My hate for this Organization increases more.
The same people that decry the abuse of religious power in others are guilty of hypocrisy in the utmost degree.
I am truly saddened by this event.
How many more lives must be shattered? How many more families must be ripped to shreds?
Posted with a heavy heart. My prayers are with you and your family, Bill.
have you ever had to deal with the thought that you really weren't that good of an example?
perhaps, the congregation was encouraged to pioneer or reach out for bethel service or go to seldom worked territory, etc.
and when you applied, you were told that you didn't qualify.
One way at school
One way at the Hall.
Guess I was a bad example.
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Does anyone see any similarities between this trial and one that occured around 2,00 years ago?
in my time as jw there was at least one urban legend that was very popular.
amongst jaydubs.this was about the dog named "jehovah" by it's jw-hating owner.
so that when he got visited by them once again,he could shout "jehovah,attack!"..
My parents had a tape of a talk by Dan Sydlik (Sp.?). I loved listening to it. In it he told of the experiences of the JWs during WW2. One that always got me was of two JW brothers (one later became branch overseer of Poland). They were either being marched to another concentration camp or on a death march, I forget which. During the march they had no food. One was carrying the other, and eventually wore out. He placed the other near a tree and walked away (according to Sydlik, if you stopped marching the Nazis shot you in the head). As he awaited the death of the other nothing happened, so he walked back to the tree and found the other with a loaf of bread. He asked the other, "Where did you get that bread?" The other said, "A man gave it to me." He looked for the man but couldn't find him. They ate the bread and made to their destination. Sydlik said it was an angel, and the audience thundered its applause.
my friends and i started collecting these little figures from the quater machines in the grocery store called homies... just wondering if anyone else has these in their supermarkets/drug stores... they are so funny... little guys drinking 40's, holding skateboards.
they're great.
check them out.... .
Thank you Lisa.
As a parent I wouldn't let me children play with these. However if I was not a parent I would still have serious issues with these "toys."
1. The negative stereotypes of the Latino culture. Imagine the hue and cry if these "toys" were of steotypical blacks?
2. No a person should not be catagorized by his/her dress. Unfortunately, the style of dress portrayed by these "toys" has a message. "Gangs are cool."
3. In my early Christian days, I was art of a church that dealt with the latino gang (specifically in East Los Angeles, CA). When I should a picture of these "toys" to one former member of the Mexican Mafia, he said, "How can anyone, in good conscience, claim that these toys do not make gang life look good?" Now this person was not a mere soldier, but on of the founding members of the Mexican Mafia, otherwise known as La Eme (The M).
the nwt bible was writen from the original hebrew, greek, and aramaic .
manuscripts.
some found in the dead sea caves in 1950. there is no cost.
Fred,
What you see is what you get. I don't hide behind some foolish Star Wars character.
the nwt bible was writen from the original hebrew, greek, and aramaic .
manuscripts.
some found in the dead sea caves in 1950. there is no cost.
The NWT is a theologically biased translation. It was translated by people that have remained anonymous. THe reason for their anonimity is not to keep God's word in the sotlight, but rather to hide their lack of credentials from scholars.
The NWT is best used to line the bottoms of cages inhabited by small pets.
discussion forum for anything not jw related.
... apostates are welcome !.
bla bla bla sin oh yes!
But I would like to add that the JW's were the first to bring the Modern English to the Bible.
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG
Have you never heard of the American Sandard Version? Oh wait, I forgot, you are a goose-stepping JW with little or no brain whatsoever.
Nevermind
my friends and i started collecting these little figures from the quater machines in the grocery store called homies... just wondering if anyone else has these in their supermarkets/drug stores... they are so funny... little guys drinking 40's, holding skateboards.
they're great.
check them out.... .
These little "toys" glamorize the gang lifestyle that is prevelent in Latin-American communities.
Personally, I think they are disgusting, and do not allow my children to have them.
They see enough crap on TV, I don't think they need crap "toys."
IMHO
for years now, the wts leadership has been closing its collective.
eyes to the internal moral decay of the organization.
governing body all the way down to local elders, more and more.
Great post. I wonder what will happen to the honest and good-hearted eldes that do exist in the various congregations.
