i am passing this on for your information, if you need to give advice (or need advice) for those getting involved in any way with the watchtower.
it is for christians and non-christians, so take what you will from it.
the jehovah's witnesses will want the kids raised as jehovah's witnesses and teach them all of the society's peculiar doctrines behind your back.
I didn't read the whole thing, but the link to the website listed some things that JWs "can't" do that are not quite accurate and up-to-date. For instance, it says seeing a psychiatrist is "STRONGLY discouraged." Although that might have been true in the sixties and seventies, it is misleading to say that about the JWs of today.
There are other examples.
Yes, I am playing Diabolos Advocatus.
Bradley
asked my dad the other day, a man who da'd himself seven years ago yet, amazingly, still believes 99% of what the dubs teach just what makes him believe the dubs have the "truth.
" what were the first words out of his mouth?
"well, they don't believe in the trinity...." .
Watson,
Yeah, the "Jesus REALLY died on a stake" doctrine is almost laughable in it's usage by the dubs. (Is it just me or was this teaching more important to them years ago?)
Even so, there's not much doubt in my mind that Jesus was crucified in the way that that Whore Babylon said all along. The Trinity? Could go either way in my book.
But, in the end, it's all bullshit.
Bradley
so i turned 27 years old last week.
my girlfriend bought me a "happy first birthday" card in comedic fashion.
what sage advice would you give me?
Phantom Stranger:
Your advice was greatly appreciated and well noted. You said:
I would say to venture into the expereintial, and avoid hanging out in the cerebral too much of the time. Living in one's head can become a great way of avoiding mistakes, but it's an even better way of avoiding great experiences. Take risks, live large, and make enough mistakes to make sure you're always learning.
Now, I've always been the cerebral type. I'm an INTP on the Meyer's-Briggs personality test if that means anything to you. But lately I've started to think that that is not best, that actual experiences count more than mental ones. Been thinking like a Nietzschean lately.
But, how does one avoid a myopic subjectivism, though?
Bradley
so i turned 27 years old last week.
my girlfriend bought me a "happy first birthday" card in comedic fashion.
what sage advice would you give me?
So I turned 27 years old last week. My girlfriend bought me a "Happy First Birthday" card in comedic fashion. What sage advice would you give me? What life lesson? Helpful tidbit? Anything, really.
Bradley
printed in 1989,who remembers studying this publication at the book study and what have you concluded then and now?.
some chapter titles:how believable is the "old testament"?
the "new testament"----history or myth?.
I had a return visit about eight years ago with a older man who was extremely skeptical about the Bible.I placed the book with him and returned the next week with utter confidence that he would see the magnificant arguments put forward and start studying.
Boy was I wrong.
The first words out of his mouth were, and I think I remember them exactly, "That book is extremely biased." He went on to tear it to pieces. Funny thing, I think some of his arguments stayed in my brain till I was emotionally ready to deal with them.
Bradley
PS -- Amazingly, I ran into this man at Starbucks over the summer. We have since had many delightful conversations! Really, I'm not making this up!
asked my dad the other day, a man who da'd himself seven years ago yet, amazingly, still believes 99% of what the dubs teach just what makes him believe the dubs have the "truth.
" what were the first words out of his mouth?
"well, they don't believe in the trinity...." .
Thank you Makeveli. I will certainly try to "raise it to the next level." Thank you, again.
Signed,
Man
as many of you know, i am 63, and left the religion about 40 years ago.
i was raised in it and would like to explain what it was like compared to today.
first of all, back in the mid to late 40's the patriotism of the u.s. was very high and the treatment at the door was very harsh.
Personally, I think the elder arrangement hurt the organization more than they'll ever admit.
I hate to say it (but why?) that the greatest apostate of them all, Ray Franz, was partially responsible for that. Ouch.
Bradley
not alcoholics anonymous, mind you.
:) atheists/agnostics.
i know there are some of us here; who's with me?
I'm an agnostic with a penchant for mystical pantheism.
B.
asked my dad the other day, a man who da'd himself seven years ago yet, amazingly, still believes 99% of what the dubs teach just what makes him believe the dubs have the "truth.
" what were the first words out of his mouth?
"well, they don't believe in the trinity...." .
Asked my Dad the other day, a man who DA'd himself seven years ago yet, amazingly, still believes 99% of what the Dubs teach just what makes him believe the Dubs have the "Truth." What were the first words out of his mouth?
"Well, they don't believe in the Trinity...."
Damn. Now, I'm no longer a Dub or a Christian, but it seems to me that both sides to this debate have made the question of the deity of Christ way, way, WAY too important. Trinitarians, non-trinitarians -- brainwashed, all of them.
If that is the NUMBER ONE reason why the Dubs have the Truth, well that's pretty sad. The opposite of that statement is also true.
Sorry, I feel like ranting today.
Bradley
i remember my boss asking me once this question, since he knew i was a witness.
he asked, "what resurrects, the body, the soul, what?.
he knew that witnesses believe in the resurrection of the dead on earth, in a different physical body during the millennium.. i told him that it won't be the same physical body, and maybe won't be identical, but it's the same person.
How 'bout them Cubs.
