so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.
things must be improving, eh?.
I smell a dirty great rat with this Ukraine stuff. I don't mean soccer either, because I don't follow any sport.
Those in power want us to comply and cheer on the side that they designate for us. Whether we agree or not. Sadly, the majority of sheeple will take sides with whomsoever. Of course the dimwits comply and hound those that are not in 'the crowd'.
I think we're being played for mugs.
we all know that despite many scriptures to the contrary, jw's believe that when they die, their consciousness will cease.
my question is this: what will be the likely reaction of jw's if they find themselves conscious after death?.
The question pre-supposes people are conscious after death.
Supposing they aren't. Supposing there is nothing after you die?
I have yet to meet someone that did live on either as a spirit or in any form.
What an amusing thought, though.
june 2023 study watchtower p. 13, par 15 - “we will not be fooled if we “make sure of or, “test” all things.”...we need to test what we hear or what we read to determine whether it is genuine.....instead of naively accepting what others the org say, we use our thinking ability to compare what we read or what we hear with what the bible and jehovah’s organization say.”.
By 'test', they mean to only read JW publications(tm).
It's all so hollow.
If they actually did 'test', there wouldn't be any Jobots left. they'd all become 'mentally diseased apostates(tm)'.
fourteen years ago i started a thread on how horrible my disfellowshipped cousin was treated after his mom passed away and the terrible actions on the part of the elders at the funeral home.. 67. horrible conduct by congregation elders at my cousin's funeral.............. well, here we are 14 years later, and things haven't changed!.
my aunt ( who is my disfellowshipped cousin's grandmother ) was placed in home hospice care.
the nurse told her daughters ( who are jehovah's witnesses and live with their mother ) that their mom probably has 2 days left to live and that they should call the immediate family.. my disfellowshipped cousin and his sister show up in the early morning.
The elder doesn't care, nor offers an apology for his behavior.
...and that says it all.
It sums up how the Governing Body(tm) (Pee be upon them), have had their abusive attitude trickle down to the congregations(tm).
I wonder how he'd feel if/when he finds out the Organisation(tm) is just a cash cow for the CEOs and only a big business pretending to be a religion?
Disgusting behaviour by a dim-witted pawn of the big business.
i used to have a large-ish novel collection but my current collection is scaled-down because i was forced to move back to bolton 4 years ago and didn't have enough room for them all in my suitcases.. i currently own just 9 novels.. salem's lot (stephen king).
three by john ajvide lindqvist:.
let the old dreams die.
Metamorphosis - Kafka
Uncertain Midnight - Edmund Cooper
Colditz - PR Reid
I'm a bit bored with novels because they all seem a formulaic. IE. Character has a problem. Problem getting solved. Then it all goes wrong. Finally the character triumphs.....or in the case of horror stories, everyone dies at the end. So tedious.
my late grandfather believed he was one of the anointed.
that aside when asked about whether the jw organisation would last, he would pull out the attached wt magazine (the second edition) and say "if the day ever comes when the organisation asks for money outright, it will be proof that jehovah is not it's backer.
" that's how convinced he was that such a thing would never happen.. i often wonder what my grandfather would make of the modern organisation today..
I wonder if he'd notice that the Governing Body(tm)(pee be upon them), of a Corporation now solely owned that title excluding all others by calling them irrelevant and/or bonkers.
my big one was: .
rev.
20: 5 "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
PPete - Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days
No thanks. It'll be sopping wet if the ducks haven't eaten it.
my big one was: .
rev.
20: 5 "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
Some miserable bald 'prophet' that got bears to brutally murder children because he had hurty feelings.
dear friends,.
i think you all know me as a person who has always strived, despite my imperfections to only ever wanting to be and remain in the “truth”.
it is in fact what i so desperately want for my son ashton and my baby girl honey bee, to be lovers of truth and grow up to be a loyal servants of jehovah god and his son, jesus christ.
As I said before, the letter is way too long. For this reason they'll assign it to the 'crank file'.
Perhaps you got it all out of your system though.
my big one was: .
rev.
20: 5 "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
That one about the bloke that tried to steady the ark of the covenant made me think that god was a vindictive bully. I can't be bothered looking for the scripture at the moment because I no longer believe all that guff.
