the term jehovah’s witnesses sounded weird to me even when i was in that cult.
why does god need witnesses to prove his existence?
there is no need for anyone to create a movement called “suns witnesses” or “moons witnesses” – in order to prove its existence and glorify it, because the sun and moon are evident to every species on earth.
Didn't the 'name' come from a supposed "vision in the night" given to Rutherford? It was probably a booze induced hallucination that created the stupid 'name'. I believe that by changing the name to jehovah's witnesses, was Rutherford's way of creating his own personal religion.
just saying!
this is how the conversation went.
decide for your selves.. dad : joe if ever i need an operation i've told them i don't want blood.
not a drop.. joe : well what about blood fractions.
One of the best "No blood" stories I ever heard was told to me by a CO. It went something like this;
An very angry 'worldly' man, tooting a gun, storms into a KH and shoots a 'brother' several times. It's later discovered that this 'brother' has been screwing this man's wife, a 'sister', for quite sometime. When the ambulance arrives to take this bleeding 'brother' to the hospital, he's heard telling the EMT's ,"no blood, no blood, I will not accept blood".
You gotta love the hilarious irony of this story!
just saying!
the first study article is about getting bible studies and children baptized.
there is much more emphasis placed on parents to get their own children baptized rather than focusing on bible students.
they try to impress on others the need for urgency.
Not even one mention in the bible of young persons getting baptized! The bible only records "men and women" never " young men and virgins" as being baptized!
But-but-but the wt patterns their religion after the first century christian congregation? I call bulls**t!
just saying!
seen in the 03/2018 watchtower study :.
"during the 2017 service year, more than 284,000 “rightly disposed” individuals symbolized their dedication to jehovah by water baptism.".
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-march-2018/baptism-requirement-for-christians/.
How can there be so many half empty KH's if so many are getting baptized? Must be at least one or two leaving or becoming inactive for everyone getting baptized! Or are the numbers being artificially inflated?
just saying!
· the whole book of revelation is one letter.. · that letter was to be taken by a courier and read out aloud in churches along a road that ran from ephesus to laodicea.
the author was very familiar with each of the churches.. · those christians were experiencing intense persecution.. · the letter was designed to encourage these first-century christians to “overcome”.
it told them that the end was imminent (“soon”) and they had to remain faithful, to the point of being prepared to losing their lives.. · john had gone to patmos in order to compose (“receive”) the message.
Smoke you some good weed and then maybe, just maybe Revelation will make sense!
The writer surely had some great hallucination going!
just saying!
this is how the conversation went.
decide for your selves.. dad : joe if ever i need an operation i've told them i don't want blood.
not a drop.. joe : well what about blood fractions.
Joe; Dad, if I need an operation will you honor my decision to have a blood transfusion if the doctors say I need one?
Dad; No son I could not honor your decision because it violates my conscience!
Joe; Yea that's what I though------you one way a**hole!
just saying!
there’s all this talk about combining congregations to enhance kingdom hall utilization.
the branch offices keep calling the halls half full.
are they half full or half empty?
A nearby KH here in central California had to be torn down because they built it on a land fill and it started breaking apart. It seated 238. They are now building a new hall with only 138 seats. Jehobeer must be blessing that congregation! Its epidemic shrinkage!
just saying!
here's a hypothetical: you find your elderly jw father - a lifelong witness, unconscious in his home - you are alone with him.
you ring an ambulance.
at the hospital the doc says they need to give him a blood transfusion straight away or he'll die.
I wouldn't say a word. If dad lived, it would be much easier to ask for his forgiveness than if he had died!
If he dies, at least you tried and he won't know the difference.
just saying!
this is how the conversation went.
decide for your selves.. dad : joe if ever i need an operation i've told them i don't want blood.
not a drop.. joe : well what about blood fractions.
Joe; Dad did you know that when you have a blood test (blood drawn to determine a health condition) that you are literally donating blood?
Dad; Yea but that 's different because i'm not giving my blood to help save someone's life.
Joe; Yes dad, that's true!
just saying!
i wanted to discuss the (supposed) biblical events that disturbed me a lot when i was a jw.
these incidents were just read and discussed in the kingdom hall as if these are normal and justified, which clearly weren't.
perhaps this led to my awakening.
I have often wondered about and commented to my many jw friends and family about how jehober's bloodthirsty nature. Why was it necessary for hundreds of thousands of sheep and cattle to be slaughtered during a 7 day period when Solomon inaugurated the temple?
Of course we all know that this account is an extreme exaggeration , just like good old Solomon having 1,000 wives/concubines, but it goes to the core of why such an account is contained in the bible. Millions of gallons of blood poured out just to inaugurate a f**cking building that jehober later allowed to be destroyed?
just saying!
