study watchtower september 2019, page 12, par.
16 - “....to be saved at armageddon, we must show that we “know god” and that we “obey the good news about our lord jesus.” (2 thess.
1:7-9) we “know god” when we know his likes, dislikes, and standards.
So no personal growth from living a valuable, interesting life and learning what matters and what doesn't. What hurts and what makes us happy. How to get the best from relationships. The values of hard work, job satisfaction, stretching yourself to do better each year. The joy, the intellectual buzz of learning something new.
Just follow these rules boys and girls and wait for paradise. Don't forget to despise all the others who aren't following them as well as you.
the longer i am out, the the less i understand the logic of this organisation.. i thought that the kingdom hall my wife attends was perfectly fine and adequate, in fact i liked that it sat in grassy grounds, surrounded by trees.
it probably wasn't in any dire need of re-decorating at this point.
others, obviously, thought otherwise and so the hall has recently been subjected to a make-over.. the parking lot has been extended in true joni michell they've "paved paradise and put up a parking lot".
That sounds vile, chopping down the trees and pulling up the grass. Paving a car park they don't need but then the WTS don't really want beautiful KHs for the members do they? They want them ready to sell as plain office buildings or industrial sites. Paradise is for the bigwigs in Warwick with their landscaped gardens.
... or is that one of our memes?
thanks..
made absolutely no sense to me, and no matter how much I would try to figure it out I couldn't, only to discover those things didn't make any sense because it was a total sham.
I was like that Tameria with things like the ransom, the seven times prophecy and why we celebrated wedding anniversaries but not birthdays. You end up feeling I must be stupid if everyone gets it but me.
In reality we were brighter than most, independent thinkers. That terrible thing! Hasn't it made you trust yourself now though? If something sounds like bullshit that's because it is.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
i'll start it off:.
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... or is that one of our memes?
thanks..
Time to move the starting point. - stillin
Yeah stillin they're going to have to do that eventually once everyone who overlaps with the 1914 generation has died off.
The thing is from what newbies on here say, young adult born-ins and new converts now don't know anything about the generation teaching at all! Yet still they convert or get baptised! Following all those life-crippling rules with no end in sight. Why?!
... or is that one of our memes?
thanks..
Thanks Listener!
beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
i'll start it off:.
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beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
i'll start it off:.
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beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
i'll start it off:.
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the world is getting worse, for example children are getting more cheeky!.
proof positive!
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In the 1800's you would have read in the newspaper about a crime, then maybe 2 weeks later about another crime. - Jayduby
Very true, I sometimes search old newspapers, some from the 1800s on microfilm in my job. All the crimes are there and also the reports of suicides which struck me. Suicide from despair is not at all new.
Also what hits you in the eye are the adverts for quack medicines in 19th century newspapers. Some of them sound so dangerous. People who think some diseases are hopeless now, should read the desperation those remedies suggest.
