ok, advice please.
i just bought a red layered dress.
i don't know how to explain it completely, but it is a red chiffon and a copy of a very famous german styler.
Yes, you should certainly look your best for the one Witness holiday of the year, that special, joyous occasion when all of Jah's followers assemble to ... uh ... look at a plate of saltines wafers and glass of flat wine. Indeed, with such sweeping festivities, such outpouring of celebration, such ecstatic displays of frolicking happiness, who's going to notice one little red dress?
Dedalus
The way the organization uses the term "organization" is so broad and generic that it's possible to argue that Adam and Eve were an organization. My father used that argument, and what's worse, he thought it a good one.
Dedalus
the question of whos faith , built the j.w organization ,as we know charles taz russell the founding member, whom started the organization,what did he beleive in,why was he considerd apostate ,what conections astrology of and pyramidology led him to use the pyramids as defining the dates jehovahs witnesess recognise as being evident in there calculations,did jesus use the stars to calculate any significant events pertaining to mans future, why was the founding farther terminated by the society, why were most of his written works suddenly deemed apostate,e.g the aid book ,used when i came into the truth or so called truth ,what is the difference between a magazine printing company and the modern day watchtower organization, one claims to work in gods name ,the other doesnot make any claims at all.. is your faith in jesus or the organization /???
check out the founding farthers history,.
as you owe it to yourself.are you really serving jehovah or just a magazine money mad organization.
are you really serving jehovah or just a magazine money mad organization.
Neither is worth serving -- the first is imaginary, the second insidious.
Dedalus
okay, i tried, but i'm just not enjoying this place the way i once did.
my excuse for hanging around is gone, and it has been left in capable hands (whatever that means!
)
Okay, sorry.
Dedalus
okay, i tried, but i'm just not enjoying this place the way i once did.
my excuse for hanging around is gone, and it has been left in capable hands (whatever that means!
)
J6OCR9 & dedalus, Steph and Prisca are friends...OUTLAW
Why are you telling me this? I wasn't the one telling Prisca to behave! Dedalus
i have left the org for many years now.
sometimes i think jehovah is there, sometimes i think there cannot be a god for all the suffering that we see happening in this world.. just lately i have been wondering if god really exists, is the bible his word or is it all just a load of b*****ks.
i have looked into other religions, buddhism for instance, i believe we are spiritual, but is there a need for a god?
JT,
That 1969 Watchtower is outrageous! No one deserves to live, so it's okay for Jehovah to kill anybody, everybody. What a loving God. Good thing he's only make-believe!
Dedalus, emoticon class
i find something very distressing not to mention terribly sad about some of you people (and to those who are not one of these people i kindly ask to please don't fly into some "i'm so insulted!
" snit as if i'm wrongfully referring to you).
to those people i'm referring to i say: you rightfully hope for the british and u.s. military to destroy that saddam monster and its minions of mass-murdering/worshippers throughout iraq.
Checking to see if people misread and misunderstood Derrick's post. They didn't:
what moronic individual could possibly hope for the destruction of evil in Iraq by a nation and in the same breath severely criticize God for saving us all the trouble by wiping out ALL the Saddams (not just the Iraqi dictatorship and evil infrastructure)?
As has been pointed out, Robdar, the problem with this formula is that nobody here criticizes God for wiping out all of the Saddams, Hitlers, etc. (which he has never done, by the way). People on this forum by and large criticize God for wiping out innocent people. Derrick is only able to make his lofty Christian "point" by deliberately misconstruing what others have said. He's been around long enough to know the other side's viewpoint, and the fact that he misrepresents it makes him intellectually dishonest.
If given the choice of which is ideal: (a) well intentioned governments or (b) God, well, the choice is a no brainer and 10 on the "Duh" scale.
As if these are the only two choices. But hey, no one ever said the Christian conception of the universe mirrored the complexities of reality.
Dedalus
i find something very distressing not to mention terribly sad about some of you people (and to those who are not one of these people i kindly ask to please don't fly into some "i'm so insulted!
" snit as if i'm wrongfully referring to you).
to those people i'm referring to i say: you rightfully hope for the british and u.s. military to destroy that saddam monster and its minions of mass-murdering/worshippers throughout iraq.
I don't think that Derrick meant to state that Jehovah is correct in wiping out the earth. I believe his question is how can the xJW's on this board, who have condemned JW's for their belief that Jehovah will kill all non believers at Armageddon, be so happy that the US is trying to kill all the Iraqis who are non-believers in democracy?
That isn't what he stated, but if it is what he meant, it's what he should have written.. What I recall Derrick saying was that people should be happy that the great mighty Jah is going to kill big bad evil people like Saddam. He used the word evil a lot, so I concluded that he was talking about evil people, but I guess he didn't mean what he meant.
Is there anyone on this board who believes that the US is trying to kill all the Iraqis who are non-believers in democracy? Is there anyone who believes that the US is doing this because Iraqis aren't believers in democracy? I don't support the war, but even so, I don't think America is in it for this inane reason that you provide, and I challenge you to find one example of a poster on this board who has expressed delight in the idea of murdering all Iraqis.
Nice try defending Derrick, but his post still doesn't make much sense to me, and neither does yours.
Besides, there are no rules stating that you must respond to the posts on your thread.
No, but this is a discussion board. He made what seemed to be an analogy and people responded to it. From him, silence. End of discussion. What was the point?
Dedalus
i find something very distressing not to mention terribly sad about some of you people (and to those who are not one of these people i kindly ask to please don't fly into some "i'm so insulted!
" snit as if i'm wrongfully referring to you).
to those people i'm referring to i say: you rightfully hope for the british and u.s. military to destroy that saddam monster and its minions of mass-murdering/worshippers throughout iraq.
No reply from Derrick. Another self-righteous hit-and-run.
Dedalus
okay, i tried, but i'm just not enjoying this place the way i once did.
my excuse for hanging around is gone, and it has been left in capable hands (whatever that means!
)
Easy, J6OCR9, easy. Was Prisca's post really so awful and merciless? Is Stephanus really so delicate that he'd be hurt by a harmless observation?
Dedalus
