Topics Started by Rattigan350

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Is Jehovah the Rock of Love?
by Rattigan350 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
and i am not referring to the brett michaels show.. something that has always bothered me was this exchange from job 1 and no one has explained it properly.. job 1:9 "satan answered jehovah and said: is it for nothing that job has feared god?10have not you yourself put up a hedge about him and about his house and about everything that he has all around?

the work of his hands you have blessed, and his livestock itself has spread abroad in the earth.11".

jehovah's response to that statement should have been "i put a hedge about him and blessed him because i am the god of love.
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Jehovah generously provides?
by Rattigan350 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the june 15 2013 w pg 13, para 6&7 has an experience of a pioneer that needed $66 to pay her rent the next day.

she prayed and went to work at her job as a waitress.

when she finished her shift she had received a total of $66 in tips.
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Marry in the Lord
by Rattigan350 in
1. jw
2. experiences
they do not do a good job of exploring why different people stop going to the meetings and make any improvements.. this is a quote from another topic.

it reminds me of the may 15 2012 study article about marry only in the lord, p 4 para7.

they are not trying to improve their product (the people).
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The real problem with Watchtower.
by Rattigan350 in
1. jw
2. friends
a topic on here about 1975 prompted me to write about how, for me, that is and never was or will be an issue.. also, the 144,000 and 'two classes' with memorial partaking, and child abuse are not issues with this religion.

everyone has their unique teachings and personnel problems.. the real problem with this religion was highlighted in the 2008 yearbook.

it gave a story of a young woman who was from estonia who was on the equivalent of american idol for estonia.
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What if you say you don't believe or trust in God anymore?
by Rattigan350 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
people here have commented how in judicial meetings, they are asked if they believe that the gb or wts is god's representative or the fds is used by god.. what if you say you don't believe in god anymore because of all of the bad things happening around the world and god does nothing.. representatives of a god that does nothing, would also do nothing so how could one believe in them?.
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Early church fathers
by Rattigan350 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in a post by leolaia she stated:.

then the trinity brochure came out and i almost immediately became upset at its intellectual dishonesty, as by this time i was very familiar with the early church fathers and recognized that the brochure distorted heavily their views.. .

early church fathers and their views?
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Making the congregations pay for invitation printing
by Rattigan350 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the memorial and district convention invitations have a space for each congregtion to put their local information on them.. the congregations then have to foot the bill, many times it is the service overseer personally, for the printing on them.. some print labels and the congregation puts them on, others print with their laser printer and wear them out.. at first the paper was so poor that the particles would destroy laster printers and make a dust storm.

commercial printers hated that paper.. the society should have a variable data printing system since they know the times of the memorial and convention for each congregation and they should print that while they print the initial invitation.. think if it, 12,000 congregations in the usa multipled by $50 on average cost to print or label each congregation's amounts to $600,000.

do that twice a year for 7 years and that is $8.4 million dollars.
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Birthdays & Christmas
by Rattigan350 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what is the deal with people criticizing jws because they don't celebrate birthdays or christmas?.

it is as if when someone is born, from a baby, to a child, teen, adult; that one has a responsiblity to celebrate christmas (and i thought it was a free country); and others have a responsiblity to celebrate others' anniversary of one's birth.. i don't get the criticisms as if celebrating either is a great thing and the not celebrating is a bad thing.. data on star trek said that he does not understand why people celebrate their birthdays - a day one can not possibly remember.. what are you actually celebrating?

the fact that you made it another year?
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2014 DC
by Rattigan350 in
1. jw
2. friends
they read a letter about the 2014 district conventions and how some would be international.. my thought was that this is a gimmick to get people excited.

the organization has jumped the shark so they need.

to use gimmicks to bring excitement.. the congregations were to pass a resolution to for $.15 per publisher for 17 months to go to a fund to bring the missionaries home,.
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Obamacare and how it affects JWs
by Rattigan350 in
1. jw
2. friends
while i think that obamacare is bad for forcing people to get health insurance by penalizing them for not having it; it is going to hit jws hard.. so many brag on the assembly parts that they quit corporate jobs to pioneer, but they don't get insurance after that.. there are many that are pioneer couples or single pioneers that are just doing small jobs like cleaning that can't afford insurance, so they don't get it.

they will want to be obedient to caesar and have to get it next year, straining their budgets.

or if they don't get it, they will have to pay the penalty.. we will see how that plays out next year..