what excuse could anyone possibly have as to why they're not attending the 2 hours + of boring bullshit partaking of spiritual food this morning??
as for me, i have a perfectly valid excuse: i'm doing laundry and baking banana bread this morning.
what are you doing sunday morning instead of being told you're not doing enough in god's service?
I'm running a coax cable line outside for an additional TV. Later, I'll be retuning a DVD/VCR Combo player from Sony To Circuit City because I'm unhapppy with the performance.
I did look at the official WT web site to see what's new with the jws - same stuff, as always. The web site always tries to put on the innocent appearance of a credible religion. Too bad interested people usually don't get to see what it's really like until it's too late.
ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith alone...for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also" - james 2: 24, 26
al capone vs. judge rutherford
al capone gained his power by exploiting the weaknesses of people.. judge rutherford gained his power by exploiting the weaknesses of people.
Al Capone never wrote any worthless books.
Judge Rutherford wrote dozens of worthless books.
My favorite among the comparisons.
This post was very funny - and it'd be funnier if it wasn't based on such a sad truth.
I guess AlanF is god cuz he's the only one who answered my question and made logical sense. Now I pray to AlanF.
Gumby, that's the most hilarious thing I've ever read in a looong time!
i know many have rejected the idea of organized religion.
i teeter on that myself.
but i have toyed with hooking to a little country church with some friendly people to associate with.
I haven't changed and have no real plans to join another religion. But, I have been checking out a web site that I clicked on here as one of the Google ads in the right column. It's the Biblical Unitarians web site, and I've been looking at some of their beliefs.
attention !
i just talked to our dear tal, she is a sick puppy.
so, she's really disappointed as she's been dealing with this problem for quite a while now.
Get well soon!
there are some conflicting views on this subject; when i was a teenage jw i was friends with someone of the opposite sex and we were the best of mates...nothing sexual, no attraction in that department at all but it was frowned upon by those in the congregation (as you can probably imagine).. my ex wife never believed a man and woman could be just platonic...hence no longer with her...but..now being somewhat older (and a teeny bit wiser .
what do you think though, do you think a man and woman can be just friends and more importantly has this view been changed since leaving the jw's?.
db
I think it can be done, judiciously of course. But I have no problem with my wife and her former boss having lunch. I have lunch with a female work associate, though we try to make it a group thing when possible. But if others in the group say their plans have changed, she and I will still go. We'll go out a night on occasion too - in group settings only. And yes, she's very attractive.
But here's a thought - why is it that I will only be interested in forming such a friendship with a woman to whom I am attracted physically? I still don't know the answer (do I have a hidden agenda?), but I wouldn't be hanging with this woman if she was unattractive to me.
hi iv'e been lurking around for a few weeks.
getting the nerve to post something..i'm from ny.
iv'e been inactive for 8 years.
Welcome!
since investigating the history of the society i thought i would do research on the dawn bible society to others known as the russellites.
today in the mail i recieved a booklet and it is all about pastor russell his life and what happened after he died and the split from the watchtowe society.
some great reading and a real eye opener to the truth of the breakoff .
A few months back I looked into the Bible Students, though I don't think it was the Dawn students specifically. There was also a guy who posted here often, and defended the Students. His username escapes me at the moment. Some of his comments here did more harm than good to the BS (slight pun intended) cause, in my view.
Though I found some things about the Bible Students to be somewhat interesting (their symbol for example contains a cross topped with a crown if memory serves; and many teachings similar to the jws but one was free to disagree) what bothered me is their near-reverence of Russell. I also was taken back by their seeming obsession with the Rutherford takeover and the dismissal of members of the Society's board back around 1917.
While Russell was certainly a more congenial leader that Rutherford, he was obviously quite wrong on many teachings, especially when it came to chronology. To revere the guy borders on idolatry....and insanity.
it's been roughly ten years since the change in the understanding of the generation was printed in a november watchtower.. while i won't discuss here what everyone already knows about this change, and the effects it had on many people, questions have to be asked.. what happens next for the watchtower society?
where is the leadership?.
in what direction are they headed?.
be caught in a kind of whirlpool.
Last observed swirling about in a toilet, I might add.
when your other half is out of town, or you just have the luxury of being alone, what is your favourite way of passing the time?
I invite my girlfriends over.
Okay, seriously, I usually listen to music a bit more loudly than normal.
