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has anyone ever met Ray Franz?
by poor places ini guess you would have to be kind of old school to have met the guy.
i've only met a current gb member before he joined.
he seemed nice.
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is it ok for an agnostic to pray to God?
by poor places ini used to say a prayer most nights before i fell asleep, and i felt real comfort.
no matter how much anxiety i had, praying made me feel that i was ok because a higher power (one who had counted the hairs of my head and who considered me worth many sparrows!
) would take care of everything.. now, after my jw awakening, i'm an agnostic, and i feel less comfort than i did before, because i don't know if anyone powerful is looking after me.
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how do they write new articles/talk outlines?
by poor places init really makes you wonder.
i mean, they're all pretty interchangeable, aren't they?
nobody would've guessed that today's special talk was new; it could've been replaced by about fifty other talks without anyone catching on.
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Are non Jws shunned
by wiser ini live in a small town and have been studying with two nice witnesses.
however, there is nothing about their truth that is acceptable.
i have pointed out many errors in their information.
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Anyone can recommend a book about 1st century christianity?
by zakheyold ini just finished "la vie quotidienne des premiers chretiens.
95-197" ("early christians' daily life") by a.-g. hamman.
it describes everyday life of 2nd century christians.
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Is youth a time for anger and cults?
by gubberningbody ini'm 26 years older than i was when i got started as a jw.
i was a hurt and angry young man who wanted a world that was a better place, a place where it was ok to be ok and not the same.
i think maybe my anger and hurt helped to blind me from how angry and hurt everyone in the world really is and was and will be and perhaps this is one more reason the idea of a paradise following swiftly on the deaths of billions was not so much a trouble for my self-absorbed mind.. i wanted to believe and i convinced myself..
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a potentially interesting JW experiment
by poor places inso it would be pretty interesting if someone got df'd at an early age--20 or 30 or so--and kept attending meetings for the rest of his or her life without getting reinstated.
imagine jws in the presence of a df'd person for sixty years, without acknowledging the person's existence.
they'd watch the person grow older and more feeble, and all the while they'd believe that the person is going to die because of the d'fing.
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Zen Living part 23 (summarized): Loving Kindness: What the World Needs Now
by JimmyPage inlove really is the answer.
zen living reveals that loving kindness, compassion, and the desire to relieve the suffering of others emerge naturally from a zen practice.. as the world experiences struggle, conflict, and pain, zen living can teach those who practice it how to release fear, hate, and the delusion of difference.. loving kindness can heal emotional, political, social, and spiritual separation.. we can help spread strength, power, and unity through loving kindness by practicing mindfulness every day.. .
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a literary wasteland
by poor places inisn't it amazing how many pages the wts has printed about the bible over the years?
if bros and sisters neglected reading these publications and just focused on the bible, can you imagine how much more well-versed and enlightened everyone would be?
i think the isaiah's prophecy books are longer than the book of isaiah!