the jws strongly condemn any form of gambling or decision making that invokes luck or divination.
however, no where in the bible is the "casting of lots" which basically amounted to gambling specifically condemned.
also, many jws don't realize that jewish priests (levites) were instructed to make decisions using the urim and thummin which many scholars argue was a divination practice similar to casting lots..
One could argue that a referendum, that putting a decision to a vote is a form of divination. If it's rolling dice or throwing darts or reading stalks and checking the results against some sort of list of possible outcomes, then voting is divination too.
Of course, a JW might freak the F out over that ("So democracy really IS from demons!").
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not loudly, but just so your table could hear?.
ll.
- "Ya know, it says to pray in your interior rooms, not out in the open for everyone to see you doing it."
- "What? Are you ASHAMED of your beliefs?!"
- "You must be fun at gatherings."
not sure if this has already been submitted, but we need exjws to mobilize on this.. from: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5kzyfn/lets_get_jws_propaganda_out_of_disneyland/.
posted by: sweetpotatopeachtree .
i submitted the following on the disneyland facebook page (link below) on december 19th after seeing jws peddling their cult propaganda at downtown disney in anaheim, ca.
Okay.
Just have someone stand next to them with an iPad playing the antigay cartoon.
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not loudly, but just so your table could hear?.
ll.
I like what my dad did, relative to the ostentatious alternative. He just got his plate and said, "It's good that Jehovah provided this." And that was his public prayer.
since many things have changed, new religions, and religions changing doctrine, etc, for everytime a jw says nobody except jws, 1. refuse to go to war.
2. refuse to be in politics 3. preach about god's kingdom.
4. don't allow sin (dfing for fornication, etc).
It's actually in the rules for the JW's that they keep hidden. You can not be disfelloshipped for joining the military. Found this out less than a week ago.
They wouldn't want to go to jail again.
When you vote or join the military, you are disassociating yourself. So, you get the same treatment as being disfellowshipped, but they didn't disfellowship you for doing that, for serving your country or acting within your civil rights.
It's a distinction that rides the technical line between chicken shit and bull shit.
i consider myself an agnostic, i feel no sense of certainty that there is a single all-powerful creator who made the entire universe, and yet i must acknowledge that the universe is a large place that is filled with much beauty so the possibility of an intelligent mind being behind it is certainly there.
lately, however, i do have more and more doubts about the god of the bible being a candidate for that all-powerful creator should such a being even exist at all.. these doubts are founded upon a number of questions for which i have never found any satisfying biblical or logical answer.
instead, i was simply chided with the remark that "god's actions aren't always meant to be understood by humans," which i found to be a very unsatisfying answer.
Why would God punish his people for straying from the "true religion" by sending them to a place that would have such a bad influence on them by exposing them to even more idolatry?
Profound plot hole in the Bible.
having seen a few of these tv productions and some youtube clips of their assembly parts, how can jehovah's witnesses really take these silly little men seriously?.
you take one look at them; their overweight, fat little bodies.
their entirely shabby, overhanging suits.
*shrug*
So I told my mom that the GB is asking for money whilst wearing Rolexes.
She said maybe they're gifts. I said that if so, that's quite a big gift and I would wonder what the favor was, I wonder why the Rolexes weren't sold, and I wonder why a donation wasn't accepted instead. So at the end of the day, they're asking for money whilst wearing Rolexes.
She said judge not that you're not judged! So I said I don't make it a habit of wearing Rolexes or EVER asking for money. So... Yeah.
Fugly or not, these dorks have sincere followers.
wonder if tony or splaine will be invited to the wedding :).
i am sure it will be at her kingdom hall to praise her great dod jehober.. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/29/entertainment/serena-williams-engaged-alexis-ohanian/index.html.
And Twitter has been in mild uproar over a biracial relationship.
I'm happy for them! You go, Serena.
this organization will never again be what it was by 2013-2014. .
they peaked in the form they were, i believe they were already falling apart in ways, but from the outside and to the majority r&f, things likely still seemed on the up and up.
browsing through the boards and just keeping my finger on the pulse of what's happening, this organization will never again be what it was.
I care to the extent that I don't wish anyone else to enter this cult or continue, but I know that they will. I don't want the same story to be lived out again, but I know that it will. Eventually, the day might come when we can whistle at Babylon's passing, but it isn't here yet and there are bigger threats in the world.
come on a believer, everyone knows it was you so own up to it and teacher will not be cross!.
this is exactly what seems to be happening, a believer runs in drops the stink bomb and runs out again...only to pear around the door when he/she deems it safe to do so.
😅😅😅.
Diogenesister:
A Believer did you know a woman came up with the idea, and taught, that the "faithful and discreet slave" applied to a person ( now persons)??
Did you you know that another woman came up with the religion from which Jehovahs Witnesses are descended? Without her teaching there would be no JW's.
Now, they've decided women cannot teach...but they wouldn't exist in this form had they not.
That's fascinating. Got a link or a name to look up, @Diogenesister?
