*we are all from different cultural and educational backgrounds, we all experience different circumstances in life, and i don't mean to offend anyone on this forum in any way.*.
with that said here are my observations, and i want to know what you have observed.. in my experience i have noticed a trend: zealous witnessestend to exhibit the worst grammar when compared to non-witnesses!.
i want you to think back, or check it out for yourself if you haven't noticed it.. on social networks: compare comments on anything by jws (especially the uber-zealous ones) with those of your atheist or other religiously affiliated friends.
There is a youtube video series that a user named Mikeatheist has where he allowed 2 elders to conduct numerous bible studies with him.
On one of the studies an elders commented about being virile in his days preJW and said, (paraphrasing now)
"When I was younger, I would hit that Pu$$y every chance I would get,.. chuckle chuckle chuckle"
Here is the lead in video, there are many and I don't remember which one it was in, but they are all worth the watch.
NJY
cherrypicking individual verses out of context from scripture to fit our own theorums.. i randomly used 3 scriptures and stitched them together watchtower(r) style for a joke and to prove a point.. nb.
this is under the jokes section so don't take it seriously .
matthew 23:23 then jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:2 the teachers of the law and the pharisees sit in moses seat.. evidently this is a very old seat and probably needs a new cushion by now.
If you had to cherry pick a scripture that would support cherry picking scriptures, what would it be? I'm sure the JWs have one for that also.
NJY
almighty god must have had a lot of time for thinking, so he must have sat there, at least once and thought along the lines of:.
"i wonder if i am actually almighty god, or is there something or someone greater than me ?".
"how can i know i have always existed?".
Stumbled on this youtube users video about this subject. Probably shared on here in the past,deserves another.
Got to watch it all the way till the end for the grand finale. Sensitive users please note, use of "Potty Mouth" language within but don't let that prevent you from getting the point of the video. It would be like not getting the point of Schindlers List due to some brief frontal nudity.
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When my wife watched the video she had an "aha" moment. She kept repeating "pretending to know things you don't know" and that is what it really is isn't it?
It's a crutch to get a person past a "mental crevice" or gap in evidence, as it were.(lol) Having Faith allows the person to create a "bridge" in their thinking.
To me it's a mental "work around" that a person needs to use when confronted with this gap in evidence. It's the easier of 2 choices to reduce the "cognitive dissonance" they may be experiencing. You can either face the facts as to the lack of evidence, or insert the Faith. Inserting Faith is the easier of the tow to do.
It's something that people should REALLY be ashamed of having, using, encouraging other people to increase their "FAITH"
NJY
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In my opinion, the Dr has a grasp on what faith is, and how it differs from hope.
Cant seem to get the insert video working here,..
Possibly the link works.
NJY
with internet access to material published by the watchtower and it being offered free door to door and at the congregation literature counter it should not be surprising that the wtb&ts doesn't make the same profit as before when literature had to be paid for.. so the nonprofit corporation must turn to other sources of income, like playing bank with the congregation's money, as well as selling property of which they have a sizable fortune.
beg for more money from the mostly poor rank and file, suggest willing leaving valueble property to the corporation, mandatory tithing, and etc.... part of this sellable property are kingdumb halls owned by incorporated congregations which thier by-laws give the wt complete control.
as times get worse for this corporations i would expect them to be tapping this source of revenue more frequently.. they are selling all their brooklyn buildings, and closing down branches and selling the property, and they are selling kingdom halls(who gets the money?)..
I think that when the jws do a remodel of a KH where the money is processed through the WTBTS it should be rely be classified as a leasehold improvement.
NJY
women gained some ground this week when the nypd said they will no longer arrest women who choose to go topless (like the guys) in public.. http://www.policy.com/articles/42359/topless-women-in-public-not-breaking-the-law-says-nypd.
san francisco and fremont california have had the annual naked bike ride and solstice festivals for a few years now..
Hey are there any potholes on that bike route?
NJY
I say " Greetings Earthling, take me to your leader!!"
It was funnier around the time of Mork and Mindy.
NJY
i know about johnathan edwards and william miller being some of the forerunners of the wtbts.
how about much earlier in time?
was there a group during the middle ages or even earlier that preached something similar to the wt doctrine?
Here is a video that shows the history of how the IBSA and then the JWs came to be.
