lately, i see a trend going on regarding how congregation members view the elders.
more and more, i hear people say "i wouldn't tell anything to the elders if they questioned me.years ago all an elder had to say is "we want to talk with you" and a meeting commenced.
now, there is a view that the elders can't tell me what to do anymore.
As a good friend of mine put it once:
"When it becomes your wifes crotch that I was yanked out of, then I will feel the need to answer to you. For the time being, leave me alone. My father is looking for me."
After having heard that, I realized that they were about as much as a figurehead and authority to me as my morning bowls of oatmeal.
i got this e-mail from my mother.
i sent her coc and many, many docs documenting all the false prophocies.
she does not want any part of the real "truth.
I get the same typical 'dub-bot' responces from friends and family alike that I talk to in regards to the Borg. They just refuse to think.
just wondering if any of you know how far back the publications are archived in their discs, and if anything has been purposely left out, or 'overlooked'.
i want to pick up the complete set, and 'collect them all!'..
as for a donation, what do you suggest i donate when i try to pick up one of these gems?
Non-Prophet Organization
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks for the info
-Seed
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are westerners the evil of the world?.
western lands have gleefully exploited the worlds resources over the past 200 years.most of us have taken advatage of what our economies have offered to us.but has and does our life style not only ruin the earth but ensures that other countries remain pour.. the goods we demand and are used to having ,have a cost to the environment .we want them cheap , this ensures low wages where big western companies can get cheap labour.the size and power of western business means that pourer countries cant grow economically.the big western business are so powerful that they earn more money than entire countries.. suvival of the fittest has taken its toll on mankind while we live in comfort the majority of earth inhabitants don't.how much is our fault?
Western lands have gleefully exploited the worlds resources over the past 200 years.
Did you know that North America strips the earth of fossil fuels 110,000 times faster than it takes the earth to produce them?
Looks like in a few more hundred years, we'll all be living in caves again - if we haven't burnt ourselves to a crisp first...
the main reason given in the 1973 watchtower was that smoking is tied in with spiritism because the greek word which is rendered as spiritism is pharmakia' which literally means "druggery," (see galatians 5:20.
) therefore the argument was made that by smoking we put ourselves under spiritistic or demonic control.
for the last 20 years i haven't heard this reason used.. today the reasons given are that smoking shows no respect for your body as well as for life and that smoking doesn't show love of neighbor.
Jehovah allows you to ingest plants, but punishes if you smoke them. He's stupid.
i hurd that farkie gut a thanking problem.
he cannot thank fur heemself.. is that true?.
comfy.
LOL - You may want to spell that out phonetically Simon...
i hurd that farkie gut a thanking problem.
he cannot thank fur heemself.. is that true?.
comfy.
Be that (whatever it actually is) as it may -- he'll always be able to spell for himself.
Edited by - the_bad_seed on 26 August 2002 13:37:11
they got a thread should christians wear sandals --- i want to know should they wear thong undies -- well is it unchristian??
which is more important and should a body worry about it day and night until one gets an ulcer ...queenie
Christians should all be forced into wearing poisonous house plants as undergarments.
hi everyone, i've been reading on this board for some time now because i have some childhood friends that are in this organization, and would like to find out a way i could help them to some how see it for what it really is.
i'm not a jw nor have i ever been.
i truly feel for some of the hurts you all have been through.
YAR! Welcam abard me apostalic matey!
i came across this clip from an assembly where a co 'reasons' with the audience on whether christians should wear beards 'in this time of the end'.
while not containing any reasoning at all it could also be concluded from this clip that the wbts doesn't like you to wear sandals either.
oh, and jesus was a cross dresser.
I want a good pair of Jesus sandals made.
What that has to do with this post, I don't know.
*shrugs*
