imagine that the cult decided to stop shunning family members on the proviso that the dfd person was not actively trying to attack the cult.. (please don't debate whether or not this is likely - it's hypothetical).
how would you respond to your family?.
personally i think i would be less than cooperative.
I have given myself some time to ponder on this question. The answer.....
I don't think I could ever have a close relationship with an active, true believing witness, or rather they wouldn't want one with me as I question everything and ridicule silly ideas - they wouldn't like that!!
just came across this thread on a ex mormon board regarding funerals.
apparently mormons too use funerals as opportunities to market their religion.. http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,35532,35622.
bangalore.
I love this comment
Funerals provide an important opportunity to teach the gospel and testify of the plan of salvation. They also provide an opportunity to pay tribute to the deceased. However, such tributes should not dominate a funeral service. Having large numbers of people share tributes or memories can make a funeral too long and may be inappropriate for a Church service. If family members want an extended time to share such memories, they may consider doing so in a special family gathering, separate from the funeral service."
THAT'S WHAT A FUNERAL SERVICE IS FOR! REMEMBERING THE DECEASED! IT'S NOT "inappropriate for a Church service." PROSELYTIZING IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR A FUNERAL SERVICE!!!! STUPID STUPID CULT!!!
Just like the JW service
i remember this making the rounds and people swearing by it.
knew someone at the concern and whatnot.
how does this crap come up?.
guess which my favorite photo is when you scroll down.. http://www.vice.com/read/my-weekend-with-a-surrey-bc-pastafarian-712.
As a devout pastafarian these types of articles are so encouraging.
Today I attended an important football (soccer) match (Southampton v Aston Villa), I prayed to the FSM and my team beat Aston Villa 6 - 1. Sadio Mane (a Southampton player) scored the fastest ever hat trick in the Premier League. Is that not proof of his existence?
Ramen
i saw a rumor a few weeks ago on reddit that the new imitate jesus convention is supposed to present new light and clarified understandings on the disfellowshipping/disassociation practices.. supposedly, if this rumor has any truth to it, there will be a talk given at the convention about how we should not be strict like the pharisees in how we shun people, loosening up some of the jw rules about this practice.. has anyone here heard anything about this or have more info on it?.
i have talked to him ttat.
and he understands.
he doesn't wanna be a jw.
when i was a teen i had back surgery that could have easily gone bad because of the no blood policy, so it's always been of particular intrest to me.
i was just thinking to myself, not only do human mothers have white blood cells in their breast milk but so does nearly every other mammal on our planet.
so that would mean for one, god "intelligently designed" us, and every other mammal to literally feed on our mothers blood in the beginning of life for sustenance, only to make the use of blood sinful when it comes to saving not just sustaining our life later on.
the july 2015 kingdom ministry says jws can't do international outreach through the internet, but to instead, point someone in the direction of jw.org site.. it's just another form of control.
the individual publisher is forced to send the interested one to a website fully controlled by the borg.. .
i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.
no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!
they keep me from getting bored.
How did 600 Million pages of useful information get squeezed into the nucleus of a single cell organism using a 3 dimensional double helix informational storage device that is self correcting, that itself is housed in a cell that has a minimum of 2000 interdependent parts that must have appeared all at the same time in order to function?
It's called chemistry!!!!!!
hi pepeep am attempting to get a current list of uk travelling overseers.
left 4 years ago and have heard rumours of many new ones.
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