several months ago i approached a nice young couple who were standing by a jw literature stand in my local community.
they were pleasant and polite but incredibly stilted when it came to answering my "innocent" questions about their beliefs.
this was the occasion of jws featuring the article headlined "is religion dying?".
Wasanelder Once 12 minutes ago
I think the Gov body is discouraging conversations in an effort to keep the RF from hearing all the negative they would hear otherwise. The indefensible can decay some people's trust in the Governing Blotto.
That's what I've wondered for some time. Do they want witnesses to stay away form worldly types with tatt?
it's great that the following is officially mentioned in the royal commission's report:.
when asked if the governing body members saw themselves as ‘jehovah god’s spokespeople on earth’, mr geoffrey jackson answered that it ‘would seem to be quite presumptuous to say that we are the only spokesperson that god is using’.
mr jackson’s response seems to be inconsistent with the documentary evidence before the royal commission, which shows that jehovah’s witnesses believe that the governing body is the ‘channel’ by which jehovah’s ‘will’ is communicated to them..
your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to go onto jw.org.
take one of their pics from any publication and add your own speech bubbles or caption.. here's mine.
picture taken from the watchtower feb 2017.. .
I wish I could see them! I'll have to have a gander on me tablet.
i'm at my quasi-thanksgiving dinner with relatives.
i hear a haunting sound from another room.
"is that a children's song?
i'm at my quasi-thanksgiving dinner with relatives.
i hear a haunting sound from another room.
"is that a children's song?
betterdaze
No tractors after Armageddon. Horse-drawn carts.
And CHILD SLAVE LABOUR! (According to their picture!)
recently at work they conducted an mbti test for me.
for those who don't know, the mbti test is a personality test used by organizational psychologists in companies and organizations.
it is supposed to describe the best way you communicate, the best way of giving and receiving feedback, and for managers that test is supposed to explain to them the best way to manage their employees (i'm over simplifying, i know).. my profile came up as some kind of introvert (and when i was told that i said "what?
Lou Bou to I fully understand what you mean. It's a constant source of pain to me that I have no where to do this for a loved one. I used to think it was just for the mourner, that they have a special place to remember loved one's. But I plan to ensure my children have somewhere specific to leave flowers for me, and I find comfort in knowing that in a funny kind of way.
I don't find it pagan or foolish whatsoever. Like so many other things the WT denigrates, it's called being human.
the wt march 2017, p.11, par.
13 quotes ephesians 4:8 as saying, "the bible refers to them as 'gifts in men.
however, the org's own kingdom interlinear translation (and every other bible translation) gives a truthful translation of the verse: .
Boy do I detest the way they twist the scriptures to serve their own crooked ends. That one is a particular pet hate of mine, they love to puff themselves up and glorify themselves...because it is themselves, and those of their ilk, they refer to with their much vaunted gifts in men. I'd like to give them a gift...right in the backside.
"When he ascended on high,
he took many captives
and gave gifts to his people.” One of many crooked translations.
march study edition says we should show honer to people in general that includes df ones great now i can smile and show honer to them by speaking to them and not shunning them..
Poopie I thought you were trying to say boner !!
Poopie is the long-time staunch anti shunning campaigner no.1. Always a pleasure and brings a smile to my face despite the seriousness of the subject you so rightly rail against.
i told him i communicate with my dog, my dog informed me that the cute little french poodle two doors south is a slut.
my orange tree is not producing fruit this year, so i cursed it and told it i want you out of yard.and then i told him the other day i was at the race track (horses) and while passing the stables old turkey told me he will win his race today.
what do you think my psychiatrist diagnose for me.
I was going to say I think your psychiatrist would diagnose you with messiah complex😣!
Edit: you're definitely not human if you think everyone's evil except your family, it's usually the other way around!!
if in the wts earthly-paradise fantasy, the wolf won't eat no more the lamb and they will be the best friends, will human continue to kill lambs to eat?.
the earthly paradise is vegan?.
"Keep spending most our lives dreamin' of our vegan paradise"🍌🍉🍎🎶🎶🎶
🎶(To the tune of 'Gangstas paradise')
