Greetings!
Looking at images of Jesus lookalikes, I found a vaguely familiar item!
Hey, sexiness sells. I'd be the bride of that Jesus.
greetings!.
looking at images of jesus lookalikes, i found a vaguely familiar item!.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-does-jesus-look-like.html.
Greetings!
Looking at images of Jesus lookalikes, I found a vaguely familiar item!
Hey, sexiness sells. I'd be the bride of that Jesus.
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1.the organization itself denies access to reality and substitutes its own version, interpretations, and meanings.
a.only watchtower approved publications are allowed.
Jehovah's Witnesses: DO THEY FACE REALITY
No. That's what religions and cults are about, not facing reality.
as some of you know, i'm not a witness, but i am the co-author of a series of history book that discuss the watch tower's earliest years.
russell mentions a 'brother' van der ahe as an early days wt evangelist.
we can't identify him.
I wish I could help. I'd like to know when you find out.
after a long long time after today's wt i can finally say hello to df ones because they are made in gods image yes i can even ask how they are doing without feare i will get df because if an elder walks up i will pull out trusty wt that says fellow humans deserve hover and respect..
Good for you (I guess).
quick answer: way too much!.
this is something that really gets to me, all the way back to my childhood.
twenty minutes each way, three times a week.
Twenty minutes each way, three times a week. Month after month. Year after year. Wow. Plus the wear on the vehicle. That money could have gone toward food and clothes which we were already short of.
I wish it was at least that! As as have posted, my uber JW father felt that he had to be more devoted than anyone. He volunteered to use his own vehicle to transport people to/from the KH. to do that he made two and sometimes three trips to/from the KH taking people. Of course, he would take us his family first, so we were at the KH at 5pm for the 7pm meeting. Also we were the last people to leave as he would take the others he transported first, meaning that we were still in the KH at 10:30pm, sometimes 11pm waiting for him to come pick us up.
He saw absolutely nothing wrong with that, still to this day he doesn't. I refuse to even look at how much it costed him in gas and time, but the largest cost was in the resentment that he got from his own family, all for his attitude that he always had to do more than the rest.
the following is a txt message i just had with a jw about why i decided not to attend meeting.
i fully realize that this will get me blocked.. jw : you dont want to answer me why you dont go to the meetings.. joe : ok.. (1) the 2 witness rule in the handling of a accusations of child sex abuse.. (2)the covering it up and out of court settlements that they are making to victims of sexual abuse.
unfortunatley the brothers and sisters are totally unaware of what is going on and the magnitude of it.. (3) the comments of geoffrey jackson when testifying before the australian royal commision on its handling of child sex abuse.
Conversation ends and I am yet to get a reply. So I'm guessing I'll either be blocked or get the imperfect humans reply. I fully realize many here will tell me this is the wrong approach, but I needed to vent.
I think time will tell about that being the best approach. That is how you feel, those are your thoughts, so I personally see nothing wrong with that approach.
Also, I know that we call it a conversation, but those lame reaching out attempts are unilateral. they ask questions but not with any interest in anything you have to say. Their purpose is a mixture of curiosity, they want to know what you thin, but only with the purpose of determining how they will treat you from than point on, not because they have any interest in you.
If you asked me, you got a whole lot of nosy brainwashed inappropriate people off your back.
i have been viewing the ted talks.
a huge range of topics schools of thought religions and races.. take a look at this one.. https://www.ted.com/talks/karim_abouelnaga_a_summer_school_kids_actually_want_to_attend.
hugs.
So much of our education reform is driven by a sympathetic approach, where people are saying, "Let's go and help these poor inner city kids, or these poor black and Latino kids," instead of an empathetic approach, where someone like me, who had grown up in this environment, could say, "I know the adversities that you're facing and I want to help you overcome them."
That's the best line of the talk. I know that even with the best of intentions, this "talk down" attitude that decision makers have towards education in this country is causing harm and has proven to be ineffective.
Great talk. Very inspiring.
I bet there will be some idiot who will think that it has actually been signed by Jesus.
Were you affected by the demons or did you always think it was purely nonsense?
As a child yes. Nobody bothered to explain to me how that demon thing works, so I made up my own script around it and was scary. I thought they were very powerful beings capable of owning your own mind and body. Scary for a child to grow up believing that.
Sometimes I wonder how I managed to stay relatively sane.
i had to work with an elder in fs today.
there was no way out.. this elder is from africa somewhere, right off the boat.
how do they view children?.
I grew up seeing that fear of whatever (people in general, being seen preaching, encountering a coworker, a former drinking buddy, a former lover/girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse, being judged the same way they judge others, the list is endless). That avoidance is reflective of the attitude that many JWs have. To me that's clear evidence of what really in the hearts of many JWs and try to have their children do and be what they don't/aren't. Just pathetic.