being a jw makes one feel special, no doubt.
when i found out ttatt i realized i'm not special at all.
i'm just one of the other 7 billion human beings who will live and die being nobody, the world will forget about them (and i'm not talking about relatives and friend), they didn't make anything special in their life, they didn't change the course of history, were not famous nor rich, didn't invent facebook, google or anything awesome, didn't have an article published in newscientist, had no imdb profil, not even a wiki page, didn't write a book etc.
I watch my favorite TV show or the Cosmos and I don't feel like the pressure to be someone who matters is gone at alll.
I can relate to the need to find a purpose, my place in the universe. Instead of this purpose being handed to us by God I now had to figure out what is important to me, what makes me want to get out of bed in the morning. It's slighlty different things for everyone, not one great Meaning of Life.
being a jw makes one feel special, no doubt.
when i found out ttatt i realized i'm not special at all.
i'm just one of the other 7 billion human beings who will live and die being nobody, the world will forget about them (and i'm not talking about relatives and friend), they didn't make anything special in their life, they didn't change the course of history, were not famous nor rich, didn't invent facebook, google or anything awesome, didn't have an article published in newscientist, had no imdb profil, not even a wiki page, didn't write a book etc.
I think it's great; the pressure to be awesome all the time is gone...
...it's like a huge load has been lifted from my shoulders!
So true Vidiot, I have wanted to be just normal all my life, I hated being that weird kid who didn't join in at school, then the weird employee who couldn't even sign a Xmas card. I know, I know, normal is just a setting on a dryer, but just to be accepted by people as, well that's Xan she's got her funny little ways but she's just human, like the rest of us
isnt it interesting that if god needs to warn millions of people that they need to change he talks to like 1 guy and tells this one guy to talk to 1 million people or 7million to talk to 7billion people.
it would obviously be easier faster and far more convincing.. .
yet when alot of people need to die.... he will personal kill each one.
It's all our fault we just don't listen. We keep making mistakes and getting the wrong idea. It's a perfect God trying to communicate with imperfect people. Perhaps he should get a website. 'God' , follow him on Facebook.
10 hours ago, " another malicious propaganda against jehova's witnesse!!".
"he is not a jehova's witness!!
!thois a big lie against jehova's witnesses!
When I was pioneering I remember showing my partner a booklet called Religion Reaps the Whirlwind. She was horrified, where did you get that she said. I said oh in the town centre, a man in a long black cloak gave it to me. More looks of horror and 'apostate' accusations. Eventually I told her the truth, I got it from the literature desk at the KH. They were having a clear out of very old stuff. It had a very lurid cover as I recall, nowadays old literature is just not kept at the KH at all.
anyone here watch murdoch mysteries?
when i watch the program i hear a lot of words that are used at the kingdom hall.
it puzzled me for quite some time then i realized the connection.
Poet John Keats? He died in 1821.
according to the shepherd book.... .
the elders do well not to involve themselves in what individuals do with regard to petty gambling solely for entertainment.
they may need to give counsel if this becomes a cause of stumbling for others or affects the spirituality of the individual or the congregation.-w02 11/1 p. 31.. .
We couldn't sell raffle tickets that the school gave us to fundraise when I was a child because that was considered to be gambling. I remember taking a book of raffle tickets to the headmasters office and giving them back. Very frightening.
i have been doing a lot of research on the bible and its roots so to speak and its becoming clearer that the jews like other races took gods and stories from others and made them their own.
its also become clear that many of the books were written later then stated, like daniel probably written about a hundred years before christ and some of it maybe even after.
but what i don't get is the prophecies.
So strypes you say it is doubtful that Christopher Hitchens received salvation but you say that now he knows the Truth.
So where do you think he is then, knowing Truth but not being saved?
if you do a little research there are many physics forums, discussions, and books about this.
it's a bit challenging to grasp but it's very interesting.
if there is life on this higher dimensions, they could see us yet we would be unable to see them.
I don't have a problem with life forms I can't see. On earth we call them bacteria and viruses. Anything we can't see with the naked human eye we could label invisible but of course it is simply beyond our body's ability to sense. Being a sci fi fan for many years I am OK with the idea that there may be life forms in the universe that can't be detected with the naked human eye. One of the greatest sci fi writers of all time, Isaac Asimov, was a professor of biochemistry at Boston university and no dummy. He wrote many non-fiction books on cosmology, physics and chemistry. In his fiction he let his imagination roam about what life forms there may be in the universe.
king james version job 6:6. can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt?
or is there any taste in the white of an egg?.
new world translation "watchtowers version" job 6:6. will tasteless thing be eaten without salt , or is there any taste in the slimy juice of a marshmallow?.
sittingstraight2012 yes I knew it was a plant
i am not a jehovah's witness but i am very interested, i have many questions and hope they can be answered here.. i do believe in god, privately.
i do say my prayers daily and do believe god helps me in countless ways.
but i don't go to any church.. i have always been impressed at how smart, polite and nice jehovah's witnesses are and i always make time to speak to them when they call at my door.
jook, I agree, singing the praises of JWs but 'she' isn't one? Hmm
