is there such a thing as progressive understanding of god's will?
a simple yes or no will suffice, but if you'd like to state why, please by all means do so..
I believe that making grandiose statements and predictions about earth-shattering events like the big A on behalf of almighty god, is tantamount to pulling Jehovah's underpants down in public.
Jehovah has lost all credibility, his so-called organization didn't quite have any to begin with. I don't see any examples in the bible of Jehovah playing 'Psych' for a laugh with his prophets and mouthpieces on earth.
what are your favorite urban legends that you heard as a jw?.
here's mine:.
a brother, through his work, was asked to give a speech to the united nations.
A circuit Overseer (yeah, right) joins a chat site online, then strikes up a rapport with another person online. Her avatar is some hot chick. Eventually, he ensnared by her dirty talk and decides to leave his wife. He leaves his wife, gets DF'd, and decides to get a plane ticket to the states to meet this smokin' hot woman. He meets her at the airport, and instaed of being some fit 30 year old, she is a 60 year old hag with teeth missing etc.
Moral of the story? Don't use the internet, unless it's to use JW.org. and don't lust after younger, hotter women.
how many jw suicides can you recall?.
is it more common than the rest of society?.
i personally know of 5.
I know of one person who was a JW, I also knew a non JW
The JW killed himself over guilt and left a wife and child, the non-JW killed herself because she had depression.
my 97 year old grandmother died last week.
she was actually born and raised a jw.
her mother (my great grandmother) was a russelite.
I think it's possible to live a full and productive life as a dub, and it's possible to be happy. I've seen enough examples. The one thing that really pisses me off is when they 'encouraged' everyone to not get married and have children 'in this system of things'. I used to know a blind old sister in her 90's, who never married, and never even kissed a boy as a teenager. she maintained that she wouldn't have it any other way. I have to say she was the most bubbly, joyful old person I have ever met. her enthusiasm was infectious. She was such a nice person. It's such a pity she never married or had kids. I feel these people really had something stolen from them for the sake of a wicked doctrine.
Condolences to you, Magwitch. It's good to reflect on a person's happy life. It eases the pain.
I guess I must be male, seeing as my avatar is a pile of excrement with a curly poop on top.
Girlypants don't have nasty avatars.
talesin. Nice pic. Could only be surpassed by Jessica rabbit.
http://www.upi.com/top_news/us/2012/09/18/inmate-says-hes-too-fat-to-be-executed/upi-18891347947880/ .
They should give him a shed-load of vitamin B3. It's a vaso-dilator, so it'll help the rat poison get nicely circulated. They could try viagra too. Doesn't that get the blood pumping?
i've finally turned my attentions away from anthony morris iii (just for the time being!
) and done a video about another governing body member... gerrit losch.. in this video, taken from a 2008 talk (given in sydney, australia), gerrit gives us his grim predictions for the future.... .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4bl_hzhjzm.
Regarding the billions of corpses, it's clearly obvious what will happen. Just like Jehovah turned the lions and tigers into flesh eaters after the flood, so too he will make all the millions of dairy cows meat eaters after Armageddon, for a short amount of time. After they've picked the bones clean, he'll turn them back veggie again.
for me, i think it's that the witnesses teach they are god's spokesman.
they represent his "faithful & discreet slave"....and that they alone are expounders of the only truth and that if you disagree with anything they teach, you are considered worse than vomit.. it's unbelievable because these people are wrong so many times, it cannot be excused!.
as a witness, you must accept every viewpoint and if you (and your family) do not accept it all, hook, line and sinker, you are "apostates"!!!.
I think most of us have only been exposed to one dangerous cult, so our experience is limited. I'm sure Muslims, Mormons and Buddhists are just as reprehensible in other ways.
I'm not falling over myself to get involved in any other deluded religion. I have enough experience as a Dub.
for me, i think it's that the witnesses teach they are god's spokesman.
they represent his "faithful & discreet slave"....and that they alone are expounders of the only truth and that if you disagree with anything they teach, you are considered worse than vomit.. it's unbelievable because these people are wrong so many times, it cannot be excused!.
as a witness, you must accept every viewpoint and if you (and your family) do not accept it all, hook, line and sinker, you are "apostates"!!!.
The worst thing is that time between waking up at 7.00 AM and going to bed at 11.00 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19645273
Yep, Jesus had a wife.
Not that anybody on here cares.....
