form a religion that promises people everlasting life if they do what you tell them.
self appoint yourself as god's spokesman.
convince your members that they need to contribute money and years of time to build a high class lake front resort for "god's work".
bytheirworks, how is it taxing the first ammendment?
Nobody can give me one good reason why religions should be exempt from paying taxes. Many peform charity works but maybe they could get a reduction on taxes instead of just complete exemption for ones that could be considered performing legitimate charity.
Could you imagine how much the Catholic church would have to pay for property taxes?
http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/illustrated-bible-stories/lot-and-family/ (sorry cannot seem to make link work)
wt is going all out with this rendering.
the last bit is pretty creppy.
Didn't they have something you could download to color or connect-the-dots or something for this too?
playing devil's advocate here...
researching online, i found that approximately 1% of the world's population is 90 years of age or older.
this means that, come 2015, there will still be around 70 million people who fit the bill of "now living" in 1925 and still living.
darth frosty, then it goes into the sperm of the people that the sperm created.
i was thinking what a crushing blow it would be to the organization if the warwick project was stalled or held up in court.
many times a project will run into legal challenges over environmental issues or a lack of planning on the social-traffic- air quality - noise impacts.
political pressure on the council also can create headaches for the project proponents.. i saw a community once that had an indian casino planned.
What good would it do?
what do ya think of that?
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Don't the demons have anything better to do all day than make someone unmotivated?
he's a very good man and recognizes his limitations.
he still dislikes field service and considers himself inferior to the other elders.
he has almost no contact with his disfellowshipped older son.
The WT likes keeping the members running on that treadmill, never doing enough to reach any sort of goal. You can always do more.
as already posted im agnostic... but i find the texts of the bible the world's most famous book.. .
check jeremiah 5:8 out in the nwt.
while thismight now be shocking in the judean prophets what is shocking is this is a mojor addtion to the text to make it sound vile.
There are some sexy passages in the Bible.
i'd particularly like to stick it to the woman who gave birth to me by sending a da letter to her congregation, though admittedly i wasn't part of hers when i stopped going.. say i were to send the letter to her cult hall, would the letter be read during the announcement?
how does that work?.
I'm not sure how it would be sticking it to her. Then again I don't know your situation.
i have found that, since leaving jws, that few "wordly" people seem interested in hearing my escape story (although some certainly have shown great interest).
when i've mentioned that i used to be a jw and that i left, the reaction i've gotten on more than one occasion is a "oh i thought they were just a normal religion", and not only that, it's like they just weren't at all even open to the idea that jws could be a really strange and cultish group.
on these occasions, i felt a little lost for words trying to explain to people just how crazy jwism is, because there's so much crazy to tell about, where do you even start?.
Most people just think they are a little looney but have no idea the extent. I have informed a few people who have asked about it.
i continue to puzzle over the future direction the watchtower is taking.
it seems very strange.. let's review: they are selling everything off in brooklyn, raking in huge sums from that real estate and building heavily in a fairly isolated part of upstate ny.. why?.
it may be classified as a country club (legally).
They aren't prepping for any doomsday. They know they are full of it. At least the old crew believed in the BS they spewed.
