happy monday!.
had no price tag.
much to her embarrassment the cashier got on the intercom and boomed out for the entire store to hear: "price check on lane thirteen, tampax, supersize.
John and Mary, a teenage couple, have just finished their first episode of intercourse in the back of John's automobile.
John: "Gosh, Mary, if I had known you were a virgin, I would have taken more time."
Mary: "John, if I had known you had more time, I would have taken off my pantyhose."
if you want real help please go to:.
the official site for jehovah's witnesses and those truly interested in the jw organisation and the word of god.. i wonder if you would find so many sites (such as this one) dedicated to the verbal tearing apart of jehovah's witnesses and their religion if there was not something special about it?.
afterall when was the last time you found 10,000+ search results for catholics, jews, mormons or any supposed sect or cult?.
Well, it looks like logicalthinker is not interested in answering my question.
To GodRules: Why do you think that the bible needs deciphering? If it is the case that the bible is enciphered, why do you believe that the WTBTS is the only group capable of deciphering it?
if you want real help please go to:.
the official site for jehovah's witnesses and those truly interested in the jw organisation and the word of god.. i wonder if you would find so many sites (such as this one) dedicated to the verbal tearing apart of jehovah's witnesses and their religion if there was not something special about it?.
afterall when was the last time you found 10,000+ search results for catholics, jews, mormons or any supposed sect or cult?.
Hello logicalthinker:
As you appear to be a sincere believer of the WTBTS, I would like to ask you a fairly simple question that I have not seen answered in any of the WTBTS publications. I would like you to address this in specific terms, if you can. In asking this question, I assume that you personally believe that the WTBTS is acting as "God's Only True Channel".
The question is: How do the writers of the WTBTS literature support their claim that they are "spirit-directed" and that their material is "spiritual food in the proper time"?
In answering the question, feel free to comment on what you believe is the nature of the mechanism of the "spirit-direction". For example, do the WTBTS writers get visions in dreams? Do they receive angelic visitations? Is there some physical device involved? Given the rather lengthly list of failed predictions and multiple doctrinal reversals, is the "spirit-direction" of poor quality? Is it intermittent? Is it not received properly? Can it be shown to improve over time?
my mother called tuesday night.
as many of you know, i have chosen to stop communication with my family as of the beginning of this year.. my mother has called 4 or 5 times to talk, but i have not called her, my father or my brother or anyone in his family.
all of them are witnesses of varying degrees.. i tend to go into a deep depression each time my mother calls.
Hello joelbear:
The self-help book _Pulling Your Own Strings_ by Dr. Wayne Dyer may be of some assistance. The author writes at length about the various psychological ploys that some people use to manipulate others and how one can be aware of these and handle them.
Remember, you are not responsible for what goes on inside of someone else's head; you are responsible only for what goes on inside of your head. Why let someone else take over your responsibility?
i find it weird that the jehovah witnesses disrespect other relegions by calling their's the "truth".
by saying this aren't the wt's saying that there is no other answer and all other relegions are wrong.
i also think it is disrespectfull the way they call house holders "prospects".
Hello mustang and thank you for your posting.
You write about the practice about rebinding a copy of the NWT with the book _Make Sure of All Things, Hold Fast to What Is Fine_. Let me say for the benefit of those who weren't associated in the early 1970s that it was a common practice at the time. The purpose, of course, was to bamboozle the householder into thinking that the smooth answer to a question came straight from the bible when it really was, at best, a bunch of unrelated scriptures strung together in typical WTBTS fashion.
The rebinding job was usually quite clever with a black leatherette cover with the words "Holy Bible" in bright gold lettering on the cover. The fact that it was two books stitched together was undetectable, and there was, as expected, no mention of the "New World Translation" on the cover.
I can only assume that the scam was thought up by Brooklyn, as the _Make Sure_ book was the only one that used the same bible paper and was the same size as one of the "economy" green cardboard cover NWT bibles.
An even cheaper approach was the thin booklet _Sermon Outlines_ which was designed to be glued inside the back cover of a copy of the NWT, or perhaps inserted between the Old and New Testaments.
