this was always something i had trouble believing as i was growing up.
now i'm in my 30's i can see this will never happen.
even if the un the nwo whoever forces a global ban on religion.
wt arrived at the destruction of babylon the great via a very convoluted route, all from the book of the apocalypse. seventh world power, seventh, eighth kings, ten kings, The league of nations---. even if there is an empire of false religion, what secular power would do it, China?
Religion is so useful for the rulers, makes citizens docile, warriors fearless and fanatical, give me more!
with all the cattle, sheep and others wouldn't they be shitting and peeing all over the place?
along with the gallons and gallons of blood being drained and then the flesh being burned as well.
wouldn't the stench be unbearable?.
Oh ye of little faith, "this is an agreeable odour " to the person that is supposed to be bigger than the cosmos, so, he must have the biggest nostrils to eagerly vacuum it all up. right? upward. after all, one of his sons could make a snake talk , the conversation* that started all this stink in the first place,
may be wt prefers sample conversations over stand-up talks even for males now.
"jehovah's witnesses are too cultish for my liking" what do you think about my new word invention?.
any cultocracy is crazy and should be culminated.
"jehovah's witnesses are too cultish for my liking" what do you think about my new word invention?.
cults need to be culled.
romans 13 : 1-7 "let every soul be in subjection to the superior authorities" etc,"the existing authourities stand placed in their relative positions by god" 2".therefore he who opposers the authourity has taken a stand against the arrangement of god ,those who have taken a stand against it will recieve judgement to themselves "etc,etc,.."..to him who calls for honour such honour.".
isnt this plainly stating that christians should be supporting and playing along with the governments of this sytem of things ?
that it is in fact an arrangement of god ?
Satan was cast down to the Earth from heaven, causing terrible suffering for all here.
Annon: yeah if he wanted to win the contest of winning votes, would he not have showered mankind with goodness instead, in his final sprint? may be it was the other contestant that caused all the havoc, like he did in Babel, and in the same region again today? bad scriptwriting in that made up drama.
... old people!
yeah, i know, as pete kaye would say: "old people, you can't beat 'em .... pity".. but seriously, where else would you have a bunch or 17 year old lads chatting with some 80+ year old guy?.
i remember some of the old people in our old kh and they were genuinely nice people.
WTWizard, not many oldtimers are retired circuit overseers who live in their past glory days and would be talking in glowing terms to youngsters to perpetuate the slavery.
Old and fit people are the success story of the human race, A recent science article pointed out that the the long life of humans has been established by older and older men fathering children throughout the ages. Old people like to be surrounded by the future generation, those young ones though, are truly in a different world, and young people might be more dismissive of the old then ever. Hopefully, that sharing of great experience will happen before those particular old ones fade away.
The experience that there is life, satisfaction apart, beyond, and outside the wt straight jacket.
so just finished telling your concerns about the pedophiles cover up, failed prophecies, revisionists history and lack of financial transparency.
so elders ask you the questions.
" so does this mean you don't want to to be a jw anymore?
"do you believe Jehovah is directing his organization today?
nowwhat: one could say: given all the evidence, we would have to say yes.imo. because
speaking of Spirit direction, the finest example of Spirit direction in the bible is Jesus himself. He was directed by the Spirit to be tempted in the wilderness. so:
if you think there could be seen anything negative in observing the going- ons, that it is distressing, that would not have to be any more evidence of happening because of lack of Spirit direction,-- than in Jesus' case.-- so:
yes of course he does , seen by all the evidence.
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him: these girls are super weird but maybe i still have a shot at a virgin threesome!.
them: we must remember to bring brother oldenstein next time, otherwise we could arouse unclean thoughts in this young man..
girl showing her hand: look, no ring, I am available, and we need more males desperately, in 3 years you can be an eligible MS, even if you'r not an alpha male.
the jws have tried to pad the number of jws in camps.
how many actually went and how many died?
can you site the source also?
the reason many of the surviving JW's left the Org in the years after gaining freedom was that they "succumbed to materialism"
Phizzy, good observations, having survived the deprivation, hunger, mistreatment was an accomplishment to be proud of, what anticlimactic denouement to be greeted , after leaving the barbed wire, by an organisation that now encouraged you, in order for you to be newly accepted, to pioneer, perhaps living again on 1200 calories p/d, sans protein, you were so glad to be alive again, clean again, fed again, warm again, and here wt demanded to put "spiritual" things first. The human body does not work like that. materialism my foot. The executed witnesses were true martyrs. Maneuvering of the wt, nazis, will take nothing away from those glorious acts.
i have two honest questions for everyone here.
i understand that most here want retribution from the courts against watchtower for child abuse allegations.
but let us take away the instances where someone was accused of child abuse and then later put back into a position of authority, such as an elder or an ms. let us just take the cases where a regular publisher or even an appointed person, with no previous accusation of child abuse has come up against that person.
Why do they keep this info?
sparrowdown: I second opinions already expressed above, They might want to check recommendations that came in from the CO of new elder, MS appointments against that list in the branches. The problem with publishing is, that the list might contain false accusations, also, are theses offenders grades from voyeuism "from a distance" to violent child rape, from toddler victim to 17 year 11 month olds? homo and hetero? true or false, accused or convicted? possible libel suits against wt?
