ok i know some of you are going to mock me but i don't give a shit and you'd better get dafaq outta this thread if you don't beleive in this stuff.. .
so,you ever seen somethin strange?shadow people?felt cold spots?touched by something you can't see?beaten by an unseen force?heard voices/whispers/growls/screams etc?are you sure about it or was it just your imagination?you ever been into the occult?c'mon share your experiences and stories!personally i've never had an encounter with the other side..
At the age of 6, I had an inter-dimensional experience.
Yup, around 4 decades ago, as a 6 year old I already knew what (the late) Carl Sagan and Michio Kaku now know regarding the existence of other higher dimensions beyond space-time and our 5-senses.
The Tessaract:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3lvkgn_hta.
Thank you Gayle, yes I hope so too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3lvkgn_hta.
how would you describe the state of the world's religions currently.
which ones do you see making reforms and progress or bound to old traditions, or split between old and new approaches to social, environmental and political concerns.. jws.
islam.
Ultimately the honey (spirituality) has to be free of arsenic (religion).
It seems we are in some interim phase where certain religions or groups within those religions could be described as "progressive".
I have for example come across Catholic nuns that are very active spiritually and very non-religious.
I have also come across persons in religion that denounce religion.
The late Robert Farrar Capon (an Episcopal priest): "Religion, therefore, is a loser, a strictly fallen activity. It has a failed past and a bankrupt future. There was no religion in Eden and there won't be any in heaven."
The Watchtower "ruling religious clergy class" therefore seems to be one of the few that still push religion to the max.
i don't recall jesus ever once telling people that they should even read the bible to find god.. he said nothing about 'taking in knowledge' either.. .
he didn't encourage people to read the bible because 90% of people in his day couldn't read!
the bible was not read by most people, it was -heard- when someone else read it aloud.
In my experience God is found, heard and understood by explicit and relentless pursuit of the liberating "unabridged gospel" message hidden in plain sight throughout scripture (and which the "ruling religious clergy class" fear and hate above all else).
This concept is at the core of the gospel:
the wtbats like to state "we never stated when the end will come" when they blatantly have:.
1969 "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years.
Indeed.
first i made love to my wife, maybe i'm better in bed then i thought, because about an hour after that my wife comes back in and i'm sitting at my desk and i asked her, "when the elders df me are you going to leave me, spiritual endangerment and all" she said, no, i don't feel endangered and we talked awhile and i talked about da ing and not sure what to do, then i shared with her a toned down version of the da letter that i posted and that led to her asking about my beliefs and understandings of who the great crowd and 144k, heaven and earthly hopes.
i was even able to tell her how they changed or distorted the meaning of the word naos to show the great crowd not in heaven.
i was able to show her some of the scriptures from the da letter, able to tell her a little about 1914 and how jesus did'nt invisably come in a presence, showing her scriptures on that and some more ttatt.
Ah, the power of love.
Awesome good news.
my jw (converts of about 5 years) came over on thursday and ate a turkey dinner with us.
we didn't call it thanksgiving, but that was obviously what it was.
they were proud to give me my own copy of the new revised and improved nwt bible.
"How can you protect yourself then Dad, if they become apostate like often happened to God's people in the Bible?"
looking for feedback.
to bring you all back up to speed, wife is ex-jw.
shunned by her brother and parts of her family at uncles jw funeral.
Thanks for sharing a great letter and strategy.
Personally I believe those few that have the wherewithal and circumstances to stand up to them and call them out should do so.
That having been said obviously every situation may have its own unique aspects.
nelson mandela has passed on.
he was a symbol of hope and peace to many.
has his life and achievements meant anything personal to members of jwn?.
A great deal.
I hope to learn more about what gave him the power to do what most of us would find impossible.
