the expression "to worship" is defined in a dictionary this way: "to regard with great, even extravagant respect, honor, or devotion.
" *who should be given such worship?
jesus christ said: "you must love jehovah your god with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.
There we go again - showing you scriptures from one end of the bible to another.... all out of context.... it doesn't take any real thinking to see that they are twisting words around to fit their agenda.... ALL OUT OF CONTEXT...
Yeah, LOL at the comment about reading your bible... they don't encourage it nearly as much as studying their ol' Watchtower, and other publications... just like robots. It's utter nonsense how they talk to people...
are you happier since you've found this place?
if jwd were gone tomorrow, would you just look for another site to get involved with?
my opinion of this board is that it is one of the best boards to learn current information from.
I hate this site....
Whoever runs this board sucks, too...
(Obviously being sarcastic, DUH!)
one of the great things that this board offers is the ability to express yourself.
sometimes, things we couldn't tell a person to their face, we can express here.
or we might be able to give of ourselves, our experiences, our joys and frustrations......you name it!.......regarding my vent, it is that i can't understand why some post on these boards and yet are very pro witness.
Rodbar,
Why don't you date me or my friend here... we's real sexy....
hi , i have not posted here for a long time but have bee lurking.
i am part of the mulan dynasty.
i just need to vent and you guys are it.. the wedding invitation from my son came to my house today.
I am joining the chorus, too, saying how sorry I am for you...
Time will tell if he comes around. It may be years later,,,,,,, just know that you're right, and they're wrong. They are a cult and they have ahold of him for now.
did you have to make big efforts in order to become a jw?
were there many bad habits that you had to abandon in order to meet the criterias of the watchtower?
I quit smoking; threw out all kinds of cool tapes, like the doors, led zeppellin, yada yada yada...
given that your wts has frequently warned its members to stay away from the internet, and that bad association spoils useful habits, why is it that you persist in posting on this site, which is quite obviously populated by those that are disfelloshipped, disassociated, or, at the very least, spiritually weak?
if you lived near one of the more vocal posters would you willingly be seen by your body of elders having a conversation with them?
or, is it the ease of anonymity that allows you to be such a hypocrite and flaunt the rules of the organisation you pathetically claim to follow?
Poor ol' Butterknife... he judges people....
He told me that I was going to die at armageddon... That's not very christian! Oh wait - JW's are christian??? Wow!
this thread is about elder stories.
it's about how elders impacted your life.the good and the bad elders.
the ones that seemed to care and those that didn't give a hoot.......let me give a short elder's story.
I always have bad elder stories, so I guess it's time for a good elder story... the only one....
We got along really good - we used to go into service together and talk about old monty-python shows,,,,,
That's the end of my good elder stories. Believe it or not, that's IT!
the public talk was on "loyalty"- ...speaker gave examples of loyalty in bible times...i.e: esau and jacob...esau sold his birthright for a bowl of stew...not loyal of him.
david was loyal, even though he "erred" when he messed around with bathsheba, then plotted to murder her husband.
we need to be loyal.
It's all quite true, until you hit the part where he said "JEHOVAH'S ORGANIZATION". That is mind control. True, if you are in that religion you should be loyal to it, or get out... but, they bring it to the extreme and make you not able to QUESTION it... that is a cult.
And, love the part about keeping away from those who speak different things... just another example of congregations split, persons labelling each other as bad assosiation, more hard feelings....
I'm never going back to that garbage...
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i know it sounds impossible and probaly is.. but with the constant scandals, and all the info available, do you see the watchtower collapsing in our lifetime (from now to 2053) ?????????.
i guess anything is possible.
I don't think it will ever fall....
There's one born every minute.... there will always be some need that someone has.
i keep hearing rumors that there are locations throughout the country where the witnesses have their own schools, kinda like parochial school.
has anyone else heard this?
what's the deal?
Stupid freaks.
Homeschooling????? Hey! Let's give our kids even LESS social skills... and, give them a GED.. like that's anything to brag about....
That really pisses me off. People should get their heads examined...
