i know its kinda old, but i cant believe this pedo actually compared himself to david and goliath?
dude, you got caught.
why is it when people are in a corner they continue to make themseleves look like the victim?
Looking at this made me think of a rap verse I love.......
My mindstate, raise the crime rate
Break a whole brick down for old times’ sake
Push an avalanche, that alpine shake
The coupe’s vanilla bean, the seats is pound cake
In my condo, bitches with teddies on
Wall full of mirrors, heaven for an Eddie LongMy life the fast lane, gettin’ my Andretti on
Blow it all, you can’t take it when you dead and gone
if you had to guess what point of their teaching.
the governing body wants jws to really, really understand,.
24:45.. the comment highlights that because jesus "did not say that there would be a multitude of slaves scattered throughout the various sects of christendom.
Sometimes I wonder if the current Governing Body members realize that they're as trapped by the teachings and the history of this organization as much as undercover apostates trying to maintain their family ties. What I mean is, Franz and Rutherford amongst other scoundrels, steered this ship so far in one direction, that the current GB members and other heavyweights in Bethel realize they can't just steer it the opposite direction without heavy damage to the entire ship. They realize they're trapped by the blood doctrine, how the disfellowshipped/disassociated are to be treated, and their views on other religions. To randomly drop those positions would leave them open to lawsuits, not to mention how it would damage people mentally who desperately want to believe in all of this. An argument can be made that it would be unconscionable to randomly tell all your believers that we got it all wrong and that you've just wasted the majority of your life on our doctrines. Even on this forum, many of us have come to the conclusion that for old time JWs, its best to let them have their beliefs. So considering such, the GB throws nonsensible articles out there to purposely sabatoge their own credibility in the hope that eventually enough people wake up and leave the organization of their own volition. You can compare this to how they avoid slandering ones by not making an announcement of a person's disfellowshipping, but rather that person is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses. The classic, "it wasn't our doing, rather it was them who chose this."
I know this sounds somewhat crazy, and it probably is, but I can't for the life of me figure out why they continue mentioning this parabel as prophetically applying to them. Anyone with common sense can read these verses, and see its simply a parabel for illustrative purposes. Maybe the GB and Writing Department keeps mentioning this verse and their so called authority hoping their readers will wake up and call their leadership out on this nonsense thereby giving the leadership an outlet from this nightmare created by predecessors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxktzmqgxri.
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do yourself a favor and watch these....
Those prequels were terrible I thought. Either Lucas fell off, or maybe other directors and writers passed him up as the prequels were quite underwhelming.
One thing I really hate about Lucas is how he both underwrites and fails to develope intriguing characters, particulary villains. Darth Maul could have been the greatest villain any movie has ever been blessed to have. He could have been right up there with Anton Chigurh, or Darth Vader. Episode 1 hyped Maul like he was really going to be a major player, and Lucas dropped the ball. Boba Fett and his father, Jango, Lucas failed with them too. General Grievous was underused, and his story was skimmed over. The cartoon series did a better job than Lucas did with the films. I hate to say this, but.........Michael Bay, Brian Singer>Lucas.
any fans?
love it.
can't get enough.. if you have never seen it, don't judge it by the commercials.
Let me ask you guys and gals something, and if this is thread hijacking, please let me know and I'll post another thread regarding what I'm about to ask you........
What does it say about our culture today, that a serial killer is the hero, or antihero? Is it a good thing, or a bad thing? On the blvd that I take to get to work, there's a huge billboard sign for this show. He has a hood on, and its speckled with blood. I find myself questioning the appropriateness of advertising the show in that fashion. I mean he's a friggin serial killer, and he's the star of the show!
I remember years ago when Fox was just starting to compete with NBC/ABC/CBS for the primetime sitcom market, they had a show called Profit, which I loved. The star of the show was this amoral business executive who goes around trying to ruin the lives of his competition at the company. He sleeps in a cardboard box, naked. The show didn't last long, but looking back on it, as I've gotten older, I don't thnk I should have been watching that anyway.
Is our culture headed in the right direction with shows like Dexter? I'm not judging, just thinking out loud.
our jw contact sent us the " witness only " wt's again and i just had to make a thread on this mind numbing article.
starting on pg.22 in the jan.15th it deals with " coping with discouragement ".
it seems lots of jw's are under intense stress these days ( can you blame them ?
but for a reality check, see how they react to the news that a meeting has been canceled due to weather. Everyone is THRILLED. They get to stay home in their jammies, in front of the fire, relaxing. Oh the joy, all that and NO guilt.
Very few things in life make a JW as happy as a cancelled meeting due to weather. Hands down the greatest phone call any person can recieve other than winning a fortune from a Nigerian contest that they don't recall applying for, is when your group overseer calls and says the meeting is cancelled due to bad weather.
our jw contact sent us the " witness only " wt's again and i just had to make a thread on this mind numbing article.
starting on pg.22 in the jan.15th it deals with " coping with discouragement ".
it seems lots of jw's are under intense stress these days ( can you blame them ?
Wow, thanks for posting that BluesBrother. Paragraph 14 is hilarious where it states, "How often brothers and sisters arrive at the meetings feeling weary, but when the time comes to go home, it is as if their energy has been renewed, their spiritual batteries recharged!"
