i know that it must seem silly to ask, but my brother and his family think that the big a will arrive before they die.
i tried to explain to my brother that everyone else who has ever lived in the past has died and only jesus has [physically] rose from the dead.. it is amazing that anyone could buy that line.
what crazy cult culture that could make people believe such nonsense?!.
Yes I did - and I am still having a very hard time adjusting to the idea that in the not very far future I will blink out of existence.
Being cheated out of decades of a life of my choice doing things I would have enjoyed, making a contribution to humanity, is a hard pill to swallow.
will you be a survivor of the last days?.
serving with jehovah’s unified organization.
move ahead with jehovah’s unified organization.
First line.
THE WORLD IS INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AND ANGRY (3 min.)
Seems like REAL WORLD DATA would say that was total BS.
Also - how does the org quantify world anger? Did they do an global exhaustive study.
Silly me - well they did get this rock solid pice of info quoted in the WT mentioned in the outline.
Referring to the violence engendered by cruelty, Noemí Díaz Marroquín, who teaches at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, says: “Violence is learned, it’s cultural . . . We learn how to act out in violent ways when our environment allows and encourages it.”
Guess thats good enough for me:)
https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace-after-1945
Website above is the best for disproving "the time of the end"
i've always been a bit of a reader - but only reading about topics i find interesting, e.g.
natural history, dinosaurs, etc.. recently i've started to select, buy and read novels.. this year i've bought and read frankenstein (mary shelly), dracula (bram stoker), the hound of the baskervilles (a. conan doyle), 'salem's lot (stephen king), jurassic park (michael crichton) and the firm (john grisham).. i have an inclination towards horrors and thrillers.. what fiction have you been reading?.
could you recommend anything?.
Any Stephen King is good.
The ENDER Series is amazing.
Battlefield Earth is epic
Others I have read recently...
A Universe from Nothing - Krauss
Origins - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
How the universe got hte spots - Levin
Becoming Steve Jobs
Time of our Lives - Peggy Noonan
One Year After - sequel to One Second After
Edge of the Universe
The Colony
The Atlantis Gene
The Troops
The Deep
The Martian
Plus all time greats - good for ex jws
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Brave New World
Logan's Run
did anybody see the service meeting video this week?.
australian sister was sexually abused as a child and thought of ending her life at 14 years old, sometime later jw's call on her father who accepts a study and eventually the whole family becomes witnesses, life gets much better as the sister immerses herself in pioneering etc, she still has some dark days but prayer along with going for walks and swimming has helped her cope with bad memories of child abuse, the new system (just around the corner) will completely fix everything......... i'm dumbfounded, the hypocrisy has literally rendered me speechless......comments anybody?.
Are these mid week videos available somewhere?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/worlds-oldest-person-man-mbah-gotho-indonesia-145-years-old-a7213191.html.
I was always perplexed by that verse.
Why did god step down the age of people from almost 1000 to 120 then to 70 or 80.
You dont need further proof that the bible is BS and a bunch of badly tied together stories from bedouins than the book of genesis.
playing devil's advocate here.... what's the difference between the gb changing bible interpretations compared to parliaments all over the world changing laws?
although the us constitution (=bible) remains untouched, congress passes i don't know how many new laws every year.
and of course people are expected to follow them.
YOU CAN"T VOTE OUT THE GOVERNING BODY!
Im not sure who is denying it? Its pretty common knowledge, like the Pioneer book.
i sat in town recently, right in the window of a nice wee pub.
within minutes i realised that i had a perfect view of a jw cart and the two ridiculously dressed jw's (they have absolutely no individuality at all.
what's more, they all look like they're going to a funeral).
Well - think of it like this.
They get to FEEL the are Slaving for the Lord - while doing absolutely nothing.
The only thing better would be if they could do this at home.
They even get to take turns sitting in the car - or going for coffee.
Service has become so much easier - almost every other month there is some campaign where all you do is hand out flyers without having to get into a conversation.
And now you have Carts where all you do is stand.
I bet it won't be long till the Pio hrs requirement is dropped again (was 90 when I was doing it) then it will be a great shout of praise when the rolls increase:)
update on mouthy (grace gough)this is graces granddaughter.
i wanted to send an update that today my beautiful grandmother passed away - surrounded by friends and family.
- may 22 1927 - sept 2nd 2016. mouthys_granddaughter.
My sincere condolences:(
does anybody remember some of the sensational demon stories jw's would tell back in the day?
i was a kid in the early 80's and i remember a few times hearing of people having real life encounters with demons.
for example, one sister claimed that before she became a jdub she would regularly talk to demons and they would even fix stuff like her washing machine!
Not watching Vampire Movies - Lord of the Rings - Smurfs - Zombie movies - as instructed over and over and over and over again at Assemblies HAS PAID OFF!
We are free from the demons now!
Now all we have to do is Exorcise the GB and we are good:)
