@ punkofnice:
The overlap pretty much did it for me as well.
i realize that jehovah’s witnesses have been dumbed down for long time now.
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still, i think there must be something that would make them really question their beliefs, even their life.. i think that if witnesses were told they could take blood or that disfellowshipping was unloving, they might stop and take a hard look at everything they have sacrificed their lives for.. i know the organization has muddled these subjects before but the i think even die hard witnesses might start to second guess the governing body..
@ punkofnice:
The overlap pretty much did it for me as well.
i realize that jehovah’s witnesses have been dumbed down for long time now.
.
still, i think there must be something that would make them really question their beliefs, even their life.. i think that if witnesses were told they could take blood or that disfellowshipping was unloving, they might stop and take a hard look at everything they have sacrificed their lives for.. i know the organization has muddled these subjects before but the i think even die hard witnesses might start to second guess the governing body..
Overlapping generations should do it.
Oh wait...
as a witness i always found a way to not have to embarrass myself by sitting down for the national anthem.. i’m curious.
how many of you stood up for the patriotic song?.
I always stood, but never sang or put my hand to my heart.
i was a jw for over 50 years and recently just stopped cold turkey going to the meetings.
years of sitting at the meetings with the boredom, the gloom and doom, repetition of doctrine, the gloom and doom, the fake love, the gloom and doom, the end being so close, do more - do more, just got to be too much for me to stomach.
i stopped praying to god and no longer thank god for the food before i eat.
"The earth is just a mere speck of dust in the universe and with trillions of other places that God could have thrown Satan to, God chose to confine Satan's activity to where his dear children live, who by the way were created in God's image."
I never thought of it that way. Very well said, Sour Grapes.in my comedy i want to show the audience a large version of some weird front covers from the watchtower or awake.. do you have any suggestions?.
cheers.
paul.
@ Pete Zuhut:
I thought that the magazines did not use actual color photos on the magazines until the mid-80’s. Yet that magazine is from the mid-70's?
i was just thinking about the account of adam and eve, and how they both attempted to 'pass the buck', or shift the blame to someone else.
eve to the snake, and adam to eve.... does that sound familiar??.
the society has never taken ownership of its mistakes!
Admitting that they were wrong in anything would open themselves up to more legal problems.
why in the hell would we (men) have one less rib...help me folks the adam and eve story has screwed up my thinking...
Only one in every few hundred people have an extra rib. These are called cervical ribs, because they arise from one of the spinal bones in the neck.
why in the hell would we (men) have one less rib...help me folks the adam and eve story has screwed up my thinking...
Haha
James Mixon! I'm just having fun. Nothing seems to make sense anymore with what
we were taught. I feel foolish for believing even some of it.
why in the hell would we (men) have one less rib...help me folks the adam and eve story has screwed up my thinking...
Here's why. We love ribs!!
the songs in the old brown song book were way better than these new ones.
had they not changed the songs, i may never have left (halfway joking).
they gave no feeling, no soul (but of course there's no such thing as soul or whatever)!
@ Xanthippe:
Nope. They played that song TO DEATH. Now it's "old light".