i am sure this is not new topic, but today seems to open the ???
, is he just a target because of his wierd behavier.. i want to think he is innocent????.
the press in this country is sometimes off the center of the subject.....maybr not representing the real truth....???.
MJ defence seems to be discrediting every witness the prosecution is bring forward to testify. I think he may still get off but seems to me that the amount of witnesses that are coming forward against MJ proves that he is guilty of some indiscretions. I can't believe that everyone that is testifying against MJ is lying.
Will
he said that if we take time to argue or disagree with someone at the door then our guardian angel is already waiting at the next door with out us.
basically what this does is train us to flee from anything that may conflict with what we are trying to teach or anything that we may believe.
to stay at the door and .
I always thought that arguing with someone for hours was a complete waste of time. Once you make your point and the conversation starts to go in circles, move on. Standing there and arguing theological points is a complete waste of time as both partied minds are made up and nothing will change it.
Will
i have always been a little bit puzzled by jws loudly proclaiming that the pope is not the "voice of god on earth", and turning around and vernerating the watchtower as "the voice of god on earth.".
i have repeatedly told jws to apply the same standard you do against the pope to the watchtower and you will be more than a bit dissapointed.
the best answer i could ever get was, "well that's different".. can any exjws explain this?
Same S***, different pile.
Will
i am sure this is not new topic, but today seems to open the ???
, is he just a target because of his wierd behavier.. i want to think he is innocent????.
the press in this country is sometimes off the center of the subject.....maybr not representing the real truth....???.
So, I think he's guilty. However, as another poster said, he may not completely understand his guilt.
Even if he doesn't understand what he is doing this should not mitigate his guilt. I personally think he is knows more of what is going on than people think he does and the child like act is just that an act.
Will
i am sure this is not new topic, but today seems to open the ???
, is he just a target because of his wierd behavier.. i want to think he is innocent????.
the press in this country is sometimes off the center of the subject.....maybr not representing the real truth....???.
Again I repeat, guilty or innocent a 40+ year old man does not let 12 year old boys sleep in his bed. MJ was only opening himself up for every "get rich quick" persons to come along. Personally I believe in the old saying, "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck"....
Will
ok, it?s taken me longer to get my thoughts together on this than i expected, but here is the reason that i have come to have doubts in the divine nature of the bible; its failure to show that the god it describes is abiding by "his" own standards.. for example, according to 2 peter 1:20, the entire bible is inspired of god.
the main attributes of "god" are that "he" is love (1 john 4:8), "he" is just (deuteronomy 32:4), and "he" has all of the power (revelation 7:12).. with that in mind, my first problem with the bibles authenticity is that this ?loving god?
murdered the entire world of men at one point in history by drowning them.
The bible is just a Book.. Written by a god knows who, about a bunch of mythological stories that make no sense to the modern person. That is all it is. No one can prove to me without doubt that any of those stories are true, unless I have blind faith. For one to follow it today is as ignorant as those that believed the stories thousands of years ago.
Will
a spokesman for homosexuality was on tv yesterday blaming the pope for some of the gay people catching aids, based of the popes disbelief in contraception.
then i saw other people echoing this.. how dumb are they?
the pope was also against homosexuality/ sex before marriage but none of them stopped practising sex because of what the pope believed did they?
I don't blame the pope for people getting aids but isn't about time the RC church get into the 21 century??? This brought to you by the same people that gave us the bloody crusades and the inquisitions.
Will
i have heard many urban myths associated with the watchtower society and its hapless adherents.
i like the one where an "interested one" accepted the invitation to attend the memorial one year, and sat next to a "sister" who let the confused attendee use her bible to look up scriptures as they were presented.
afterword, the "sister" walked the man up to the circuit overseer, who had delivered the talk that year, and introduced the dupe-filled "study" to the co. the co complimented the man on his spiritual interest and asked what impelled him to come up and talk to him.
Work progressed so slowly that the parrot learned to imitate the Watchtower Study conductor, even calling brothers and sisters by name!
I am surprised the parrot didn't start giving public talks.
The one I heard as a kid my sister told me this story as if it happened first hand was the one about the kids playing with the wigi board. One of the children who was either a JW or was studying asks the board who their leader was and the board answered Satan. The board also said the time was short and that Armageddon was coming soon.
Will
i ask this question because i know alot of "born-agains"that do not like roman catholics and feel that they worship mary and will not make it to heaven.
my friend that is a devout catholic has told me many horror stories of christians sending pamphlets to catholic churches telling them that they will burn in hell.
i was igronant of the anti-catholic hatred that is taught in many born-again christian churches.
A born again friend once told me that some RC are OK as there are "Charismatic" Christians that are also RC. I once mentioned about the Pope stepping down due to his health and she said he wouldn't do that as there are a number of men within the church that want to reform the church. Maybe it is about time they get into the 21 century but that is a whole different topic. As far as the man is concerned, he is only that. Like others have said on here there are thousands of people that die every day that have contributed to the betterment human kind just as much as Pope John Paul has. What makes him so special? Just because he happens to be the leader of a group of people that believe in fairytales?
Will
an elder told me the book is jehovah's latest provision to cleanse his organization.. he said soon all people that have drifted, inactives, and others baptized and not complying with the biblical mandates for a jw, will be visited and given an option to shape up or ship out.. he said that if the person refuses the help offered by the congregation they'll be notified of the date of disfellowshipping and given time to appeal the decision.. he was so happy stating that this way jehovah's organization was preparing for the final clean-up before armageddon.
he sounded so convincing that it almost made perfect sense what he was saying.
i got goose bumps listening to his reasoning.. dy
If they call on me, first they are not welcome into my house. Second I will have no comment and if pressed I will tell them I keep my opinions to myself, that way they will have no grounds to do anything to me. Another idea is if they call me I will tell them I will have legal counsel present, that way they wouldn't dare talk to me. Will
