Something doesn’t add up here
I'm going to regret this........I really don't go for all this Flat Earth stuff.
Indulge poor Unky Punky....what are you seeing?
It just looks like some pictures of spacey stuff.
i wonder how many are like me staying pimo for the great association and gathering etc.
also find it very interesting having a front row seat watching the collapse of borg.. im not wasting any more time or money on anything i don’t want to do like preaching and mostly just go on zoom .
there is nothing i want to do that would be considered disfellowshiping sin, i’m married and want to live by bible principles but i have serious doubts that the gb were chosen by god and are his one and only spokesmen on earth.
Something doesn’t add up here
I'm going to regret this........I really don't go for all this Flat Earth stuff.
Indulge poor Unky Punky....what are you seeing?
It just looks like some pictures of spacey stuff.
my brother ( who is an elder ) tries very hard to get me back to the meetings.
he calls me every time he and his son ( he's also an elder) give a public talk.
they send me the zoom i.d.
Is that caged bird there in case the BS gets so toxic, if it falls off it's perch, the Jobots exit with their 'go-bags(tm)'?
....and why are they sitting sideways on to the TV?
the bible records miracles such as resurrections, angels, prophecy and destructive acts of god to mention a few.
are these all a pack of lies?
how do you explain them?
Bible miracles.
Where's the proof without using the Bible to prove the Bible?
in the november 2022 study watchtower, "jehovah's organization" (or variants) is repeated at least 37 times.. the word 'organization' - like 'governing body,' 'trinity,' hell-fire,' & 'immortal soul,' - doesn't exist in the holy scriptures.. interestingly, jesus christ is mentioned only twice in all of the study articles - as an aside..
They're on the grift.
They want money and power.............and drink so that TOMO can remain slurring his words in a drunken stupor.
Their brainwashing has worked so far.
A lot of Jobots can't see the line between the Organisation(tm) and Jehovah(tm).
my brother ( who is an elder ) tries very hard to get me back to the meetings.
he calls me every time he and his son ( he's also an elder) give a public talk.
they send me the zoom i.d.
I listened to these same times in the 1970's. That was 50 years ago. How can anyone sit through these repetitive and mundane talks is beyond me?
Because it's bounteous Spiritual food(tm), they think.
I don't know what is spewed forth in Jobot land these days. I'm only glad I don't have to sit through dimwits with ideas above their station in life.
i'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.
instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .
they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
It'll overlap with another year.
Or it might just get lost in the mists of time.
the bible records miracles such as resurrections, angels, prophecy and destructive acts of god to mention a few.
are these all a pack of lies?
how do you explain them?
The Bible records miracles such as resurrections, angels, prophecy and destructive acts of God to mention a few. Are these all a pack of lies?
Lies. Misgivings. Credulity. Who knows? Just because a book says something, doesn't make it true. Especially when there is no conclusive evidence.
It's a big grift that religious leaders, including Watchtower Corporation(tm) are using to exploit people for money and power.
How do you explain them?
I don't. No more than I explain any story from yonks ago. Did King Arthur or Robin Hood actually exist?
I am convinced they happened.
Good for you. Some of us are more sceptical.
The reason to be sceptical of claims is indeed the example of the Shirdi Sai Baba grift.
jw's seem to be getting desperate.
this three year old is paraded on a jw blog in cuenca, ecuador.
it is about 1/3 of the way down on the page.
Virtue signalling, hyper zealous mental cases.
The parents should be ashamed.
too young to vote, smoke, vote or drive a car but old enough for the parents to throw their child into a paedophile rich cult when the child is not of an age to decide.
These people make me spew my guts up.
i feel like there may be some old jw friends that i could call- they may not know i left jw- but somehow i am not inclined to.
i would have to play a game with them...i feel like i have nothing in common with them anymore.
i feel like if i did talk to them, i would want to tell them they have been duped and that will go over like a wet balloon.
When I was in the cult, I had no choice but to be 'friends' with people that I would otherwise avoid because of they are either bonkers or just not my type of associate.
Luckily, now I'm free from these dopes, I can choose my own muckers.
confessing to a crime lands a person in jail or worse.
there is a very interesting out of context commentary in a law book under the topic that describes the role of a child advocate that explains how humans intrinsically want and need to be free at all costs without encumbrances.
(in germany for example, the government recognizes this basic need and doesn't penalize jail escapes.
I would like to know people’s feelings on this from interpretation of the Bible. Must a person confess his sins to the church? Is confession mandated by God?
Well, that's me out of the thread. I have no belief that the Bible is other than a load of stuff bunged together carelessly by some blokes. Nothing to do with a God, if one even exists.
As a society, we live by 'social contract'. 'Sin' is an abstract load of religious nonsense IMHO. A tool to control the sheeple.
Others will disagree, but there it is.