Yep. Let's all go over to FB and try and spam 5000 people, then blame Satan and the Unholy Facebook for blocking us from teaching the unwilling our view of the OT God.
Jesus.
Jeff
i thought the topic of religion would be a great one for facebook.. wow, was i wrong about that.. http://www.facebook.com/pages/god-is-not-divided/112694992130588.
the only people are show any interest at all are catholics.. witnesses seem to avoid every venue where somebody else might show up.. zionists do likewise; but they have a different reason.. but, god yhvh is god of the whole earth, is my point.. anybody got any idea what i can do to stimulate godly conversation on my page?.
i'm tryin' to minister to the merely-confused as witnesses do out in service.. .
Yep. Let's all go over to FB and try and spam 5000 people, then blame Satan and the Unholy Facebook for blocking us from teaching the unwilling our view of the OT God.
Jesus.
Jeff
i thought the topic of religion would be a great one for facebook.. wow, was i wrong about that.. http://www.facebook.com/pages/god-is-not-divided/112694992130588.
the only people are show any interest at all are catholics.. witnesses seem to avoid every venue where somebody else might show up.. zionists do likewise; but they have a different reason.. but, god yhvh is god of the whole earth, is my point.. anybody got any idea what i can do to stimulate godly conversation on my page?.
i'm tryin' to minister to the merely-confused as witnesses do out in service.. .
Agreed with what? That you are off your effing rocker and everyone else sees it but you?
You bounce around like you are on cocaine and never make a point. Yep, you and the ancient prophets are probably on about the same page.
Jeff
that santa fe.
is less than ninety miles away,.
and i got time to roll a number.
There's a little stoplight town between Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
I ate the egg salad sandwich and regretted it all the way to Amarillo. Had to wash the truck when I got back.
Jeff
i thought the topic of religion would be a great one for facebook.. wow, was i wrong about that.. http://www.facebook.com/pages/god-is-not-divided/112694992130588.
the only people are show any interest at all are catholics.. witnesses seem to avoid every venue where somebody else might show up.. zionists do likewise; but they have a different reason.. but, god yhvh is god of the whole earth, is my point.. anybody got any idea what i can do to stimulate godly conversation on my page?.
i'm tryin' to minister to the merely-confused as witnesses do out in service.. .
Unreasonable. Unreachable.
This is probably the problem. YOU are certainly correct. Noah only got 7 others to listen to him. Looks like it starting to rain now, so run for your boats.
I don't know why people are not interested in talking endlessly about definitions of god as found in an ancient Jewish book. Odd!
This thread is like trying to talk to someone running the other way saying 'Na na na na NA'.
Geez
Jeff
(for the purposes of this post, i want to say that being angry, though a real emotion, is not healthy if it continues to fester inside you.
i think anger is reasonable if it helps you to move on from point a to point b. in addition, because of the real issues anger can bring, if you feel that after many years you are still angry over your jw experience, i strongly encourage therapy.
long term anger is destructive to the individual).
When a battered wife [or husband] occasionally displays anger, we try to comfort them. The pain that has welled up does not get released like a gushing well and then it is over - it gets released in bursts of anger, frustration, confusion. The same can be said for someone who has been sexually abused, or those who have been legally cheated or ruined. Often these injustices are never corrected, and the greatest therapy for them comes from time and healing and growth.
No one would attempt to minimize the agony of those who have been abused in those matters. I think it would be a mistake for anyone to conclude that religious abuse [which unfortunately often contains elements of all the other abused above mentioned] will get past the victims any sooner. There are times of course when professional therapy is the answer. But oftentimes it just a matter of time.
IMO - a relatively large portion of Jw lurkers on this site, are injured. Hell, we KNOW they are. The fact that they show up at all is evidence that they know, at some level, that something is wrong.
I recall that feeling too. That feeling that had been conditioned inside me - that 'apostates' are just bitter and out of control needlessly. Still, when I first found and met and conversed with people who had been Jw's and who had left for various reasons - though I could sense the bitterness, I also felt a sort of confused camaraderie with them. I just KNEW they were not making up what they said. Eventually, though I was somewhat repelled by the anger/bitterness, I found myself willing to find out WHY they were so angry.
There are those on this forum, reading this very post, who just TODAY made the leap to trying to understand it all. There are those who did so last week, last month, last year, a decade ago. The type[s] of abuse are just as varied. The healing process is just starting for some - for others it was just over within weeks of leaving the organization. Some will never heal.
Some may be 'stumbled' by what is said here, or the spirit in which it is stated. Others might immediately cling to anyone with whom they can relate as they leave.
The main thing is: This place, this venue, is and will always be, so different from the structured culture and mind-control tactics of religion, that it may well drive some away. That is just a fact of life. Others will be aided. Some who were driven away early [like yourself and myself] will eventually return. Others will heal in private and never know of this forum.
