your second post made more comprehensive sense than your first post.
can you please re-explain your first post.
i think we all need a little clarification on that first post.
looking through the internet i learned that everything i have ever know to be true is a lie at the beginning of time god and his celestial family created the earth and the heavens.
they are the greater force and also the fallen angels that are prophesized in the bible.
they sped up the evolution in people separating them from monkeys.
your second post made more comprehensive sense than your first post.
can you please re-explain your first post.
i think we all need a little clarification on that first post.
how many jw kids are homeschooled where you are?
its not very common here in the borough where i live.
i just found out on the grapevine that a girl i know is taking her kids out of our very good primary school because she feels the other children are having such a bad influence on her kids.
my parents pulled me and my brother out of public school and put us on home school when i was in grade 10. they found out i have a girlfriend at school and that was enough reason to screw up my education..
then after about 4 months, they realized it wasn't working. they were not up to being teachers or enforcers, so we slept in and i basically did as little work as possible to punish my parents for takeing me out of school. so they tried to re -enroll me in school part way during the year.
see, i was so over protected that i wasn't allowed to have worldly friends and i barely got to hang out with my witness friend, school was my only freedom out of the mindcontrol. at school i didn't have to listen to my parents warped ideas, and i had many friends.
anyways, i left home before grade 11 was over and got back in to school. but it was very difficult making up the credits to graduate from that point on.
homeschooling sucks. there is WAY more paperwork required to pass a grade.
i bought a wonderful bottle of 70$ red ice wine and 3 varietys of unlevened crackers and had a little meal with respect to Jesus with 3 friends. it was a great time.
later on in the evening i had another little wine and cracker session with a family member and we discussed what the meal means. GOOD TIMES.
i understand it now as a very simple ceremony. Jesus wants his followers to all get together and eat a meal "on him". he even allowed wine so you would have a good time! you just gather with friends that believe in the man and have a meal together. very simple. this proves you are his friends, by accepting his hospitality and partaking in the meal with him.
whatever trickery and word twisting about the celebration comes from MEN. Jesus just wants you to have supper with him.
i would never go to the JDUB version again.last year was the last time.
it would be a great time for jesus to return at memorial and witness everyone rejecting his supper.
this from an e_mail site.. governing body member john (jack) barr has died (or, "completed his earthly course") on saturday, december 4, 2010.. bro barr died at walkill aged 97 after 71 years of full time service - 23 years as a member of the governing body in new york ..
since this barr guy was a blasphemer, that should have sent him to the pits of hell. isn't that the "second death"?
i worry about the futures of all jdubs as they are all blasphemers. they might be innocient of the crime by ignorance, but they all have a bible in their possesion so they all individually are responsible to know whats' in it that they are teaching others.
no mercy will be served to those who knowingly keep the light under a basket.
the governing body members ALL KNOW IT'S A LIE. read "crisis of conscience" if you need proof.
so it makes me question,
If the GB(FDS) know it's a lie, do they believe in the bible AT ALL? because if you do believe the bible and in god, why would you commit spiritual suicide by going against basic bible teaching that could send you to hell? two examples - The teaching that there is no hell and Adding MANY NEW words to their NWT bible. it's like they have no fear which leads me to think they don't believe in god at all.
Or, their minds are blinded by the devil and they think they are right.
how well is this territory being covered?.
how many on here (active jws excluded) received an invitation?.
i received one last saturday. they woke me up with the doorbell, but i knew who i was.... so i didn't get up. they left it in the mailbox.
when i was a jdub, i was the only one i knew for a few years that got a worldy friend to join me.
all the pioneers and elders would come by themselves with their familys.
i wondered why i was successful and they weren't.
i can't handle talking to witnesses anymore. their IQ level is not where mine is and it's like talking to REALLY STUPID UNEDUCATED CHILDREN.
my best reply to them is "Prove what i've told you is a lie. If your truth is "TRUTH" it should be able to stand up to crititism and prove ME wrong."
we salute you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shci6ve-ple.
if you are talking to me, i was a born in, turned fader and now i am an enemy of the jdubs. i tell the truth.
we salute you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shci6ve-ple.
partake!!!
jdubs WANT people to partake during the memorial, just not themselfs. they believe they are unworthy and some fear partaking is asking for death if they are unworthy.
when they see that random people partake and don't immediatley burn up or turn into satan, they may question why they don't partake.
jdubs use pauls words to make you feel unworthy. Jesus never said anything about a "special heavenly calling feeling inside you".
and if you partake, stand up so everyone sees! no secrets.
last one i attended the speaker used a illustration about a wedding party.
he said "when someone plans a wedding and sends out invitations and you receive one, you don't immediatly expect that you are in the wedding party. you are only going to the wedding to celebrate, not to partake."
ya right. i remember eating food at most wedding receptions i've been to, not just the wedding party got fed.
the speaker had a blank look in his eyes the whole talk. he was a born in who had a huge family and he was 35 years old. he just was following the formula put down by many others before him.
there are so many after after 52 years in the "borg".. my top two would have to be at my last hall tigard oregon.. one lady slept in her pickup truck with 30 parakeets, sometimes in the kh parking lot.
people tried to help her with accommodations but she like the truck.
she really dressed up for the meetings......feather boa's, big hats, looked like may west from the 30's.
sister weight.
she had a amazing singing ability for some reason, but she was autistic, so her timing was HORRIBLE! she could throw off the whole audience during the song! FUNNY!
during the opening prayer, she would often break into tears sobbing.
that would wierd me out during a prayer.
and then the one time a visiting native person with long hair was sitting in the back row, and the public talk speaker was sensationalizing world events.
the speaker said something about "CRACK COCAINE" and the native stood up and started walking towards the stage shouting
"where does it say that in the bible?" in a drunken mumble.
brothers immediatly escorted him outside physically.
we have hit ten centimeters and counting of snow.
unbelievable, lol.
yesterday it was green.
i drove to tofield today for work, and the drive home was a slush fest on the highway and drifting on the backroads. one minivan in the ditch, not bad.
did you have to shovel?
we have hit ten centimeters and counting of snow.
unbelievable, lol.
yesterday it was green.
what part of alberta do you live in?
im in the same weather pattern as you are i bet. i'm in edmonton.
and it was almost all gone....