do the witnesses believe that their religion is the only right one?anyone who is serious about his religion should think that it is the right one.
otherwise, why would he or she be involved in it?
christians are admonished: "make sure of all things; hold fast to what is fine.
Lets simplify their answer:
Part 1- No we don't think you have to be a JW to be saved
Part 2- What about those who were alive before there were JWs
Part 3- If you live today- you could still become a JW
Conclusion- we don't really judge anyway
So.....we asked the wrong question- Do JWs believe that only people who are JW's (or never heard from a JW) when the Great Tribulation comes will be saved???
Answer- Yup.
....following a false prophet?.
jesus and the bible do not at any point mention birthdays, xmas etc.
however it does have clear rules regarding following false prophets.. .
Worse- is ceeding control of your life to someone else based on an interpretation of 2000 year old manuscripts.
http://news.aol.com/article/palins-celebrity-status-still-on-the/257306.
is she in the news constantly and getting all this attention just because her high degree of milfness or is it something else.
i mean i must admit right now i would rather be nailin palin.
Hopefully she'll try to run for president in 2012. Tina Fey has too much talent for it to go to waste.
complete the following:.
even if its not the truth...... .
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Even if its not the truth-
Then lets just publicly admit that its not- so that when people die from not getting a blood transfusion, or decide not to go to college or otherwise screw themselves over- at least we all know that it was their decision and not because someone said that "its the truth"
is this a sign?
is it banning all religion there or what does it mean?
http://www.zeenews.com/states/2008-11-16/484112news.html
We can only hope. Maybe instead of all religions causing a disturbance, they'll outlaw all religions. Then society can grow without the severe influence of fairy tales and the invisible government of the religious heirarchy.
(PS- I hardly think that some swami stating his opinion will bring the end of the world- any more that me spouting off will.)
so what is a " phobia " ?
in hassan's book " releasing the bonds " he states it as , " a persistent, irrational fear of an object or situation.
all phobias are triggered by a cue that initiates a closed cycle of fearful images, thoughts, and feelings.
The more I read his book (the first one), the more shocked I am at the similarities between JWs and other cults. So far, he doesn't mention JWs- so I guess this book might have predated Randy's conversations with him. Randy recommended these books to me some time ago as good for "getting rid of the guilt" I had no idea what he meant until reading the book
when you think about it, there's a lot of things about jehovah's witnesses that isn't easy to understand.. try to explain all the details about the blood doctrine to half a normal brain.. the majority of jws cannot explain who exactly the "faithful & discreet slave" is.
most will mix it up with the governing body.. the new world translation has "jehovah" in it over 7000 times.
ask a witness if the manuscripts that were found had the name "jehovah" in it.
If religion is the truth, you should be able to explain it to a 5 year old and him/her not have any logical problems with it. Try that with:
-Why go to 2 hour meetings that are repeditive and impossible to understand.
Why Jehovah hates Santa Claus
Why its is pagan to celebrate birthdays.
Why Jehovah doesn't want us to play little league or be friends with the next door neighbors.
Why it is wrong to go to college.
(I haven't even started on F&D slave, 144,000, time of the end, rasom, etc, etc, etc.)
wow.
i'm only 15 minutes in, but i'm already feeling smothered.
the marching matrons of the town singing "that old time religion" sends chills up my spine.. has anyone seen this?
Are you watching the old black and white one or the newer- made for TV movies (Jason Robards? and I cant remember)
Great quotes.
It was one of my favorite movies as a Witness too. Amazing that when you are "in" you cant see how the movie is about you too.
well it seems that $750 billion dollar bail out was a waste of time.
it seems like companies are filing bankruptcy as fast as the market can recoup.
the crime rate is about to go through the roof.
Wow- what passes for Tribulation these days has really slipped:
Overleveraging of securitized debt instruments, loss of confidence by speculative traders in certain banking conglomerates, infusions of capital by several world governments into certain industries via stock buys in which the governement seeks to make a profit....etc, etc, etc.
Whatever happened to the sky turning to blood, people throwing their money in the streets, even a despotic dictator trying to conquer Europe???
We don't even have a good old pestilence killing off 1/3 of the earth's population!!
An earthquake that kills millions??? Nope- not even a tremor- and all of the buildings are earthquake proofed and early warning systems are installed so the death rate won't be near what it would have been in the past!!
Sigh- the good old days....
so what is a " phobia " ?
in hassan's book " releasing the bonds " he states it as , " a persistent, irrational fear of an object or situation.
all phobias are triggered by a cue that initiates a closed cycle of fearful images, thoughts, and feelings.
Flipper,
I am reading Hassan's books for the first time too. It really is amazing the commonalities between Moonies, other cults and JW's. I used to have a problem calling JW's a cult, but it becomes more and more clear that they are. (I am one of those who says- well most religions are a form of mind control- whats the big deal)
The use of phobias was one of the eye openers for me. It seems you cant go to a meeting without hearing about how bad the world is, or how bad life is, or how unhappy everyone is- and how you should be really afraid if you don't have "the truth." Nothing like ruining a beautiful fall day with that drivel.
Lrkr
