it is getting close to time for me to buy a lawnmower.
when i was growing up and cutting my dad's lawn he always had a self-propelled lawnmower.
i was very lucky in that i never had to use a push-mower.
Come on. Get the electric if you like but push the damn thing!
(Of course I don't mow the lawn because I have a son, but he wanted a self propelled and I got one for him at a yard sale. Then he said it was too slow so I bought him a Honda push mower. I just love to see him running with the mower!)
how much harm did you cause to the people in your congregation?
everybody complains how the witnesses did this and that and in the process caused so much harm.
but what you don't say is how much pain you caused others while you were in.
Not one soul.
this bible verse was quoted in an earlier thread:take good care not to practice your righteousness in front of men in order to be observed by them; otherwise you will have no reward with your father who is in the heavens.
hence when you go making gifts of mercy, do not blow a trumpet ahead of you, just as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men.
truly i say to you, they are having their reward in full.
I think you need to go out in service more and think about how Jehovah is using the Faithful and Discreet Slave and hopefully that will a........
Okay I can't do it. It makes us all sick.
an intelligent person--describe them for us; what are they and what are they not?.
who are your hero-types of intelligence?
great thinkers, writers, philosophers or ordinary people?
I think in intelligent man should be able to figure things out.
Whether it's electrical, plumbing, higher math, finding the right Cliff's Notes, making the boogie man go away, putting suave on a loved ones insecurities, finding the humor in a tense moment, not finding humor in a tense moment.
This is a guy who will get by, smartly
i remember when i first googled "jehovah's witnesses".
i was sick to my stomach because i feared that i was disobeying jehovah.
although i was scared that i would find something "apostate" or "demonic", i still continued to click on different links.
Double post.
i remember when i first googled "jehovah's witnesses".
i was sick to my stomach because i feared that i was disobeying jehovah.
although i was scared that i would find something "apostate" or "demonic", i still continued to click on different links.
Funchback:
Huh? I checked all of your Topics and I don't see where I even replied to any of your Posts. You must have me mistaken for some other handsome guy!
It was my first post and you commented on it a few posts later. And I replied to you. I think I looked like some troll or something to you.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/44550/625483/post.ashx#625483
hi all this is josephus here and im posting my disassociation letter minus any identifying details which ill leave blank.
i would like thoughts on it if poss, but not spelling tips as my girl will check it 2morrow i just wanted to see if i struck the right balence .
or maybe if i put something wrong.. thanks all josephus.
Technically it was in 1919 that were "chosen" , not 1914.
Good job though! And I hope you have found happiness on the outside.
got to be honest an say i'm supprissed cofc is not on the net in some offical form.
any good reason why its not there?
lets think, if i was a executive in a pharmaceutical company that gave out drug that were harmful, i then realised the drugs were bad, but the rest of the exectives didn't want to know and chucked you out,you lost your money and pension but you had the infomation to help people who had taken the bad drugs , would you, .
Sleepy - I think you are missing the point. You asked the question and people disagree with you. As I do. Ray Franz is not bound by your analogy to give away what he wrote. He didn't create the problem.
Is every elder who leaves a congregation bound by ethics "to spread the word" on what type of unfairness they saw behind the scenes and post it for free?
Neither was Ray F, but he did for which I'm grateful.
do you ever have one of those days where you hear a song on a tv ad, and it bugs you because you cant get it out of your head?.
i've been experiencing that all week.
i don't recall the ad, and i'm pretty certain that the song was on the soundtrack for a movie, too (a.i.
Here then:
"It's a small world after all, It's a small world after all..............................."
i remember when i first googled "jehovah's witnesses".
i was sick to my stomach because i feared that i was disobeying jehovah.
although i was scared that i would find something "apostate" or "demonic", i still continued to click on different links.
segz - hang in there and it takes some time to clear your mind of the fog. We believe so long that the FDS have "special knowledge" and that you can't have a relationship with God without them between you and Him that it takes months to "rethink" things without the flood of loaded words from the WT. "Faithful Christians will not believe the words of the wolves on the internet, instead faithful true Christians will stay close to the "faithful word" that they have heard from God's chosen organization as presented through his "faithful and discreet slave." Geez. After hearing that for a while you become the......
Manchurian Christian.
