“If you have all this evidence and proof positive that God exists, you don’t need faith. I think he kind of designed it so that we’d never be able to prove his existence. And I think that’s really cool.” says Schweitzer.
poor thing :(
"for the first time in human history a dinosaur fossil is presenting us with the opportunity to see what a living dinosaur looked like.
in 2001 a field research team unearthed the worlds most complete dinosaur fossil, a brachylophosaurus nicknamed leonardo.
this incredible dinosaur has all of its skin covering its body, missing only a bit on the head and tail.
“If you have all this evidence and proof positive that God exists, you don’t need faith. I think he kind of designed it so that we’d never be able to prove his existence. And I think that’s really cool.” says Schweitzer.
poor thing :(
jehovah's witnesses have an invisible problem which is as unseen as jesus.
the problem with their problem is that it is unseen.. what do i mean by this?.
no future.. the future jehovah's witnesses prepare for is not their future at all.. the jw future is armageddon (very soon!
terry you forgot one thing...they have a wonderful spiritural paradise amongst eachother which compensates for all these silly little set backs you mention. you know at my hall right before i stopped going, they kept saying the wealthier witnesses should be financially helping the poorer witnesses...yea that went over well.
does anyone still sometimes get that guilty feeling?
you know, be honest, whenever a certain day comes around you felt like you had to be somewhere?
like for me: tues,thurs, & sun.
sizemik how do you have so much inner peace? i just read a post you made on another thread, it really took me back. i'm wondering what the wts would look like if you did all their writing, maybe what it was supposed to look like.
guilt from not being at kh? nada
"for the first time in human history a dinosaur fossil is presenting us with the opportunity to see what a living dinosaur looked like.
in 2001 a field research team unearthed the worlds most complete dinosaur fossil, a brachylophosaurus nicknamed leonardo.
this incredible dinosaur has all of its skin covering its body, missing only a bit on the head and tail.
wait...but the earth was perfect and all the little puppies and little kittens were being hand fed by adam and eve i thought? it was only after they sinned that the earth fell into disrepair, and animals started being mean and naughty???? THE DINOSAURS WERE EATING EACHOTHER BEFORE ADAM AND EVE? BUT THEY WERENT UNDER SIN!?@ ONLY GODS PERFECT LOVE AND PEACE WAS MANIFEST!?!? no no it cant be true....actually when they were mocking noah while he was building the ark, many times the dinosaurs would run around and eat random people who observed the building of the ark. this made noah very happy when they would laugh at him. interesting that the bible refers to the water ox as "behemoth" or "great beast" in the year BC 1657 according to the nwt...genesis covered "in the beginning" to 1657 BC according to nwt, but it uses the terminology great beast to refer to a fkn water ox? meanwhile t-rex is being battled with swords in england....lolololol!!!!!!!! no wait i got it. the dinosaurs WERE with adam and eve, they were just benevolent beasts that liked to cuddle with the apes...and only turned malevolent after the sin....
i've gone from being indifferent to becoming an full fledge non believer in anything much.
i guess i'm now a "no-hova" witness.
there's nothing about the wt or the bible for that matter that holds any importance in my life or death.
to quote predator, 'it's all bullshit, all of it'.
i've gone from being indifferent to becoming an full fledge non believer in anything much.
i guess i'm now a "no-hova" witness.
there's nothing about the wt or the bible for that matter that holds any importance in my life or death.
congrats! you've been on this site for 6 years and just decided this? wow. unfortunately it is a scam. would of been nice if it were real. these guys are the height of arrogance/pious/idiocy though. one thing i learned/realized recently...probably from contemplating some of the reading on this board, along with past knowledge. they call the sisters what? some kind of mighty force or something? i realized if most sisters had access the way brothers did..most of them would be gone themselves. it's so much easier to keep them deluded, because they are really really stifled from getting any kind of access to facts, while inside. it's so easy to keep their minds under control as opposed to the brothers. it's not their fault, they are trying to do what they are thinking is right. (well some). if you could show them how ridiculous they are though, and how their entire mind set is totally a fabrication, i bet a lot of them would just freak out. realizing everything they are doing is based off a vision of a bunch of misled men. (not the will of god, lol). sad story. go do what jesus told you to do, go feed the hungry. wasn't compassion supposed to be the centerpoint of the ideology? they are heavily deluded.
