jehovah witnesses unaware they are fulling bible prophecies.
for many of us witnesses that have left either as stricken lost sheep or unlawfully disfellowshiped please consider that our brothers & sisters in the synagogues of kingdom halls are misled & need our help in trying to pull them out of the fire.
the test now on them is about just how they are treating their unlawfully excluded (disfellowshiped) brothers & sisters, as foretold at isaiah 66. at present they sit in judgement on us the growing great crowd who have come out & they are prepared with hard- heartedness to condemn their brothers & sisters to a final everlasting death, by running away as spiritual cowards refusing us a cup of life giving water (truth) matt 10: to explain the apostasy in their temple the disgusting thing in the holy place.
...our brothers & sisters in the synagogues of Kingdom Halls are misled & need our help in trying to pull them out of the fire.
I stopped reading here. Nope, some of us are ex-JWs precisely because we're done with saving people from something. Good luck.
okay, i keep reading something and though jw's do not get involved in national wars, my experience has always been they are very violent people.
every convention i have ever been to was filled with children being beat within an inch of their lives for just not being able to take a third day of mind-droning silence without being able to move or now even sleep.
i have seen whole congregations laugh at stories of children being beaten and calling out to "jehovah".
About the OP, yes, the WT has no regard for children. They are horribly treated.
in the clam booklet says we must limit our association with df ones .
some jw are being a little nicer to some who areally df in my area has anyone else noticed this?.
...has anyone else noticed this?
No.
if you had to choose to belong to 1 religion, i was curious as to what any on the forum would pick.. i realize most here are likely atheist (i would have to say i'm agnostic), but if any would like to share their opinion, and maybe why?.
If you HAD to choose to belong to 1 religion, I was curious as to what any on the forum would pick.
Still none. I can't see any circumstances in my life that would force me to practice any religion.
now that she has announced that she is 20 weeks pregnant and not married, what is her status in the cult?
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Now that she has announced that she is 20 weeks pregnant and not married, what is her status in the c
Same, which is, full of it.
my therapist inspired me to start looking on the bright side.
even though i've pretty much given up listening to the bs and usually tune out the meeting by playing on my phone/tablet, i find the local needs talk oddly fascinating.
probably because it's the only part that doesn't seem outlined to death (at least at our hall), and you truly don't know what you get.
Hopefully, this "brightside" mentality will help keep me sane.
I imagine that you have reasons that make you feel obligated to continue attending those meetings. I´m glad that if that´s the case that you can find something that gets you through them. I hope that such positive attitude lasts enough until you can make better plans, that is if you really want out.
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
Yes, I'm a language geek.
Me too. I am preparing a speech where I am talking about learning culture through language. I am giving two examples. One is on a gig that I had in the early 2000s doing work for the US State Attorney´s office in NYC. I was in charge of transcribing body wire recorded conversations in Spanish and prepare those transcribed documents for translation into English. I specialized in translating from Puerto Rican and Dominican slang, mispronounciations and idioms into actual understandable Spanish.
uc berkeley orders cancellation of ann coulter speech.
officials at the university of california at berkeley on thursday reversed their decision to cancel a speech by conservative firebrand ann coulter.. the university had announced wednesday that it was canceling coulter’s appearance following several political protests in berkeley that turned violent.. but on thursday, the university said it had found a venue where it could hold the speech on may 2, instead of the original april 27 date.
however, a leader of the college republican group that originally invited coulter said the university was placing strict conditions on the event, and he said his group intended to reject the new terms.. before the reversal was announced, coulter had vowed to go ahead with an appearance anyway.. that probably would have put security officials on high alert and might have sparked another showdown in struggles over campus safety, student views and ideological openness.. “what are they going to do?
All these bans, violent protests to shut down discourse and debate, just shows the fragile reasons that the opposers stand on. can not stand to hear an opposing view expressed.
Does that include the violence when people open fire in theaters, or when a white policeman kills an unarmed black man?
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Should we all do that?
If you ask me, no. I'm not fond of the WT and many, many JWs, but I see no point in disrespecting them that way. Also, my personal stance is that it's not my job to show them or teach them anything.
the full story, as told in the uk guardian can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/16/arctic-ice-cores-melt-university-alberta-canada.
and briefly it tells of an equipment failure at a storage facility for ice cores that had been extracted from the polar ice cap in various locations.. but note, that the layers of ice evident in the cores covered a period of 22,000 years.
and from the christian/jw perspective, that's impossible, for the bible story of the flood (verified by jesus and sundry other biblical writers) maintains that 4000+ years ago, the ice caps would have melted during the period when the earth was covered by the divinely caused deluge.
Yet jws and many other others including muslims, jews, and sundry christians believe that their fanciful religious fantasy is true in the face of factual evidence to the contrary
There are plenty of indicators of those ages existing. Something I find interesting is that the Bible itself doesn't establish any timelines in terms of the stages in which things on Earth came to be. It is based on interpretations of writings that are considered sacred.
As per Jesus of Nazareth, he did exist. That he is what the Bible and religion claims he is, that's a different story.
