it just came out yesterday that the nsa has spied on the vatican and pope francis.
when i went over my parents house yesterday, you could see the excitement, the energy in their eyes when they talked about it.
my dad even pumped his fist like he won something when he was talking about it.
@emeth - "Did that disqualify the apostles and bible writers? Maybe you think so and certain christians in their time did too and walked away from the faith."
If the bible writers expressed falsely held views, as truth, in their writings. Perhaps it would have disqualified them.
On the other-hand the GB/Watchtower have a consistent track-record of publishing verifiability false prophecy. This should be enough proof they are false prophets.
my wife pointed out the picture below to me.
she was surfing a news website and she said "look!
four generations of the royal family in one picture".
My wife pointed out the picture below to me. She was surfing a news website and she said "Look! Four generations of the royal family in one picture". Without even thinking I replied "No. It's only one generation".
She proceeded to point and count saying:- "Look. One, two, three, four... See it's four". I said "No, you've got it wrong. It's one overlapping generation according to Watchtower logic". She looked at me with a strange "don't say that in front of the kids" type look. So I said "the kids need to know what a generation is too".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/james_harrison_(blood_donor).
Mark 7:15
There is not [even] one thing outside a man which by going into him can pollute and defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him and make him unhallowed and unclean.
so my wife has started going to sunday meetings again.
when she returns home i ask her what she learned.. yesterday's talk was about "putting up with brothers and sisters who suffer depression" (in my wife's words).
this confirms my suspicions that there's a high percentage of jws who suffer from depression disorders.
^^ Could have been. I didn't read it so I wouldn't know.
so my wife has started going to sunday meetings again.
when she returns home i ask her what she learned.. yesterday's talk was about "putting up with brothers and sisters who suffer depression" (in my wife's words).
this confirms my suspicions that there's a high percentage of jws who suffer from depression disorders.
So my wife has started going to Sunday meetings again. When she returns home I ask her what she learned.
Yesterday's talk was about "putting up with brothers and sisters who suffer depression" (in my wife's words). This confirms my suspicions that there's a high percentage of JWs who suffer from depression disorders. In my opinion living as a JW possibly causes depression.
This is worth a read. It almost perfectly describes the behaviour of most Jehovah's Witnesses I've known.
i am currently on a business trip for a trade show in another city.
as i'm walking to the convention center, i run into 2 jw's preaching.
one is about mid 60s the other probably mid 30's.
Wouldn't every religion be a cult according to the dictionary defintion of 'cult'?
Cult (noun) - 1. a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object.
Does anyone have a better definition?
funny situation.
an elder lives around the corner from me.
i walk my dog past his house daily.. early this morning the elder was in the bush wearing his pj's for no apparent reason.
The bathroom wasn't free and nature's call was becoming too insistent?
Not likey. He was about 200 meters from his house. And he was outside his fully fenced yard. There's 100s of places he could have releived himself that would have been more private. Also, he has quite a big house. So there's at least two bathrooms.
i am sure nowhere is perfect but if we want to compare these two countries from different prospectives like racism, job, income/spending, quality of life, standard of living etc.
can you please give me a rough idea by sharing your experiences.. .
by the way, i am considering applying for a masters progrmme in any of the two countries.. .
Black skinned people need greater exposure to sunlight to produce the correct levels of vitiman D. I'd be seeking a country with a lot of sun.
funny situation.
an elder lives around the corner from me.
i walk my dog past his house daily.. early this morning the elder was in the bush wearing his pj's for no apparent reason.
Maybe he was not wearing his underwear.
You can almost guarantee he wasn't. He said when he saw me "Hi, <biometrics> - you've caught me out here in my PJ's. It's rather embarrising"
funny situation.
an elder lives around the corner from me.
i walk my dog past his house daily.. early this morning the elder was in the bush wearing his pj's for no apparent reason.
His house is right next to the bush. So snooping isn't plausible, there's no one there especially at 6:30 AM.
From the time I spotted him till I reached him was about 3-5 minutes of walking. In that time he was just standing there. It was very strange to see somone behaving like that. It's hard to describe, but if you were there you would understand what I mean. I initially thought he was a theif scoping the elder's house.
It would have been fun to say, as we parted - "Don't forget Proverbs 21:9"