That might singlehandedly be the stupidest thing I've read so far this early in the year. Then again, maybe the writers of this article just need help with interpreting people's moods after the meeting. It's not that our spiritual batteries have been recharged, but rather we're just glad that the frickin meeting is over! We're happy to no longer have to sit through dull and repetative parts. We're happy we finally get to go home, which is where we would have stayed in the first place if there wasn't such a guilt trip to attend the frickin meeting! Idiots man.
Paragraph 16 is a doozy too. We might benefit from reviewing our work schedule, the frequency we travel for pleasure, and the intensity which we pursue sports and other leisure activities? Wow. Most in the congregation don't have the luxury to travel as much as the GB and other heavies in Bethel. Pursue sports? Have you ever noticed how prevelant obesity is in the average congregation? Examine my work schedule? I'll keep that mind as I slave for the company I work for because I lack a degree to put me in a better employment situation.
Ya know something, I don't like to curse, but they really are some arrogant assholes up there aren't they? At the least, they're grossly out of touch with the average publisher in the average congregation.
our jw contact sent us the " witness only " wt's again and i just had to make a thread on this mind numbing article.
starting on pg.22 in the jan.15th it deals with " coping with discouragement ".
it seems lots of jw's are under intense stress these days ( can you blame them ?
I felt like I wasn't really going for the sake of learning anything, but rather to report in, like prisoners' roll call or something.
This is an excellant discription of what going to the meetings is like too! Ha!!! Don't miss a couple roll calls either, and watch the gossip start.
This is like Boxer in 'Animal Farm'. "I will work harder" is the only solution to all problems, rather than facing the problems directly.
I read this a couple months ago, excellant book bruh. I strongly recommend you read Down and Out in Paris and London by him as well.
our jw contact sent us the " witness only " wt's again and i just had to make a thread on this mind numbing article.
starting on pg.22 in the jan.15th it deals with " coping with discouragement ".
it seems lots of jw's are under intense stress these days ( can you blame them ?
The best part about a meeting to me anymore is when its over, and I'm on my way home. Whats ironic to me is, one of the arguments used to support the Memorial being celebrated annually as opposed to the churches doing it daily or weekly, is that it would lose the sense of importance if done too regular. I actually agree with that position taken by the WT. What kills me though, is that the same argument can be made regarding regular meeting attendance. There's nothing special about weekly meetings, especially when you've been attending two or three meetings a week for the past 30 years or more of your life. Eventually the meetings are viewed as a hinderance, and even a necesarry irritation depending on how much of it you still believe in. There's days I'm mentally exhausted after work, and the last thing I want to do is go to some meeting in order to worship the Faithful and Discreet Slave. It gets old after a while. Not to mention, meetings aren't all that stimulating.
I've been meaning to do a spreadsheet on the past year's WT Studies, and Service Meetings, just to see how repetative the meetings really are. I just haven't found the time. I wanted to do different categories such as 1. how many times the F&D Slave have been mentioned, or 2. how often we have parts about meeting attendance, a la meetings about meetings, etc..
To be fair, there are times I've heard comments during the Bible Highlights that I appreciated, and there's been Sunday Talks that I'm glad to say I was in attendance for. There's times I've been down, or dealing with some problem, and a good speaker spoke the words I needed to hear. Trouble is, the good that I get out of a meeting is often overshadowed by the repetative, dull nature of the majority of meetings. I'd rather put overtime in at work than attend meetings.
One last thing, I'm a cynical, unsatisfied person as it is by nature, the last thing I need is to be around a bunch of people with personality defects. Congregations are full of brown-nosers, and the perpetually depressed. There's days I feel like Hitler at a Bar Mitzvah.
i read on a recent thread that one of the magazines now has the old story of whether jesus really died on a cross.
i know the idea behind this chorus line is to say that you're being lied to as to how jesus died.
if they lied to you about this simple thing, what else would they lie to you about?.
Being that the bible does say that it was wrong to idolize graved images of god's,
so in a religious sense they may be right to this.
Me personally, I agree with them on this too, but again in their neverending quest to as you put it, throw dirt on every other faith, they went too far. They should have just left the historical accuracy of whatever Jesus died on alone, and stuck with the is it idolatry debate.
i read on a recent thread that one of the magazines now has the old story of whether jesus really died on a cross.
i know the idea behind this chorus line is to say that you're being lied to as to how jesus died.
if they lied to you about this simple thing, what else would they lie to you about?.
I can't answer on behalf of a Governing Body member, but to me what happened here was representative of how this religion lost its way entirely during Rutherford's reign and then onward. Whether or not Jesus died on a cross, or straight pole, is a worthless debate. Its not beneficial to anybody, in my personal opinion anyway. I believe in the process of arguing whether or not there's an issue with idolatry in how people use the cross in worship, the WT tried to undermine the debate alltogether by stating Jesus never died on a cross in the first place. All they ended up doing was shooting themselves in the foot because believe it or not there are some people willing to actually research the matter and see that its quite possible Jesus died on a cross. Its possible he died on an upright pole without a cross beam, but more likely he died on a cross considering tradition.
Thats my take any way, for what its worth.
