i think by most accounts, my previous posts have testified to my moving towards an agnostic stance.
i just don't know and i can't believe for belief's sake.
i came across a quote i thought quite timely in my journey.. .
much more at peace with:"having questions that cannot be answered" than "having answers that cannot be questioned!"
Good quote, We need to add that someplace
Who was it that said
"Seek out the company of those who are searching for the truth. But avoid at all cost those who claim to have found it!"
If I am understaning things correctly the JWs started off as the former but turned into the latter.
if you and a fellow jehovah's witness went to a house where the homeowner brought up a watchtower doctrine which you secretly disagree with, would you defend it or tell them what it is you really believe?.
either way you are at a loss.. defending something you disagree with is living a lie and telling a lie.
not defending it and telling the home owner what you really believe makes you an apostate by watchtower society standards.
I was thinking along the lines of blondie's comment, but more of a "let me show you what the bible says (via our literature of course) so you can decide for yourself".
Believe nothing control everyone!
b) teach conditional salvation based primarily on faith in christ?.
c) refuse eternal torment in a literal fiery hell?.
d) refuse the immortality of the soul?.
I found this list that puts the dubs up there with some of the greats.
I'm sure Satan came up with these other religions just to make the one true religion harder to find.
Mormonism - Latter-day Saints
Jehovah's Witnesses
Christian Science
Armstrongism
Christadelphians
Oneness Pentecostals
Unification Church
Unity School of Christianity
Scientology - Dianetics
i was speaking to a friend who went to the circuit assembly a couple weeks ago.
he actually taped a portion of the first talk cause he said the do was pretty entertaining.
the do said something like - jehovah doesn't like laws.
Yea why was it the 10 commandments instead of the 10 principles.
nope, bungi bill's interesting statement from this post didn't take, so i'll start its own.. from my own experience, i hated the field ministry.
it might just be because of the kind of character i am, whatever, i never was able to overcome that feeling of dread every time i went door-to-door.
i felt aware of how much people disliked having strangers cold-calling trying to sell them something.
momentofsurrender,
That's pretty much what I was talking about. I am also speaking from my own experience plus a little hindsite. All these little things that didn’t add up in my mind but I refused to look at them because, in reality, I was afraid of what I might find out. At the time I would never have admitted it or probably didn’t even realize it. But you allow it to happen because you want to believe that in the end you will get the reward. I don’t think that is a specific to the JWs though. It is human nature. Look how many people will ride a stock all the way to the bottom because they just know it is going to make a comeback!
recently attended a sad.. bethel speaker was gushing about the wt's embrace of new technology, in the part of his talk warning about "apostate" web sites.. a loose summary of his comments:.
"and the brothers at headquarters have made it very safe for you to go to our website.
in fact, the brothers talked to the folks at google, and they made a special arrangement so that when you type in 'j w period' into the google search engine, it automatically shows you the jw.org website.
Who would search for jw. in a search engine anyway?
I get similar results in almost any search engine I use. duckduckgo, dogpile, bing, google etc
I get the feeling that putting the dot at the end just tells the search engine to search all the extensions .com, .org, .gov etc and return the most comon one if it finds one.
Yahoo also returned and advertisement for jwmatch.com. I saw a couple cuties that make me want to go back
when the economy collapses, and it will, worse than 2008, far worse.... ...what would the watchtower society do if a large group of homeless jw's starting camping out at wakhill, new york, perhaps in a large 'tent city'?.
You forgot the part about how they would first ask them to leave. Any refusing to leave will have dissociated themselves there by becoming apostates. Then they can be arrested.
i always found this bible acct to be puzzling.
it's found in the book of acts.
it starts by mentioning that in jerusalem a need arosed to care for some christians who lived together as a community.
I always found that scripture a bit odd too. It just does'nt seem to fit with the new more loving god of the greek scriptures.
Seems more like a warning not to say you did more than you realy did rather than lying to cover up your mistakes.
I'd be very careful filling out my monthly time sheets if I was a JW.
