........................dubs are not true christians.
they use that point to prove they are and it's that very point that proves they are not!.
i was doing a bit of house work this morning when the phone rang.
You're holding to what the Bible says much more so than the jws are.
As soon as a child doesn't quite do what they (parents, other jws) want, their kneejerk reaction is to penalize the child in some way, normally by withdrawing approval and association. All that serves to do is alienate the very person they are tryng to win over.
have you ever been called before one?
were you ever on one?
what happened???
Good one undercover!
have you ever been called before one?
were you ever on one?
what happened???
I sat on a jc on several occasions. hated every minute of every one of them.
Perhaps the worst one was dfing a woman who had just moved into the area because she smoked. No one in the congregation knew her, and when her dfing was announced, there were looks of puzzlement on many faces, and a few asked afterward who she was.
She may have attended one meeting, an elder found out she smoked, and before I knew it, I was sitting to judge her. I should have opened my mouth and protested the whole thing, but I went along with the elders, one of whom was much more dominating in personality than me and the other who was older and more experienced.
During the meeting the woman cried and the elders with me showed no compassion. I felt bad for her, but didn't speak up. And frankly, I never bought into smoking as a dfing offense anyway.
i found a web site about the history of tennis and was interested to learn that this game has pagan roots among the ancient egyptians.
here is a snippet from the web site.
ball games can be traced back to ancient times and the earliest representations can be found in carvings in egyptian temples dating from 1500bc.
Two ways of looking at this:
1. Yep, S & V Williams, Inc., are indeed making big bucks off a game with pagan roots.
2. It shows the folly of jw stances against things with supposed pagan roots, and how the wts will simply pick and choose rather than condemn all things pagan. So much of what passes as normal activity is rooted in paganism to at least some degree that it would be far better to simply have never banned stuff like b-days in the first place.
i was thinking today about how all sorts of famous people from history had that one 'thing' that they were remembered by, whether it was hitchcock's silhouette, charlie chaplin's kane, or churchill's victory sign.
what is that one "thing" you remeber posters by (whether visual, or instrinsical) i did a short list.
please add.... i did this on a whim.
xena - sexiness
stinkypantz - sexiness
sirona - sexiness
stephanie - sexiness
shera - sexiness
mr. moe (does she still post here?) - sexiness
One Track Mind Class
i'd vote for revelation since every nutcase who ever came down the pike has tackled it verse for verse and applied it to the time in which he was living.
ever notice that?
no matter what decade or century, people reading the bible always think that it applies to their time.
Poz, you're not alone. There was much debate about Revelation's place in the Bible canon before it was accepted.
i'd vote for revelation since every nutcase who ever came down the pike has tackled it verse for verse and applied it to the time in which he was living.
ever notice that?
no matter what decade or century, people reading the bible always think that it applies to their time.
I guess it depends on what sort of problems we're talking about -
Genocide - Joshua
End-Times Expectations - Revelation, Daniel
Creationsim - Genesis
Demeaning Women - several Pauline letters, esp 1 and 2 Timothy
Shunning - 1 Cor, 2 John
i have set up a free fantasy football league on yahoo!.
to join you will need a yahoo email and an interest in football.
pm me with your yahoo email and i will send you the information to join the league.. .
I'd go in, but it wouldn't be fair to the rest of the league. My football knowledge is so deep, so thorough, that I'm known as an amalgam of Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry, Bill Belichick, Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells, and Joe Gibbs. My team would no doubt go undefeated, leaving my fellow jwd members saddened and frustrated.
Coach Class/Full-Of-It Cass
today, i was on the scene of the local congregation of jw's where my ex-wife and her husband attend.
physical, emotional and mental abuse has been purpetrated upon my kids for eight years now.
they have been victims of alcoholism, verbal bashings and they have been made to watch their stepfather beat the hell out of their mother and then be halled off to jail without saying a word to anyone for fear fo reprisal from him and their mother.
Wow, what a situation.
They care more about their imaginary "spritual danger" than the abusive treatment your kids received. Good job stating your case.
the short version is: my daughter fell in love several years ago with another teenager; both were dubs in good standing, both later reproved for expressing that love in some manner not platonic.
boy moves away.
girl moves away, in another direction.
My advice would sort of sound like this: Consider it a painful learning experience and move on.
