BTW, bethel, I've never told you but I love your avatar!
awwwwww thanks Ingenuous... i have to admit it practically wrote itself... but you are the first to mention that you liked it... and it warms the proverbial cockles of my heart :)
bethel
hitting a new position on the board?
because i am a offically master member... so let's all give me undo attention while i have someone beheaded!
come on guys do some obeisence to me!
BTW, bethel, I've never told you but I love your avatar!
awwwwww thanks Ingenuous... i have to admit it practically wrote itself... but you are the first to mention that you liked it... and it warms the proverbial cockles of my heart :)
bethel
has anyone come across this site by accident and then started reading and found out about the "truth".
do you think anyone can read the info here and still believe all thier bull$hit...just curious.
i am hoping maybe, just maybe, my brother might one day stumble across this site, or maybe he as already.
it's like i always say, if they're not ready to see something or to believe something... it doesn't matter what you tell them, it doesn't matter what they see. they have to be ready, mind and heart. think about it. was there NEVER a time where you wouldn't see some kind of apostate material and fluff it off like it's not true or it's far fetched or AT LEAST reaching... never?
bethel
hitting a new position on the board?
because i am a offically master member... so let's all give me undo attention while i have someone beheaded!
come on guys do some obeisence to me!
Congratulations my good fellow.....I am fast approaching membership in your "Masters Club" !!
it's pretty sweet up here... it's almost like being appointed ministerial servant... yea there's a lot of us but we get some great responsibilties and the respect of being just a little higher in the totempole than the regular brothers... and WAAAAAAAAAAY above the sisters (even the regular pioneer sisters! they get no priveleges at all!!!)
bethel
hitting a new position on the board?
because i am a offically master member... so let's all give me undo attention while i have someone beheaded!
come on guys do some obeisence to me!
hitting a new position on the board? because i am a offically master member... so let's all give me undo attention while i have someone beheaded! come on guys do some obeisence to me!
in a new york bethel minute
how many times have jw depictions of paradise shown cozy little gabled, shingled, lapsided, wood frame houses tastefully situated in front of mountain lakes without a hint of technology?
i've lost count.
i've always thought this picture betrays an unbelievable naivete about how technology works.
you see? this is exactly what satan wants you to think. EVERYTHING is possible with God. He can do whatever he wants. God didn't need your so-called "technology" to create this universe, which is so much more complex than a stupid little 2 story brick house. "Do not put him to the test", is what his son i forget his name said. You guys are all just jealous because you're not gonna be there. goddam goats can all go to gehenna. you're all as bad as the son of destruction, judas. Hope you hang yourselves like he did.
wow. some dubs would actually respond like that. that's what's scary to me
bethel
P.S. hope i didn't offend anyone in the meantime
fema plans to reimburse faith groups for aid.
after weeks of prodding by republican lawmakers and the american red cross, the federal emergency management agency said yesterday that it will use taxpayer money to reimburse churches and other religious organizations that have opened their doors to provide shelter, food and supplies to survivors of hurricanes katrina and rita.. fema officials said it would mark the first time that the government has made large-scale payments to religious groups for helping to cope with a domestic natural disaster.. civil liberties groups called the decision a violation of the traditional boundary between church and state, accusing fema of trying to restore its battered reputation by playing to religious conservatives.
for churches, synagogues and mosques that have taken in hurricane survivors, fema's decision presents a quandary.
for some reason i dont think they will
i heard they made an announcement.
he called the po to see whether he and his wife were announced as being d'fd.
the po didn't want to talk to him but finally conceded that his wife was not d'fd.
i wonder if one of the "greatcrowd governing body members" is gonna start partaking now... that would be so cute!
bethel
what would you have done back in the 1st century when jesus came on the earthly stage and started christianity.
would you have became his follower?
how about after he left the earth and christianity began to spread by means of the apostles, would you have been involved in the many congregations that were started throughout the area?
i'd be forgiving until it came to hiding pedophiles, killing children by not allowing them blood, disfellowshipping, making brothers count time and setting quotas, giving people titles such as pioneer, bethelite, circuit overseer, etc.
i would stay with them until they started trying to pinpoint when jesus would return.
i would stay with them until they started branding people as "walking dead" if they didnt accept jesus message.
i would stay with them until they started saying jesus died on a stake and not a cross... because they are obviously missing the point.
i would stay with them until they asked 101 questions just to get baptized.
i would stay with them until they stopped baptizing in the name of the Son, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.
i would stay with them until they took out the role of jesus christ and replaced it with an organisation.
i would stay with them until they said things like,
" Do not conclude that there are different roads, or ways, that you can follow to gain life in God’s new system. There is only one. There was just the one ark that survived the Flood, not a number of boats. And there will be only one organization—God’s visible organization—that will survive the fast-approaching "great tribulation." It is simply not true that all religions lead to the same goal. (Matthew 7:21-23; 24:21) You must be part of Jehovah’s organization, doing God’s will, in order to receive his blessing of everlasting life" (from the live forever book)
bethel
this past saturday morning, two jw's encountered a householder (a friend of my co-worker) with an interesting perspective.
his brilliant and humorous insight into the "peaceful new world" tract is below!
id just settled down with canettis brilliant novel, translated as auto-da-fe, to listen to a saturday midmorning beethoven concert, when the doorbell went off.. .
yipes... can you imagine this guy even at the drive-thru?
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i think their site is starting to reflect what they really stand for, agree?
http://www.watchtower.org.
HAHAHAHAHA that was too funny! i like how you gave the option of BRAILLE on the internet! priceless!!!
bethel