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Well getting a great seat is the only good thing to the whole experience. Even the most devout witless will admit that the day was intolerable if they had a shitty seat.
BTW I always arrive just in the knick of time (hey why be there any longer than I have to) so I don't care where I sit, in fact the shittier the better, that way I can complain that my back hurts and get/stay up more often to goof off.
i'd like to ask if you recall certain things you were forced to avoid or throw out because they were supposedly demonic, or connected with the occult, or even just plain bad.. i remember we were told to avoid the harry potter movies and books, because he is a magician.
also acdc music.. lol.. .
and oh yeah, during a talk an elder specifically mentioned the show "married with children", because it was a bad example of how a family should behave.
Yeah I know what they told us was naughty and we shouldn't view/listen/read, or what we should throw away if we owned, but I never listened.
My parents weren't too strict and if I already owned it I just said I threw it out (I bought it with MY money and I like it so why the hell should I throw it out just 'cause you said so) or I would listen/view/read/buy in secret (what they don't know won't hurt 'em). To this day no witless, not even my family, truly knows what books I read, movies/shows I watch or music I listen to, nor do they know what I've done in the past.
So the only thing I avoid at all costs is letting other witlesses know what I'm not avoiding.
on youtube there is this man who recorded is judicial commitee, the point i am making is that the elders viewed his material on youtube as stated on the recording.. my question his are elders allowed to view apostate material but not non-elders?
when did this happen?
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No, no one is supposed to, or allowed to, view "apostate" material; however since the meaning of apostate is to be against truth, and they are against real truth, then they view it all the time by reading wash-towel litter-a-turd. OH SNAP!
And when it comes to what higher ups can do versus R&F I only have two words, double standards.
regarding prophecy, i see nothing that they've ever been correct on.
from my understanding, they've always had to change the "truth" about the "truth".. scripturally, i can't see the logic of a godhead or a loving father eternally roasting a person who is deemed "bad".. yout thoughts, please?.
They got right that goverments are full of shit.
But everyone knows that so I guess it doesn't really count as a JW thing.
one of our most dogmatic, authoritarian elders at the congregation i used to attend made this comment.. .
the wts has beat the drum of absolute authority so long and hard that the idea of free will, or even the notion of a god who might take in to consideration the wants, likes, and desires of his own people has been strangled out of the jw psychology.. .
in one of his talks, brother that's final informed the congregation that it is pointless for us to engage in speculation about how our lives will be in the new system.
00DAD summed it up pretty good.
God (WTBT$) doesn't want loving happy servants, they want meat robots.
isn`t that a bit ironic ?
we have the truth they say , but challenge them about what they say and what has been printed in their journals , and their is excuses, apologies etc.etc.
to rationalise their current beleif.spin spin spin,they are, if not worse than politicians, then they are equally as bad.
Confront anyone who knows they're lying and watch them squirm.
The witlesses are no different.
And if they don’t think they’re lying, presenting an irrefutable truth makes their brain overheat, or shut off, because they haven't had to use it in quite some time, and for some their mind has atrophied to the point of no return while others are only slightly broken; this is why they can’t handle real truth.
this is just something that has crossed my mind in the past , with ones such as the williams sisters ( tennis stars ) george benson ( music ) prince (pop star / music ) and the like, do you think they have any real indepth knowledge of the teachings of the watchtower bible & tract society ?
( jehovahs witnesses ) or are they just superficial beleivers ,what`s the latest fad in religion scenario , and once in, it`s not cool to break with it in a hurry.
maybe you can think of a few more celebrities that can be added here.. what`s your thoughts ?.
I can't speak for what someone else believes or know what they’re taught.
But I do know, if you have power, influence and money you can get away with/do anything and if you’re a po-azz-mo-fo rank and filer then you can’t sneeze without a JC.
In my opinion, the double standard set between the have and have not witlesses speaks volumes.
i was raised in a witness family but never got baptized.
i have been studying with an extended family member for a while after 20+ years of being away from the kingdom hall.
i asked them about the paradise earth after armageddon and if we will become robots if we survive.
I've always thought, if it's between being a robot in paradise or having a life in this world,
I choose this world.
i knew this party was too good to last, some inquiring mind is a troll (yes, here on jwn we have moles!
), i think we have a rat here!
i don't feel like "apostate material" and i am not the only one who is going down for this offense!
They're all rats just waiting to rat someone out to make themselves look better or cover their own indiscretions.
So it really shouldn't surprise anyone that those rats lurk here looking for an opportunity to prey on someone.
Sunflower Samurai if you want out now's your chance and if not then deny, lie and cry, it should cover your ass or at the very least buy you some time to find a good way out of the mess and maybe weed out the rat in the process.
NO!
What the hell good are YOUR beliefs if you're dead?
So dying for them wouldn't make any sense now would it?