as an elder i'm sure you saw a lot of egregious behavior behind the scenes, and you must know the structure and foundation are corrupt.
once upon a time, the bible tells us, there was an authority figure in ancient israel.
he observed the corruption, the decay, the wrongdoing and the nepotism and he wagged his finger vigorously !.
instead of taking action, he warned, 'you just wait until jehovah takes care of you !
wontleave: exactly. they claim to have the "holy spirit", they are a fraud and now they know it. they are trying to find any reason they can scripturally to explain to themselves why they are frauds and that is actually part of being holy.(ie. we get everything wrong, let's see that must be in the bible somewhere that makes us true prophets when you are 100% wrong on everything all the time). they dont realize they are doing that, but self denial of that level is truly special. and ironically what else would you expect from a group that claims to speak for god through the scriptures? what do the scriptures actually say? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. absolutely nothing? what that's not true, there are thousands of pages, how can you say that? because it's a lot like the dictionary, it says "everything", and yet it says "nothing". almost every single point made can be countered by another point in the same book? 100 + -100 = 0.
i mean the above question out of sincerity and honesty and not trying to belittle anyones beliefs or lack there of.. my point is if armageddon don't happen or the rapture within the next 1000 years or so, how long will man keep holding out hope for a divine being, whether it be jesus, jehovah, allah or "fill in the blank" to come and solve all the problems?.
do you feel that there is a timetable of any sort?.
if god hasn't manifested himself/herself/itself in say 5000 years from now to all mankind, do you think the majority at that time will still be clinging to a belief in a higher power if nothing at all has changed as far as their "appearing,coming, calling us to them etc."?.
i think you're right within 50 years awen. there are enough (although not that many) public figures who think rationally, and really shed light on the level of bs out there. sometimes it takes time for it to sink in. reminds me of the old tv show mash. when it was first released nobody watched it, and it was on the bottom of the ratings list. they were going to cancel it. then all of the sudden people started watching it and getting attached to it after it had been on for a while, and they had seen everything else. after a few years of course it went to #1, and then finally the final episode to this day is still the #1 tv watched television program ever. but the point being, the answer can be sitting there, nobody cares, then all of the sudden it's like a firestorm. that seems to me what will happen over the next 50 years, rather than thousands.
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father daniel gagnon shows how to re-evangelize persons who have joined the jehovah's witnesses.
hey sizemik; i'm thinking about that scene from back to the future, where michael jfox is trying to get his dad to stop being such a dip shit, and get into real life. he puts on the biochemical suit and gas mask, and blasts the slayer(whoever) into his ears. i'm thinking something like this is a much more effective and succinct methodology :P "you are in a cult, get out now while you still can!" done deal, if only.
the leaders of jehovah's witnesses are faced with a dilemma: they endlessly praise themselves as a 'clean' organization that has god's approval while dealing with the day to day reality of internal corruption, barely hidden decay, long term serious sins and a loss of vitality.. it should be obvious that there are countless elders going thru the motions simply to please their families - and much the same is true of publishers, as the society's own statistics manifest a profoundly unproductive preaching work.
worse yet, there is plain evidence of outright disloyalty as confidential documents pop up continually on the internet.
want a new elder's manual?
Your refusal to confront it openly will NOT go indefinitely. <---QFT - they inevitably will crash indeed.
they preach one thing, and then they encourage their people (the ones that get promoted) - to hold an attitude which is completely in opposition to their supposed core values. it's a constant cycle of crash and burn, and nobody has the balls to stand up, and if they do they get naplam dropped on them. they are going down big time!