editor's note: found this on reddit...thought the meat of the post would be a good post for discussion here as well.. consider the three choices god forced upon david for taking a census.
these three choices were forced on king david, not for murdering people, not for raping women, not for lying, stealing, or any crime we can think of in our modern world that is repugnant, but simply for taking a census or in other words, counting people.. for counting people, jehovah forced a decision on david that involved the lives of thousands upon thousands of innocent people.. the choices all dealt with the “way” jehovah would kill thousands of unsuspecting loyal worshipers.. 1 chronicles 21.
“these are the choices the lord has given you.
i would have chosen famine. it was a punishment against the israel dudes. so every body else would. be ok. since i knew there was going to be famine then you can plan accordingly. outsmart tantrum yaweh. in those times they had stored grain.
famine meant no rain.
david was an idiot
well, these stories are always fun, right?
let me share mine.. my husband and have been pimo for 2 years.
inactive for one year.
I was PoMi for 15 years. We didn't have a lot of communication but we talked and we had family gatherings. Then one day I realized it was all a lie and told all of them. they stopped all communication.
People on the forum told me to wait and not take any rush actions. And I ignored them all. Sent a letter to all my family members.
What is shunning me is not them, but their cult personality. But now there is no way I could help any of them wake up.
Both way suck. You need to pick which sucky option you like best.
within the very documentary is a reason i think that jw's for the most part will not wake up even if they watch this program.
the one lady actually saw as her family sat behind the abuser in court supporting him despite the established fact that he had abused their very own child.. this shows how deep the indoctrination is.
i am not saying that some won't wake up, but the majority will carry on, not even because they think these things are lies but because they will look past that at all costs to side with jehovah.
i was looking at my children's watch history on youtube when i saw that they were watching atheist content!!!
what should i do?
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pray more?
◄ joshua 10:11 ►.
and it came to pass, as they fled from before israel, and were in the going down to bethhoron, that the lord cast down great stones from heaven on them to azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of israel slew with the sword.. .
looks like the amorites came to the battle only wearing helmets.
although that picure is the artist idea because the bable doesnt say they were not wearing armor nor shields
i don't get into the challenge garbage but this one intrigued me.
i bought three because as they run out the price goes up and i was going to resell.
but i decided to do one for myself.
I did... with seven friends.... to see who would run for the ice cream last..... forget that.
its beyond spicy. people laying on the floor screaming with pain for hours....
never doing it again.... until next time that is
corona-virus facts.
in china, people generally do not wash their hands.
there is no soap in restrooms or even in hospitals.
FYI: Apparently the 4th case in the US is my neighbor, how did I find out? Saw a post on WeChat.
i haven’t posted in awhile.
my wife asked me after the year 2000 came and went without fanfare(because the wt organization said all the “new world” would be here within this 20th century would end), “ what would it take for you to leave the truth?”.
my reply was “ if i turn 60 in this “system of things”.
are you happy you woke up? or would you rather remain under the spell?
new coronavirus wreaking havoc.....first case detected in the us one hour ago....six deaths already in china.....hope it gets controlled soon.....
wreaking havoc? exactly how?
i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.
you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .
which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!
Happy Birthday.... Your world is not only defined by your age bracket... but also your location. Not all the people in their 70s live in your world.
People who are 70 in North Korea will think you are weird. People who live in the desert or a jungle, etc.
Your world is your POV on things.
70 years ago there were even more POVs.
Many of the values that were important in your time frame, are not important today. And many of the values that are important today will not be important tomorrow.
