can riches make you happy?
what is the relationship between money and happiness?
do you think that riches would make you happy?.
Money can also serve "for a protection" against unexpected problems, such as disease or unemployment.—Ecclesiastes 7:12.
Wait a cotton-pickin' minute...........................! Do you mean to tell me!!?? Money can protect us from unemployment? So, like, money can be a good thing?
Kinda circular, ain't it? (How about 'education can protect us from under-employment'?)
LOL! I swear I had to look at the URL to be sure this wasn't a parody.
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i thought i was reading one my sales manuals from work.
so much of what the watchtower does is right out of any companies sales training manuals.. oc
What next? When your friend signs up, YOU get a free toaster!!!!
Can you imagine giving the name and number of anyone to a JW unless you positively hated them????
today i had reason to enter a hospital.
nothing serious, just a doctor appointment.
as i was walking through the enclosed entryway (it was one of those affairs with a revolving door at one end and double doors at the other,) i saw the spanish-language watchtower and awake!
To answer your question: Yes
To answer your guilt over it: No
The WTS distributes hate and death. Your small gesture was an aknowledgement of that fact. It was in every sense a 'good deed.'
While I'm waiting for my food, I go next door and throw out most of the Wt and Aw. The ones I leave, I put a sticker on them that says Example of Cult Propaganda. I then stick some flyers on the bulletin board about JW's with some website info.
Excellent, lisa!
I have engaged several of them in conversation - mostly about JW history, because I think it is pretty damning. Also about disfellowshipping and how unloving it is.
I have discovered:
#1 The average JW doesn't know very much about the history of the cult they allow to run their lives.
#2 The average JW will lie about #1 when backed into a corner.
i'm not a jw, never have been, and in no danger of becoming one.. having read several of the wt mags and publications (and many more extracts on this and other sites) they come across to me as being very patronising in tone and full of pseudo-scholarship, misquoted (or unnamed) sources, references taken out of context, mis-translations, etc.
i'm aware of jw 'teaching' on the subject of higher education for its members (i.e.
not a good or necessary thing) so i can understand why many jws raised in it may not challenge the publications.
Agreeing with underbeleiver.
Furthermore - how could one not apply critical thinking especially to the tenets of a "religion" that is so extremely demanding? This isn't like going to church once a month - I could see going along just for the ride (and often do). But JWs require so much!
my prayer for you
that your on that walk through this thing called life.. that you could have joy like you've never known.
that your heart knows love that is pure and true.. love is the only way.
I don't think jw presented this as her original work. And it is the first thread that she has started that isn't "in your face."
i'm not a jw, never have been, and in no danger of becoming one.. having read several of the wt mags and publications (and many more extracts on this and other sites) they come across to me as being very patronising in tone and full of pseudo-scholarship, misquoted (or unnamed) sources, references taken out of context, mis-translations, etc.
i'm aware of jw 'teaching' on the subject of higher education for its members (i.e.
not a good or necessary thing) so i can understand why many jws raised in it may not challenge the publications.
This topic - education/intelligence as it relates to JWs - gives rise to further questions, such as:
"What prevents most JWs from applying critical thinking to the decision to dedicate his or her life to the WTS?" With a reasoned examination of issues, a fairly bright 12-year old could unravel the illogic and twisted, manipulative dogma that the WTS presents.
From what I've read and seen, JW's as a group are less educated than any cross-section of a population. And of course, since they discourage higher education, how could it be otherwise?
just wondering... what do you think about the jw going door to door?
do you like it or dislike it?
my view is ( weather something is false or not) i think it is great someone shares what they love with someone else.
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my prayer for you
that your on that walk through this thing called life.. that you could have joy like you've never known.
that your heart knows love that is pure and true.. love is the only way.
Works for me!
on mother's day we often forget those who are mother's but never had the chance to hold their child.
some because they chose to give their child up for adoption.
others because of miscarriage or stillbirth.
I had a miscarriage 20 years ago and it hurt deeply.
But I lost my beautiful 24-year old son to an accident in January and it is like being in hell.
I quit work (Mr. Bee is very supportive, though it was not his child) and am on this board a lot for one reason: distraction. I also read constantly - novels, grief books, and see a therapist once a week and go to the gym.
I do my share of crying and the black hole in my heart continues to deepen. I just got a call from my son's dad - he is having a particularly bad time and is torn to pieces today. We are leaning on each other and, in some ways, going through the phases of grief together, and with the support of our respective spouses.
Last Mother's Day it was brunch with both my sons and grandson at the country club. This year the Bees board a plane on Sunday for France. I'd give anything to be able to go back in time. I know I will survive, but from here I don't see how.
I'm sorry to be a downer, but the topic grabbed me.
