how long will it take for a jw to see that even the overlapping generation is wrong?.
the org waited and waited to see if their interpretation of it came true.
those alive in 1914 would still be alive obviously it didn't and jws have to believe in an overlapping generation.
Boy the Millennial Reign is really getting cut into - Jesus will have less than 900 years to make Bears and Lions happy to play with Kids - and have man Cultivate to perfection places like Yosemite and Yellowstone, they are so crappy looking now - you know - being uncultivated by man.
Hope they plant miles of daisies, or make it look like Warwick!
p.s. we dont live with a date in mind :)
i've heard some weird stories coming from jws about the paranormal.
i know about the warnings about items that come from unbelievers -- those don't interest me as much.
what i am interested in are actual experiences in stories of the paranormal you've heard or experienced yourself.
I had a friend who told me about a demonic experience.
Without going into many details - at night demons were "apparently looking for something to eat". (ha ha)
Well in their kitchen the cabinet doors would open can close open and slam over and over.
This went on for some period of time until they found the demonized item ( I think they got it at a garage sale [typical in these stories] ) then all was well.
My question was - why the hell didnt you run out of that house and not come back?
Why would you continue to stay there if that was happening?
They had plenty of family to stay with - and there are these things called Hotels and Motels?
Even when I was a believer - I didnt go for that crap because it made no sense.
If that happened in my house - i would RUN! not be part of some B-Horror movie where the idiot just cant get enough of a warning to not leave the house:)
so the study article 'setting your mind on the spirit means life and peace.
' at paragraph 9 a little pictorial lecture for anyone setting their minds on the flesh.
brother fleshly minded talking about having a sailboat.
Dont you all know that Sailboats are the Devils work!
If man was meant to sail - he would have been given a Mast a-mid-ships that would be able to go up and down at will!
Oh wait...
at a recent meeting there was a watchtower article about life in paradise.
they were saying that even when witnesses finally get there they will still be under the strict instructions from the elders and gb.
they may be given jobs that they will find unpleasant, also the preaching work will be ongoing because of all the resurrected people who need to learn about why they are given another chance.
Funny how we always looked down at people who believe in Heaven because they make heaven to be just like earth but nicer - well gee sounds like paradise will be just like earth but not much nicer:)
as i write this under the shadow of the walls of saint jorge's castle in lisbon, two very bored jws are standing just five metres away from me with a literature cart .... in my journey away from jwism i accepted evolution as a fact.
i also became anti-religion, agnostic and apatheist.
and, while i lean towards the persuasion of the atheist arguments, there are a few reasons that make it difficult for me to completely discard the notion of an intelligent origin of life.
Cofty how tiring is it to have to go over this stuff like every day.
as i write this under the shadow of the walls of saint jorge's castle in lisbon, two very bored jws are standing just five metres away from me with a literature cart .... in my journey away from jwism i accepted evolution as a fact.
i also became anti-religion, agnostic and apatheist.
and, while i lean towards the persuasion of the atheist arguments, there are a few reasons that make it difficult for me to completely discard the notion of an intelligent origin of life.
One of such reasons is the problem of sexual reproduction and the inability of evolution theory to provide a satisfactory explanation for its existence.
This sentence is only valid if you have not seriously studied evolution.
i'm sure we've all heard this argument by theists employing the fine-tuning argument.
are you aware, however, of exactly how much this "little bit" really is?
theists would have us think that the slightest change in the distance would have drastic implications for survivability.
One of my favorite lines that has been in many talks by "brothers" and COs and at assemblies is...
Wherever science has looked - they have not found a planet like the earth.
Gee - that like going to the beach - taking a teaspoon out - getting a spoonful of water - looking at it - and saying - Well there are not whales in this ocean.
As if there was a exhaustive study of all the planets in the universe to find out.
So now that we are discovering planets by the bag full every week - and we are starting to find earth like candidates - will this erroneous line stop being repeated over and over?
NO.
i'm sure we've all heard this argument by theists employing the fine-tuning argument.
are you aware, however, of exactly how much this "little bit" really is?
theists would have us think that the slightest change in the distance would have drastic implications for survivability.
OMG!!! One of my biggest pet peeves ever!
I gave a great creation talk to dispel stupid idiot statements like that for 2 decades.
I worked in into every appropriate part or comment I could.
MADE NO DIFFERENCE.
Like - that there was no rain before the flood (even though genesis talks about rivers in eden)
Or - we use 10% of our brain. Yea? Let me remove a little bit of yours - you pick what part.
Or - that the Big Bang is part of the theory of Evolution. For once god sakes - read a book!
And countless others that had nothing to do with dogma - just common sense!
After 2 decades of trying and trying - with great reception to my talks and parts - people still fell back to these stupid ideas. (if jws voted they would all vote for trump)
I maxed out what you could do as an elder from a public speaking roll - and I still didnt move the needle when it came to JW stupidity.
Ron White is right when he says - "you can't fix stupid"
Duh - Jesus runs the org - isnt it obvious?
now we all have heard how the universe is composed of matter and space.
and we always here of how it had a beginning.
but really what could have begun it?
Half Banana - dude everyone knows only Moons can be made ouf of cheese - duh.