The forum is everything and nothing, good and evil, right and dead wrong, depending on the day you stumble in. But it serves. For some it will not, because they are not ready for the gritty reality that sometimes is demonstrated outside the conditioning chambers of the WTS.
Still - overall - It is good.
Jeff
i thought the topic of religion would be a great one for facebook.. wow, was i wrong about that.. http://www.facebook.com/pages/god-is-not-divided/112694992130588.
the only people are show any interest at all are catholics.. witnesses seem to avoid every venue where somebody else might show up.. zionists do likewise; but they have a different reason.. but, god yhvh is god of the whole earth, is my point.. anybody got any idea what i can do to stimulate godly conversation on my page?.
i'm tryin' to minister to the merely-confused as witnesses do out in service.. .
And most Unitarians and Universalists do not value TRUTH ITSELF, in the resolution of problems and bad situations.
Now you are judging Unitarians and Universalists? WOW
Nothing like clumping an entire religious group into one judgement. Jw's taught you well.
And you are 'wondering' why none of your 4000+ FB friends are interested? Need a hint?
Jeff
i thought the topic of religion would be a great one for facebook.. wow, was i wrong about that.. http://www.facebook.com/pages/god-is-not-divided/112694992130588.
the only people are show any interest at all are catholics.. witnesses seem to avoid every venue where somebody else might show up.. zionists do likewise; but they have a different reason.. but, god yhvh is god of the whole earth, is my point.. anybody got any idea what i can do to stimulate godly conversation on my page?.
i'm tryin' to minister to the merely-confused as witnesses do out in service.. .
Do you have some suggestions? I was hoping maybe, for some.
Nope. But you could always start a thread about it here. There are people here who could help you get a handle on the subject. Course, most of 'em aren't too interested in being converted to your new jwism. But, hell, give it a shot.
Jeff
i thought the topic of religion would be a great one for facebook.. wow, was i wrong about that.. http://www.facebook.com/pages/god-is-not-divided/112694992130588.
the only people are show any interest at all are catholics.. witnesses seem to avoid every venue where somebody else might show up.. zionists do likewise; but they have a different reason.. but, god yhvh is god of the whole earth, is my point.. anybody got any idea what i can do to stimulate godly conversation on my page?.
i'm tryin' to minister to the merely-confused as witnesses do out in service.. .
Not my point at all.
I quoted your point, to wit: "Catholics have no interest in "Jehovah," "Yahweh," or even the Tetragrammaton."
My refs show that you are incorrect. As far as the local 'masses' in West Virginia, you may be correct in your dot on the map. Even in that, I doubt you have exhaustively asked local Catholics individually their interest in the OT God and his many designations therein. Certainly you have not done so on your FB page, for I am sure there are millions of Catholics available to discuss the matter with. You seem far more interested in just 'sorting the sheep from the goats', and you have determined that Catholics are not worth your continued efforts. How very Jw of you.
Just as well I suppose, for substitution of one delusion for another rarely improves the deluded person. They may as well believe what they do - for in the end, none of you can substantiate any of it as anything but your personal 'theology'.
Jeff
i thought the topic of religion would be a great one for facebook.. wow, was i wrong about that.. http://www.facebook.com/pages/god-is-not-divided/112694992130588.
the only people are show any interest at all are catholics.. witnesses seem to avoid every venue where somebody else might show up.. zionists do likewise; but they have a different reason.. but, god yhvh is god of the whole earth, is my point.. anybody got any idea what i can do to stimulate godly conversation on my page?.
i'm tryin' to minister to the merely-confused as witnesses do out in service.. .
This is how Corporate Fascism works, you see.
Secular Materialism gets in the way of the Kingdom of God, everywhich way.
Surely you are shitting me, with this paranoid delusion? There must be 100,000 Facebook Pages devoted to religion, God, and every sort of belief system imaginable. Why would the 'Corporate Fascists' at FB give you such undivided attention of restriction. WOW
Jeff
i thought the topic of religion would be a great one for facebook.. wow, was i wrong about that.. http://www.facebook.com/pages/god-is-not-divided/112694992130588.
the only people are show any interest at all are catholics.. witnesses seem to avoid every venue where somebody else might show up.. zionists do likewise; but they have a different reason.. but, god yhvh is god of the whole earth, is my point.. anybody got any idea what i can do to stimulate godly conversation on my page?.
i'm tryin' to minister to the merely-confused as witnesses do out in service.. .
Catholics have no interest in "Jehovah," "Yahweh," or even the Tetragrammaton.
Really?
Here is the Catholic Encyclopedia's entry on Yahweh and Jehovah:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08329a.htm
Here is the Catholic Encyclopedia's entry on the the Names of God, including significant comment on the Tetragrammaton:
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1013.htm
These are just two of the multiple pages to which I was directed within their online version. I think perhaps you have judged them wrongly.
Jeff