i reported the other night that we sat down to watch the new video, and while my wife was smiling and laughing while watching the first part, she stiffened and became quiet during part two.
it disturbed her deeply:.
"this is ridiculous.
SHAMUS100 - actually, most people in our Kingdom hall are apostates! Apostate Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Mormons. . .
I recall telling Brother Hero during our 'Bible Study' that our JW babysitter is an apostate of the Catholic church. He naturally dismissed it because she is such a nice person, but never-the-less, it is true.
i reported the other night that we sat down to watch the new video, and while my wife was smiling and laughing while watching the first part, she stiffened and became quiet during part two.
it disturbed her deeply:.
"this is ridiculous.
For HERS, maybe go with Tinkerbell. What could a JW say to that?
Now my wife loves Tinkerbell. It became a problem for her later on when she at first tried to defend our JW babysitter's view on Super Why.
i reported the other night that we sat down to watch the new video, and while my wife was smiling and laughing while watching the first part, she stiffened and became quiet during part two.
it disturbed her deeply:.
"this is ridiculous.
I am not sure how my wife is going to react to this when she sees it. Back when our JW babysitter told my oldest daughter that she did not like Super-Why because they use magic, it caused a bit of a dispute between my wife and I. Like my wife, I too came from a church that saw Satan in just about anything and I told her how those comments reminded me of that church and their apprenhension to things like the Smurfs and Captain Planet.
Mr. askduane:
Since you are a relatively newbie to this religion, I wonder how much do you really know about other churches and their beliefs. As I just got finished saying, my old church (an Independent Fundamental Baptist church) was equally paranoid about Satan and saw him in just about everything. They too believed that they have the correct interpretations of the Bible and their favorite translation is the King James because they believe all other translations are not correct. When I was studying with the witnesses, I remember seeing these obvious parallels between them and the IFB's. Since I was burned once by a cult (that I did not view as a cult at the time), I was not about to do it again.
below are two excerpts from the same publications.. you can remain chaste in an immoral world.
the watchtower - july 15, 2000. to married christians, the apostle paul gives this counsel: "this i say, brothers, the time left is reduced.
henceforth let those who have wives be as though they had none.
The beauty of giving contradictory directives is that if they want they can reprove or DF you no matter what you do.
Yep, sounds almost like a good ole boys club.
below are two excerpts from the same publications.. you can remain chaste in an immoral world.
the watchtower - july 15, 2000. to married christians, the apostle paul gives this counsel: "this i say, brothers, the time left is reduced.
henceforth let those who have wives be as though they had none.
My head exploded garyneal, so well done.
There you go, confuse the flock to the point that they say, "Uh huh, OHHHH, OKAY!" They walk away no better off than before but at least the dissonance was eased.
below are two excerpts from the same publications.. you can remain chaste in an immoral world.
the watchtower - july 15, 2000. to married christians, the apostle paul gives this counsel: "this i say, brothers, the time left is reduced.
henceforth let those who have wives be as though they had none.
This is not much different than what I experienced in my old IFB church when the pastor proclaimed that anyone who is a member of his church but goes and visits another church has committed adultery against his home church. So I left and joined another church and sometime after that, he and I were on the phone talking. He asked if I was going to church and I told him that I was and told him that I joined that church. Then we talked some more and as the conversation was about to end he asked me to visit his church. I asked him what about when he said that that would be the same as committing adultery against the home church he said, "Weeeellll, ..." and backpedaled big time.
Double standards.
below are two excerpts from the same publications.. you can remain chaste in an immoral world.
the watchtower - july 15, 2000. to married christians, the apostle paul gives this counsel: "this i say, brothers, the time left is reduced.
henceforth let those who have wives be as though they had none.
Weeeeellllll, the work in the congregation should never be more important than your mate. Remember men, love your wives as Christ loved the congregation and you wives, be in submission to your husbands for you must remember that Christ is the head of the man and man is the head of the woman. We just must keep in mind that with the time left reduced, we must also not forsake the kingdom work. A loving husband would remember to follow his head and would never tell his wife to work against Jehovah because He is his head over Christ.
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i've uploaded a new blog article that addresses the latest dvd release at the current district convention, namely "become jehovah's friend!
" - the tale of young caleb and his brush with divine wrath over a plastic toy wizard.
a link to the article, which includes the youtube samples of the production, is below:.
I think Caleb's friend has learned a valuable lesson - JWs are ungrateful. Imagine if the scenario was reversed. Caleb gave his friend something that he spent his own money on to please his friend, and the friend just discarded it. Poor Caleb would be hurt, but he'd also learn that 'Worldly' people are thoughtless etc.
Interesting way of looking at it. I actually had this happen with my JW girlfriend (now wife) when I bought her a locket back when we were dating. It a very pretty locket but because it had a cross on it, her mom said that she could not have it and she even went and returned it in front of me. That made me feel pretty bad.
Stupid cult.
i still never really understood what these phantoms ever did.
i've read many praiseworthy comments lauding the site or people behind it.
but in reality, what major good have they done to change jehovah's witnesses' views on blood?.
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hi ex-jws on this board.
i have a question that needs answering.
for years i have read on this board ex-jws, born-agains, and other anti-jw group condemn jws for "false prophecies".
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