even when i was a kid i thought that forever was too long.
i thought it may get boring.
especially when they said we'd stop eating meat.
That right there would make me commit suicide!
I rock polo shirts and khakis often enough for work, and even out and about. I'm too old to wear dickies, timbs and oversized white tee shirts. Beside you won't have to worry about that Serenity! You'll be forced to wear oversized floral dresses with shoulder pads, and stockings. We'll all be too busy gardening and attending bible studies and congregation picnics to ever be concerned about clothing choices.
even when i was a kid i thought that forever was too long.
i thought it may get boring.
especially when they said we'd stop eating meat.
When you think about it, the thousand year reign according to WT doctrine will have a significant portion of time set aside for bible studies. I've heard in Service Meeting parts, people make comments like, "just think!! We won't have to reason with people to get a bible study started with them!!" I would hear this, and even before developing apostate leanings I would think to myself thats not exactly something to look forward to. By the way, this meeting is going overtime. After the Big A, we have to clean up the mess thats been left behind after 2000 years of human progress. Then we have to start a massive worldwide gardening campaign. Between cleaning up the rubble and the gardening campaign, we'll have more time for meetings and bible studies with all the resurrected ones. Then upon reaching perfection, the Devil will be let loose, and we'll start all over again, but it won't be as long as several thousand years. Possibly only a few hundred years which supposedly will be nothing to us since we'll have been alive for a 1000 years. Then afterwards we'll garden and have congregation picnics forever with mandatory khakis and polo shirts.
i watched an interesting program last night on science channel called mysteries of the bible - this episode was about the lost gospels.. they include one by peter, another by mary magdelene, and one by judas.
the most interesting part of the show, to me, was how they debunked the notion (shared by the wtbts) that constantine's council was somehow inspired and picked out the correct four gospels by divine means.. the pictured constantine as a practically non-religious person except in the sense that he saw a centrally organized system of christianity as a source of political power for himself.
much was made of how he disliked the independent spirit of the gnostics, and therefore viewed mathew, mark, luke, and john as the least politically dangerous of the numerous gospel writings available in his time.. and, of course, again i was reminded of just how uncertain we really are about the writings preserved in the present-day new testament: they were written at least decades after their events took place, and were the result of verbal traditions told from one person to another.
I missed that one, but the Science Channel repeats programs often enough that I'll be able to catch it. I love both the Science Channel and the History Channel's programs on Biblicle matters. The material on those programs make much more sense than everything I've been spoonfed since my birth. PBS Online has a really good section dedicated to Apocalyptic teachings, mainly John's Revelation.
pls, wish me luck in my marriage, and give me some advice on how to make it a success..
Is she overweight? It's probably not a good thing to marry someone overweight, because chances are after the honeymoon, she's going to gain more weight. It will be dang near impossible for her to lose the post-marriage weight. If she's reasonable overweight, you can look at her mother and get a better inkling as to what your wife will look like a decade or so down the road. If her mother has kankles, get rid of her immediately. You'll end up spending a fortune on lotion trying to moisturize her kankles. Not to mention the small fortune you'll spend on toilet paper. You do know that women go through several rolls of toilet paper a week? This could potentially cut into your retirement and pension. Another thing to consider is, since you plan on surviving armageddon, and living forever in the new system, if she's fat now, she'll be perfectly fat in the new system. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with a woman who is perfectly obese? Food for thought, no pun intended.
So Palmtree lets talk about how bad you've been wanting me ever since I started posting........
Just had a thought after reading Pirata's post. One of the public talk outlines I have touches on Jehovah giving power to the those needing it. One of the verses recomended to use is Isaiah 40:28-31 where it talks about Jehovah giving power to the weak, and renewing the strength of those hoping in the Lord.
my bil (active dub) has begun to ask me why we are not "active" anymore.
after a few careful (non-dfing) comments and observations he asks "well who other than jw's are preaching the good news in fullfillment of matt 24:14?
i responded with the comment that billions of christ's followers worldwide, down through history for over 19 centuries have been selfless in preaching globally.
Personally speaking, the only thing unique I see about JWs preaching, is that JWs are pretty much the only group patting themselves on the back for preaching. I swear this is the only religion with weird self esteem issues.
I tell you what, there is nothing more grand than coming home from work on a meeting night and not going. Or sleeping in on a Saturday morning. Saturday mornings it takes every bit of emotion I can muster to meet at the group. But the mornings when I sleep in, especially in the Fall and Winter........my my my.
as i have enjoyed reading everyone elses biogs here i thought it was about time that i put my own down.
i have thought about why i want to do this and whilst i can pretend it is for the better good and it will act as a warning for others thinking of joining the witnesses, actually i think it is because i think it is just because it makes an interesting story and as will become apparent a good part of my life i had to live a lie and i now find it really liberating just to be really open with everyone.. i also thought about how to write it.
was tempted to write it to the tune of the fresh prince but thought that might get a bit tough after about verse 38. then wondered whether i should do it in the style of one of those biography pieces in the awake but that would involve reading an awake to mimic the style and just couldnt be bothered.
LOL that is long!! I'm marking for later. I want to read it now, but am at work, and I don't have time here to commit. Will definately check it out later. Thanks for sharing.
