I'm guessing you mean: "A Sister" not "Your Sister"
Although I've never heard anything in a meeting or article, my elder relatives confirm that they are strongly encouraged by the CO to NEVER be alone with a woman.
Posts by Lore
-
-
-
-
23
Proof that humankind existed at least 28,000 years ago
by The Oracle ini wonder how jws will react to this recent evidence that intelligent man existed at least 22,000 years before adam and eve arrived on the scene?.
it looks like membership will continue to decline as far as intelligent jws are concerned.
i'm sure there will be plenty of society's bottom feeders who will continue to find their way on to the jw publisher lists.
-
-
Lore
He said the rock art was made with charcoal, so radiocarbon dating could be used to determine its age.
Umm. Newb question here: what if I dug up some charcoal from a tree that burned down 10,000 years ago and drew on the wall with it? Wouldn't it be carbon dated to 10,000 years ago?
-
13
The craziest thing I have ever read...stunned!
by Qcmbr innot certain whether to be horrified or laugh - .
why marriage and family commitment sucks - a response to the traditional christian by rock jagar.
preamble.
-
-
Lore
Are you disagreeing with Q, or you're disagreeing with the Bible.
-
-
-
Lore
What kind of things do you like to do on your smartphone?
All of the things!
Watch movies, read books, play old video games, listen to music + podcasts.
Google every stupid little question that pops into my head as I think of it. Use the GPS to tell where I am. Take Pictures. Record audio notes in case I forget stuff.
Once in a blue moon I'll recieve a phone call on it. And I'm not even joking, I rarely use it as a phone.
-
30
A Pettion for US Residents to Suspend Tax Exemption From Religious Cults deadline July 1st
by discreetslave inthis petition is to actively encourage congress to revise usc title 26 501 (and possibly 170) so that all tax exempt organizations must promote freedom of religion and speech to its members and employees.. .
congress should authorize the irs to promulgate regulations; investigate members, employees, and former members complaints; and enforce legislation.
an organizations tax exempt status should be suspended for not less than 3 years that does not promote freedom of religion and speech to its members and employees and instead intimidates or coerces them.. .
-
-
Lore
the government cannot favor one religion over another
Change the 'cannot' to 'should not' and I 100% agree.
But behind most religions is an organization. An organization with leaders, employees, customers, investors, property, and products. All of which can be completely regulated by the government
What if one party gets in there and decides that any church that speaks against that party loses their tax exemption?
Again I agree, they shouldn't do that. I don't think anyone here is suggesting that we just give some government group the authority to give and take tax exempt status on whatever grounds they see fit.
The grounds for removal of tax exempt status are already laid out in the petition and, if we keep our eyes on it, will be laid out in the legislation that is spawned from it.
And actually the wording of the petition ALREADY makes what you are afraid of impossible.
: An Organization’s tax exempt status should be suspended for not less than 3 years that does not promote freedom of religion and speech to its members and employees and instead intimidates or coerces them.
If you don't let your members speak out against a political party, then you would lose your tax exempt status. What you are concerned about is expressly forbidden by the this petition.
-
30
A Pettion for US Residents to Suspend Tax Exemption From Religious Cults deadline July 1st
by discreetslave inthis petition is to actively encourage congress to revise usc title 26 501 (and possibly 170) so that all tax exempt organizations must promote freedom of religion and speech to its members and employees.. .
congress should authorize the irs to promulgate regulations; investigate members, employees, and former members complaints; and enforce legislation.
an organizations tax exempt status should be suspended for not less than 3 years that does not promote freedom of religion and speech to its members and employees and instead intimidates or coerces them.. .
-
-
Lore
Gotta partially disagree with you NC.
Tax exemption is a privilege, not a right. To earn this privilege, at the moment, all you have to do is claim to be a religion and if the government agrees that you are in fact a religion, then you are tax exempt.
A bit of responsibility should be required on the part of any organization that wants to be tax exempt.
If you want to shun ex-members, tell homosexuals they can't join, be sexist, racist or otherwise unamerican, that's your right and nobody should stop you. But not if you want to be tax exempt.
Ideally the requirements should include: Contributing beneficially to society through charity, education or other.
But for now: Not being evil. Is a decent first requirement.
I don't see how this is more unconstitutional. At the moment we are giving religious organizations a financial advantage based SOLEY on the fact that they are religious. There is no constitutional justification for that.
-
33
Why did Lazarus Pay for his sins twice?
by criticalwitness inaccording to j dub doc the wages sins pays is death meaning to them death covers your debt of sin when lazarus died did he not pay his debt?
so when jesus resctd him why did he die again?
when jesus brought him back did he creat or recreat an imperfect being on the sinful road to destruction?
-
-
Lore
mP, you are really a bit of a mess, aren't you?
Everything mP said was correct.
Matthew talks about the dead people walking around in Jerusalem. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+27%3A52-53&version=NKJV
And is correct that no historian or even the other gospel writers bothered to record this event.
The gospels regularly give line by line dialoge of events that none of them were present for, like the trial and even including a prayer and angelic visit to Jesus that NOBODY else saw heard or could have possibly recorded.
-
33
Why did Lazarus Pay for his sins twice?
by criticalwitness inaccording to j dub doc the wages sins pays is death meaning to them death covers your debt of sin when lazarus died did he not pay his debt?
so when jesus resctd him why did he die again?
when jesus brought him back did he creat or recreat an imperfect being on the sinful road to destruction?
-
-
Lore
Why does it sound like a stupid loophole? Why is it so far fetched to assume that Lazarus sinned again after his resurrection?
Because, as a perfect human, he shouldn't have had the 'sinful tendencies' anymore. He should have been equally capable of living a sinless life as Jesus was. (minus the past experience)
He only had to last 2 more years at max.
The bible never states that he went on to sin. This is just assumed as a way to get out of an uncomfortable theological puzzle. Same goes for the widow's son.
And it sounds like a stupid loophole because it's a stupid loophole. Lazarus is somehow responsible for the sin of some guy 4000 years before he was born, and the only way he can pay for this 'debt' is by dying. So he does die and is one of the lucky few to actually come back to life after paying for this debt, and then the moment he accidently swallows a gnat or sits on the same seat that his wife or sister was on during her period BAM, he's sinful again and can only pay for it by dying again.
So one death pays for millenia of past ancestor sins plus all the sins he committed personally in his life. But not the few he was about to commit in the 2 years before Jesus death?
How come Jesus death could pay for all sins past, present and future, but Lazarus death only paid for all sins past.
And of course all of this only applies if Jesus hadn't died yet. So the kid who fell out the window would be covered by the ransom, and theoretically should still be alive somewhere whether he sinned or not.
-
30
Evolution skeptics will soon be silenced by science: Richard Leakey
by cantleave incan you see the jw's changing their stance?.
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/646060-evolution-skeptics-will-soon-be-silenced-by-science-richard-leakey.
richard leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.. not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself.. sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the point that "even the skeptics can accept it," the kenyan-born paleoanthropologist said.. "if you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, that it's solid, that we are all african, that colour is superficial, that stages of development of culture are all interactive, then i think we have a chance of a world that will respond better to global challenges.".
-
-
Lore
Given that this weeks watchtower study is still asserting that there was a global flood with only 8 survivors 4,400 years ago. . . I don't think evidence has any effect on these people.
More evidence is just more stuff to ignore.
-
40
Were Blacks Treated Differently Than Whites In Your Congregation?
by minimus ini was raised in a city hall.
it was pretty evenly split.
i wasn't raised in a blacks vs. whites environment.
-
-
Lore
Not that I've noticed. But I'm white, I understand that exempts me from being able to tell if something is racist.