here is a fascinating subject.
according to the bible , one of adam's first assignments was to name all the animals including the sea creatures and dinosaurs of course.
we don't know how long this took but, as all witnesses know, the time period is crucial in working out the timing of armageddon).
There are 8 million species known today. Let’s make it easy and use that number, ignoring extinct animals.
If he never slept, ate, rested etc and dedicated every second to naming just the animal species alive today, he’d have to name 20 animals every hour for 50 years.
Ludicrous for an adult to even imagine any substance to such a fairytale.
i have a joke in my comedy routine about never wrapping a gift in my life.
it goes like this..... yesterday my girlfriend said "honey, when you go out shopping can you buy me sellotape?".
sellotape.
The best comedy is unpredictable, if we can write/guess the sentiments of the punchline, so can the audience before you say it.
An an ex jw I hadn't developed the skills of choosing or wrapping a good Christmas gift. I made the schoolboy error of buying my niece a puppy JUST FOR Christmas..... well Christmas Eve, that wrapping was just a little too tight.
ta da! Lol 😆
my dad was an elder my entire life and my sister a regular pioneer for most of my life, along with my mother.
ill never forget being 4 years old and staring up at the stars outside and my dad leaning over to and saying "look what jehovah made for you".
my response, "but how do you know god is real"?
Amazing!
You are such a brave human being! I also felt truth was more valuable to me than comfort. I also could not live a lie, despite the consequence.
I told the elders how I felt and was told to foxtrot oscar....went back to school nearly 30yrs old, best decisions I ever made.
You sound like an awesome person. Keep in touch! X
thursday, august 31. jehovah knows those who belong to him.—2 tim.
2:19.. in recent years, we have seen an increase in the number of those partaking at the memorial of christ’s death.
that trend contrasts with the decrease in the number of partakers that we saw for many decades.
It's so sad that they put doctrine above even their loyal followers. Mentally diseased if you question anything and leave. Mentally diseased of you buy into everything all the way and stay.
Basically you do as they say or you are clinically unwell.
What a horrific hold they have.
the guy with the most advanced ai computer models dating back centuries has no no imput , these are are data chosen dates.
these are advanced to the point of governments trying to source the codes.
i've seen this guys history of predictions and he probably owns the worlds finest ancient coin collections in private hands.
Surely by now after all you experienced as a JW, you know the folly of ....... relying on the interpretations of men, predictions of catastrophe and the setting of dates ......
So he can read the markets well..... and he had software that uses data to make predictions based on probability.... nothing special.
It's the unseen 'black swan' events to be weary of.... as we can't expect them, though we know they are coming.
when originally explaining the "new generations" splaine used the example of joseph and his brothers.. he backed up the time difference between the original anointed, and the new ones by using what he said was a big age difference between the youngest "joseph" and his oldest brothers.. then more recently in a jw broadcast - he said that there was not a big age difference between joseph and his oldest brother.. can any one help me find both those, please?.
It won't change anyone's minds and there are far bigger fish to fry .....
How about the WT owning a NAVY military equipment company called Rand Cam....
Aim higher my friend
we all know the rate of suicide is high among jw's.
my question is this- was there some subliminal messages that encourage this.
i was a born in and my entire life i would have these thoughts that could come out of nowhere,"kill yourself.
The JW lifestyle is unhealthy and psychologically burdensome. Just as many JWs (anecdotally)suffered physical burnout, many more seemed depressed and mentally worn out.
I sincerely don't believe that WT subliminally or otherwise encouraged suicidal ideation, however the guilt, pressure and belief system lend to what I felt was a perfect storm of mental anguish.
i can't tell you how good it is to be free. Don't subject your children to this! Whatever the cost!
we all know the moment that a nice family chat is moving to the propaganda game.. sister in law saying that jw.org is the highest ranked website, cousing saying that the new hq is energy neutral, aunt stating that jw have the best education.... what can we say on these moments?.
that br splane just likes these new light ideas?.
that a jw.org video stated that jw use the name jehovah because people recognize this name?.
It's so odd to me reading this kind of thing now, 10 years have passed and one ends up seeing the bs for what it is.....bs.
Playing along with the delusion isn't helping them or you. Man up 😉 and call the bs for what if is!
that's what i've been told by a family member (elder) who went to one of the regional conventions in the north of the u.k lately, who told me the 300 or more disfellowshipped who returned to jehovah by attending show that the end is so close, just like the final talk says..
Yet more JW stories with no evidence...... so 1980's
for those that haven't seen them yet - and they don't seem to have been posted here yet - some might be interested in the following two charts:.
the histomap: four thousand years of world history - relative power of contemporary states, nations and empires.
a vertical chart showing relative world powers and events over 4,000 years, chart made in 1931. link to the full 2,097 x 9,554 3.68mb chart: http://imgur.com/r/infographics/xrrpg6p.
I remember posting few years back, very useful!
it was odd, some didn't get the relevance
