achtung!
rant ahead.... ....and all the usual anti-christmas spiel that jw are habit to indulge in?.
or all the "have a nice christmas" from people you meet when out and about..?.
I think tiki has summed it up well zeb and rants are good now and again for the relieving of stress .
Take care buddy and I hope everything settles down and you are at peace with each other .
In a couple of days time it will be a New Year and hopefully your family will be in a much better frame of mind all round.
If you know what I mean .
Cheers buddy.
so i mentioned to my pimi brother that the org.
only grew by 1.4 % 2 years in row and if you factor in the birthrate of 1.1 % that's only 3/10 of 1% growth for all that hard work.
i thought people would be streaming to the mountain of jehovah in the last days?
I think people give up too easily when a JW dismisses your argument with a flippant answer .
You should hammer your point home until they give up and cant defend their logic anymore .
EG.Zech.8:23 a scripture that JW`s have applied to the last days read it and hammer home the point that this is not happening now even by their own latest yearbook ,so that means we are not in the last days yet.
Isa.60:22 Another scripture that the JW`s have pointed out to be filled in the last days. And it has not occurred in this period of time again showing that we are not living in the last days according to the scriptures of the Bible and hammer that home until they break down in defeat .
And ask them if they truly believe the Revelation book that stated that Revelation Chapt.8-9 concerning the 7 trumpets was fullfilled at the Cedar Point Ohio Convention in the 1920`s in fullfillment of that prophecy .
And don`t let them weasel their way out of it , hammer it home until they concede defeat.
Your the one with the winning hand not them ,don`t let them side track you.
However I`m afraid many of us do just that.
i wish ye all a blessed 2019. this is one of my favorite pieces of music and this take especially even if i cant understand the ukrainian language.. live long prosper in wisdom and health.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ianssd_yexs.
typo thats a blessed 2019...
Thanks zeb for posting that it is also one of my favs,and I do like a lot of these flash mob thingy`s from time to time.
Except for the few pathetic ones I have seen posted by the JW`s.singing Kingdom songs , UGH
And I gather this was NOT a JW wedding stunt.
quote: "jonathan cahn on the jim bakker show nov.12th, 2012. cahn uses detective work to figure out that jesus was born on the first day of the jewish new year, known as nissan 1, in 6 b.c.
compelling correlation of jewish feast days and their foreshadowing of the life and work of jesus.".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptlsxttf6n0.
When was Jesus born , when was Santa born , their both fictional characters so what / why does it matter they both serve a purpose for the day whether you agree with that purpose or not.
Yeah c`mon pull the other leg .HD.
one of the witness rebuttals that is used to belittle the christmas holiday is the one where they say that people reduce jesus christ to being just a baby in a manger, whereas the witnesses recognize him as a mighty king, a much more accurate and current way to view jesus.
a baby in a manger is a sweet sight on any day, it's true, but more is going on than meets the eye in the case of jesus.
this particular baby is the first baby to have been born without an earthly father, the immaculate conception.
Mainstream Christendom recognizes Jesus as the only one Christians are told to bear witness about and that he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords .
And that the name of Jesus is above every other name and that every knee should bend in heaven on earth and those under the ground and OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD to the glory of God the father .
Scriptures that admonish Christians to witness about Jesus ? in the New Testament ? over twenty .
Scriptures that admonish Christians to witness about Jehovah in the New Testament ? ZERO .
23 years out and i'm still purging this trash.
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i still have 1 box of jw stuff left.. .
I wouldn`t mind "The Kingdom Interlinear of The Christian Greek Scriptures" or even "Life Everlasting In freedom Of The Sons Of God "
Just saying
the money grab continues!!
at a very recent circuit assembly (usa), the accounts overseer gave the typical accounts report for the ca in the early afternoon.
there were 2100 people at the assembly.
At least the Catholics despite their problems have spent millions of Dollars on their charitable organizations which are many with the contributions they receive helping all people despite their personal beliefs.
The Jehovah`s Witnesses should be exposed as liars for the claim they are a charitable organization as they only benefit the GB members and their associates with all of the money and assets they rake in.
when waking up it often isn't an instant switch, there's a period of time when your conflicted feelings are heightened and most uncomfortable.
can anyone remember specific instances in the time before you fully woke up that made you uncomfortable or guilty, despite you still being a 'believer'?.
i can think of two right now, both about a year or two before i woke up:.
when waking up it often isn't an instant switch, there's a period of time when your conflicted feelings are heightened and most uncomfortable.
can anyone remember specific instances in the time before you fully woke up that made you uncomfortable or guilty, despite you still being a 'believer'?.
i can think of two right now, both about a year or two before i woke up:.
It was such a gradual thing with me over a number of years that I would put at the back of my mind until you just can`t ignore those niggling things anymore.
And without going into any detail how I managed to manipulate a body of Elders in a judicial case against a brother that they were "trying" {and who I thought they would be justly right in DF him} they didn`t do so and only reproved him ,simply because I threatened to name them personally as a body of Elders to both the branch in Australia and also to name them personally to the Branch/ HQ, in New York.
They didn`t want to handle the case ,complicated as it was but he was now in their territory and had been for about 2 years .
They tried to pressure me to leave it in Jehovah`s hands and I wouldnt have a bar of it ,I said you handle it or I go to the both Branches lodging a complaint about you .
And to my surprise they did not DF him but only reproved him.
That`s when the penny dropped for certain that their is no God directing this organization.
