so my husband who was not attending meetings for the last four months, went to the special talk, the memorial and the meeting today.
he said he feels jehovah’s spirit is back and that they are all being so kind.. i am just sick to my stomach.
he just refuses to see anything as a problem.
If a person responds to love bombing from a bunch of smiley religious nuts, he must be is in a delicate state of mind in the first place.
Try and find out why he feels so insecure and deal with that.
Better to find friends and company who have their feet on the ground than those who dream of castles in the air and paradise fraudulently offered by the Watchtower.
(cnn)for the first time "no religion" has topped a survey of americans' religious identity, according to a new analysis by a political scientist.
the non-religious edged out catholics and evangelicals in the long-running general social survey.. https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/13/us/no-religion-largest-group-first-time-usa-trnd/index.html.
ryan burge, a political scientist at eastern illinois university and a baptist pastor, found that 23.1% of americans now claim no religion.. .
In the UK the figure is now 53% claiming no religion according to the Independant newspaper. Religious attendance is around 4% in England as I recall from about four years ago
kind sad watch such historic building on flames.
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i hope it will restored......
Talking of hunches, I hope Quasimodo got out in time.
i’ve always wondered about this one.
if the bible says there will be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous, does that mean all mankind that have died will come back to life?
if so, what’s the incentive for jws to have an urgency to preach and save people?
There have been around 105 billion people who have ever lived but in all of human history not one certifiable resurrection.
Come on chaps and ladies, can't you spot a fantasy when you hear one?
just a little fyi 900 attendance.
2 kids baptised and $12000.00 in the hole.
( not my assembly).
"Other areas less fortunate," Do they mean the GB's blunder area?
So real transparency would read:
Expenses incurred at this assembly............ $1500
Court awards, penalties and and fines due to GB ignoring the welfare of their flock........... $28,500
This would bring home TTATT.
all i have to say about that is that i agree with the following quote attributed to marcus aurelius:.
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Marcus Aurelius: a model of reasonableness!
When we leave the cult sometimes to start with we still hang on to some of the ideas which have helped us in the past, it is perfectly normal. Changing our minds to become self determined in what we do is unfamiliar and we learn to adjust to the new way of thinking, not running on the old tram rails our old religion taught us.
Thinking for ourselves outside of other peoples laws and rules is more rewarding.
one of the heresies of the wt is denying the divinity of christ.
during this "memorial season" they say that jehovah (god the father?
) resurrected jesus.
Avoid conformism at all costs. One of the plus points of this site is the introduction of new and differing viewpoints.
I agree it is possible to compare religious views, whether believer or not, and determine connections to Biblical lore and note consistencies or otherwise. Plenty are prepared to do so and that is their right. I feel it is mainly an exercise in furthering the religious spell I wish to remove.
However the OP here has asked a thought provoking question.
one of the heresies of the wt is denying the divinity of christ.
during this "memorial season" they say that jehovah (god the father?
) resurrected jesus.
Cofty I did not misunderstand your point and neither did I say that God isn't real, just that it is impossible to argue logically within mythology. But there is something more at stake considering the power and influence of religious stories. Of course it can be tedious to bring into question the fundamentals in which a religious argument is embedded yet religious axioms are mere baseless assumptions and have dominated the thinking of the masses for millennia. Should they go unchallenged?
In view of the enormity of this imbalance; the momentum of religious influence over logic, it is not reasonable to remind the reader of the OP that they are fruitlessly attempting to apply critical thinking to a fantasy?
one of the heresies of the wt is denying the divinity of christ.
during this "memorial season" they say that jehovah (god the father?
) resurrected jesus.
Tedious or not Cofty we play the game based on evidence. Evidence is called for in science but but how can one use facts to prosecute a case based on mythology?
hey, did anyone notice this point from the wt study article for this past weekend (paragraph 2):.
certainly, jehovah is pleased to see that so many attend the memorial.
(luke 22:19) however, jehovah is not primarily concerned with the number of people who come.
The task HQ now have is to manage the decline of the organisation with the least amount of egg on their face.
The removal of the yearbook and the emphasis away from traditional crowing about numbers would all be in accord with this.
Any 'information' from the JW org is totally one sided, they have the whip hand so they can -- and always do -- interpret the situation to put themselves in the best light. The time will come when the reduction in membership will be hailed as evidence for the imminence of big A.
