the mother who says having these two children is the biggest regret of her lifeisabella dutton, 57, says she wishes she had remained childless'i resented the time my children consumed.
like parasites, they took from me and didn't give back'.
isabella dutton would have been happier not having children.
Love goes both ways of course.
William Shakespeare wrote a whole play about
children, greatly loved and pampered children,
turning on their parent. The name of that play
is King Lear, and the famous line is " How sharper than
a serpent's tooth, a thankless child."
Christian point of view ?
Do you realize most Christians, non-JW, believe in some form
of a paradise earth, and thousand year reign of Christ.
They all have some version of the earth being "cleansed"
and the "Peaceable Kingdom" on earth.
This is NOT a Watchtower " discovery "
There are paintings from the 17th century of the Lion and the Lamb
lying down together in the Peaceable Kingdom on Earth.
The Watchtower did not invent this.
The phrase "earthly class" appears NOWHERE in the Bible !!
The phrase " heavenly class" appears NOWHERE in the Bible.!!
The word ORGANIZATION appears NOWHERE in the Bible.
The Watchtower DOES NOT HAVE THE "TRUTH"
the mother who says having these two children is the biggest regret of her lifeisabella dutton, 57, says she wishes she had remained childless'i resented the time my children consumed.
like parasites, they took from me and didn't give back'.
isabella dutton would have been happier not having children.
OR worse, there are parents who torment and torture their children.
There are parents who beat them to death, drown them, burn them,
sexually abuse them. A parent who hates you and is cruel is the worst
and most dangerous person. But my comment on children knowing they
are not loved stands. Sometimes it only is realised as an adult in therapy.
I feel sorrier for the children than for this mother. I think she should have been
honest with her husband from the start, may be together they could have found
help for both her and the children. Honesty is hard but without it you live in
a trance, you do not participate in your own life.
according to the wt the 144000 have to die to obtain their heavenly reward?
but which part of them goes to heaven?.
their body can't and doesn't.
Faith in the existance of God is first.
Remember ALL Watchtower doctrine is false, all of it.
So instead of trying to figure out what the Watchtower
means, if you believe in God, and you believe he spoke through
Jesus Christ, why not read directly what Jesus Christ said??
Not some Watchtower version.
You can't start with a watchtower teaching and come up with truth.
You will find Jesus and the apostles and the disciples and
all the gospels talk about everybody being anointed
with holy spirit and putting on a spiritual form/body and existing in a new,
non-material body in a different dimension, place, than this one.
Forget what the Watchtower says about only a select few having life
in a spiritual form. It is not Biblical. And atheists here, are here
for what reason? I can't imagine why they bother.
the mother who says having these two children is the biggest regret of her lifeisabella dutton, 57, says she wishes she had remained childless'i resented the time my children consumed.
like parasites, they took from me and didn't give back'.
isabella dutton would have been happier not having children.
Children know when they are not loved. They can tell. It is silent abandonment.
You may go through the motions, but love is important.
Same thing in marriage. Going through the motions with no real love
is a cold sad lonley place even if there are others there. There are worse
things than being alone and the worst is being with someone who does not love.
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"The WTS accepts the list of books that this majority Church and the Roman Emperors decided on. Does the WT say that these religious Councils of the 4th century and their Roman emperors were anointed by the spirit when they made their decision, or do they go by their dictum that: “once the last of the apostles died, the apostasy took root and flourished”?
Good Point. here again the weakness of the argument in which they try to establish themselves
as emerging in the 20th century as the:
"sole channel of communication between God and mankind"
The WT has always maintained, for 100 years, that there was a consistant thread
of Christians representing "true religion" or their version: "faithful and discreet slave"
I use this term FDS knowing it is a construct of the WT
and has no real meaning in the sense they use it.
The so called apocryphal books , used by Eastern Orthodax,
Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church,
Beta Israel, Seventh Day Adventists contain a more authentic collections
than the limited choices chosen by the Catholic Councils.
The book of Enoch is quoted by Jude and yet the book of Enoch
is not included in the canon.
The Watchtower is actually a mainstream church becuase
it uses only Protestant Reformation Bible books.
And rejects more ancient canons.
The idea that God abandoned mankind until the appearance
of the "anointed" in 1919 is so absurd and arrogant and twisted it is a heresy.
The idea that only certain people can recieve the
baptism of holy spirit promised by Christ to all is also a heresy.
The Catholics are now closer
to the truth than the Watchtower.
United Nations will attack Christendom Because ?
It is the "disgusting thing" ??? Why is it "digusting" ??
Because its "standing in the Holy Place" ??
That means it claims to represent God.
The UN does not claim to channel God
the WT Society GB does that.
The Holy Place is pictured by the
Holy of Holies, or heaven,the place in the Temple
where only the High Priest could enter.
The High Priest was replaced by Jesus Christ. We all know this.
Jesus became the One Mediator between man and God.
When anyone claims to be a "Mediator",
or sole channel of communication
between man and God, they are;
"Standing in the Holy Place"
And WHO claims that ??
The Watchtower governing body claims to be the
sole channel of communication between man and God,
THEY are therefore the "disgusting thing" standing in the Holy Place,
because they circumvent Jesus. by their claim to be the channel of communication.
No-one can be a "sole channel of communication between man and God"
except Jesus Christ. Calling yourself "the faithful and discreet slave"
does not make it so.
This is the basic underlying premise of the WT Society.
The foundation of the Watchtower,
this teaching is blasphemy a"disgusting thing"
therefore nothing they preach or write has any validity at all.
cormac mccarthy wrote no country for old men, the road, the border trilogy (all the pretty horses...etc.).
and he wrote this play: sunset ltd.. .
it is a 2 man play.. the 2 men are samuel l. jackson and tommy lee jones.
Reality, fact and truth are always
staring down the Gun barrel of belief.
Belief is the psychological state
in which an individual holds a
proposition or premise to be true.
The relationship between belief
and knowledge is that a belief
is knowledge if the belief is true,
and if the believer has a justification
(reasonable and necessarily plausible
assertions/evidence/guidance) for believing it is true.
A false belief is not considered to be knowledge,
even if it is sincere. A sincere believer in the flat earth
theory does not know that the Earth is flat.
But he believes it.
so i went to the hall today for a funeral and took a look at the bulletin board.
i was surprised to see a letter stating the dc for michigan would be held at the local assembly hall instead of the big convention center in ohio where it had been held the past few years.
have you all heard about this?.
It would be interesting to see some massive OCCUPY movement
that excedes the number of those attending,
complete with their own literature tables, and food
and friendly people looking happy instead
of angry as is the usual, anti- WT "demonstration" mode.
And music and celebration. I favor Flash-Mob Dancing.
As the attendees walk by a sudden Falsh-Mob Dance by the apostates
The only "demonstrations" I ever saw looked scary and angry
and looked like miserable people "gnashing their teeth".
Joyful is the way I feel about being intellectually,
spiritually and emotionally free of the WT false prophets
and false doctrines. I know some still feel
connected to the doctrines of the WT.
its like they still have their hooks in you. Too bad
been doing a bit of research trying to tie in together a few different strands.. not too sure what happened to christianity and how organised religion took hold again after the apostles died off.. i know jerusalem was sacked 70 ce.
but lots to fill in from that point onwards to bring us to where we are today.. if a few peeps could help to condense and simplify the info down into a few bite size pieces it would give us a starting point to begin to re-educate ourselves to the truth.
and fill in the blanks.
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