Luke 10:7
New International Version (NIV)
7 Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
This is my alltime favorite
1. mark 7:15 "there is nothing from outside a man that passes into him that can defile him; but the things that issue forth out of a man are the things that defile a man.. so how can eating black pudding or having a blood transfusion be a sin?.
2. roman 14:5 one [man] judges one day as above another; another [man] judges one day as others; let each one be convinced in his own mind.
so how come they say birthdays and festivals are a sin?.
7 Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
This is my alltime favorite
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i have been lurking here for about a month or two.
it is really awesome to read so many similar experiences.. for example, when i was still 'in' i wondered if i was the only one in the hall that really hated the meetings.
Thanks for all the support!
professor richard dawkins, famous atheist, will air a as toon, on the simpsons sunday the 10th of march, 2013 at 8pm on fox..
The older episodes were, in my opinion, much better. Now all they do is trying to mock with popular culture (like the Harlem shake) and have many guest appearances. I check the new ones regularly though but don’t find them that engaging.
A good old episode is however ‘the joy of sect’ which aired in 1998.
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i have been lurking here for about a month or two.
it is really awesome to read so many similar experiences.. for example, when i was still 'in' i wondered if i was the only one in the hall that really hated the meetings.
Hello all,
I have been lurking here for about a month or two. It is really awesome to read so many similar experiences.
For example, when I was still 'in' I wondered if I was the only one in the hall that really hated the meetings. And also hearing the same cr!p afterwards: that was a wonderful meeting, what a wonderful new book and blablabla. Then those stories how blessed there were and didn’t lose hope and finally found some bread when they were hungry... Back then I wondered how they got hungry in the first place.
Well anyway. My whole family is in the organization. LUCKYLY I am not baptized. So they don’t shun me and threat me normal (they are probably liberal or are still convinced that I might change my mind and go back to the 'truth'). I stopped going a couple of years ago when I was a teenager. I didn’t leave because I was a rebel, but I realized that it was just not something I could believe in and dedicate my life to. Several people that I knew talked about all their false prophecies like 1975, the generation,...so I discovered TTATT thanks to them and without the internet. 1984 from George Orwell also really helped me a lot to discover TTATT. From that point onwards the meetings were twice as hard to attend and I was constantly looking for excuses to skip meetings. Finally after a couple of mouths I faded. Of course my family encouraged me to attend meetings but I told them I needed more time to study and some personal time to consider things.
Currently I am at college so basically I can do whatever I want (in a responsible way). I just made this topic to share with you guys that I am really happy that I was never baptized and currently my life is really good. I am so glad that my family doesn't shun me, although I am aware that other families in the org. would.