just a thought.... looking through the greatest man book, something just occurred to me which i can't recall has ever been highlighted (but please correct me).. i always thought it a bit strange that jehovah allowed the three pagan astrologers to find jesus especially as they were obviously guided to him by satan's star (remember they were led to herod first who wanted to kill the messiah).
what purpose did it serve?.
well, a few pages earlier in tgm book, we see mary presenting a dove as a sin offering at the temple - this was the cheapest offering that was acceptable which must have meant that they were pretty poor at the time.. shortly after the three wise men visited the family had to flee to egypt when herod started to kill all the young boys in an attempt to kill jesus.. what would they need to travel and live as exiles for a couple of years?.
Now correct me if I'm wrong. Simon---were you actually defending the WT's teaching? ---OR-were you just Joking? I'm not sure.
I was trying to appear non-apostate and attract JWs to discuss things. Also, I think, to show that you don't need to be on the Governing Body to come up with "insights" on the bible - just basic reading skills and some imagination.
cold, dark.
isolation on top of it this year.
i am sick of sappy xmas music and tv shows.. i always reflect on what religion has done to my family.
There's probably going to be a lot of people struggling this year, especially after the "novelty" of lockdowns has long since passed.
Maybe check-in on someone you haven't been in contact with for a while - it's a perfect excuse just to say "hi" and that you are thinking of them, and it could make all the difference.
ghislaine maxwell is on trial for grooming underage girls for sex and joining in, apparently.. her defence has recently finished, with maxwell declining to take the stand herself because she, in her words, 'doesn't need to as the prosecution haven't proved their case beyond reasonable doubt'.. that's for the jury to decide, ghislaine, lol.
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doesn't it strike you as arrogant that she can't be arsed to stand up and speak in her own defence?.
Maybe confident that the power that be will pull the strings.
Apparently, the FBI already "lost" some important evidence.
Nothing sketchy or suspicious at all ...
do you think the watchtower will ban commenting at the meetings one day?
if you are pimo, you might want to try to make some comments to make others think about the “truth”!
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"Sorry brother, try reading your comment again - you didn't quote it from the Watchtower Comments Section exactly word-for-word".
"Now, we'll all recite it after you."
But then that was always pretty much every meeting ever - someone reading the WT paragraph, someone asking a question, then someone reading part of the paragraph again to establish their righteousness with their public display of obedience and compliance.
it was when the governing body started to disfellow-ship jehovah`s witnesses from taking blood transfusions in an effort to save their lives .. resulting in many hundreds if not thousands of needless deaths of men women and children who by this coercion died from this doctrine.. and to this day they still go unpunished .
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What's the point in jw discussion if we are all free agents and can freely choose to make our own decisions.
It's all about information - it's free and available, because people share their stories on sites like this.
There are no excuses now for not knowing. Maybe 50+ years ago, but not anymore ... and even then, people chose to believe something to the point of risking their children's lives without really researching or listening to any dissenting opinion?
there is a trial currently starting - even funnier than the baldwin nonsense.. yes, everyone's favorite actor, singer and hate crime victim is going on trial.. i am, of course, talking about jussie smollett.
he's going on trial for lying to chicago police and wasting their time.. he's obviously as guilty as hell, but i just can't wait for this to unfold.. it's gonna be hilarious ....
People who call racism where there is none are racists. Jussie Smollett is a racist.
Anyone who heard the story and didn't see though it and then supported him when it was clearly bogus is both an idiot and a racist. Obama is a racist idiot.
Yeah, I'm not holding my breath for jail time even though it is more than justified. Everyone who carries out a hoax hate crime is guilty of a hate crime and should be punished accordingly.
i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.
that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?
they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.
So the official inflation rate is now the highest it's been for 40 years - 6.8%
If the original methodology for measuring it had been kept, which would allow proper comparison, the rate would easily be +15%, possibly 20% or more.
Scary times, and it will have big implications. Biden's money printers are stealing the money from your bank account and will then tax you for the fictitious "gains" you've made in investments, which are really due to currency devaluation. Double theft.
We're undergoing a massive wealth transfer from the poor and middle classes to the ultra-wealthy.
No, it's the reverse - everyone has free moral agency to shun or not.
i was in the cult for years about 40. fourth gen born in cult member or for me ex cult member.
i have seen so many cult members who don't seem to really care if the end is near or not.
they are much more concerned with the idea that this is their social network and they need and or want it just the way it is.
So many come out with things like "even if it isn't true, it's still the best way of life" that it just screams "I don't really believe, but I'm justifying it to myself".
It isn't even true - there are orders of magnitude more moral and good people who are not JWs than who are.
The longer people put off leaving, the harder it is to do so. Too many sacrifice their children's future to avoid admitting their own or their parents poor choices.
1) jesus set the absolute standard on how to deal with the disagreeable or even with those becoming inimical in matthew/5/43-48.
there he said: ‘don’t behave like pagans who love/greet only those loving/greeting them.
but be like our heavenly father who loves everyone without differentiating whether one is friendly or inimical towards him.’ this is his eternal standard.
Imagining that most of the bible isn't inspired but a tiny sliver is has to be the most bat-shit crazy view of the bible I've ever come across.
How can anyone believe such utter gibberish.
BTW: you're still vomiting bible references like you believe it's convincing. I mean, it's convincing me that you shouldn't be allowed to post ...
