Love how you could grieve the HS by watching some types of porn, forming clicks, and not listening to elders, but serious sin like adultery, rape, child abuse, fraud.. etc. is not that bad, you can recover from that.
WORST illustration ever used - and total BatCrap logic throughout!
i just left three comments on over there on the article.
when it was first published on thursday it took a while for some comments to show up and when they did there just eleven, which stayed that way for a while.
i noticed today it's up to 43, so i responded to a few folks and left my own.
to myself it means to seek knowledge and understanding of are selves and the world in which we live.. unfortunately history has shown whenever one tries to connect to god and of his knowledge through men who say they themselves are connected to god through spiritual wifi ie.
gb members of the jehovah's witnesses for example, one usually ends up finding a accumulation of only man's acquired knowledge.
over thousands of years of trying to connect to a god(s) for help and answers, mankind has eventually relinquished himself to seeking answers through scientific investigative acquired knowledge of the world in which we live in.
the rule was (is) that you go to your assigned congregation.. growing up, i think our family was in our assigned congregation only one of three times.
the family made two major moves when i was a kid and each time my folks would visit the various congregations in the area and pick the one with the most kids.
given our association restrictions with the world, they wanted to make sure we had plenty of friends.. i have to give them credit where due.
Just think of the lack of freedom all JWs have. What to wear, say, think, were to meet, what games to play, what movies to watch, who are good friends, what to do on the weekend, what to read, how long your hair should be, how short your skirt can be, how tight your clothing should be, if you can get a boob job or not, what career, what language...... hard to think of other religions who are as controlling.
but - the truth will set you free. really???
i would like to know if witnesses are still using the reasoning book in the field service.
i am asking about it, because i had read that it is currently out of print, doesn't it??
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back in the early 70's there was a brother, well known in the circuit did the no no with.
a few of the young sisters in the congregation.
he was df and the word, he would never be.
as we all know, the clam reeks of propaganda and lunacy (sniff...sniff...mmmmm...smells like the gb's meeting room.
what did dubs glean from the clam that washed ashore this week?
according to the book of ezra, jeehoober is so fearful of competition, that he banishes wives and even small children.
so, a few years ago my jw parents, my non jw sister and her husband, and myself were discussing religion and jw beliefs.
my parents of course defending the jw's, the rest of us, against jw's ( it may not have been specifically against jw's, maybe just religion in general) anyway, things are getting a little heated, and i finally ask my pops, if the watchtower bible and tract society told you to go out and start killing muslims, would you do it?
yes i would, was his reply, to which i say, then your not any different than the radical muslims killing in the name of religion.
Not 1 JW i have ever know would kill for the WT. I think its an easy thing to say and an impossible thing to do.
"vengeance shall be mine" and all.
it occurred to me today, that so often, my mother will make the comment that .
"those false religions teach that everyone is going to heaven when they die, oh sure, .
all you have to do is be a good person, and off you go to heaven.
>>the bible reveals that jehovah issaddened when people pursue a wick-ed course and ‘the inclination of theirthoughts is only bad all the time.’ (readgenesis 6:5, 6.
) from this we can per-ceive that sexual fantasizing is wrongbecause it can lead to serious sin that isforbidden in the scriptures and is out ofharmony with jehovah’s way of think-ing.the disciple james wrote: “the wis-dom from above is first of all pure, thenpeaceable, reasonable, ready to obey,full of mercy and good fruits, impar-tial, not hypocritical.” (jas.
3:17) beingaware of this, we should be moved toreject entertainment that fuels impurethoughts and inclinations.
I remember as a kid when we did the "family" book. The Elder going off on how any position other than missionary was ungodly and disgusting.
Are JWs the only religion that have tried to control how you bend your body during sex?
Anyway - JWs for sure are not like the Pharisees. No burdens placed on us a all.
