i hope everyone is having a wonderful summer filled with district conventions and auxillary pioneering.
just kidding, let's talk drugs.. as a kid growing up in the mid-80's and through the 90's, we had all kinds of lame, pointless anti-drug programs at school.
the most common one was the d.a.r.e.
A classic pro-pot scripture : 1 Tim 4:4,5 : "The reason for this is that every creation of God is fine, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 for it is sanctified through God’s word and prayer over [it]."
If God created the herb, He knew what He was doing.
i need to get back into my routine.
just trying to find some good motivation to keep on track.
starting today i'm going to work out 30 mins on weights one day, and the next day 1 hour running or walking.
I'm trying to be.. I started a P90-like (*not* p90x - nowhere near ready for that yet) program a few weeks ago, and so far it's kicking my ass suitably.. thankfully, I have no problem eating well, so hopefully the weight (and lots of it) will come off over the summer and winter..
hello friends,.
i know this has been brought up elsewhere, but i wanted to relate an experience a witness friend shared with me only last night.
i'd appreciate any additional details others may have on this topic.. many of us are aware that the wts is "downsizing" its staff at branch offices around the world, including brooklyn bethel.
35-year old Bethelite veterans? That's pretty cold. Almost as cold as the Republic of Georgia will be in a few months. Now that's a retirement country I could sink my teeth into..
i wake up thinking: what if my boyfriend and i die a terrifying death during armageddon?
with no hope of any life afterwards?.
do any of you ever feel that way?.
2 Points to think about ..
The first is since you're still having doubts about whether the JW's are right or wrong, you have to become comfortable with the idea of simple non-existence. It isn't suicidal or anything like that, but there is the chance that this life is all there is and all what it is. You live and you die. Whether you die naturally or God Himself strikes you down for not being a JW (in that theology), is non-existence really all that scary? Myself, I'm OK with that idea.
The other point is that people can tell you all day long that JW's are wrong, but I think as mentioned in this thread, you need to absolutely prove it to yourself. Look on Ebay and grab a copy of the 1969 Kingdom Interlinear (the purple one); read another translation or preferably a few side by side with the NWT. You'll see and *know* that they have lied about lots of things, and maybe then the doubts will go away. Once I did that, I now KNOW, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are in fact liars and twisters of words.
he was recruited, sort of, when his church (unity) was queried if they had somebody who could.
god is love.
feel love instead of hate for that person who wronged you.
Thanks Terry for that - you have a certain way of telling a great, touching story.. thanks again..
according to this video, jesus was just a man, but were can i find these books that speak of this.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m23vv6moyf0&feature=related.
@poopsiecakes - great flick! Marcia Gay Harden is an amazing actress!
according to this video, jesus was just a man, but were can i find these books that speak of this.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m23vv6moyf0&feature=related.
If the documents mentioned in the video are true, the corruption (if saying Jesus is God is corruption of what 'really' happened) of the church had to begin *very* shortly after Christs death, as Paul seemed to write his first letters in the late 40's or early 50's CE. From the video, it would seem there was an early schism of how to treat Christ, one being that Christ was just a human servant of God and was not resurrected, versus that he claimed deity by the things he did and by his resurrection.
The question is : What did the extremely early Christians have to gain by claiming that Jesus was God?
according to this video, jesus was just a man, but were can i find these books that speak of this.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m23vv6moyf0&feature=related.
@pntsn4195815d095102 said : "1) God's Name. Jesus has made Jehovah a known name of the ultimate significance, Jehovah os undoubtedly Jesus Christ's God who he worships."
Really? Have you even READ the New Testament? He sure didn't seem to use it a lot (read : at all). That sure seems odd, doesn't it? If you've actually read the NT, you'll notice just how important Jesus' name is. His name is the one we get saved by, we can call on and it seems to be the only one that matters.
according to this video, jesus was just a man, but were can i find these books that speak of this.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m23vv6moyf0&feature=related.
annnnnnnnd let the thread shitting commence... though this thread had so much promise....
stop asking decide for yourself!
today i uploaded a new article highlighting the method of choice by watchtowers current governing body for dealing with problematic details haunting its doctrines.
moving forward the current governing body will expand on this theme.
What metatron said. Can you honestly imagine the amount of resources required to try and answer some of these questions that are mailed in? Probably huge. Why actually try and answer all of those questions, most of them irrevalent to vast unthinking JW membership, when you just send them to a vague WT. Either they simply don't care anymore, or that department (Service Department?) must be taking far too many resources and needs some trimming.
