It couldn't get the votes. It really is that simple.
pbrow
the book of enoch taught women magic, the art of war.
and cosmetic..they felt this book was too far out in left field.. the show "bible secrets revealed".. ok, magic vs having a monster baby by a angel.. so happy they omitted that book, otherwise women would.
be leaders of the militaries.
It couldn't get the votes. It really is that simple.
pbrow
i'm not sure if i believe in life after death but i thought of something that has me leaning toward that direction.
unlike other living beings, humans have a consciousness that is separate from our brain.
two prime examples of this are addiction and dieting.
Conscious or non-conscious, the phrase "its all in your head" applies here. Its all coming from your brain. Our consciousness is not seperate from our brain it is a system of our brain.
pbrow
or do you believe they have the right to practice their religion, as they do?.
This is the USA we don't ban religions.... we just mock them.... ok we mock them but we dont show cartoons of mouhammed. That is just crazy talk!
In this day of information the last thing you want to do is ban a religion. The small majority of idiots (and former idiots such as myself) will join but the vast majority of people will either refrain from joining or join a religion and do whatever the hell they want to do. Banning something restricts freedom (even the right to join a fucked up religion) and that should be done as little as possible.
pbrow
dear anthony morris the turd.
october 2, 2014 is only 150 days from now.... what bull sh*t are you cooking up to mitigate the expected fallout?.
you might consider shedding "nu-lite" on this continuously recycled quote.... on friday morning, october 2, 1914, charles taze russell, who took the lead at that time among the bible students, strode into the dining room at bethel in brooklyn, new york.
hey ching... I agree in principal as I have used this scripture with my still in parent but there is no sin. Sinning is a myth!
pbrow
my father who is an elder with decent organizational connections mentioned that very soon there would be "new light" regarding the resurrected being able to be married.
this would make sense because our current understanding has never made any sense to me.
has any one else heard anything about that?.
ignorance... you must have been in for a loooooong time!! "This would make sense because our current understanding has never made any sense to me" sounds exactly like something that would be in the watchtower!!
done breaking your balls....
pbrow
i've been reading a lot lately about the historical jesus, and the latest archaeological findings and what a comparative, horizontal, reading of the 4 canonic gospels actually do tell us about the historical jesus and his teachings.
pick your side, but let me ask you this, because that's the core question i have been asking myself lately:.
if the historical jesus wasn't the son of god, but simply a human prophet with no previous super-human existence, hence, merely the "son of man", with very appealing teachings, but no previous super-human existence, hence, not "son of god" as we commonly believe as jw's, would you still be a christian?
While not an exact quote Thomas Paine said in "Age of Reason" that jesus was the son of god in the same way we are all the "son of god"
No more or less divine than any of us are.
Age of Reason is an excellent logical explanation if any are still on the fence about the divinity of the "word of god"
pbrow
for those of you who believe in the bible, have you ever seriously thought about the events that led up to the creation of eve?.
genesis 2 - 18 the lord god said, it is not good for the man to be alone.
i will make a helper suitable for him.. .
curse you jws... you beat me by mere minutes!!
pbrow
the other day my wife and i listen to a talk about making the planet and it's people better.
one of the things the speaker brought out was on education.
she brought out studies show that fear causes a person to keep from learning.
I dont know that I was afraid of all the other kids.... I sure wanted to do all the things that they could do, except Halloween. Halloween and armageddon were powerful when I was a kid. I wanted nothing to do with something "directly linked to satan.
I would say lack of education allows others to scare you for sure.
I tell my kids as much as possible.... if anyone tells you not to read a certain book then they are trying to hide something from you. Get knowledge wherever you can !
pbrow
poor sod.
i felt quite sorry for him in the end.. for context, i was brought up as a jw since i was very young.
i left 6 years ago (faded) a little before turning 30. i was on here a lot around that time but under a different profile that's no longer active.. for the past 18 months, i'm back living in the territory of the congregation i grew up in.
DATA DOG..... The JW anti-masturbation video is not shitty! It is hillarious!!
pbrow
i went to a small non-denominational church yesterday - first time in a church since i left the borg 4 years ago - and this is how i observed several of the members singing.. .
boy... do those people love to sing.. .
i try not to judge the sincerity of others but i was a little put off by the experience because it looked fake, showy display-ish.
hey konceptual... beat me too.... i remember being floored at this "optical illusion"
pbrow