i have been going through old papers and photographs since my mother passed away.
it has reminded me of some of the reasons that i really hate november.
this year has added to it obviously.. thirty-four years ago, my father passed away in early november.
JRK
I lost my mom 11 years ago-----in November also. She was a legend in her own time. Loved and remembered by all because of her generosity beyond belief. She raised all of her children (me included) as jw's and 3 of the 5 have remained jw's-- so far! She was part of the "greatest generation", having lived through the 'great depression', WWll, etc. I still miss her and think about her often and her 'pearls of wisdom'.
just saying!
i have not been here in a while, just trying to move on with my life all the while dealing with a very pimi brainwashed wife.. so the other day she started saying that we will have to go our own ways when things get worse with this world.
she has said this before because she believes that the government will turn on religion and the great and powerful wizards (guardians of doctrine g.o.d.
) will call everyone and tell them where to go.. thank god, (no pun intended) i have been out of the loop for such a long time.
Man oh man, that John has him some good drugs to have all those wild hallucinations that he wrote down in Revelation. But the guys that think they can put a meaning to those hallucinations are even more strung out and delusional, IMHO!
just saying!
that;s what my wife (and all jw's) gets to hear about us at the kingdom hall today, (hmmmm, i wonder if she'll raise her hand to answer this one) ... .
watchtower study ... today, apostates and others who create divisions in the congregation use “smooth talk and flattering speech.” (romans 16:17, 18) they may pretend to care about others, but in reality, they are selfish.. (the watchtower - study edition (simplified version) 10/17 page 4 paragraph 7).
I really enjoyed paragraph 7 where it talked about David's day and how Ahithophel's friendship proved to be a "fraud" to David! Does the wt even think about the sh*t they put in these study articles.
I pointed out this very stupid, insensitive reference to my wife on the way home from the meeting! How can the wt even begin to sympathetically suggest that someone was disloyal to David when that sh*t head stole Uriah's wife and then had Uriah set up to be slaughtered!
Even fairy-tales have a moral lesson I guess!
just saying!
if there were only one god, why do we encounter the expression, "most high god"?.
is this not indicative of polytheism, and of levels (or degrees) of god-ness?.
doug .
When I much younger, during the 60's, I smoked dope with most of my jw friends, i was "the most high" because i smoked more dope that them. End of discussion!
Anyone got some legal stuff?
Just saying!
looks like the wt are even reducing the video content nowadays...... no jw tv monthly broadcast for december 2017 - instead it is replaced with the 'gilead graduation part 1' programme.
issues with translation - apparently replacing the monthly broadcast with the hour long 'spiritual' part of the graduation means that the wt are able to translate it into more languages than before.. plus more.....
brain tumor-associated psychosis and spirituality: a case report (jw) - frontiers in psychiatry (switzerland), nov 14, 2017. .
Christmas break!
just saying!
my current personal study is about the resurection.besides the nine well known resurections (the son of the zaraphath widow, the son of the shulamite woman, the man whose body touched elisha's bones, lazarus, jesus, son of the widow nain, the daughter of jairus, dorcas and eutychus).
there was enoch who god 'transfered' so he wouldn't see death and elijah who god took away in a flaming chariot hidden in a whilwind!
as well as these there were the holy men ofjerusalem resurrected at the same time as jesus.
Thinking about resurrection doctrine. It's purpose is to restore persons to life so as to bring joy to them and their loved ones! But in the bible account of resurrections, the one that got resurrected, died again so that they and their loved ones would have to suffer death twice!
jehober is good! No good deed goes unpunished! So death must not be the enemy that we are told it is because jehober would certainly not let his loyal ones suffer death twice, would he?
just saying!
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!
