an american and a russian are debating which country has real free speech..
american: in my country I can say anything about our president without fear of arrest..
russian:..in my country I too can say anything about your president without fear of arrest...
i meet a 6 years baptised jw girl.
we planned to marry here in philippines ( no divorce here }.
judge told me he can do the marriage so we livived together to be married.
why play chess with the devil?....just get out and stay out..don't bother trying to jump through man made hoops..
i'm testing a theory.. so many people discuss whether or not 144,000 is a literal number.. i want to discuss, what if 144,000 is not a number of individuals, rather a number of groups of people.. .
while there is no unanimous acceptance or truth, some believe that the book if revelation was written in hebrew originally.
my theory is based in this possibility.
why is it that anything that purports to be The Truth or a book inspired by god is wrapped up in theories and hidden meanings...surely if god wanted man to know his message etc it would be laid out simply and clearly without risk of double meanings..144,000 could be anything if stared at long enough....it makes less and less sense to me the older I get....smoke and mirrors..
exodus 9 then the lord said to moses, go to pharaoh and say to him, this is what the lord, the god of the hebrews, says: let my people go, so that they may worship me.
2if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, 3the hand of the lord will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the fieldon your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats.
4but the lord will make a distinction between the livestock of israel and that of egypt, so that no animal belonging to the israelites will die.?.
How could I justify my actions as a loving father if I allowed a murderer into the home and allowed him to slaughter my children..and then had the temerity to justify myself by saying I allowed him in to prove I am a righteous god deserving of worship..... I just don't get it....how could a god have allowed satan to exist and cause (allegedly) death on human race ...and then allow billions upon billions of people to suffer death and disease...cancer and heartbreak..loss and pain....far easier surely to have wiped satan out before he manifested himself.....?...
exodus 9 then the lord said to moses, go to pharaoh and say to him, this is what the lord, the god of the hebrews, says: let my people go, so that they may worship me.
2if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, 3the hand of the lord will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the fieldon your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats.
4but the lord will make a distinction between the livestock of israel and that of egypt, so that no animal belonging to the israelites will die.?.
reminds me of the account of herod having all the local newborn babies killed......how many would there have been in such a small locality?....it always seemed that he massacred thousands...but would probably actually have been a handful,....
if a witness tells you that jesus commanded you to go to the memorial, how would you respond?.
outlaw...very very funny!!!thanks!
so, the new arrangement is to get all the cong to count every tract and memorial invite and dc invite placed etc!.
can you beleive this!
how controlling and completely stupid!...i mean what is the reasoning behind counting a slip left in soemones letterbox???
..compiling a second book of Numbers......very sad......did Jesus keep a record?...no.
i really do have more important things to do this week, so i am postponing my elderette again.
she has not yet contacted me for her "topic of discussion" for the week.
i know she wants time to prepare her speech and presentation.
did jesus shun?....no.
i have been a witness for a long time and still serve as an elder.
there have been a lot of changes to deal with in the last six months or so since i stumbled on this site due to questions i had about all the recent changes in understanding published in the wt.
many posters here talk about a cult personality and a real personality.
the trouble with the Jw mindset is that they insist on doing nothing to help mankind positively today ..because god will help them tomorrow. If a man was starving to death they'd give him a recipe book instead of a food.........
i am sure that the term "circuit overseer" will be gone soon.
they seem to be changing vocabulary and the presiding overseer is now the "coordinator of the body of elders" and all "district overseers" will be gone in a few months.
they used to be called "circuit servants" but they will never re-hash an old term so they will make a new term.
..regional directors...
