am i the only one who has single, desperate sisters in the congregation?
they tend to be holier-than-thou, frumpty, but in private talk about getting married.
but they don't understand why no brother will look at them.
This is a mysoginistic cult but as the men running it also have women in their families, these "privileged" sisters play a very important role shaping the culture of the organization.
Many sisters have an attitude like the passanger in the movie Airplane when she says to another: "We are going to die, but at least I am married."
Marrying only in the Lord actually gives men like Billy Pilgrim a chance.
jehovahs witness owe the bible to the catolic church,the church was the authority that put the bible together, and jehovahs witnesses owe the name jehovah a catolic monk.
jehovash witnesses owe the catolic church the sowing of the field where they are now preaching.. otherwise after leaving the jw i got a much better understanding of christianity and the cc..
The Catholic Church is the origin of Western Civilization. Before the Catholic Church poligamy, slavery, animal and even human sacrifices were actually legal. Leaving all that behind was a huge step for humanity.
Catholic and Ortodox Churches went their separate ways in the 9th Century but they did't go to war against each other, and what is more they both built great civilizations.
For some reason that was not the case with the bloody Reform and their criminal Inquisition that killed thousands of innocent women accross Europe accused of witchcraft. After that it went to conquer the world in pirate ships, stealing, murdering, plundering, etc everything of value they encountered. Of course History needed to be ammended accordingly as deep down nobody likes to be seen as a pirate or worse an APE, hence the culture of LIES and SCAMMING that is so prevalent today.
If the Reform was about doctrine they could have exposed their arguments reasonably and do as the Ortodox Church did, but that was obviously not the case.
Coincidentally Communism destroyed the culture and peoples in countries influenced by the Ortodox Church starting with the Armenian genocide in 1915.
In any case the damage of living in a post-Comunism, post Ice War is already done and it is going to be very difficult to undo it.
Disturbingly the new Pope is somebody all historical enemies of the Catholic Church seem to like, except probably the WT that doesn't need to fake they are normal.
So it seems the enemies of the Catholic Church, whoever they are, have won and that is why we are now living in this very evolved society.
would it really affect them?
how would it affect volunteers at any construction project since that work would now be taxable.
any materials they buy would be taxable.
Charity: Provision of help or relieve to the poor. Without the WT the poor wouldn't be helped to meekly accept their poverty with the hope of a paradise earth on the horizon, and that would probably create angry crowds of poor window cleaners accross the continents which wouldn't benefit anyone.
Foreseeing the consequences it is very unlikely the Government will take that road, so the WT will have to be considered a charity wether we like it or not.
Also that could expose its financers and that could only add further confussion to an already complicated situation.
after mentally awakening to the idea that jws don't have the truth i strangely found myself delving into all encompassing conspiracy theories.
not that i believed them but something about them seemed quite fascinating.
i was especially drawn to the idea of a new world order/one world government.
I have to say that after leaving the WT I firmly believe everything the Government says, specially if it is the Government of the USA, which is the country where this cult and other similar ones built their comfortable nests.
can i upload a audio tape of how evil jws are, you won't believe how wicked they are!
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They isolate, bully and manipulate people to conformity, penalizing any sign of independent thinking or rather a welll adjusted adult personality.
They do not need sophisticated technology to spy on the lives of others; they've managed to create a climate supported by a net of dedicated pioneers sticking their nose and gossipping about other´s personal affairs.
In my opinion this corporation and others like it, are a big experiment about creating a naive, credulous and infantile society to serve the long term purposes of very grandiose people with a lot of money and mental issues.
That also seems to be the case of the people behind the Government of the US, that has always protected if not promoted these types of cults as other forms of mass manipulation.
Their publications are full of subliminal imagery by the way, like most of the media.
a great article i stumbled across this morning http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/05/10-reasons-you-should-never-have-a-religion/.
while consciously pursuing your spiritual development is commendable, joining an established religion such as christianity, islam, or hinduism is one of the worst ways to go about it.
in this article ill share 10 reasons why you must eventually abandon the baggage of organized religion if you wish to pursue conscious living in earnest.. since christianity is currently the worlds most popular religion, ill slant this article towards christianitys ubiquitous failings.
All societies have their own traditions and rituals, even secular ones.
There is a difference between a religion that educates, dignifies and empowers individuals, families and communities and a philosophy that manipulates, enslaves and degrades human beings sometimes in the name of freedom.
Our culture is the result of how we understand history, and religion plays a big role in both our history and our self-awareness, (or lack of).
Sociopaths take advantage of other people's poverty, economic but also intellectual or cultural, that is why they tend to promote it and that is why it is easy to recognize them.
i seriously don't get it.. some people truly hate`jews.. and it's not just jews.... gays, christians, blacks, mexicans, etc.
are on the list.. intolerance is a terrible thing..
First of all there is no anti-semitism, it is called RACISM and it means discriminating those from a different race, something jews have been doing since the Old Testament.
When they were expelled from Spain in 1492 they couldn't play that card, as they were expelled before the muslims who were plotting another invasion, and the gypsies that stayed until today and became part of the culture of the country.
Remarkably all the Reformation wars, the witch-hunts etc started in Europe soon after they were expelled from Spain that not only managed to avoid all that but that was actually living a cultural Golden Age.
In Russia they were not very liked before the rise of communism, but the reason doesn't seem to be racism either as armenians for example didn't seem to have that problem.
Interestingly jews have some unconditionals that will support them no matter what they do and that should be called pro-semitics; they are the people that will angrily complaint about the invasion of poor mexican children when it is about THEIR country, but that see no problem in millions of armed jews, or for that matter americans, invading or sabotaging someone else's country.
The current political and economic system is just a factory of slaves but whatever it is jews control they are certainly not doing it alone, they are being helped by the Rahabs of every nation.
In order to understand history first you need to know the facts, something most people have no clue, as history has been written by the ones that are even hiding them in real time. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/
i seriously don't get it.. some people truly hate`jews.. and it's not just jews.... gays, christians, blacks, mexicans, etc.
are on the list.. intolerance is a terrible thing..
Christians didn't start prosecuting jews, it was the other way around.
i seriously don't get it.. some people truly hate`jews.. and it's not just jews.... gays, christians, blacks, mexicans, etc.
are on the list.. intolerance is a terrible thing..
When europeans didn't like jews for various reasons, muslim countries welcomed them and they enjoyed their hospitality for centuries. Maybe the jews are anti-everyone else.
like they say in the movies, "follow the money.
" the thought occurred to me the other day - the wt scam rakes in billions of dollars, and yeah some of that goes to operations and equipment.
but bethelites at farm and factory get only a bare little dorm room and a monthly pittance.
Money, power, political influence on a global scale...what is clear is that this organization would not have lasted without the complicity and silence of the US government.
"To know who rules over you find out who you are not allowed to criticize." I would add, because you don't even know they exist.
