not sure if anyone has pointed this out before, but behold the january 8th awake!, 2008, pages 26-27;.
are customs?.
customs are practices that apply to social life and are common to a particular place or class of people.
As always the org speaks out of both sides of its mouth.
'Its not biblical'........JW's are pointed toward this writing to keep them in line.
'Its a personal decision'..............non JW's are pointed toward this writing to 'prove' that JW's are not a controled people.
i have certainly enjoyed this first year on jwd !
i've learned so much from you all, through the ups and downs of what any community experiences !
we all have something special to bring to jwd , and i want to thank each and every one of you for bringing what you do in an authentic way !
I don't post much but have been around awhile, I really enjoy reading the Flippers, genuine people
noticed that i'm seeing all these things that i didn't see before... like when the wt or revelaton book states something, or when the bible states something... i mean, i never noticed this many things before... before, i noticed only a few major doctrine issues.
but, now, i'm noticing things all the time.... i mean, i'm trying to take a break.
i'm trying to not pay attention... but, they are saying things that really piss me off and i'm wondering to myself, what the hell was wrong with me... how did i not notice it before???
“Brothers, Armageddon is so near that the ministry is incredibly urgent. We are in the last gasp of this system. Now is the time to throw off every unnecessary burden and pursue the ministry. These are the last days of the last days.”
It seems that now would be an excellent time for a mass exodus of the 'no longer believers'.
i was talking with an elder and i asked him "how can i be sure that the organisation speaks for jehovah?".
he answered with "by their fruits you will know them".. .
let us explore some of those 'fruits'.
So its not necessary to 'make a stand for Jehovah?'
Thats convenient.
i was talking with an elder and i asked him "how can i be sure that the organisation speaks for jehovah?".
he answered with "by their fruits you will know them".. .
let us explore some of those 'fruits'.
I was talking with an elder and I asked him "how can I be sure that the organisation speaks for Jehovah?"
He answered with "By their fruits you will know them".
Let us explore some of those 'fruits'
JW's will not fight in a war but have no objection to paying taxes toward financing a war.
JW's are anti smoking 'because it is not looking after the body', but have no objections to alcohol, obesity, driving around the territory in a car etc.
JW's 'preach the good news in all the world' yet most of them just go round and around the same old territory, How many of them are up the Amazon and other like places?
I did not realise 'fruits' was spelled.................H Y P O C R A C Y.
when we were once jehovah's witnesses - we were taught to doubt others " in the world " whose beliefs differed from ours .
we were taught to be cynical of any views that didn't harmonize or agree with the watchtower societies views .
so for years many of us were programmed like this - to keep a closed mind and think that there was only one correct way to believe things , and everybody outside that one way was full of you know what !
I was never a JW, however, people have taught me to be cynical.
My watchword now is 'Expect the worst and hope for the best'.
So I am rarely disapointed and often pleasently surprised.
isn't smoking just as bad as "defiling the body our temple" with alcohol or drugs legal or illegal?
if i have glucoma will i be disfellowshiped if i smoke pot, since it is a doctor perscribed treatment?
those who smoke how do you justify ruining your health and finances?.
I am ok with smoking as the org has proven it to be scripturally allowed.
How?
Well, the bible says refrain from eating blood and the org has 'proved' that taking in blood by any other means is 'eating'.
Genisis states that god gave man 'all plants for his use', so taking in the tobacco plant by smoke is 'eating'.
i've driven by several newer kh's in the past few years and noticed that none of them have even so much as one window.
just double doors on the front (with no windows) and a solid door on the back.
what's up with that?
No windows means it will be easier to sell the buildings as clubs when the time comes.
awake 2008 jan.p.19 "choosing to play violent and immoral games is like choosing to play with radioactive waste.
the damaging effects may not be immediatley obvious, but they are inevitable.
exposure in high doses of radiation can destroy the lining of the stomach and allow bacteria from the intestines to invade the bloodstream, resulting in sickness.
it is estimated the public could spend a whopping $1 billion on E.T.
This is the main message.
"All that lovely money flowing AWAY from our hands <sob sob>"
while visiting some bible students sites, i wondered what the official jw view on these organizations is.
are they part of babylon the great simply because of refuting the post-1916 developments and the governing body?
as far as i know, they do not adhere to any of the false teachings jw like to refer to in debunking the rcc and traditional protestantism, such as hellfire, trinity, immortal soul.
Funny thing, this subject cropped up a couple of weeks ago with the elder I am studying with.
I asked him about the bible students because I wanted him to tell me where the JW's came from and how am I to know they are chosen by god.
He told me that in the early days a few (I read the figure was eventually about 75%) witnesses broke off to 'follow the man Russel' instead of sticking with the organisation.
