i honestly cant remember the exact date when i was baptized.
it does not bother me one bit.
i didnt have it stamped in that shitty reasoning book/babel that i got at the time, so i guess the only place i could find it would be my cards, which are far away..
If by most important you mean the day I decided to leave the JWs, no I don;t remember the exact day, HOWEVER, I do remeber the exact time I realized the words coming outof my mouth were complete bullshit and that was the day that I started thinking for my self.
So I call that the most important day of my life.
something to do, someone to love, or something to hope for ...do you need all or just some of these for a fulfilling life ?.
which one is most essential or are all equal in importance ?.
Self Respect
likely most poeple feel that they at times can and should be both , that is a teacher or a student.
i know i have learned and gained much insight into many things here.. but most often.
fail to make acknowledgement... not sure why i guess i hate for a person to feel i am flattering them or kissing up.
Yknot is also our librarian, faithful and discreet, I might add.
"rejecting or trivializing the genesis account about adam and eve creates a domino effect that undermines nearly every major teaching in the bible!
such a way of thinking leads to a host of unanswered questions and a faith with nothing to stand on.".
footnote: "these include teachings about gods sovereignty, human integrity, good and evil, free will, the condition of the dead, marriage, the promised messiah, a paradise earth, gods kingdom, and many others.".
I can agree with this. For me it was looking into the reasons why a global flood could not have happened, then while reading a watchtower on it (don't ask) it said that Jesus said the flood happened.. Matthew 24:37-41
I think that was when I realized there was no baby in the bathwater (to steal a term often thrown around)
the last four years:.
with all the changes in the 'generation', 'sealing', doctines, etc.
- there have been unexpected [i imagine] jumps in this number.
Where is 144,001 when you need him?
taped live on feb 4, 2012.
(2 hours).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh9uvnrarf8.
Bump....
(please pardon my english quotes from the bible.
i'm trying to translate from swahili, i cant find my english bible lol).
so i had my bible study yesterday and my teacher came with an elder.
unfortunately i was out in service the other day.
just to get my 2-3 hours in for the month.
this lady who has invested over 60 years of all her life into the org made a comment.
She is correct, they did say that at the DC this year. Remember the statue with the iron/clay toes? They claim that is US/Britain alliance, and since it is the last superpower on the statue, there can be none after it.
It is a great way to whip up the masses into a frenzy.
so i was poking around jw.org a lil recently...... noticed this advertisement was still present in the 'privileged' section (ie you gotta have login access).
this was posted on jw.org a little over a year ago (as shown in pic) but since it is still viewable......figured it is fair-game for jwn fodder.
thoughts?????.
Hey yknot, good to hear from you!!!!!!!
Mickey, how about we offer to buy it on Oct 15 2014?
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120111/real_estate/12011997.
second witnesses property fetches $4.1mpurchase price of the brooklyn heights carriage house seen as 9% below the asking level.
sales are from the group's 34-property, 3.2 million-square-foot portfolio in the area.print email reprints commentby amanda fung @amandafungjanuary 11, 2012 1:37 p.m.inshare210updated: january 11, 2012 3:39 p.m.the second of eight brooklyn heights properties put up for sale last year by the jehovah's witnesses has sold for $4.1 million, just a month after the first of the properties was snapped up.. the two-story, 4,172-square-foot carriage house located at 165 columbia heights fetched just 9% less than its asking price, according to streeteasy.com, which said the transaction closed on jan. 10. ellen newman of the corcoran group was retained this summer by the witnesses to market the four-bedroom, four-bathroom house and four others in brooklyn heights.. ms. newman confirmed the sale.
Really they owned this? What for?
