation' are all man made!
ISP
i see that on these boards, and i'm a bit confused.... and when a person is disfellowshipped, can he rejoin?
or somehow get back in the good 'graces' of the organization/church?
...thanks for the info :)
Yep I agree Neyank.....the dynamics of the local elders will determine to what extent you are left alone or they go after you to attempt to DF or DA.
ISP
this pretty well sums up my feelings....
thank god for the death of the un .
its abject failure gave us only anarchy.
The UN is now an irrelevance whatever the Revelation book says..[;)]
ISP
that phrase -- along with "weapons of mass destruction" -- is a term that i hope soon passes out of popular use.
i wonder who coined that phrase: "shock and awe.
" i'm sure they are terribly proud of themselves... the idiots.
I dont think its such a big deal. The weapons used showed how accurate stuff is these days. They dumped loads of bombs on a heavily populated city and destroyed largely empty buildings which is a testimony to the restraint of the coalition. The death toll is probably in the hundreds.
ISP
i see that on these boards, and i'm a bit confused.... and when a person is disfellowshipped, can he rejoin?
or somehow get back in the good 'graces' of the organization/church?
...thanks for the info :)
DA.......can also be a status the WTS imposes on some they deem to have adopted an unapproved lifestyle/stance. So its not necessarily the persons choice to be DA'd.
ISP
if you weren't quite sure how jehovah god expects you to dress, the april 2003 km helps us to see his viewpoint.
"well-arranged dress shows reverence for god" is the article that assists us to know god's feelings on these matters.
i will give you some quotes from the article: "soon we will have the privilege of being jehovah's guests at the 2003 ' give god glory' disctrict convention.
Only wear stuff that is at least 10 years out of date so that you dress 'older' than you are. It is still being dominated by the worlds fads etc.....only 10 year lag!
ISP
i feel like i know some of you since i have been lurking here for almost two years, yikes!.
let me introduce myself.
i go by goofy here, you know the disney character, always liked him.
Welcome to the board, hope you like it here and find some buddies!
ISP
interesting reading .... i can't wait for 30+ years time when documents are de-classified so we can maybe get to the detail.. osama bin laden was once praised.
ronald reagan and george bush's role in opening the floodgates of terrorism.
osama bin laden created by the us.
It shows what happens when you are trying to have a finger in too many pies....
ISP
the pic on the left was saddam, 2 days before the war........the one on the right is the one that gave the speech!
who spoke from notes (not very convincingly) and wore glasses which saddam doesn't do when giving speeches.. hmmm.
isp
The Pic on the left was Saddam, 2 days before the war........the one on the right is the one that gave the speech! who spoke from notes (not very convincingly) and wore glasses which Saddam doesn't do when giving speeches.
Hmmm
ISP
how could the us possibly lose?
well, obviously not in any outright confrontation.
iraq has no chance of waging any effective war without wmd.
unc........we'll never win the ashes.
ISP
