the watchtower—study edition | march 2020. .
4 jesus taught us the importance of making peace with a brother who has something against us.
(read matthew 5:23, 24.
It is funny.
I was stabbed in the back by a number of elders (cuz they did not get the privileges I did - didnt matter that they could not put a coherent thought together).
I used it as a great way to fade - but the elders SHOULD have reacted as if I was STUMBLED, and tried to make amends.
Well - that didnt happen, THANKFULLY!
The CULT does not practice what it it preaches.
i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.
you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .
which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!
Happy Birthday! Hope there are many more for you!!!
i have just got of the phone with a relative complaining about the convention venue.
as far as my relative is concerned wt can do no wrong, so for him to say what he did it must of been bad.
the venue where the convention was held was described to me as a “tin shed with no air conditioning”.
To bad he didnt complain about the CONTENT of the convention.
hi everyone, i sure have been getting all kinds of replies by many on here and that's great.
i read all the post even if some don't believe in god at all.
however, i do believe and anything i say on here is from the depths of my belief and knowledge.
Soul! - he said soul :) :) :)
So funny! You had me going there for a while.
amber gives a superb talk here.
i couldn't help but contrast her delivery - fluent , articulate , without any notes - not even a rostrum or podium to hide behind - with the numerous talks and items i heard when i was a jw.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7wfpaqcqcw.
i am reading her book " leaving the witness " just now - it is superb - i just can't put it down.
She is awesome!
EVERYONE - READ HER BOOK!!!
Dozy - she owes it all to the Theocratic Ministry School ;)
january one.
genesis one wt mental gymnastics.
gen 1:1 earth created in the beginning, ?
WANTO - I disagree with you on those, and I am someone who used Isaiah the way you are describing in many talks.
It's all just poetic flowery language, the context is not about anything other than god being powerful and you should trust in him.
When I used those scriptures I knew I was using them to further MY point, not that it was there to shed light on the nature of the universe. Simply if god wanted to do that, it would have been in Genesis 1.
It's EASY to make just about anything say what you it to retroactively.
This is why the bible is such bullshit. You can make any argument you want with it, even Dinosaurs in Eden.
i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?
', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.
y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.
Ok - so this gives me goosebumps and tears every time.
It is so beautiful that surpasses words.
Luciano Pavarotti & Mirella Freni - Puccini (La Boheme)
Pavarotti singing Che gelida manina, followed by Freni's response of si Mi chiamano Mimi
Magic.
Please watch and enjoy.
The Time code may not work here - so start at 22 min in if it doesnt.
january one.
genesis one wt mental gymnastics.
gen 1:1 earth created in the beginning, ?
Now if somewhere in the bible god had said something like, e=mc2, then you would have some proof of a god.
Genesis is like a low budget bad bad movie with 100 plot holes, a contradictory storyline, continuity issues, and a week story where you can't suspend belief.
And I bought it look line and sinker for most of my life :(
we were supposed to be dedicated unconditionally to jehovah god.
we were willing to be persecuted to the death if need be.
if it came to taking a blood transfusion or dying, we were loyal to jehovah and would be a martyr for god.
I think there was a long stretch of my life where I would have had to say YES to that question.
So sad to look back a that.
some people on this forum have said that they never really believed any aspect of wt teaching, that they couldn't wait to get free of it all.. others seems to have been really gung ho, believing it all until something happened that got you questioning "the truth.".
i would say my own high water mark was about 50%, which put me squarely on the fence, trying to decide if i should be in or out.. how about you?.
MOST OF IT!
I got it as a kid, and progressed to becoming an uber elder, model family....
I had issues with the Science stuff.
Like the Flood never seemed right, I had always tried to figure out other explanations.
But I was 100% in for most of my life.
Then there were just a series of dominos that fell rapidly.
