my friends usually walked me home after dark.
but one evening i was so tired that i decided to call a taxi.
the driver didnt take me home.
It's not really a flip-flop though; you have to read between the lines:
Awake! 84, Jun 8p. 28 - If raped, not guilty of fornication: “For the victim to be considered guilty of fornication, there would need to be proof of willing consent.”
In WT speak, not screaming IS proof of willing consent. Most of those "not guilty" quotes above don't really change their stance, they're just dodging it with their wording.
i went and saw the book of mormon when i was in nyc last week.
it was superb.
so many great songs and so, so funny.
@darth frosty, there's one song in there that will make any dub's ears bleed... It starts off with a "Hakuna Matata" like beat, until they explain what the catchy little phrase actually means (hint: it's totally blasphemous).
i have always had a love for martial arts (didn't know how to fight, just admire what the human body can do), but since jdub-land banned it, i just kinda forgot about it.
i admire nate quarry (an 'apostate' mma fighter) and i have been boxing for a year now.
i decided to switch over to muay thai.
I would have been all over this if I'd gotten out when I was younger. As it is, I tried taking Judo last year (thinking it was the lowest impact) and only went a couple months before joint pain and sprains caught up with me.
helpful techniques for getting in your pioneer time.. .
remember: there is a time for everything under the sun.. .
http://www.culthelp.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=453&itemid=8.
In Alaska, we did car-to-door witnessing when it was cold (which is, of course, half the year). Pack at least six people in a van, get out in pairs and do one door. Return to the van for five minutes to warm up. Shuffle pairs and repeat. Takes an hour or two to do one side of one street.
if you want to get technical, jws have not "disfellowshipped" anyone publicly in several years.
they stopped saying,.
"joe blow has been disfellowshipped.
Technically true, but doesn't matter at all; they've said neither and my own brother won't talk to me anyway, simply because of a percieved "weakness."
wow.
i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.
i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.
ÁrbolesdeArabia said "We are receiving the greatest, largest portions of spiritual food ever!" When do people sit back and ask, "Is this really so?"
Interesting that you phrased the question that way, because that's exactly why they don't ask: because they've been programmed that the Devil asked that question in Eden, and all such questions that raise doubts must be from the Devil, so their minds instantly shut off before the question is fully formed.
i have been "lurking" for about four years now.. it was an incredibly weird experience just to look at a site like jwn or freeminds.
he came off very loving.. so, i decided that i would talk to one of my elders about the things i read.
if any of you have time to read this, thank you.
If you still believe than it all comes down quite simply to this: Jesus said the Father was looking for those who worship in spirit and truth, not in some particular place. The Watchtower's Kingdom Halls are filled with untruths, as you are finding out. Therefore, you should worship somewhere else.
That's the most basic logical arguement. You can just build from there.
And welcome!
can you, awsome peoples, please help me with grasping when and how did sin get introduced in the picture?.
i am not talking adam/eve and the serpent thingy.. i am going way back, following the chain of events.. seems to me that the very original sin was satan's rebellion against god.. if so, how did satan get this idea in a first place, how was he even able to have the concept of disobedience.... .
thanks in advance to all contributors..
Yan Bibiyan, you are correct, God is not perfect as put forth in Genesis. He creates imperfection, he has regrets, he loses his temper, etc. Like the Olympians, he's a being created in OUR image.
for me it was rather painful.
it was like pressing your nose against the candy store window, knowing that you can look, but you cannot partake.
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I was homeschooled, which is a sure-fire way to grow a socially malnurished, awkward-beyond-belief loner (which is the point, I guess). It seems to be a popular choice by JW parents where I live. Whether that's better or worse than actually being in school and still seperate (lonely in a crowd syndrome) is difficult to say.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20145664.
the test by researchers at goldsmiths, university of london, tried to establish whether mediums could use psychic abilities to identify something about five unseen volunteers.. the results, carried out under test conditions, did not show evidence of any unexplained powers of insight.. but medium patricia putt said this experiment "doesn't prove a thing".. this halloween challenge was an attempt to investigate whether professional mediums could demonstrate their psychic powers in a controlled setting - by inviting them to deduce something about people they had never met and could not see or hear..
Devil's advocate: Mediums and psychics are different; no wonder the experiment didn't work, since they didn't have any clue what they were doing. Not to mention that many forms of divination require contact to establish an astral link before any information can be gleaned.
