there seems no end of people claiming to be inspired.
there are numerous holy books claiming to have been handed to their writers by god.
these days a person writing their own holy book is likely to be met with scepticism (unless you are a scientologist), so people tend to claim to be inspired to interpret older holy books.
Probably a mixture of megalomania and seeking to exercise power over others, or as in the case of the witnesses and others like them, being manipulated by somebody that suffers from megalomania and that seeks to exercise power over others.
Ultimately all of us are inspired by whoever or whatever we make our god.
if that's the case, ideally, we should all be preachers and never college students or college grads.
but here's the problem for those that adhere to that viewpoint: jw's should not sponsor anyone that has gone to college.
if you support such ones, it should be conscientously objectionable.
That is a testimony of their own mediocrity, otherwise they would have nothing to fear from educated people.
i feel that people are expressing their anger in a constructive.how do you feel about the protests..
Their complaints are very legitimate, but the way they go about it is not the most effective one, and that will end up having the opposite effect of what they intend. They are misguided.
the latest edition of the free in christ ministries journal contains a very interesting article entitled the watchtower and masons.. drawing upon material from the book the watchtower & the masons by fritz springmeier, it gives the following parallels between the things that c t russell believed and those taught by the masons:.
* both believe jehovah is the most important word being the basis of their dogma, and the name of their god.
* both believe god yielded power to a lesser god.
They are what they are, which is degenerates.
hello to you all this evening.
so many here have left the organization or been put out/disfellowshipped for so many unjust reasons.
losing family, friends, jobs, even sanity at times!.
Avoid know-it-alls and judgemental people and specially the ones that don’t practice what they preach.
hello to you all this evening.
so many here have left the organization or been put out/disfellowshipped for so many unjust reasons.
losing family, friends, jobs, even sanity at times!.
Never get involved with people that lack scruples. They don’t usually advertise it, so sometimes is too late when you realize it.
Another thing many have not learned since leaving the WT is that actions speak louder than words.
hello to you all this evening.
so many here have left the organization or been put out/disfellowshipped for so many unjust reasons.
losing family, friends, jobs, even sanity at times!.
Unfortunately totalitarism can take many forms.
hello to you all this evening.
so many here have left the organization or been put out/disfellowshipped for so many unjust reasons.
losing family, friends, jobs, even sanity at times!.
You can actually read a person or an organization (religious or not) by the smallest of details.
hello to you all this evening.
so many here have left the organization or been put out/disfellowshipped for so many unjust reasons.
losing family, friends, jobs, even sanity at times!.
Unfortunately you don’t need a religion to be deceived, history is populated with examples of peoples and countries being manipulated to fight against their own interests in the name of (ironically) freedom.
the catholic church and "crimine solicitationies".
"it was a policy adopted formally by the vatican in 1962. joseph ratzinger then as a priest helped formulate it.
it says that when children are harmed in any catholic parish anywhere in the world, the priest and the bishop are under papal order to suppress the evidence of that, to hide ... well to protect the child rapist.
That letter was probably leaked by an infiltrated mason in the Catholic Church. I hope they get rid of them soon, they shouldn’t be too difficult to identify, they are the ones with the long tusks.
