how would someone photoshop the governing body riding the wild beast from the revelation climax book?
i will print and pass out hundreds if i can get a good photo of this.
let's preach "religion is a snare and a racket" .
Hi ÁrbolesdeArabia,
I had the same idea, and did exactly what you were requesting in this recent post on JWB:
http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/faqs/united-nations-scandal/
You'll see the image at the bottom of the blog article: "The GB rides the scarlet-colored wild beast!"
........ really interested in preaching and teaching the "truth" they would divide themselves up and move to parts of the world where the truth is supposedly taking hold.
don't think it would help increase too much but just think what a motivation and inspiritation it would be to the witnesses in those places.
like jesus pounding dirt with his apostles.
I once "went out in service" with the then-chairman of the GB: Bill Jackson. It was the only time I recall him doing so, though.
He always seemed to me like any other Witness: caught up in the delusion and just plodding along with no genuine sense of urgency. He did have a luxury car, though.
That was 35+ years ago, so take it for what it's worth in this volatile organization.
recent responses to teeny's "siestas are bad" blog on jwb have seen witnesses defending their stance against birthdays on the basis that the practice has "pagan origins".
that got me wondering how many things with a "pagan origin" a witness accepts in their daily life without a fuss.
upon examination it seems they may be nearly as "steeped in paganism" as the religions they condemn.. for the details (and at least one good chuckle) please see my latest blog:.
Great post, JWOP! Thanks for all of the research.
Your book looks very interesting.
As for the WT, one begins to wonder: is there no end to the inconsistencies (and absurdities)?
In order not to drive oneself bonkers from all of the cognitive dissonance, a Witness is virtually forced to disengage the brain and just numbly respond to everything handed to them by the WT with: "It's another blessing from Jehovah."
It's little wonder when they show signs of not being able to think clearly.
recent responses to teeny's "siestas are bad" blog on jwb have seen witnesses defending their stance against birthdays on the basis that the practice has "pagan origins".
that got me wondering how many things with a "pagan origin" a witness accepts in their daily life without a fuss.
upon examination it seems they may be nearly as "steeped in paganism" as the religions they condemn.. for the details (and at least one good chuckle) please see my latest blog:.
MP: killing or not a few birds is insignificant.
It is significant to each and every one of the "few birds."
just, so you know.
are you keeping on the watch?
i know i am;).
In the computer-programming field we often create tables with dates which serve more or less as calendars for our programs. Then we populate these tables with dates, something like the following:
| Date | Business_Day_Indicator |
| 1/1/2012 | N |
| 1/2/2012 | N |
| 1/3/2012 | Y |
| 1/4/2012 | Y |
But we don't want to spend the rest of our lives populating such a table to infinity, so we take a reasonable guess as to how long the program will be used, and we populate the table up to that date. For example, one such table was populated up until 12/31/2020.
Now for the point of all this: if some primitive, superstitious, ignorant culture were to find this calendar and conclude that 12/31/2020 must be the end of the world, we would have the same situation we see with those who think that because the Myan calendar was finite the world will end at the same abitrary date that they chose to stop populating their calendar.
recent responses to teeny's "siestas are bad" blog on jwb have seen witnesses defending their stance against birthdays on the basis that the practice has "pagan origins".
that got me wondering how many things with a "pagan origin" a witness accepts in their daily life without a fuss.
upon examination it seems they may be nearly as "steeped in paganism" as the religions they condemn.. for the details (and at least one good chuckle) please see my latest blog:.
Oops! It appears the "birds can't eat rice" thing is a myth:
on this site are very capable people and much to learn.
rejects from powerful religions, that contributed to mankinds advance, are good examples for us.
what is your inspiring historical apostate figure?
It would have to be a tie between:
Voltaire, who fearlessly took on the church of his day, exposing them to well thought-out and much-deserved ridicule...
and Robert G. Ingersoll, who carried on the tradition.
recent responses to teeny's "siestas are bad" blog on jwb have seen witnesses defending their stance against birthdays on the basis that the practice has "pagan origins".
that got me wondering how many things with a "pagan origin" a witness accepts in their daily life without a fuss.
upon examination it seems they may be nearly as "steeped in paganism" as the religions they condemn.. for the details (and at least one good chuckle) please see my latest blog:.
Thanks for the info on bird-seed, Heaven. I've added it to the blog.
I also added a clarification about throwing rice: I didn't mean to imply that JWs do this. I meant to show that they attend weddings which have many pagan customs, yet they outlaw birthdays because they have some pagan customs! If you're going to allow the one you can't logically ban the other. Unless of course you cop the attitude: "We don't give a damn about consistency; we're the GB and will issue whatever edicts pop into our tiny little minds, and you'd better play along or our god will zap you real soon now."
recent responses to teeny's "siestas are bad" blog on jwb have seen witnesses defending their stance against birthdays on the basis that the practice has "pagan origins".
that got me wondering how many things with a "pagan origin" a witness accepts in their daily life without a fuss.
upon examination it seems they may be nearly as "steeped in paganism" as the religions they condemn.. for the details (and at least one good chuckle) please see my latest blog:.
Recent responses to Teeny's "Siestas are bad" blog on JWB have seen Witnesses defending their stance against birthdays on the basis that the practice has "pagan origins". That got me wondering how many things with a "pagan origin" a Witness accepts in their daily life without a fuss. Upon examination it seems they may be nearly as "steeped in paganism" as the religions they condemn.
For the details (and at least one good chuckle) please see my latest blog:
i have been "lurking" for about four years now.. it was an incredibly weird experience just to look at a site like jwn or freeminds.
he came off very loving.. so, i decided that i would talk to one of my elders about the things i read.
if any of you have time to read this, thank you.
It seems foolish to start bickering about the Trinity, etc., when the OP specifically stated that he had no doubts about these things. When someone comes here expressing doubts about the Org itself, how helpful is it to try pulling them in different directions over issues they aren't ready to consider?
IMHO it would seem better to stick to what we pretty much all agree on here: that the WT is not being used by Jehovah to spread his message.
