ok....i am trying to go inactive to fade.
however all my family is in, except for one relative.
i cannot move away.
There is nothing wrong with a bunch of parrots getting together and mimiking each other and their ancestors. .... That is if you are a parrot yourself.
Not all of us like to eat crackers.
Shoot ... many modern witnesses imply that the idea that the trinity is false was invented by the Witnesses.... just not true. Such an idea goes back to James Freeman in the 1700's ... and perhaps much farther back in time.
(disclaimer: I'm not attempting to advocate Trintity or anti-Trintity dogmas)
just thought i'd share.
a friend of mine moved away about 10 years ago.
he was a ms at the time.
Still go to meetings yet understand the fallacy? Why?
the entire time i was gone it was nagging at me.
i hadn't been previously baptized, so leaving wasn't that big a deal.
now i'm back in the swing of it, going to all meetings and field service.
"to messed up to take a chance"
"take a chance" on belief in God?
Such a quote is grounds for disfellowshipping... becaue the idiom is founded in Paganism.
The concept is founded in apologetics which was given a nice esposé by Plato about 400 years before Christ.
The quote also wonders if re-incarnation is likely.
from Plato .... to the 2nd century with the Catholic Saint Justin Martyr ... to the 15th century as Pascal with his famous "Wager"
They all founded their dogmas with the same logic, the only thing that has changed through all of these years is the languages they were recorded in.
I wonder if it is the same person coming back to earth over the past 2500 years .... who knows the idea was probably floating around long before Plato's time too.
Pagans .... gotta love em.
where i live in the usa we are experiencing record breaking drought and heat.
over a month with no rain and 27 consecutive days with heat above 90. forcast calls for tripple digit heat for the next 7 days.. last night i broke down an prayed to thor, this morning he answered my prayer as i heard thunder at 5am and woke up to see rain.
only 1/10 of an inch, but rain that was not in the forcast.. is this not proof that thor is a true god?.
Let me guess .... the rain that fell was very warm ... in fact it was hot rain drops that fell, so hot that it was near boiling temperature.
I hope I don't offend you but Thor is a myth, he doesn't really exist.
It was only a coinincidence that your prayer to Thor was followed by rain, no doubt other people are crediting their prayers to their personal mythological gods too.
The correct understanding about your rain is a result of the Celestial Teapot.
The Celestial Teapot was proved by Pastor Russell, (Pastor Bertrand Russell), his studies proved that the Celestial Teapot orbits the sun about halfway between the Earth and Mars.
And when the teapot is in correct alignment with Earth (which it is this week), it will poor boiling hot rain drops over the earth. The thermal forces affected by humidity and gravity direct the celestial rain drops towards the driest part of the region that is aligned with the teapot. (Proved by the Kinetic Molecular Theory)
Don't believe me? Do a google search on Russell's Teapot.
i'm really pissed.
i havent attended the kingdom hall in several months.
my dad says hes going to stop talking to me.
"I don't know what to say or do"
Pity him for being so brainwashed. His respons is not much difference then a 4 yr old that says they will hold their breath until they get their way.
He can suit himself
i was sitting at the meeting this morning (yes, still keeping up appearances), listening to the speaker and trying to understand his lack of logic.
his talk was about education.
he seemed all over the place, not really making proper points.
It has been a while since I've listened to a public talk, however two fallacies that the "shepherds" used to pursuade the sheep are: Appeal to Authority, and using Mascots.
for example "Einstien said ... bla bla bla .... therefore ble ble ble is true" is an example of appeal to Authority. Dropping names might lend credibility to a premise, but it doesn't prove anything.
A mascot is basically the same as a "poster child" type of situation.
"Sister Smith was beat every day by her husband for 30 years and regular pioneered all of that time while working two full time jobs, she also home-schooled all seven of her children, three are elders and four serve at bethel her example finally convinced her husband to come into the truth and he is now a regular pioneer and elder"
Using sensationalism is a tactic that puts a heavy guilt trip on normal people.
does that sound harsh ?
well lets see now ,i was a faithful slave/servant/ member /volunteer (oops cant say that ) for 33 years , and i was taught to hate all that was bad , any and everything the watchtower said was bad , including my own shortcomings and sinful tendencies of youth , to be approved by jehovah i had to hate what was bad ,especially , false religion , not just any religion but false religion.
now while i had my ups and downs with my own imperfections ,sinfull state and desires of youth , i maintained a steadfast hatred of false religion.. now who were they saying was false religion , why it was the various jewish faiths (which jw`s had a foundation on ) certainly the eastern religions ,hinduism ,shintoism ,the islamic , definetly the african demonistic practices ,as well as the south american superstitious religions,in other words every religion other than the jehovah`s witnesses.. but they have a special hatred of christendom and an even more pronounced hatred of the catholic religion.
It seems as if the implied laws are more important than the written laws.
and the next step ... the Watchtower written laws are more important than Biblical written laws ...
1 Cor. 4:6
he used common sense but was fired.why.
because the company he worked for.
said "you must follow our guidelines or be fired".
The City's policy is for trained life guards to save lives ... even if they go out of their assigned area.
The contract company's policy is do not go out of assigned area ... even if someone is dying.
The company was relieved of their legal responsibility once their employee walked off the job.
If something went wrong, they would not be liable.
I'm sure that the company could have used good PR judgement and handled the situation without punishing the lifeguard.
divorce is not, by nature, something pleasant or 'nice' in general.
that said, i do wonder if there is a trend in the world that transcends the "truth".. i can hardly read anything biographical these days without encountering someone who has gone thru an amicable divorce - at least, amicable in the outcome, anyway.
they may 'still be friends' and simply come to see it as another step in their personal evolution.
"everyone takes sides and hate flows freely ...."
Very true.
Also the idea of "scriptural divorce" is a mistranslation of Greek to English.
Jesus was condeming the Jewish leaders for causing agunot (a huge problem in that time period) ... and the JW's current "understanding" twists Jesus' words to actually cause agunot.
fan=fanitic
cult=culture
Its a fanitic culture for sure.
