and they left the congregations, would you then feel open to be thier friends?.
many on here have the same complaint, that in the jw congregations, there were clickes, no one had time for each other,.
people judged, there was a lack of association, freindship , true concern and love were lacking.
Dozens learn TTATT every day!
If many in my area woke up and actually did something about it and I actually wanted to be their friends, sure. It would be SO much easier to do together! Plus it would shake up the local congs causing more to leave. Some will see it as a sign there's a problem, most will see it as "cleansing gods congregation"
does a female kingdom publisher need to wear a head covering if she conducts a bible study in the presence of a male publisher?.
in a questions from readers item published in the watchtower of july 15, 2002, it was stated that a sister should cover her head if she conducts a bible study in the presence of a male publisher, whether he is baptized or not.
further consideration of the matter suggests that a modification to this direction is appropriate.. if the male publisher who accompanies the sister while she conducts an established bible study is baptized, the sister would certainly want to wear a head covering.
Strain out the gnat, gulp down the camel
so, my wife and i purchased a house about a month ago and recently we met our new neighbors.
they are an older couple.
they are very nice and even brought us cookies.. in conversation they brought up that they were mormons and mentioned how much they loved it.
Use the opportunity to get into a huge religious debate, hardly dinner conversation. After all, they invited you over under false pretenses and then brought up religion at the dinner table. Get on about how the bible is a sham, and the Mormon faith is truly for morons.
Get all schooled up on Mormons, real facts. Watch them squirm as you shed light on their silly beliefs and pick them apart piece by piece.
OR you could take your wife out to a nice dinner and movie instead. I'd love to go in your place, just to have the opportunity you have.
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.
