that's what my older jw brother of 34 said a few months back.
he actually 100% believes that an athiest cannot have a happy life.. -sab.
"All athiests/agnostics will regret their path and beg God to take them in before their death..."
Let's suppose they do. Would your brother be upset if Jah says kewl and saves them? [Being a JW he'd likely be steaming angry.]
Hopefully at that moment a really big fish will swallow your brother.
well after fading and keeping a low key i think the elders are finally going to get to me.
in 2007 i moved to another city but quickly moved back home about two months later.
the whole time everyone from my old congregation has been thinking i've been in another city.
Just say you don't give out personal things such as phone numbers over the internet.
why are so many christian religions obsessed with other peoples sex lives?.
they even feel comfortable talking about it in a 'public meeting' when children are present.. does it not point toward an unhealthy deviancy in their mentality?.
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Most fundamentalist groups are crotch obsessed, it ain't just the JWs.
Issues of abortion, contraception, the gays, masturbation, etc ... crotch, crotch, crotch, crotch crotch.
Everywhere you turn someone is raging about what others are doing with their crotches.
so in this passage jesus is talking to his apostles for 3 chapters but it seems that he was ignoring his apostles or just wanted to be heard, what do you think?.
john 13:36-16:5. john 13:36 simon peter said to him: lord, where are you going?
jesus answered: where i am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterwards.
I think the Apostles were kinda annoying at times.
in the june 15th wt it says on page 9 i will just write it out as it is to hard and unbelievable to preface this.
so here it is.. "many who today are members of the christian congregation can tell you that before learning of and adopting jehovah's righteous standards, they lived without moral restrain.
yet, they were unsatisfied and unhappy.
The person known as "Tanya" should have used birth control. Her bad.
i am just wondering .... one of the issues i would hold on to and i have used and heard others use in the ministry is about the preaching ... you know, only jehovah's witnesses are doing it, they are fulfilling this prophecy .... since the organization has predicted the date for armageddon in the past, did they ever make statements as to what degree this preaching had been accomplished or have explanations on this changed over the years as well?.
It was fullfilled in the 1st Century CE by the original Apostles and disciples.
i really needed to find a place to write this as i don't believe i can talk with anyone else about my account, perhaps it is similar to a lot of yours.. last night for whatever reason i said i would go online and look up information on jws.
i have been raised as a jw all my life and baptized the last few years.
i looked at www.freeminds.org and www.sixscreensofthewatchtower.com and couldn't believe how easily the whole of my lifes teachings were refuted.. i can't stop my brain from running, bs just in regards to theology alone (1914, paradise earth, celebrations etc.
How does one PM someone here? On this new board I don't have that option?
love is spoken of as though it were an actual.....thing.. the discourse surrounding "love" is a dishonest framing of an argument based on a non-context.. .
love is an emotion.
it is the strongest possible positive emotion.. where does it come from?.
Odd. I've seen infants & toddlers who love their parents, unconditionally.
What values have they learned?
Interesting topic but I disagree with the consensus.
on 9/11, an elder: it's sad but exciting!on a loved one dying: we can cope far better with this due to the resurection.on the tsunami, an elder: if they think this is bad, wait untill they see what happens at armageddon (smiling).on armageddon, an elder: i want to be able to see the people dying.on execution at god's hands, a pioneer: it'll put them out of their misery.on the swine flu virus, a pioneer: it'll mean less people for jehovah to kill at armageddon.on the birth of my daughter, a prominent elder: be carefull not to fall into the trap of 'baby worship'on the death of my non jw grandmother, an elder: be carefull at the funeral not to become involved in false worship (don't sing my grans favourite hymn)on the topic of my non jw sisters wedding, the po: if it falls on the weekend of the convention, you should make your stand & not go to the wedding.there is, of course, a normal response to each of these situations.
there is a human response.
one that is touched by the tragedy.
They can't help it, sadly. The place has purposely sucked all the real joy out of people and replaced it with some ultramorbid form of judgemental cold-heartedness. A total and utter disdain for other people.
the watchtower has been known for over 130 years as a great scriptural cherry-picker.
they pick out disparate unrelated verses and combine them to support the wackiest of wacky doctrines.. on the other hand there are many scriptures they almost never address, whether because they contradict wt doctrine or because they simply don't have a clue what they mean or how to spin them to the wt advantage.. one of these is revelation 19:1 that mentions a "great crowd" "in heaven.
" the only time it is ever brought up it is dismissed.
Acts 6:
2 The twelve apostles called all the disciples together and told them, "It's not right for us to give up God's word in order to distribute food.
3 So, brothers and sisters, choose seven men whom the people know are spiritually wise. We will put them in charge of this problem
Aha!!!
