i don't know why, but i put off getting a haircut way longer than i should.. i might go as long as 5 or 6 months between haircuts.. i desperately need a haircut.. what do you desperately need, but you've been putting it off?.
(disclaimer: minimus is going to be jealous.
this sort of question is his tradmark :).
I don't know why, but I put off getting a haircut way longer than I should.
I might go as long as 5 or 6 months between haircuts.
I desperately NEED a haircut.
What do YOU desperately need, but you've been putting it off?
(Disclaimer: Minimus is going to be jealous. This sort of question is his tradmark :)
why are jws so afraid of apostates?
their view of apostates seems to be out of the realm of the ordinary, the natural.
its as if the words of apostates are supernatual or spiritistic as if apostates are some kind of jedi knights who can slightly wave their hands or twitch their eyes and bring one under a spell.
APOSTATES are like the Charleton Heston character in the original
PLANET OF THE APES
He was proof the worldview of the Apes was upside down.
this past october geoffrey jackson told the audience at the watchtower corporate meeting that "they aren't sure who the new king of the north is".. this was applauded as new light.
but if you look up the search terms putin king of the north your won't see jw.org pop up as a top search result.
i checked through the first 100 results and n-o-t-h-i-n-g.. isn't interpretation of prophecy the special territory of the jw's.
I am 68 years old. I'm old enough to have lived through the Let Your Name Be Sanctified era of Congregation books studies.
The U.S.S.R. figured mightily into the sausage factory of Watchtower theology way back then. A lot of guesswork went on with certainty attached. The Cold War made the biblically naive unsettled and their conjectures went into overdrive.
The U.S.S.R. brought Gorbachev and that red birthmark on his forehead. Oh, what a field day the Bible donkeys had with that one! THE MARK OF THE BEAST!
Ha ha ha ha.
Nonsense is nonsense.
People who imagine the Bible to be something real, will carry on with silliness for two thousand more years just like they did in the past.
There is no THERE there--but, it hasn't stopped anybody yet.
These historical moments come and go; come and go, like the tide.
What do they 'mean?" What does a cloud shaped like Abraham Lincoln 'mean?'
i have read on the internet someone make the claim that in this writting eusebius writes that constantine at one of the meetings at nicea got together with the early church leaders to come up with a new god to worship.
this new god came from 5 final choices of cesar, krishna and others, finally picking krishna and a british god which i can't remember the name.
the two together became jesus.
A pretty good rule of thumb is to regard historical writing as evidence of a kind.
Always read the source before you read other people's opinion about the source.
Eusebius' writings need to be read directly.
What some internet maven thinks Eusebius was saying is not the same thing.
It's like reading what the Watchtower says the Bible is saying.
How close is that? :)
Early Church Fathers' writings are among the most interesting writings I have read.
My eyes were really opened.
Those people were all kinds of crazy. They were highly intelligent crazy people:)
Their opinions and beliefs are often incredibly naive, imaginative and bizarre.
No wonder Christianity is a mess. Foundationally, it was a mess to begin with.
I'd stick with what people DID rather than what they thought about what things 'meant.'
neurophilosopher, thomas metzinger says in his book:.
the ego tunnel: thescience of the mind and the myth of the self.
the ego evolved as an instrument in social cognition, and one of its greatest functional advantages was that it allowed us to read the minds of other animals or conspecifics and then to deceive them.
Self-awareness is not necessarily awareness of self in any insightful way.
Awareness of self-want and self-need is really more like it.
The morality of desire is this: I like it--so--it is good.
Rather than: It is good--so--I like it.
Superstition is a pre-echo of selfish awareness.
Gods need to be bribed. Gods are arbitrary, capricious, and whimsical.
This is a catalog of human wilfulness.
What the gods are capable of is no different from that of human gang leaders.
What is religious ritual but the self, attempting to govern self, by projecting outward
into the invisible realm of spirits a punishing hand?
who is all this money benefiting?
when you have hundreds of millions or billions of dollars there will be someone trying to tap into that.
is it the governing body?
There is now an army of legal experts who probably have a magnificent income from 24 hour a day handling of the legal affairs of this 8 million person disaster machine called the Watchtower.
If you've read the 'secret' elders manual, you'll see the first and last line of defense against a tidal wave of litigation is the Hadrian's Wall of legal aid.
That is the one non-voluntary chink in the armor.
Now, as far as leadership is concerned, these men have a different incentive of
personal enrichment. The GB are little Christs. (Annoited means Christ, remember?)
They now have become JW TV stars. They travel around the world making celebrity personal appearances. I doubt many of them spend a night in an uncomfortable bed or eat less than a glorious meal. They now get to assume the title of "glorious ones" and never miss an opportunity to assert their imaginative opinions into the official beliefs of 8 million people instantly!
The GB are right up there with the Pope and the Dali Lama.
Three cheers for self-aggrandizement, hubris, and clout.
http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/asia/kyrgyzstan/court-ruling-for-conscientious-objectors/.
december 30, 2013 | kyrgyzstan.
kyrgyzstan court rules in favor of conscientious objectors bishkek, kyrgyzstanthe constitutional chamber of the supreme court of kyrgyzstan unanimously declared on november 19, 2013, that the countrys current law on alternative service is unconstitutional and violates the right of freedom of religion.
lol for some reason i was just reminded about the time a circuit overseer told my mom a good method of talking to householders was to say the following things "i don't have too much time to talk to you" or "i'm very busy today so i'll only share this one thought.
" .
i know if i had been at the door i woulda said "if you are so busy why the hell are you wasting time knocking on my door butthead?
JEHOVAH'S WITNESS TRAINING CENTER
the catholic church has tradition and magesterium.. protestants have sola fide and sola scriptura.. mormons have 12 apostles and a priesthood.. muslims have the mullahs and the hidden imam.. 7th day adventists have the "visions" of ellen white.. jehovah's witnesses have the mouthpiece of god; i.e.
fds or faithful and discreet slave.. .
all these religions have something in common--mystical links to justify their own authority!.
How is it my pattern works and Simon's doesn't?
i've made some updates to the user section of the site.
besides some cosmetic tweaks the most notable new feature is the ability to see a listing of the topics someone has posted on - this includes topics they started as well as topics they replied to.. it will look like this when you go to a user page or your own profile page:.
simon.
I must be a dunderhead--I can't find the EDIT function after I post (within the time limit) and need to make a correction.
I've hovered my pointer over everything and can't find it.
Should I try prayer and fasting??
