disney has finally lifted their 55-year beard ban.
in conversations, an elder/relative would use disney as an example of a business that prohibited beards to help justify the wts anti-beard stance.
i wonder if the wts will ever lift their beard ban in the u.s. and other places.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/24/disney-lifts-beard-ban-workers?newsfeed=true.
They never had the courage to write much about it in the Mags, because of course there was no scriptural back up, not even their catch-all " in principle".
They did though put it in writing in the instructions for Elders conducting items at conventions, and running Depts. at conventions.
They are such Pharisees, wedded firmly to their thousands of rules and regulations, "the tenth of the Dill " etc
They have made invalid the word of god.
can you think of one single thing that set them apart.
from other religious organization.
witnessess love to.
They are unique in that they can still knock on doors with their head firmly stuck up their arse !
i am posting this information taken from christain witnesses .com...... if what he is saying comes to fruition it would be interesting.. .
some major january 28, 2012 notes from .
johnny the betheliteafter coming on late, johnny still did not have a magazine that had not been put on jw.org.
I wonder if the guy from Reading, if he is indeed an innocent guy with almost the same surname, can sue Rick for libel ?
the wall street journal (thank heavens the library pays for the subscription) of this weekend has a lengthy article about the taleban.. apparently, they have discovered education.. now, it's not like they're building a harvard school of murderous fanaticism - but they are responding to complaints that they want to take over a nation with nobody educated to get anything done, that afghans can't even read and can't get jobs - and that half the nation (being female) is of little use to the economy, as they are even more ignorant than males.. the us army is skeptical about the reality of this - given that these guys are the same idiots who murder shopkeepers for the "crime" of mixing fruits and vegetables of different "genders" (ok, i get the banana thing but a tomato is female?).
so, the most awful people on earth now realize that education is important - while the watchtower goes backwards into condemning college, while they "eat the fruits" of higher education by using witness doctors, lawyers, and engineers.. you gotta wonder if the real motive behind their distaste for higher education has more to do with maintaining their sense of unmerited superiority and defending their pathetically disadvantaged state in facing retirement.
"don't worry, armageddon is soon!"..
Taliban= JW/WT religion , right ? too many parallels to list, so how do we get the message out to the public ?
dearest mickey,.
the other night on one of your posts you let on that you were going through the mill, the family were treating you in a generally s**ty way, i gathered.
i hope you are feeling better, i went through a similar thing last week, but prevailed against it, p.m me if you want details.. just hope you are back up and sailing with all the sheets picking up a fair wind..
Dearest Mickey,
the other night on one of your posts you let on that you were going through the mill, the family were treating you in a generally s**ty way, I gathered.
I hope you are feeling better, I went through a similar thing last week, but prevailed against it, P.M me if you want details.
Just hope you are back up and sailing with all the sheets picking up a fair wind.
.
topgodapexspiritual persons (eg paul)middleatheists, agnostics, secularistsbottomreligionists (eg saul)seemingly in scripture the only persons jesus repeatedly tore into were the religionists (pharisees and sanhedrin or governing body).
it seems he gave the romans (secularists) scant attention, and chose to eat with the likes of prostitutes and presumably also lgbt persons..
ATJ , do you still grow spiritually ? If so, how do you go about it ?
Thanks,
Phizzy
i'm on page 90 right now...the info is definitely new and gives me a totally diff view as to how i used to think of faithful and discreet slave.
i was thoroughly disgusted with the way the brothers handled the oral sex and leadership problem and the insight on the scriptures book...... still have alot of questions though.
Slightly off topic, but tresdecu WELCOME ! add that to your welcome thread !
Good points by all in the above posts, we have been there,where you are, and know how hard to deal with it is, at first, but it gets easier and better, and soon morphs in to a damn good laugh !
So, enjoy the ride !
just wondering if it's possible for a non-religious person like me to be friends with a devout jehovah's witness.
as i understand they don't like to mix with us lower life forms.
any thoughts?.
Short answer, to thread title , NO.
It is not even possible to be friends with the most non-devout JW, what they would term a "weak" JW, even these guys will drop you like a hot spud if you show any doubts about their religion, and even those guys will stab you in the back and not keep confidences,, and will speak ill of you after they have dropped you.
Friendship ? Jehovah's Witnesses do not know what that means, honestly, they do not have a clue, it does not exist in Watchtower world.
christians have put up with a theory of salvation that has at its core the idea that god requires the sacrifice of his own son so that human sin can be cancelled.
'there was no other good enough to pay the price of sin,' we will all sing.
the fact this is a disgusting idea, and morally degenerate, is obvious to all but those indoctrinated into a very narrow reading of the cross.. giles fraser.
Thanks Rob, Giles Fraser seems like a thinker and a man of principle, I admired his resignation over the mishandling of the "Occupy" thingy at St. Pauls.
Still a great quote though ! The sacrifice of "Jesus" makes no sense once a bit of research has been done in to "Original Sin" and the Book of Genesis etc.
He is still a little too much "establishment " for me, anyone who contributes to R4's "thought for the day" just simply has to be, but I bet his are a good head and shoulders above the norm.
don't know if this has been posted before, but i just saw it on cracked.com, so i thought i would share.. .
http://www.montrealmirror.com/archives/2002/012402/dawg.html.
january 24, 2002. the calling.
It really highlights the need for the public to be made aware of the JW/WT system of noting the "Do Not Call" homes, if this were more generally known it would have a two-fold effect, the public would not be troubled by some numb-nuts with some magazines written for educationally challenged cretins, and the dubs would soon have so few doors to knock on they would actually have to go and present their message in a sensible manner.
If they had a sensible message that would not be so much of a challenge , but as it is, with no cogent message, they would have a problem.
How can we get the message out there that the public do not need to have a cult member knocking on their door ? (I know the LDS/mormons might still call, but they are quite sweet)