Did this all really happen? Yes. Is it sleazy? Yes. Are any of you surprised? I doubt it.
i noticed almost all new kingdom halls are without windows, even in neighborhoods that are quite safe and crime free.
some have said it's because they do not want you looking out and daydreaming.
others have said it slows down the two day quick build miracles by at least an hour.. my mother may have hit it on the head when she said, "when the time comes it will be easier for them to 'gas' you!".
Some ideas for omitting windows in Kingdom Halls:
1) Savings on building insurance.
2) Savings on on heating costs in colder areas.
3) Slight savings on material costs for construction and maintenance (labor is free, so that isn't a reason).
4) Reduction in noise from exterior sources.
5) Keeping occupants' minds from wandering during meetings; especially, eliminating the possibility of seeing opposers' signs during meetings.
Number five is doubtful as in the Kingdom Halls I have seen, there have been opaque curtains covering the windows during meetings.
please read the following brief paragraph carefully: .
"once again, the ruling ecclesiastical class suppressed efforts to make gods word available to their flock.
they violently silenced a voice that pointed to some of the errors of their non-biblical beliefs.
I must post a brief interjection about the comment that the Catholic Church has at any time banned the reading of the bible. There is no such ban and there never has been.
The Church has in the past and continues today to have a policy of permitting only certain translations of the bible for liturgical use. It has done this to prevent misleading or deceptive translations and editing such as the omission of the deuterocanonical books. There are hundreds of approved versions, and the oldest, the Latin Vulgate from St. Jerome of the fourth century, is still in use in some areas.
Of course, there is no prohibition for owning and studying any version of the bible, approved or not.
Some Catholic comments on bible versions: http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/bible_versions.htm
greetings to the board:.
some might remember my posting about my stepfather who passed away unexpectedly a few weeks ago.
since then, i've been spending some time helping out my mother with paperwork including handling the incoming mail.. yesterday she got a wonderful letter from the new england organ donor bank.
Greetings to the board:
Some might remember my posting about my stepfather who passed away unexpectedly a few weeks ago. Since then, I've been spending some time helping out my mother with paperwork including handling the incoming mail.
Yesterday she got a wonderful letter from the New England Organ Donor Bank. While they of course do not mention identifying details, they were able to inform her that her decision to donate her husband's organs has given the gift of life to a father of three who had terminal hepatic disease. The recipient's liver transplant operation went well and he is expected to make a full recovery. He and his family are said to be extremely grateful, and this helps soften the loss to my mother and myself. My mom cried when I read her the letter and I must admit that my eyes watered a little bit, too.
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To the WTBTS: Just as you gave up on the asinine prohibitions on vaccinations and organ transplatations, it's far past time to dump the false and deadly restrictions on blood transfusions. You can give it up just like you gave up on the first two and I doubt if you'll lose too many members over it. You guys gain nothing good from prohibiting live-saving medical care. Why be stiff-necked when you have a chance to look good for a change and actually help some people? Also, I know how much you hate all the "evil" opposers and "apostates"; letting go of the phony blood doctrine will really take a lot of wind out of their sails. Plus you could probably hire more lawyers and buy more real estate if you didn't have to expend so much in resources on the archaic and non-scriptural transfusion abstention.
Mark Twain once wrote: "Always do the right thing. It will gratify a few and amaze the rest."
It's time to do the right thing, Brooklyn. Long past time. What are you waiting for?
the kingdom interlinear translation (kit) has been published by the.
watchtower since 1969. it still is available in it's second editon.. but how many really use this book?
or read it?
I used to have a copy of the KIT. As I remember, the back of the book is filled with a good number of rather shaky justifications for the oddball NT translations seen only in the NWT. (Stake vs. cross, no immortal soul, no eternal punishment, no bodily resurrection of Christ, the tetragrammon in the NT, an impersonal Holy Spirit, and, of course, Jesus as a second and lesser God.)
The WTBTS used the Westcott and Hort text from the late 19th century and I doubt if the text has had any revisions or corrections since then. I suspect that it was employed because the WTBTS could get it for free.
happy monday!.
had no price tag.
much to her embarrassment the cashier got on the intercom and boomed out for the entire store to hear: "price check on lane thirteen, tampax, supersize.
Sad to say, the lighthouse joke is not a true story.
* http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/questions/litehuse.html
