so my mum died from mild form of lukemia which can simply be treated with a blood transfusion each month.
to me this was a watchtower assisted suicide.
the liaison elder encouraged her to "stay strong" and said a prayer.
I don't think my mom would. She has a lot of cognitive dissonance. Plus me hammering at some of their lunacy. đ
You just described perfectly, what I did with my parents. Little by little I kept hammering at the lunacy of the organization. My dad stepping down as an elder was the first step. My mom not pioneering was the second, and now, they don't go to the meetings.
Not sure how they really feel inside, but I know they wouldn't drink the kool aid.
hi guys .
i was wondering about the above , if a jw is allowed to remarry if a spouse has died, then what happens when they are resurrected at armageddon, do u land up with two wives/husbands ,,,,,,, makes no sense to me & can the jw's be so dumb not to think about this or have i got it wrong ?
and i will not be asking my uber jw husband , don't have the energy.. thanks.
the New Testament writers came up with this spin* as a way of assuring First-Century Christian women that someday, they'd be "free".
If resurrected women are free then I call dibs on Abishag.
(1 Kings 1:3, 4) .âŻ.âŻ.And they went looking for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and finally found Abâ˛i¡shag the Shuâ˛nam¡mite and then brought her in to the king. âŻAnd the girl was beautiful in the extreme.âŻ.âŻ.
hi guys .
i was wondering about the above , if a jw is allowed to remarry if a spouse has died, then what happens when they are resurrected at armageddon, do u land up with two wives/husbands ,,,,,,, makes no sense to me & can the jw's be so dumb not to think about this or have i got it wrong ?
and i will not be asking my uber jw husband , don't have the energy.. thanks.
I wonder how the resurrected would feel about that and how unjust and awkward would be to hear your neighbor having sex
Some people like to Watch- you know- like the angels in heaven watched the pretty women on earth. That's why God made lube.
hi guys .
i was wondering about the above , if a jw is allowed to remarry if a spouse has died, then what happens when they are resurrected at armageddon, do u land up with two wives/husbands ,,,,,,, makes no sense to me & can the jw's be so dumb not to think about this or have i got it wrong ?
and i will not be asking my uber jw husband , don't have the energy.. thanks.
People are going to be resurrected with perfect bodies. They will be resurrected by the billions naked. Jehovah taking away their desire won't matter because it didn't matter to the angels in heaven who were sexless and saw the beautiful women on earth before the flood and took wives, namely all whom they choose.
Billions of naked people with perfect boobies and muscular bodies. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN!
alright, so what is the deal with the thousands coming to the states right at election time seeking asylum?
i'm not up on this, usually try not to be, but how can this not be manipulative?
it's either manipulative in the size of the group and pressure that creates, or in where it started or who started this, etc.
Just because he profited from other people's stupidity doesn't make him wise or sensible though.
That's what America is all about, that explains the uncompromising devotion some have to 8 old men in N.Y.
alright, so what is the deal with the thousands coming to the states right at election time seeking asylum?
i'm not up on this, usually try not to be, but how can this not be manipulative?
it's either manipulative in the size of the group and pressure that creates, or in where it started or who started this, etc.
If you go to motor vehicle office, you walk in, fill paperwork, stand in line, pay fees, wait your turn. How would you feel if you saw people walk in, go to the front of the line
I would call Trump and have him send the military.
two years before i left jw world i came to a strange conclusion about the jw cosmology and the free will doctrine.. basically i came to conclusion that satan is right about the universal sovereign issue.
and i came with that just only using jws premises, no outside apostasy.
i just told to my sister what she thought about it, and she said to me: dont tell anyone about this!.
But anybody can point out some flaw in my premises?
I have free will and I choose not to!
alright, so what is the deal with the thousands coming to the states right at election time seeking asylum?
i'm not up on this, usually try not to be, but how can this not be manipulative?
it's either manipulative in the size of the group and pressure that creates, or in where it started or who started this, etc.
Some of the migrant caravan members are suing President Trump and some of the administration for saying they can't apply for asylum. So now it's going to cost the regular taxpayers millions to defend the lawsuit
alright, so what is the deal with the thousands coming to the states right at election time seeking asylum?
i'm not up on this, usually try not to be, but how can this not be manipulative?
it's either manipulative in the size of the group and pressure that creates, or in where it started or who started this, etc.
It's really basic economics 101. If lower wages didn't hurt people's incomes, why have minimum wages? The typical pattern is that someone eventually gets into a position where they can hire people and from that point on they only hire their own kind. The workforce is taken over by immigrants and the poorest citizens of the host country suffer the most both from low wages and from lost jobs.
Also, if South America is really as bad as you say ... do we want people flooding in from there without proper checks? Isn't it all the more reason to vet people and protect the border with a proper ordered immigration and asylum process?
These countries are bad because they have abandoned law and order and allowed a free-for-all - the exact thing that civilized countries have to avoid and protect against.
A proper ordered process benefits legitimate immigrants the most and disadvantages the criminals and people smugglers. That anyone would want to support things that works opposite to that is simply mind boggling to me.
I am taking a basic course in economics, finishing first year at the University. You are correct in everything you say.
Perhaps in the past the idea was popular that immigrants that do the jobs nobody wants benefited America. But now with current research we know that's not true. If illegal immigrants weren't allowed to work in the jobs that nobody wants, like being a maid in plush motels, those corporations would have no choice but to raise the wages for those menial jobs and the LEGALLY unskilled labor force could take those jobs and climb their way out of poverty--LEGALLY.
in the long run, goodness can be as real as we care to live it.
and if we live 'as though' god were as real as we once believed--how can we go wrong?let us think about this...what would happen if we were given a large amount of cash and we spent it on gifts for our loved ones but-- a knock at the door and the police are here!
that cash was counterfeit and those gifts must be confiscated...what then?good intentions are only that--intentions-- if there is no "there" there.when we were each others' brothers and sisters our love was real but the currency was counterfeit.
We do have to take care of ourselves. Too young I rushed out willy nilly to 'save the world' for our Watchtower overlords and yet there was nobody there to save me.
So much of 'spiritual help' is noise and ideology; aren't we wasting our reservoir of interior goodness on THAT instead of more practical concern for the physical welfare and well-being?
The problem is that many people donât have much of choice. Sometimes you are born into the wrong family. If you are born into the Watchtower religion, you are âencouragedâ to get baptized at a young age and coax into knocking on doors and saving strangers from eternal death. How many of us knocked on a door and didnât realize and will never know--- there was a serial killer on the other side?
Worse, sometimes you are born into the wrong family and in the wrong country.
http://time.com/5442851/pakistan-blasphemy-asia-bibi-protest/?utm_source=reddit.com
