at the end of his final talk he said of the gb: they are telling the higher ups , "start getting ready we're not going to be around much longer!
" and we expect the angels to release the four winds any day now!
" my first thought was why are you building a corporate country club then?!
As i understand it, wasn't the preaching work supposed to stop before the big A?
That's what i would like to see; the GB announcing that preaching is wrapping up and ending on X date. Put your money where your mouth is, announce that preaching is over so that the countdown to another embarassement is started.
when confronted with all of the inconsistencies and atrocities of the bible, many believers invariably claim that they don't base their faith in christ on what's written in the bible.
so what is the basis then, if not scripture?.
and please don't tell me "the lord has revealed himself to me".
And who are we to judge God?
Umm i am a person who was told that there is a man in the sky who loves me along with everybody else, and is going to resolve all of mankind's problems.
To this date, this person in the sky has done zero to resolve any problems on earth, has done zero to help me in any of my problems. This person in the sky also does not reveal itself or communicate with mankind in any observable way or answers any requests. This person in the sky seems to be ok with just sitting around in a passive way doing absolutely nothing while millions suffer in pain, while all along having the ability to bring resolution to these things with a snap of a finger.
Guess what? I'm totally fine with judging him.
when confronted with all of the inconsistencies and atrocities of the bible, many believers invariably claim that they don't base their faith in christ on what's written in the bible.
so what is the basis then, if not scripture?.
and please don't tell me "the lord has revealed himself to me".
"The lord revealed himself to me, that's how I know" = I'm out of ideas, so i'll come up with a facacta explanation just so i can keep the dream going.
i havent been going door to door saturday mornings for since i can't remember when.
i have been putting in regular reports to the congregation but the last time i actually went on a door was probably six months ago or so and it has been at least 2 years since i did a saturday morning.
9:30 we showed up to the group arrangement, we waited outside because we were not sure that it was the right place.
I wake up every Sunday and take a few moments to reflect on how fantastic it is that I don't have to get ready to do field serve-us. I used to despise it. Even when i believed in the organization i always knew that the current format of field serve-us was completely ineffective one.
When i take the bus home, and i'm waiting at the station, there is park right in front of it, and usualy there are a few JWs preaching there. The lack of motivation is glaring; there is a winding path that goes through and around the park and the JWs walk in a group of 3 or 4 as slow as they can continuously on that path, even though the majority of the people around are not there. They just slowly make their way around again and again and on a rare occation they hand a piece of littera-trash to someone walking by.
Nobody in their right mind would think of this as urgent work.
historian samuel p huntington (1927 2008) predicted a future with conflicts due to civilisational and cultural reasons rather than on grounds of political ideology and economics.
and the ongoing conflict between the so-called islamic states and rest of the world seems to lend support to the late historian's controversial thesis.
fulfillment of his prophecy is more than 100% (even journalists are being beheaded)!.
Historian Samuel P Huntington (1927 – 2008) predicted a future with conflicts due to civilisational and cultural reasons rather than on grounds of political ideology and economics.
Are we supposed to be impressed? These are the same type of generic and vague predictions the bible and the WT makes.
Here, let me take a shot at a few predictions of my own:
- I predict that in the summer of 2016 there will be several major wild fires in California.
- I predict that Israel will be the target of terrorist attacks in the coming years
- I predict that pollution will become a major issue in China within the next 10 years.
Now make sure you quote me as some sort of genius when these things come true.
my question is since it looks as though mammoths were alive after the flood and we know elephants are then how much food was needed to feed just these four animals for the time they were on the ark.
also was the ark, 500 feet long, big enough to hold the amount of food needed for just these 4 animals.. .
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What I want to know is, did rainbows exist before the flood?
Of course not. We all know that before the flood it had never rained before. Back in those times plant life didn't need any water because they lived on... love.
Makes sense now?
What was that? Where did river water come from without rain? Well, evidently Jehoober had angels positioned at the strategic water springs with magical buckets supplying water to the rivers. Live and learn buddy!
i am having a discussion at work with the jw's.
should you spank a child to make them understand or do you reason with them.
they both agree with spanking.
If your boss spanked you whenever you did not do as he said you would call the police. So why is it considered acceptable to hit a small defenseless child?
I don't think this is a good analogy. The idea behind spanking is that it serves as an adjustment/punishment for someone who you cannot reason with. When someone grows up, you should (hopefully) either reason with that person or give them a punishment that they will understand.
I was spanked many times, many unecessarily even when I was 13. That didn't need to be. I was grown enough that someone could reason with me. But when you are 2 or 3 years old and you don't respond to anything else, perhaps there is a place for a little slap on the butt, not to inflict pain, but to reinforce the fact that a kid should recognize that someone has authority over them.
my question is since it looks as though mammoths were alive after the flood and we know elephants are then how much food was needed to feed just these four animals for the time they were on the ark.
also was the ark, 500 feet long, big enough to hold the amount of food needed for just these 4 animals.. .
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If god is going to perform miracles like causing the animals to sleep and not eat/drink/poop/etc, then when not just skip the whole ark thing and just miraculously levitate Noah and family and the animals above the water in a state of deep sleep?
C'mon now. You know very well that Jehoober has a need for drama. The easiest solution is never a good choice for Jehoober. For example when Adam and Eve sinned, he could have simply killed 2 humans and save thousands of years of imperfection and heartache, but noo; instead let's drag the situation into thousands of years of drama at the expense of of all of us.
Of course none of this is true anyway, but shows how absurd the whole concept is.
let me clarify, when i say aliens, i don't mean shiny helmeted spaceship dwelling anal probers.
(although i could be proved wrong).
if any alien lifeform was found on mars or another planet or even a comet, be it tiny bacteria or even some form of non carbon based life form, would that not destroy religions grip on mankind?
I really do think that there are other worlds with life. It's reasonable to think that amongst the trillions of planets in the universe perhaps at least a few thousands are at the right distance from their Sun, and have developed similar conditions to sustain and develop life. I don't think that they we will ever get visited by anybody though.
I also think that before life developd on earth, many others worlds have gone through a life cycle of sustaining life; from development of life, all the way through extinction due to their Sun running out of fuel to burn - the same extinction we will go through once our Sun runs out of fuel to burn.
standing on corners holding up the awake and watchtower magazines?
all hours, all weathers?
street work reminds me of randy crawford's "street life" - i've modified the lyrics.... .
I did street work all of the time, but not the type where you stand there waiting for someone to approach you. We would walk the streets and approach anybody that was around.
I used to absolutely hate it, because at least on door to door preaching there was the likely chance of someone not being at home or not answering the door which is 95 percent of all doors, but in street work you had to approach people, and people hate to be approached when they are going somewhere in a hurry.
