i was reading another thread and the comments got me thinking.... https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5656910430732288/pictures-tell-thousand-words.
comments such as oldskools: more like digital colonialism channeled through one of the weaker and less important institutions western society has to offer.. .
some have compared the orgs future path to the world wide church of gods.
TTWSYF
Things in common with JW and Catholics
1-They believe the bible is the word of God
2- They believe Jesus is the messiah
3- I think that's it
Thanks for posting I really appreciate it!
Could I add that between the Catholics relaxing stance on infant baptism and the JWs increasingly strong push to baptize children, that they are almost meeting in the middle thus adding a 4th thing we could agree on?
i was reading another thread and the comments got me thinking.... https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5656910430732288/pictures-tell-thousand-words.
comments such as oldskools: more like digital colonialism channeled through one of the weaker and less important institutions western society has to offer.. .
some have compared the orgs future path to the world wide church of gods.
Hey David_!
TODAY the Catholic church may not teach it is the only way to salvation but didnt it certainly teach that at one time?
Otherwise, what were the Inquisitions about?
And a relatively small detail but a baby that died un-christened was a fate worse than the actual death of the child to the parents.
Does that sound like a religion that doesnt think it is the only way to salvation?
i was reading another thread and the comments got me thinking.... https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5656910430732288/pictures-tell-thousand-words.
comments such as oldskools: more like digital colonialism channeled through one of the weaker and less important institutions western society has to offer.. .
some have compared the orgs future path to the world wide church of gods.
Half banana,
Your post blew me away. You write so eloquently and with great historical depth. Thank you.
I read a lot aboutt Eusebius since I had never even heard of him. Your term apologist lackey to Constantine is an apt description.
I am not sure I agree that the Catholic church of old was interested in public opinion. To me it seemed more like a bloodthirsty quest for power that defined the early church and that PR concerns are rather new. In our lifetime actually.
I could easily quote so many parts of your post but I will just quote the hopeful (to me since I yearn for its demise eventually) future of the Org.
Half banana
Remembering an illustration from Monty Python, the outline of a sauropod starts off with a small and brainless head at ground level, then rises to a big hump and then declines to a small trailing tail. I think we are now situated just beyond the hips and descending the tail. It’s downhill from here on.
Yes!
it's utterly boring.
jung from the canadian bethel is drooning on.
may be the worst assembly ever.
Worst one ever huh? And this is the great Sunday finale!
I guess that is saying a LOT.
Hang in there wannaexit, youre almost home free.
just called into the kingdom hall, speaker said he couldn't tell if anyone was listening to his talk now that everyone uses electronic devices and nobody laughed... well i did!.
he also mentioned when everyone used the bible he could hear the pages flipping and he knew they were following along.
this was really funny to me.
What business is it of the speakers to state anything about medical marijuana at all?
I doubt that is in his outline.
found this in my rss feed of, as new faq on jw.org:.
the answer was .
a person can resign from our organization in two ways:.
warwick article.
Hi Orphan!
So patriotism eh?
I guess it could have been just about anything couldnt it?
just finished a walk today i came onto a happy family group of all the generations celebrating a tiny ones birthday.
they all sang ..happy birthday and i sang with my bass baritone the chorus, .."why was she born so beautiful why was she born at all.." silly words but they are happy words.
the family cheered their pleasure at this outsider joining in.
Happy birthday to a wonderful person!
and many more.......
warwick article.
What was the reason for no Boys Scouts?
When I was a kid I wanted to be a girls scout and I thought there was some religious tie in?
Having to say a prayer or the founder or something? Same with buying Girls Scout cookies. Years ago that was wrong too!
IF there was/is a religious tie in as a reason why JW kids cant join then wouldnt the JWs working with them on this project be interfaith?
for those of you who are still in because of family circumstances, what do you do about field service?
do you still go regularly, sporadically or not at all?.
if you do still go, how do you manage?
