....well...that's it really.. i left jwn a few months ago but did say i'd pop in.. i hope you are all well!.
regards paul.
Hey! so happy to see you (tho u don't know me well)
My hubby & I appreciated all of your hard work posting (w/all the references) in the past, it was put to good use.
I even pm'd you to say "thx" (even tho you were gone) (just in case you'd check your box again)...
so thx! & happy new year 2 u 2!
cha ching!
hopefully this image uploads...:.
if not see here:.
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=a6bmdyua%2fvworpms2chgloh4l5k2tgxc.
Simple question....
How long did that "generation that would by no means pass away" in Jesus day turn out to be?
Did the apostles have to wait 140 years? "overlapping generations"?
Hmmm?
hello again from sunny north carolina!!!.
our state lotto started today, and i won 15 dollars, and only bought 1 $1 card.
so whoop whoop for gambling.. i was in miami florida last week for the photoshop world conference, but i also got to tour the everglades, where i took some beautiful pictures.
Thx for your hard work!
i'm sorry but can someone here explain what this is about.
i saw someone on here called scholar on here saying that it somehow destroyed both coj and hermann hunger but how?
how does rolf furuli know that it was tampered with?
getting a visit tommorow our kids that are in are concerned as to why we are missing meetings.
our family is basically ignored by the congregation long story we just don't want to go anymore.
i have told the kids how rotten i have been treated and also i have had some seriou health issues but you know you should still be at the meetings.
YAY! Glad you made it... :-)
Try to use your time getting close to your kids, having funtimes!
Creating good memories :-) Close bonds will be a factor for the future.
Maybe some of your 'cult minded 3' stay in because of friends??
If their friends leave, or circumstances change in the congregation, they'll still have YOU!
One day at a time, and give yourself time to heal.
hugs, cha ching
what you are not permitted to see, examine, test or question is where the magician hides his deceptions so the magic may be passed off as real.. tyranny commences with certain assumptions which are not only unchallenged, but which may not be allowed a challenge.. these assumptions become, in effect, articles of faith on the one hand, and tests of loyalty on the other.. accepting the untested leads to magic-thinking.. .
in italy during world war ii, the fascist leader mussolini was said to be "always right.
" the brutish dictator magically knew somehow.. no counter-examples were permitted to be printed, spoken, discussed or debated without immediate punishments.. in japan, the emperor was said to actually be a god.
Terri, we feel ya man!
“magician hides his deceptions so the magic may be passed off as real. ”
“What was demanded in each instance (above) was the total acceptance of an unproved and assumed truth as the foundation to belief and acceptance followed by unstinting efforts in loyalty and obedience. ”
In each of these authoritarian rulers, “change” was the hook. Then, they demand conformity.
Just because there is “a change” does not mean it is “good.”
Even the Bible agrees:
(Proverbs 24:21-22) 21 My son, fear Jehovah and the king. With those who are for a change, do not intermeddle. 22 For their disaster will arise so suddenly, that who is aware of the extinction of those who are for a change?
Pol Pot, in Cambodia, with the Khmer Rouge:
The Khmer Rouge forced around two million people from the cities to the countryside to take up work in agriculture. They forced many people out of their homes and ignored many basic human freedoms; they controlled how Cambodians acted, what they wore, whom they could talk to, and many other aspects of their lives. Over the next three years, the Khmer Rouge killed many intellectuals, city-dwellers, minority people, and many of their own party members and soldiers who were suspected of being traitors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
As you’ve pointed out, Terry, the history of the Watchtower Society fits this same pattern.
“Let’s change!” “How dare you question us!”
“Execution” (by disfellowshipping)
getting a visit tommorow our kids that are in are concerned as to why we are missing meetings.
our family is basically ignored by the congregation long story we just don't want to go anymore.
i have told the kids how rotten i have been treated and also i have had some seriou health issues but you know you should still be at the meetings.
So, what happened Shaul?
getting a visit tommorow our kids that are in are concerned as to why we are missing meetings.
our family is basically ignored by the congregation long story we just don't want to go anymore.
i have told the kids how rotten i have been treated and also i have had some seriou health issues but you know you should still be at the meetings.
Dear Shaul,
If you have been hurt, end it now. Don't let them hurt you again.
I went to an "elder's meeting" and during it, I was crying/ wailing for 2 hours from the bottom of my soul because they were so ignorant, I couldn't leave (other congregation meeting going on outside) and I had nightmares EVERYnight... post traumatic stress, for at least a year afterwards.
I would never give them that power over me again.
Tell them "I cannot mentally, physically endure such stress, and for my own health, cannot afford this "shepherding" call.
love & hugs, cha ching
the 2013 edition of the new world translation renders 2 kings 17:1 as:.
in the 12th year of king ahaz of judah, hoshea the son of elah became king over israel in samaria; he ruled for nine years.. this is in fact a better rendering than the previous nwt, which stated:.
in the twelfth year of ahaz the king of judah, hoshea the son of elah became king in samaria over israel for nine years.. despite their improved rendering, the watch tower society still claims that hoshea's reign 'really' began in 758 bce, but that it was 'established' in the 12th year of ahaz.
"These," "Many," "All" witnesses will soon dutifully "just love the new teaching" when it is revealed by the Holy Spirit...
I mean.... the "GB"
cha ching
the 2013 edition of the new world translation renders 2 kings 17:1 as:.
in the 12th year of king ahaz of judah, hoshea the son of elah became king over israel in samaria; he ruled for nine years.. this is in fact a better rendering than the previous nwt, which stated:.
in the twelfth year of ahaz the king of judah, hoshea the son of elah became king in samaria over israel for nine years.. despite their improved rendering, the watch tower society still claims that hoshea's reign 'really' began in 758 bce, but that it was 'established' in the 12th year of ahaz.
At? Schmat! FOR? what a Bore!
The only reason at/for was ever included in the “discussion” was to give the WTBS a way out, if they evidently ever needed a “get out of jail free card” .. right?
Those 'soon to be' old quotes do / willcome in handy, don’t/ won't they?
Meanwhile, “these nations”, “all the nations”, “all these lands”, "many nations" let’s list the nations, (Jer 25:17-26) “will have to serve the king of Babylon seventy years”….. ALL of them…. Period….
Con men always get you to doubt your own eyes.....
