i'm currently dealing with some very religious jw family members and this has led to several "debates" (i hate to use the term debate, since it's more of a one-sided argument where they do nothing but reference watchtower publications, but whatever).. gotta be careful in what i'm about to ask, since there's been quite a bit of turmoil on here whenever there is a religion vs. science sort of discussion.
i've searched on past threads as this topic has come up but haven't received any real answers one way or another.
just lots of fighting.
A comment from my teen son: Maybe God created several different Adams and Eves and put them in different parts of the world.
I find this explanation better than Noah having sons of 3 different races. Or maybe when the whole Tower of Babel thing happened, people migrated to different parts of the world and their bodies adapted to the changes.
I'm in no way religious and I do not take the bible as the word of god.
please comment on this video (watch to the end).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_a6rjr_ahy.
Too funny! And cannibus has 7 leaves :)
as a special "thank you" gift to the watch tower society's team of lawyers for getting jwsurvey shut down yesterday, i have written a new article focussing on the experience of the nigeria plane crash from pages 29 and 30 of the 2013 yearbook.
the experience purports to be about the relief committee set up to assist a witness family whose home was destroyed by a deadly plane crash that claimed over 150 lives rather than the freak survival of the family because they obediently attended their meeting.. still, the reaction of witnesses on facebook unmistakably demonstrates that the real aim of the watchtower propaganda machine was mostly achieved in this article.
despite the fact that two witnesses were recently killed in a bus crash on their way to an assembly, apparently those who obey the bible's command to not forsake gathering together will experience "jehovah's hand" of protection.. here is the link.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/we-have-truly-seen-jehovahs-hand-the-shocking-side-of-watchtower-propaganda.
English is not their first language. If you notice, most names look foreign. Cedars, thanks for the shout out :)
long story short.
ive been married for 18 years to my beautiful wife.
when i was younger i had a lot of attention due to my looks which has always made me extremely uncomfortable.
didn't read previous posts but maybe the issue is hormornal like thyroid. I'm in a depression most days, hard to lose weight, no motivation, low energy, no sex from husband, etc. Several drs say the same thing - exercise, diet, anti depressants. When the issue is chemical/hormonal, nothing works except the proper treatment. I will be going to an endocrinologist to see if I get better results. Once the mind is happy, everything will fall in place.
PS It sounds like you are doing everything you can to support her. My husband just doesn't get it.
watchtower symbolism.
it reads the same upside down and back-to-front.
jw leaks.
awesome!
in case you missed it --this years dc pointed out that jw's need to direct people to (direct quote) "our spiritual mother the organization" !!!.
jehovah being our father and the organization being our spiritual mother!
i guess we all knew that the society was always "mother" huh..
My spiritual Mother is the Goddess. No need for a patriarchal organization.
i've been out for a few years now, but when i was in, we frequently had to purchase "vehicle parking passes" several weeks before the start of our district assembly (depending on the coliseum or stadium being rented at the time).
it was usually $5.00 and you were given a 10" x 4" (or so) card with the assembly title/theme printed on.
according to the instructions from a branch letter that was read out loud (usually at the end of the service meeting), this card had to be placed on the right side of your dashboard such that the dub parking attendants can easily see it as you drive through the parking entrance.
When I was a kid, I remember the parking passes. The Capital Center. It may be called something else now.
crazy, those fellows at jw.org pr news.
they publish their urben legends!!
http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/world/saved-from-suicide/.
When I went to my 1st Buddhist meeting, a lady related her experience (sorry for jargon) about praying and then her Buddhist friend called her. She was Baptist I think.
in march 2000, residents of virginia, maryland, and washington d.c. watched continuous, often live, news reports about an ongoing manhunt for a police fugitive on the loose.
on march 8, 2000, that career criminal, named joseph palczynski, attempted to carjack a jehovah's witness family on their way to the kingdom hall in joppa, maryland.
palczynski twice shot jennifer mcdonel, 37, who was driving the family auto.
Incidentally, this was the KH I was going to when I was trying to get reinstated. Not the same cong tho (3 congs to KH). Right around the corner from where I used to live. The article didn't mention that she was pregnant.
it may seem a strange question, but when i served as an elder i personally knew of about a dozen elders and servants children who joined various wicca groups or became buddists rather than leave to become agnostic or another "christian" denomination.. the ones who became involved with witchcraft did so in groups of jw children intregued by all the talk of satan's and the demon's power etc.
in the org.. the future buddists seemed turned off by the politics, and mean spiritness in halls.. i just thought of this after seeing the new dismal yearbook numbers and looking at facebook pages of some of the ex jws i know.. was this simply a california thing or is it worldwide?.
@Fernando Blessed be! I think it's great that you have a faith tailored to your views. I wish you nothing but the best for you on your journey. Do you have a blog or anything? I wouldn't find following along.
