faking of hours in field service or dragging service time out by making coffee stops or driving for hours "between" household contacts are never frowned upon, let alone mentioned, in the publications.
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yet, in each congregation of jehovah's witnesses, to one degree or another, faking hours, padding time out with coffee stops and long journeys between opportunities to "witness" are endemic practices..
"Making your time" is the most important thing to pioneers. All of them have creative ways to 'count time'. The 'pioneer shuffle' was one of my favorites. At the end of the service year the big buzz among pioneers is; "Did you make your time?".
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this is and odd topic but there is a part of me that really misses feeling that i knew more about the world than 99.9% of the people.
i spent so many years in school being the odd person because of religion.
i embraced it to some extent.
If a false sense of security/superiority is better than no sense of security/superiority then I would answer yes to your question.
However, I have found it much more comforting and intellectually rewarding to have; questions that cannot be answered as opposed to answers that cannot be questioned.
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what is the proof it should be there?.
i've brought up to jws that revelation says not to take anything out or you will get the second death.. but they are ok with it because they compare it to not using the book of thomas, mary, etc.. what would you say to that?.
'Let's change or omit whatever doesn't fit cause the rank and file will not care enough to say anything'.
When the next updated and revised NWT comes out, the words at 1 John 4:8 will also be revised to say "God is organization".
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the bible says in genesis that god made human beings in his "image".. this means that christians believe human beings were made with certain attributes that they share with god.
attributes such as intelligence, creativity, an appreciation of beauty, and sharing a similar set of cardinal moral and spiritual values around love, justice, mercy, etc.. this linked article explains it from a christian perspective more fully.http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/deeper-walk/features/23549-qmade-in-the-image-of-godq.
and yet....we find in the old testament that god performs or endorses the most morally repugnant acts, such as ethnic cleansing, killing infants and children, causing famines and plagues, drowning the entire human population except eight persons, etc, etc - all actions that any reasonable and objectively sane person naturally finds morally incomprehensible, disgusting, evil.. this article here outlines some of the actions described in the ot that any normal, sane person would naturally find morally abhorrent:http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/raymond_bradley/moral.html.
Absolutely impossible to reconcile the JHWH God of the OT with "God is Love" in 1 John 4:8 even in JWdom.
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when you listen to people talking about this and that; a situation they are in, how awful it is etc., i get to thinking, well why don't you change it then.
if you suggest that to them they come up with a lot of excuses as to why they remain as they are.
they may get really angry with you saying 'are you mad?
Correction to my stupid spelling. Please excuse brainfart.
Of course everything we do is a choice either conscience conscious or unconscience unconscious choice. Why did God give us the ability to choose? Wouldn't the world be a better place if we could only do good? Why was bad ever provided as a choice? Was God so petty that he wasn't sure that what HE created was perfect?
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when you listen to people talking about this and that; a situation they are in, how awful it is etc., i get to thinking, well why don't you change it then.
if you suggest that to them they come up with a lot of excuses as to why they remain as they are.
they may get really angry with you saying 'are you mad?
Of course everything we do is a choice either conscience or unconscience choice. Why did God give us the ability to choose? Wouldn't the world be a better place if we could only do good? Why was bad ever provided as a choice? Was God so petty that he wasn't sure that what HE created was perfect?
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mexico: murdered jehovah's witness family 'knew killers' .
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/523501/20131119/jehovah-witness-mexico-family-killers-ciudad-juarez.htm.
bangalore.
This doesn't smell right at all. This was a case of mistaken identity or the family saw or knew something incrimminating the killers or their bosses. No one pays $115.00 to breed a dog in Mexico when they live in poverty. Would hate to think that any of this family were involved with the drug cartels, but i seen worse things from brothers and sisters.
eyeus2badub
friends,.
since i was a very young boy (+/- 10 years old) i had thoughts when revelation 18:2 was studiyed at our kingdom hall.. babylon the great was for me new york.
the center of the world, where all cultures are comming together.. next step for me, was that new york was the center of the universe for our jehovah's witness religion.. so i was connecting babylon the great with our own religion.. now with all the topics about the connexion between the watchtower corporations with investment billions, political influance, history cleaning and rebranding their business i could imagine when the society is going down, many corporations and politicians will say "shame, shame, babylon the great has fallen...".
Hey your guess is as good as the guess that the WTBTS has put on BTG. The org has had at least 3 different definitions of who BTG is.
eyeuse2badub
i started reading the feb 2014 public watchtower about a war that changed the world.
i had to do a double take in the very first paragraph.. .
"a century ago, millions of young men left the security of their homes and went off to war.
Anything to highlight the year 1914. Who cares if it's accurate?
eyeuse2badub
pages 1766-1767 of the 2013 nwt states that the message of the bible is gods right to rule.. given that the wts declares that gods kingdom rule began in 1914, one would suspect that this would feature.
instead, there is a vague reference to something that supposedly happened about 1914.. here's the picture:.
http://www.jwstudies.com/2013_nwt__pages_1766__1767.jpg.
'ABOUT' will become the new "new light" word since it has no definite time line and can easily be adjusted to fit the latest "new light".
'ABOUT' will replace such catch all words like---- 'apparently', 'evidently', 'clearly', (and my favorite) 'soooooon'.3
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