page 4, 2014 yearbook .
jehovah used his own spirit-begotten sons to provide the original new world translation.
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WAIT! The logical fallicy is just too delicious.
If the angels themselves helped translate the NWT.....WHY THE HELL is it being revised. The angels were a bit wordy, or didn't quite understanding "knowing" vs "knowledge" yet? Maybe the angels don't speak great english? Maybe they are chatterboxes, so that 13% reduction was just angel babble?
Will anyone even notice this? It might as well have been golden plates that nobody could see.
i am reuniting with past students and return visits.. i met up with a young lad i used to call on.
he is not baptised, but at university in his 20's and living away from home.
his mother is a jw and his father is not.
People that leave seem to fall into a few groups.
1) People that are done wrong, get angry, leave in a huff, and burn every bridge on the way out that isn't being burnt by others. Life is hard.
2) People that wake up, and leave to maintain sanity. its hard, but they just want them and their family out. They get on with life.
3) People that wake up, fade, and just shake it off and get on with their real life.
4) People that leave because they are "spiritually weak", and are riddled with guilt for years maybe returning for a memorial. They are still believers, but just think they have screwed the pooch.
5) People that get disfellowshipped and go buck wild. Never had sex before? Lets have sex with everythign that moves! Never did drugs before? Lets cook out food in hash oil will doing metth with my hmouth and heroine with my toes. They burn out, they return to the flock.
6) People that are DF'd or JW in their youth, but just kind of don't care. They aren't true believers and eventually life takes them in a different direction.
He is probably 4. He might as well be a JW. When you are a number 4, you have the same defense mechanisms most JW's do. If you get labeled, it excuses any behavior he may have towards you. Its truely just a way to throw you in a box. Kate, you are a JW apostate....this is certain. But no you should never accept this definition from them, and give their mind manipulation tactics any credence.
during our engagement, we fooled around and touch each other down there.
it's not a "tap" but definitely is not "stimulation".
i tried to convince my wife, who, after 5 years of marriage, strangely felt guilty all the sudden, that its not do called porneia.
Don't ever let your wife sit before two or three guys and talk about intimate "sins". Just don't do it. Its a crappy thing for a husband to do, and in any other situation you would never leave your wife to fend for herself. Maybe if she is overly insistant, you take the reigns on the conversation so she doesn't have to.
But honestly, this isn't an issue to your God, and it is ony going to give a possible self righteous elder ammunition against you if you have one of "those guys" in your hall.
When things minor as this, happened many years ago, its rare they will do anything about it.
If she is a true believer, share with her scriptures about forgiveness through jesus sacrifice. No need to drag elders into it. She doesn't need counsel now.....unless shes hooking up with some other guy. But if all of her supply of vitamin D is coming from her husband, then I think you are good to go.
even john mcenroe would be justified in shouting at them "you cannot be serious,men!!"..
in paragraphs 9 & 12 of the study article for tomorrow, (nov. 15th 2013 watchtower) they prove to the world that what they write and present as god-given truth, is nothing more than the guesswork and speculation from a few men whose lifestyle depends on their subservient direction from the gb, to come up with spiritual sound-bytes which will keep the sheep in anticipation of the time which jesus said was none of their business!!
(acts 1:7).
I guess they could say, what does the bible mean by nations? We don't know.
But "we don't know".....will NEVER come out of the mouths of the GB. Not enough humility. Instead, they say the scriptures don't say.
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i was already on my way to my second fade when i went to the wildlife photographer of the year 2012 exhibition, but this photo made me lose faith in the idea of a loving creator......(the gazelle has been injured by the mother cheetah so she can use it to train her cubs to hunt).
ILTTATT,
Same here! You beat me to it.
Yes but snails and lower life forms are meaningless to God. He notices when a sparrow falls, but we are worth like a billion sparrows right?
hi, i really need some advice here.
i was selected to play in a sports team representing the country i live in.
it's no big deal as it wont create any kind of major publicity.
I was going to answer yes before I even read your comments because honestly, i have heard of peopel being DF'd for just about anything. Most of it is how you handle it.
http://www.csnwashington.com/article/juror-email-leads-mistrial.
juror email leads to mistrial.
that juror now faces a possible contempt of court charge.the trial of a man involved in a high speed crash that killed a prince george's county police officer last year ended in a mistrial.. one of the jurors told the judge via email thursday morning that judging others was a violation of her religion as a jehovah's witness, news4's prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins reported.. kevon darnell neal, 23, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and fleeing and eluding following the death of officer adrian morris, 23.. morris and his partner were pursuing a stolen silver acura when their cruiser ran off interstate 95 near the powder mill road exit in august 2012. morris died after being ejected from the vehicle.
What a mess. JW's are fine with jury duty. This person is just off the reservation. Who can blame them with so many mixed signals.
only in a "new world" like world the above claim wouldn't make sense.
but what are the pros and cons of life?.
just think about it..
I'm not 100% sure I understand, but my toddler and infant are very happy to be alive let me assure you.
My seed spreadith!
mine was a gradual going away.
but once it dawned on them, i think people were shocked that i left the religion i espoused from youth.. were people "in the truth" and "in the world" surprised by your departure?.
Shocked. The ones that don't know....when they find out are shocked. Some people close to me that know some nonsense I had to deal with, with the elders kind of think that is the reason and that I am "weak". Suits me fine.
i reprted 5 studies the month i was df'd.
more than a year has passed since i have seen any of my students.
i got on so well with many of them, we became friends.. did i do the right thing?
I'm glad it worked out. Most of my students got baptized. I reached out to one that is important to me, but she was none too pleased with me. Ah regret.
2 other students didn't get baptized but they are both guys in their early 30's now that I think are looking for stability. They contacted me to see how I was, and kind of get "encouraged". When i told them i wasn't a JW anymore, they were clearly disappointed. They were maybe counting on that to help get them going in the "right direction". I tried to be encouraging to them regardless, but it definitly was a shock and unwelcome from their standpoint.
I brought alot of people into this religion,a nd apparently i did a pretty good job. Ugh!
