there is a surge going on of people buying guns, especially first time buyers.
with talk of police defunding and rioting in the neighborhoods, some people want to protect themselves.. do you support owning and using a gun if needed?.
Americans forget [or were never correctly informed, much like JWs regarding the bible], that the 2nd amendment was created specifically to allow the citizens of the USA to have a revolution. Never intended as a way to protect life and property, that was just a bonus benefit of having the right to overthrow the government if the citizens felt that was in order.
ttwsyf
i see a lot of shocking videos on social media about gangs of blacks attacking white people.
how big is the problem really and what is done about it?.
Got a source or news feed?
i’ve been here a long time.
i saw this site jwd/jwn.
i thought it was very lively and interesting.
The internet is how I found this site....
there have been a number of threads touching on this before, leolaia for one, back in the day when we had many an erudite poster, showed the pagan origins of many things, including the passover , and by extension, the jw " memorial".. what prompted my thought on this was a conversation i had the other day with a young lady, never a jw, who said the jw stance on birthday celebrations, was groundless and cruel.. i thought later that jw's do a " pick and mix " as usual, as they do with so many other things, on what they condemn as "pagan" and what they accept and practice.. the institution of marriage itself is pagan, marriages were performed long before the bible was written, and long before the nation of israel was formed.
yet jw's perform marriages, use the veil, and the ring, all pagan.
the names of the days of the week, the months of the year, all pagan.. i guess you guys can think of many more things ?
If you think rationally about it, it would seem that
Paganism is impossible to avoid because each society has a local culture that it projects based on what people have latched onto as far as available spices and food, housing design, comfortable and functional clothing, recreational activities and such.
I would argue that it is paganism wearing a suit and tie with laced up matching shoes. Dressing in early 20th century American attire and then going door to door projecting that image in all gatherings [worship?] and recruitment efforts.
What if the culture in another land wears loafers, wooden shoes, sandals, boots or whatever? Judged pagan?
How about wearing anything else? If you have ever gotten corrected of your attire, it's probably because of pagan/cultural norms of the JW society.
TTWSYF
system of things comes to mind.
what does that mean to anyone not a jw?.
how long have you been in the truth?
'Lying for the Truth' AKA Theocratic Warfare
Awful that the WTS uses Lying for the Truth [aka theocratic warfare] on its' own members as well as new recruits or critics.
TTWSYF
.
just wanted to put this out there for any lurkers.. as someone that grew up during the 70s and 80s, we were promised that we would be in the first picture long ago.
if you are still on the fence, please let this sink in for a while..
Expectation- Pastor Russell restored the lost and true faith from the earliest Christian beliefs and traditions.
Reality- Just another one of 40,000 Christian sects started by some guy or gal that is just as corrupted as the other 39,999
i loath this cult!!!!!!!!!!
why won't she leave?.
she knows about the australian royal commision, the united nations, failed prediction dates etc...., i have crisis of consciene and she know, it is visiable that she could see the book everyday.
Smitty3 Because the Jehovah`s Witness religion offers absolutely no help whatsoever of a practical nature to any of their members young or old.
That's why there are no fruits from the WTS. You could never get good fruit from an org that promotes lying. Lying not only to possible critics, but lying to it's own members for recruitment and retention. No fruits what so ever, yet people remain. Quite perplexing,,,,,
the new article about mary magdalene says:.
the catholic church calls mary .
“the apostle of the apostles” because she was the first to bring news of jesus’ resurrection to the apostles.
Never was Mary M or any other Mary or any woman an apostle...No offense, it just didn't happen that way.
Women have a huge role in Christianity, but priesthood isn't part of it, ..historically speaking anyway
what are the craziest books or magazines the tower ever printed?
i know of the millions now living is crazy the finished mystery.
.
Should you believe in the trinity was a booklet that sounded very scholarly.....
instead, it was so dishonest that it was pulled out of circulation and you hear nothing of it anymore.
TTWSYF
waterhead sharpton is a racist, conman and idiot who can hardly speak.
but pmsnbc and other groups push him off as some kind or intellectual good guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eorpmrhai3e.
