in religion (the wt being an excellent example) or politics (it's a common attitude of a lot of electorally successful leaders such as bush and chirac)... why does it work so well?
Being raised a dub or becoming a dub means you must surrender the ability to make decisions for yourself.
Do not rely upon your own understanding is drilled into your head in every article you read and every meeting you attend, before long even very intellectual individuals find making decisions too much responsibility.
Have you checked the bound volumes brother? Oh it wasn't clear..go see the elders, I'm sure they know if ribbed condems are approved.
1. where does the bible say a woman should win her unbelieving husband without a word?.
2. where in the bible is the story about david?s sin with bathsheba, and the curse that all the bad things that happened .
to his family after that -- was because of david?s sin?.
Estee
go to www.biblegateway.com you can search by word, verse, phrase in several translations.
it can be anyone... on or off jwd, family, friends, a deity.
just think of someone that did something special for you, and thank them.
either post a note of your appreciation, or call the person and just say "thankyou for....." and let us know how it goes.
You big lug
Thanks to my good friend LT, for taking the time and patience to teach me about Jesus
You never thanked Gumby for teaching you about crotchless underwear you ungrateful bellydancer.
last night, i'm lying in bed, getting all sleepy and comfortablehuge spider in the corner of my room!!!!!!
eeeeeeekkkk!!!
i rush from my bed and grab the vacuum cleaner and flip the switch...........and voila he's sucked up safely and hopefully very dead inside............feeling much safer and again serene, i climb back in bed and pass an uneventful, peaceful night.
Oh sunnygal
Spiders are your friends, friends of the Devil who must be destroyed at all costs.
I absolutely hate spiders and several years ago faced my phobia by holding a friends tarantula in my hands for several minutes...
did it work...
hell no...Now I know what it would feel like to have a tarantula on me...eight legged freaks.
tonight i'm voting in the official "word of the year" election held at the annual american dialect society conference.
what words do you think should merit being considered the best word of 2004?
as defined by the ads, the word of the year is the word that "most colored the nation's lexicon, or otherwise dominated the national discourse.
Nuclear...Nuukleor
as far as i can remember there was nothing ever mentioned about dinosaurs existing .
why to you think it only has the beginning with adam & eve and nothing before that even tho we know by fossils and skeletal remains that they did indeed roam the earth.
in jesus day they must have come across some skeletal remains or fossils but there is no mention of it .
I've always thought it was where they got the ideas to write about Dragons.
can someone help me to understand what it would mean to a loyal witnes to diassociate yourself, and to the org?
having seen what happened during my husband's df, and his subsequentreinstatement, what would it mean to da yourself?
would you be treated the same as being df?
I think they are slightly different in the minds of most JW's.
DF'd = unrepentent sinner
DA'd = Apostate, someone in opposition of Jehovah or his organization
The effects from both are about the same but the mindset of those who judge based on these terms is slightly different.
pictures would be nice, too.
I always like it when these famous people whom most have chosen show up on the cover of some magazine without several hours of make up and look less than average. It's also interesting when they show up on the cover of two different magazines at the same time on the same shelf, one mag showing the deplorable condition they are in and the other touting them as most beautiful.
I always thought Naomi Campbell was beautiful, but she seems to be so ugly on the inside...that is if you can believe the reports of how she physically abuses others...plus her mother is a dub.
I know Gumby told me Bea Arthur has always been his favorite, at least since he saw her as Maude!
rules (speaking in the human sense) were developed since adam first met eve, and have been evolving ever since.
many such rules eventually become laws, though most are first subsumed as "natural" behavioralism.. rules (speaking in the theistic sense) are dictated by a higher moral being.
these rules become inexorably encrusted with age and superstition.. rules (speaking in the practical sense) are "what works for the time, and people of that time.".
Rules require enforcement or they are not rules only suggestions. You must police yourself or others to maintain these rules.
Having rules is not inherently bad but enforcing them on others is the trick and always has been.
i have been apart of the place two years and it has been the best thing that has happened to me .
i have met ( not personally ) but in cyberspace some of the greatest people i could ever imagine to meet.
you help each other and genuinely care for each other and are always there when someone is in need .
Thanks for the explanation...I thought you were giving hugs when your cold or sumpin!
