god is the WORST salesman EVER EVER EVER.
He cant get people to want to live in paradise forever.
Sad.
how can the watchtower society claim effectiveness in their 140 years of preaching the ''good news''..... spending billions of hours in ''field service'', having the ''faithful and discreet slave'' lead the preaching work, passing out billions of watchtower literature since the 1870's, while the pentecostals have been more effective using other evangelical methods?
congregations.
119,954. members.
god is the WORST salesman EVER EVER EVER.
He cant get people to want to live in paradise forever.
Sad.
i know a few family's who have left the cult but send their kids to a religious school because of the public schools teaching many times that homosexuality is ok. the bible is clear that its a sin.
there is no just love each other and its all ok. i don't believe in the bible or any religion.
i have a niece who came out as gay and i told her i don't care.
NO!
i thought this might catch your eye.
especially if you're a man.. they say thinking about sex is wrong!
that's biologically impossible.
I hear you. Mine was poisoned by guilt to make sex bad.
I like to call her my practice wife was not much when it came to sex
i thought this might catch your eye.
especially if you're a man.. they say thinking about sex is wrong!
that's biologically impossible.
sparky - he was an old German guy.
Fun wasnt part of his vocabulary.
i thought this might catch your eye.
especially if you're a man.. they say thinking about sex is wrong!
that's biologically impossible.
In the early 80's I remember our Book Study conductor talking about sex during the study of the Family Book.
Pointing out how anything but Missionary position was showing disrespect to god and wrongful sexual appetite.
one of the most despicable things i can remember is having the elders determining whether or not you “qualified” for proper funeral services in a kingdom hall and if the talk could be given by an elder.
people are hurting terribly and the family is then told, even though the deceased was a member of the congregation, they still weren’t good enough to qualify for proper burial services per the congregation!
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Its because the Funeral is all about it being a Recruitment Talk.
Nothing to do with comfort.
I bucked that and gave funeral talks for the family, and not a recruitment talk.
The 3 I gave were amazingly well received by the families, friends, and unbelieving family there.
I had older respected JWs ask me to give theirs when they died.
I had elders who praised them.
And I had a small group of jealous elders from my area use them against me to try and get me removed, cuz I did not follow the outline to their liking.
Funny enough, the month after the last one I gave, the outline changed to make it easier to do the talk the way I did.
Ironically, this event aided me in Fading immensely!
news reports.
"golf-ball size hail.
" anyone know anyone who was under that?.
Its the END TIMES!
Matthew 24!! See its all real!
Jehober is bringing the big A!
Oh wait, it was just the weather :(
how alienated from jehovah and un-christian so many bethelites must be, who finished their higher education and gained their degrees!
i don't know how they can live with their consciences!.
pages 6 & 7, pars.
OMG! First of all - this is all made up, it is NOT a real story. Just like most of the "real life" experinaces
What challenges did she face? She admits: “Studying for my courses took so much time and effort that I was too busy to linger in prayer to Jehovah
Really, she couldn't linger? WTF?
I am ashamed to admit that the education I pursued taught me to be critical of others
For the millionth time - JW Double Speak - Critical thinking = being critical of others. (what colleges do to you)
I HATED THAT SO MUCH even as a True Believer!
Critical thinking is the ability to examine something and weigh it on merritt and evidence, not "BELITTLING" others - AKA Elder the WT and the GB.
CULT CULT CULT!!!
i've noticed how this religion is kind of narrow.
all they ever do is preach, study the watchtower, or their meeting or convention.
no other organized functions that i know of.
But, yeah, I remember sitting at the meeting as a kid, and they would have a watchtower about SEX. I didn't even know what sex was! It makes me cringe that all these little kids are being exposed to this.
So much totally inappropriate stuff like that, that I remember as a kid, and also conducted as an Elder.
I remember making fun of churches who had separate classes for Kids while the parents were hearing a sermon.
I was SOOO WRONG!
jw.org states that they are the true religion.
i was told that it is written in the bible that jw.org is the true religion.
the following is the "alleged" evidence that was presented to me:.
The bible is such a joke, and religion is evil.
So funny how every israeli archaeologist (as well as plenty others) cant find a SHRED of evidence that Moses ever existed, or that those "millions" of fugitives who left egypt, ever existed. Surely one of them would have dropped a knife or hammer or something :) https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/world/africa/03iht-moses.4.5130043.html
Also isn't it funny how the World Empire of Egypt, when it lost ALL its slaves and ALL its ARMY wasn't sacked by any other nation? Were they all just being nice to Egypt?
I could go on and on...
I can't believe I believe all this horse crap for so long. :(