so at the meeting a few weeks ago the speaker was having a talk about inactive people and then he went on about how people think the god of the old testament was cruel and genocidal.
he then said that god and did not commit genocide because everything he did was for a reason.
i was shocked at how stupid that saying was.
Well... In big J's defense, he wasn't very good at genocide.
How many times did he kill all the Canaanites/amalekites/etc?
If he killed them all the first time, he wouldn't need to hit them with another genocide... if any of those things really happened they weren't recorded very well
does anybody listen to the alan colmes radio program?.
http://radio.foxnews.com/category/talk/alan-colmes-talk-radio/.
tomorrow bill nye will be a guest.. it is a call-in program.
Bill Nye is likely on the show to plug his new book.
Which I just finished, by the way. Excellent. Downloaded the audiobook version which he reads himself, with all his personality. Probaby the easiest to listen to book about evolution I've found.
back to august of 1988. my brother and i were the ones being marked.
at the time, my father had clued us in that it was coming and had gotten a recording of it.
are we not also obliged to act on wrongs being committed by a family member or members?
Barf. I can't even stand to read it past a few paragraphs.
MIND CONTROL
i have not yet read this book, but it should be interesting:.
"the better angels of our nature: why violence has declined", steven pinker.. the publicity blurb states:.
"believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence.
Well worth your time! Pinker lays out fact after fact in a way that hardly gets boring or too repetitive.
I really opened my eyes, having been brought up a JW. Every ex-Jw should give it a look, or at very least watch the video.
there are various stories in the news today about the head pastor, mark driscoll, of the mars hill megachurch in seattle resigning after much extended controversy.
from what i read, his church was in many ways similar to the jws.
shunning.
You've got it backwards.
Cults evolve into churches/religions.
Like how jesus' little cult evolved into a religion.
with their advancement into web based programming and their soon to be broadcast meetings the need for a physical meeting place is quickly diminishing.
i predict that the large scale sell-of of kingdom halls will begin in the next few years as the people get their meetings online.
the one thing that would be missed with a liquidation of kh halls is "upbuilding" association which will force the society into creating a jw social media app which will not only allow for association but close monitoring of the pubs.
Nope. Not a chance. As mentioned above, totalitarian regimes cannot tolerate open forum discussions. Especially anonymous posters.
Besides, you know we'd troll the shit outta their forum.
seriously, i watched it on cnn last night.
it sounded like a wind up first of all.. .
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Most 'satanists' are really just protesters of religion. Much like the Pastafarians, but with a little more bite because of their name.
Besides, in the bible satan isn't really all that bad of a dude. Jehovah is the real terror in the bible.
I thought that Russell originally taught that Armageddon started in 1799, and Jeezus was big man in heaven since 1874?
1914, being the end of the gentile times was to be the very end of human rule on earth, to be replaced by heavenly rule as it had been since 1874 with Jesus on the throne.
So, not an Armageddon countdown card, but still significant.
i used to be able to put in a date and a reminder 2hours in advance.
i updated my sw and now cannot set reminders.
so now i need a paper diary.. .
If you can't find it, ask Siri. She can set your appointments for you if you can't figure it out
making up my mind on how to teach my son values in life seems to be an on going struggle of what is right and wrong.
being raised in a sheltered jw life until after leaving high school seems like going from one extreme to another of being over restrictive or under.
trying to find that balance.
Religious morals are inferior to modern societal morals. Relying on religion to teach kids morality is lazy parenting.
