I'm going to edit your question, removing all emotion and ad-hominem attacks, and then respond.
Excuse me, but that was incredibly presumptuous and condescending, surpassed only by actually doing it - and with strikethroughs, no less!
apparently, a large percentage of xjw's who post on this site have embraced some other form of god/jesus belief to replace the wt doctrine.
most of them fall into the "i accept the lord jesus christ as my personal savior" class.
they are still extremely attached to the old "forgiveness of sin through the shed blood of jc" line.
I'm going to edit your question, removing all emotion and ad-hominem attacks, and then respond.
Excuse me, but that was incredibly presumptuous and condescending, surpassed only by actually doing it - and with strikethroughs, no less!
i posted this in the middle of someone elses thread by mistake.
my mother and her friend were talking at da weekend and they reckon we are not only in the last days but the last hours.
i know most of you dont believe that anymore, but do some of you still get scared by it.
I don't get it..................so when will Jesus bring the pork chops?
i just found this on e-watchman's forum.... http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=822&st=40.
judah shroeder was listed as deputy director of public affairs as of 2000 and was heavily involved in helping the organization defend itself .
against russia and france.
they don't want young JWs to go to uni because they will become critical thinkers see the WTS for what it is and expose it. However Judah is safe being an organisation man.
I think it simply is a blatant example of the fact that the GB runs the WTS like a business - duh! - they analyze the market, size up what it will bear, figure the profit margins, do a "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS" sale every so often (1918, 1925, etc.) - and oh, yes - leave the business to their heirs (in this case, sonny-boy Judah Ben).
BTW, in this scenario, the "customers" are the rank and file. One born every minute.
But answer me this: If you were Judah Ben, would you really give a rat's a$$ whether or not the 'business' is legitimate? After all, it's been around for over 100 years. Who cares if the product is crap as long as the R & F still buy it?
i urge you to disregard any personal opinions voiced by anyone, including myself regarding watchtower society publications.
but i would like to ask you to meditate on why god is so puny and ineffective.
he must be the epitome of helplessness.
took him a long time to cleanse the organization too -I mean the last xmas celebration in Bethel was 1928
That Jee-hoover - he be a wily rascal!
i just found this on e-watchman's forum.... http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=822&st=40.
judah shroeder was listed as deputy director of public affairs as of 2000 and was heavily involved in helping the organization defend itself .
against russia and france.
Judah Ben looks to be a bright lad.......probably working the (WTS) system to get his education paid for
and then do a major F A D e.............and go make the big $$$$!
i posted this in the middle of someone elses thread by mistake.
my mother and her friend were talking at da weekend and they reckon we are not only in the last days but the last hours.
i know most of you dont believe that anymore, but do some of you still get scared by it.
Something will happen. When I do not know.
Hmmmmmm........can't argue with logic like that, stillajwexelder.............
If only the WTS would put it like that this instead of putting dates on it!
But then, I guess they wouldn't scare the bejesus out of 16-year olds..........
do they provide guidelines about safely entering homes?.
if a jw enters a home for the first time, what kind of safety precautions are taken by the car group to ensure the safety of the jw?.
for instance i was shocked to find out my jw wife wasn't instructed by the elders as to which homes belonged to registered sex offenders.
There was a (no doubt apocryphal) urban legend-type story back in the old days about two lone JW women who witnessed to this man at his door without incident. It later came out that just before they had arrived, an Avon lady had been at his door and he'd dragged her inside and murdered her. When he was asked later why he had not assaulted the witness women he said incredulously, "Why, because there was a man with them." The spin in the congo was that an angel had appeared behind the witness women to protect them.
This story made quite an impression on me at the age of 10. I took fearless risks - because I figured I would be protected, too, since I was doing Hovah's work.
Oooops! How could I forget?
Thank you.
Because I was "born into" the bOrg, I can honestly say that everything bad that has ever happened to me can be traced directly to my JW upbringing that led to:
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Glad to be free!
according to the bible he decided to name her "woman".
in the previous verses he had been on an exercise to name all the beasts of the field and birds of the air.. personally, if i'd been wandering around a paradise garden on my own for years naming animals and suddenly set eyes on a perfect naked woman, i think i would be inclined to invent the first swear word.. although later, when eve gave birth, adam said it had been "with the lord's help".
so maybe he wasn't quite as spontaneous as i'd imagined, or maybe adam thought god was serious when he said she was a "helper".
"Well, well. Things around here are beginning to look up"