this may have already been posted before, but there is a very good article at salon.com which talks about jw kid publications (esp the most recent) and their attempts to link demonology into the sex urge to frighten children.
here is the link and i will also imbed it.
http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/stories/2003/06/08/sexdemonsandchildreninthejehovahswitnesses.html.
This may have already been posted before, but there is a very good article at salon.com which talks about JW kid publications (esp the most recent) and their attempts to link demonology into the sex urge to frighten children.
Here is the link and i will also imbed it
http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/stories/2003/06/08/sexDemonsAndChildrenInTheJehovahsWitnesses.html
much entertainment in the watchtower, 15 august 2004, pg 24. see the picture for the full text to learn that we can "put off every unecessary weight" by boxing up our "hobbies and non-essential personal projects.
" i wonder what's in the box.... it is interesting to see how jws are encouraged to have hobbies:.
*** g91 11/22 pp.
"We're Jehovah's Taliban Everything you liked is ban'd Once Witnesses they had a bit of peace Now they have stress that will not cease "We're Jehovah's Taliban Slash and Burn, the Divine Plan Our's Is the Org of Comformancy What we proclaim, so must be."
i have some poetry on my website, and if anyone ever gets a sudden urge to waste their time reading it, stop by and visit www.jonathongrimes.com.
if you would like me to link to any of your pages, just let me know.
links are good.
I have some poetry on my website, and if anyone ever gets a sudden urge to waste their time reading it, stop by and visit www.jonathongrimes.com
If you would like me to link to any of your pages, just let me know. Links are good.
i think jws will be around forever.
i do believe they will, as time goes on, lose many or most of their members.
but i do think that there will always be some around to continue the religion....maybe years from now they'll become more mainstream, i don't know.
the Witnesses will cease to exist in the way we know them now, but they will pass one some lineage into whatever the descendants of the current JWs (who stay) make of it. I imagine, as Bethel is unable to control things from the center, that the diaspora of post-JW goups will very from country to country, and sometimes even regionally.
i don't know if this has been discussed here before but i found this list interesting.. if you go by percentages there are the same number of jws in prison as aethiests!
(uk) .
http://www.adherents.com/misc/adh_prison3.html.
Now the 2001 Census showed that over 380,000 people in the UK are of the "Jedi" religion, and yet there are no Jedis in prison. Clearly they are the true religion. (or else are using an old jedi mind trick to stay on the lamb)
where can i go online that will give me accurate information to prove that the jw doctrines are in fact lies?
i have heard facts here and there but never at a substantial web site.
do those even exist?
ya that's right travis bush for president!.
designate more land for national parks.
also allocate additional funds for the nps.. downsize the millitary and focus more on special ops to fight terrorism abroad and intelligence gathering to that end.. push for the legalization of marijuana and establish a legal smoking age like alchohol.. give more money and resources to the national endownment for the arts... push for a national initiative to place free internet pops in poor or disadvantaged areas of cities/states.
On the first day of office I would give a pardon to all non-violent drug offenders in Federal prison.
Then I'd get some interns. Muhahahaha.
Then I'd improve the whole "Illegal Immigrant" problem by invading Mexico and making everyone there a US citizen.
For Fourth of July we'd Nuke the Moon. We'd encourage other nuclear powers to also nuke the moon in a sort of "Who Can REALLY nuke the moon" pyrotecnic contest. This would end our stockpiles of nuclear weapons after awhile and give thousands of aeropsace workers newfound work.
Dick Chaney would be appointed ambassador to the moon (See above).
Beam our television programming to China. It's made us dumb and lazy and it's time use our best weapons agaisnt someone else besides ourselves.
Tawny Kittain: Secretary of Defense.
i've dabbled in this on & off for the past 15 or 20 years.
and i've found that many of the central concepts of deism are well aligned with my own thinking on the nature of the supreme being.
webster's defines a deist as "one who believes in the existence of a god or supreme being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason.
I looked into Deism at one point, but (and this is just my opinion, I am not bashing anyone's personal beliefs), I found it to be a dry and somewhat pointless belief system. If there is a "Supreme Being" or "First Cause" who set up the works but does not care about them, then such a Supreme Being is no more important to me in my life then the Big Bang or an old wax cylinder recording that no one has the proper equipment to play.
During the age of reason, it probably made a great deal of sense, as thinking men and women were clearing out the cobwebs of rational thought, and with that had to go many of the superstitions and logic-holes that had filled western thought for so much of the past couple of millenia. I think it may help persons with an analytical predisposession if they like to think of the universe as a construction with some sort of order behind it. It sidesteps the whole "If God exists, why is life so crappy" debacle that dualistic faiths invariable fall into.
does anyone remember the program in the late 70's early 80s that called for children of jws who tho unbaptised did things they felt merited dfing to be treated "as disfellowshipped"?
perhaps some with the references could post material.
a lot of elders including my father had a problem with it but enforced it nontheless.
I knew a girl this happened to. I remember it pretty well because I was about to go out with her (on one of those things that IS A date but you don't dare call it a date, and anyway, someone else has to come along so what the hell kind of date can it be, anyway). She was 16 I was, I think, about 15. I think it was about Wednesday,an elder who was closley related to me and who knew I was going to a movie with her on Friday, just mentioned it wouldn't be such a good idea to go out with her. I was a bit puzzled.
Then on friday there was an announcement made that she wasn't an approved associate. At the same time a guy that was in his early twenties (and who I liked up to that point), was put on public reproof. Wierd world. She was a nice girl (apart from making out with grown men and still offering boys her age little crumbs like a nite at the movies.. heh heh). The whole "Unapproved associate" thing pretty much marked her as "a bad girl" in the hall. She never got baptized as far as I understand it, and it was a shame that SHE ended up having the tarnished reputation while the adult man was viewed as "weak for a moment" and eventually got his status back. She never did.
my mother was telling me how the elder went up on the platform and said how we can't pass donation plates around, we can't sell cookies or do bake drives, we pretty much can't beg for money.
then he said that at the risk of getting himself in trouble, it needed to be said that they don't know what they're going to do, but they need money and contributions.
my mother said that there are very few donating money and the congregation is in continual debt plus all the wealthier people have stopped going....i thought of metatron and knew he'd be delighted to hear another testimonial.
I might add that the 2003 KMs had this announcement almost every 3 months:
That means the Society are functionally (and possibly legally) unable to stop the local cong's from digging into the "Worldwide Work" donation boxes. Congregations in revolt. I love it! That really hits Brooklyn/Patterson right in their weak spot: their need to fund their operations in growth countries (i.e. poor third world natiojns) primarilly using American donation money.
