Posts by jhine

we were all taught that "real" christianity was lost to history and was only restored once russell and then rutherford restored it so that the wt could be appointed as god's "mouthpiece".

but, aristides wrote to the emperor hadrian and gave a pretty good synopsis of core christian belief in 125 ad.

jhine

Very interesting. Of course the Org says that the " real " Christianity was lost, so that they could find it !

Jan

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the gaping hole in this week's weak wt study.

by waton in

for pimi pimo persons: give us one text that says those aspiring to everlasting life should not partake of the bread and wine.

in the article, the whole proposition of refusing the emblems is based on the personal experience of one brother in the 1930s.!

all jws partook.

jhine

Yes Waton , exactly. The idea that some people qualify to take the Bread and Wine and others don't just isn't in the Bible .

I agree the Bible can get complicated but really it's the Gospel ( good news ) message that's needs to be kept in focus at the heart of it all.

Christ died for our sins and rose again so that we don't have to die forever . Simples.

Jan

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the gaping hole in this week's weak wt study.

by waton in

for pimi pimo persons: give us one text that says those aspiring to everlasting life should not partake of the bread and wine.

in the article, the whole proposition of refusing the emblems is based on the personal experience of one brother in the 1930s.!

all jws partook.

Quite honestly l see no difference in eternal or everlasting or life without end etc . These divisions seem to have been made up by the WT . Looking at the Bible as a whole l don't see any evidence for a two tier system .

Where does Jesus, Paul or any of the other writers say " this teaching is for this group , not for that group " ? All the same teaching was given to everyone. Paul boasts that what he received from Christ is exactly what he passes on to ALL the followers.

These complications are just WT inventions to keep JWs in line and faithful. They feed the distrust of mainline churches who ' have it wrong '

That's my take on it .

Jan

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Canadian Residential School Deaths

by Simon in

in case you haven't heard, they just discovered the remains of some 215 dead children at a so called canadian residential school.

they couldn't call it a death-camp could they ... it would be too obvious.. these were where indigenous children were taken, forcibly, in order to "educate" them out of their native customs and languages and make them integrate with society.. unbelievably, this was still going on in the 60s to 90s.. of course the catholic church has their sticky fingers all over it.

what is it about those creepy bastards?

jhine

I have just been made aware ( via fb ) of a petition on CARE2petitions to demand a search for all unmarked graves on the sites of residential schools. I have signed and l think that some of you may like to do the same .

Jan

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Party tunes

by jhine in

as usual there's a lot of serious shizzle being discussed on here .

i can only cope with so much serious , so here's something that's really not .

as some of you know l am getting married soon and organising the evening bash .

jhine

Stan l do use the word dance in a broad sense , as in any movement to music .

Jan

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Party tunes

by jhine in

as usual there's a lot of serious shizzle being discussed on here .

i can only cope with so much serious , so here's something that's really not .

as some of you know l am getting married soon and organising the evening bash .

jhine

As usual there's a lot of serious shizzle being discussed on here . I can only cope with so much serious , so here's something that's really not .

As some of you know l am getting married soon and organising the evening bash . I love to dance and have a list of stuff that l would like played by the DJ .

All the usual cheese , macarena, cha cha slide . My question is what is the song that would get you on the dance floor ?

Jan

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DISFELLOWSHIPPING, How bad is it really?

by pistolpete in

i found this experience on reddit today.

disfellowshipping never really bothered me.

i always thought it was just another way of getting rid of members that weren't welcome anymore.. but i've changed my mind.

jhine

LGH , their treatment of women really does seem appalling. I remember talking to an Elder about the Bible and he was so dismissive. I thought then that it was just because l wasn't a JW but l realise now it was also because l am a woman .

Jan