You lost your hard drive to THE WORLD?!
Why, oh why, didn't you heed the warnings and keep that DANGEROUS APOSTATE MATERIAL off of it?!
i heard the tell tale clattering noises..... yet...did i bother to back anything up...noooooo.
did i go to the store and buy that external hard drive with the automatic back up software?.....noooooo.
yep...hard drive crashed....data unrecoverable (probably is recoverable but for what cost?..
You lost your hard drive to THE WORLD?!
Why, oh why, didn't you heed the warnings and keep that DANGEROUS APOSTATE MATERIAL off of it?!
another way of saying this would be...stop thinking and listen to us.
this is something that i am having a really tough time with and have spoken to the elders about several times.
it would seem to make sense that i would be able to get reasonable answers to some questions, and if not they could at least be honest and say "i don't know".
I have to wonder...
Does somebody who constantly demands that you trust them ever make anybody LESS suspicious about them?
It's like my therapist once said "It's like telling somebody: Whatever you do, DON'T think about purple bears!"
When I say "purple bears", what's the first thing that pops into your head?
I mean, when the WT says "Don't doubt"... has that little piece of advice EVER actually worked?
Have doubts? Don't. Oh, thanks, I somehow feel so much better and so much more un-doubtful.
open question, please list scriptures that give you that direction or what you base your answer upon.
i know there are so many different viewpoints on this forum, it will be interesting for all to see them and what scriptures or reasoning they are based on.. some examples are,.
do you feel only one needs to have love, faith in jesus, and those basics and that is what you must proclaim.. do you feel true knowledge must be taught to all, and as much as is known.
Well, if God speaks to your digestive system, then His message to me is loud and clear: "Go ahead and have another XXL Deli Style. Oscar Meyer is your friend."
I'm something of a conspiracy nut myself. I've been through too much weird-ass crap to be anything else.
But I appreciate the humor nonetheless.
my husband came home from work and told me that he told his mom about me not believing in this religion anymore.
she's concerned and thinks i should tell my family.
i told him no.
At least your husband is brave enough to admit he's afraid.
Most JWs are too afraid to admit they're afraid.
for those who believe in god, do you believe he has one true organization on earth?
word of our intended slow fade has abruptly become a public knowledge.
my husband was talking to his sister on the phone today, breaking the news to her and one thing she kept bringing up was that god has to have an organization on earth.
Yep, "organization" doesn't even appear in the NWT. Neither does "channel" or "religion".
CIA and Homeland Security?
Surely you jest.
sorry, i put this topic mistakenly under beliefs.
i meant to put it here.. i really can't understand what's going on.
someone mentioned on another thread there is expansion going on at the wallkill farm.
My money is on compounds. Seriously.
Uhhh...
Ummm...
"XION" is Greek for snow...
That's all I can think of.
this is nuts.
the feb 15 -08 wt threw out that doctrine!!.
those whose make it into the paradice are not the "generation" as spoken of at matthew 24:34. .
2009 - 1914 = 95.
Ninety-frickin' five.
That's the youngest... the YOUNGEST... anybody from "that generation" would be today.
How many folks over 95 are still alive today?
I mean, seriously, anybody with even BASIC math skills could take one look at this, see the published date of 1986, and add 2+2...
I'm forced to come to one of 2 conclusions:
1) The WT continues to push its luck in insulting the intelligence of the average human being, OR...
2) They're all sitting up there in Bethel, just absolutely laughing their asses off at the poor bastards who hang on their every word and are so spiritually dead they don't even notice this crap any more.
I don't know which is the lesser of these evils.
I mean, honestly, doesn't it make you wonder sometimes if the reason they continue to pull this shit is that maybe their collective subconscious, deep down somewhere, is secretly crying out, "For Christ's sake, don't end up like us - just RUN. LIKE. HELL?!"