http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25193442.
this kind of satanic propaganda is obviously satan "misleading" and changing the evidence to suit...and boy is he good at it and very busy doing it!.
leg bone gives up oldest human dna.
I am beginning to believe that Satan is way more powerful than Jehovah. Satan has the brightest people on his side and he keeps his unrelenting propaganda very persuasive... and the best Jehovah can do is send people to stand on sidewalks or walk along doing... well... not much. I am leaning towards Satan side,even as bad as he is. It's a matter of survival, not of righteousness. I rather be alive than side with a good, but ineffective God.
Root for Satan, he certainly is kicking Jehova's butt.
for the last year or so, the opening lyrics to gloria estefan's "always tomorrow" have been howling at me.. i've been alone inside myself, far too long.
never really wanted it that way, but i let it happen..... .
(btw, the message in that song is great for former jw's, if you want to think about the lyrics that way....).
Hi Jeff,
Live in California (L.A. area) and it would be great to meet you. You already are in my list of people whose posts I look forward to reading. You are very thoughtful. I am not a JW, but having been exposed every day to JW's for the last 25 years allows me to say that I know and feel your paiin.
the 2013 edition of the new world translation renders 2 kings 17:1 as:.
in the 12th year of king ahaz of judah, hoshea the son of elah became king over israel in samaria; he ruled for nine years.. this is in fact a better rendering than the previous nwt, which stated:.
in the twelfth year of ahaz the king of judah, hoshea the son of elah became king in samaria over israel for nine years.. despite their improved rendering, the watch tower society still claims that hoshea's reign 'really' began in 758 bce, but that it was 'established' in the 12th year of ahaz.
Too much for my little brain to process. However, I couldn't miss the humorous reference by scholar:
"celebrated WT scholars"
...anonymous people are celebrated. Hahahahahahah.
usa, oklahoma | jehovah's witness church elder ronald lawrence arrested over sex abuse claims dating back to the 1980's.
a 76-year-old mcalester man was arrested tuesday on 19 counts of sexual abuse after police received claims he molested several children while in a position of authority more than 30 years ago.. mcalester police detectives were alerted to the alleged sexual crimes conducted by ronald lawrence back in august when his first accuser reported abuse at the hands of a jehovah's witness church leader.. a woman now in her 40s told detectives lawrence, an elder at mcalester's kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses, abused her when she was just eight years old, inviting her to his home, where he fondled her and raped her in his bathtub, according to her testimony found in lawrence's arrest warrant, which was issued tuesday.. two other accusers, also in their 40s, then came forward with similar stories of abuse.
both said they were very young, with one telling investigators the molestation took place from the time she was 10 until she was 13 years old.
S.O.B.
the caption under the picture in the first article.
hail christthe glorious king!says:.
birds will be called on to cleanse the earth (see paragraph 18).
They have cut it. According to scholars the passage about "casting the first stone" is not part of the original text. I don't know if that's the WT's reasoning. If it is, I only hope that they heed more the scholarly research and realized that the Bible with its countless mistakes and contradiction, multiple forgeries and revisions can only be a man made book.
a thread on another forum reminded me of a letter i wrote to the person that went to the elders and started the proceedings to have me disfellowshipped.
i stopped believing in the religion when i was 25 but continued going for about ten years.
i finally started to fade at 35, but about 6 months after i had stopped going to meetings, a person wrote a letter to the elders about my website, which at the time was anonymous.
Thank you Paul for your efforts and success in freeing so many. I only wish a similar site were available in Spanish.
it just amazes me how born again christians and jws are fighting and mudslinging at each other all the while not looking at the real problem in front of them the bible.
the bible has been used for thousands of years to committ all sorts of horrible crimes against others.
i am so sick and tired of reading about jws did this and that and christians did this and that when both groups will refuse to explain all of the contradictions and outright discrepencies in the bible.
Unstopable
Cult, planet. It's all semantics. However, planet or the redefined alternative remains a fact. It's an object orbiting the sun.
The word cult refers to a religion. However, the more modern usage of the word carries a negative connotation. From your own beliefs (Hell, Adam and Eve, etc) I'd say that you belong to a dogmatic religion that demands adherence to concepts that either have been proven false or can not be proven. Therefore,, since you are in denial of reality, you belong to a cult.
new guy here so i thought i would make a brief introduction.. my exposure to the jw's is indirect, as i have never been a member; however my wife of 22 years grew up in a jw household.
her dad is the grand-pooba or whatever level of "elder" you call it for his kh.
her mom, sister, brother, and their spouses all died in the wool witnesses.
Welcome Oh Gawd. My story is quite similar, except that you may make more money and my in laws rely on a meager social security payment.
I like your wife. I wish my wife and daughter were as alert as your wife. I guess is up to me to make them see the light. Tough road ahead.
I agree with a previous poster, the money is the key factor that determines their double life, not the religion.
i tend to look at people and situations with a little bit of humor.
i tend to feel that many view themselves as being better than they really are.
people's perceptions are often skewered.
I am always right. Everyone else is always wrong.
with a release date of easter 2014, coming soon to a theatre near you: hollywood (tristar pictures) is capitalizing on the near-death-experience theme with a movie starring greg kinnear.
here's a hd trailer:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih8hmfinsbg.
Cofty,
Lol
The angel could have spared the multiple myeloma too, but no, he (or she) put my mom through 4 years of chimotherapy.
By the way, when I suggested to my mom that the difference between her unusual recovery was due to some good genes, a strong will to live, state of the art medicine, great doctors and timely diagnosis, she concedes but always goes back to God made the difference. I guess God cared more about my mom than he did aboutnthe other devout religious people who didn't survive the multiple myeloma.
I always wonder why the more devout Middle Ages people had such a low life expectancy if they were so much more religious than people today
