since being open to the truth abou da troof, whenever i read watchtower articles, their titles are always combinations of the same thing, just rehatched and modified to say teh same exact thing... does anybody get what i mean?.
serve jehovah and have ever-lasting peace!.
serve jehovah and keep and mild spirit, always remembering jesus christ is your lord!.
lmfao! Great thread!
Why There is a 10 Hour Minimum Field Service Requirement
Even When the Elders Ask you Inappropriate Questions in your JC- It's Sanctioned by the Faithful &Discreet Slave
Sisters, Why We admonish you to waer modest clothing...
Elders & Ministerial Servants - Always Remember to Include the Faithful Discreet Slave in Your Congregation Prayer
Forgive my spelling, I am a tad intoxicated.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/136430/2.ashx.
welcome emptywords!!
i love your name.
the road will be bumpy, but, alot of the people here are good shock absorbers .
That has got to be one of the best sentiments I have ever read. Original (to me) and dead on! Well said, bigdreaux.
based solely on whats available in the genesis account, what would happen if eve had not eaten the fruit but had continued a relationship with the "serpent" in perpetuity questioning god's motives?
would she be punished for this exercise of free will?.
i ask the question because my personal belief is that if the genesis account is in fact allegory, then what comes after it should be awarded no more acknowledged efficacy that what we prescribe to aesop, confucius or any other pragmatic, non-theistic value-set that has survived history .
What is it about the feminine gender that the ancient man found so intimidating, that they had to blame all of humanity's evils on a woman?
i'm not talking about the stuff you hear at the kingdom hall, i'm talking about the "experiences" you were told of by people you knew.
the big one for me was demons.
so many people i know had experiences with them.
According to her, emotions don't come from the brain, all of our thought processes are controlled by the heart and the brain has no function.
Well, you don't get any more brainwashed than that.
My mom was very superstitous. Smurfs were bad. The radio was wordly. Anything modern was wordly. Never ever get anything second hand from a thrift store or garage sale. demons are everywhere, apparantly so is god
.....either while you were a witness or when you were not??
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Nope, never appealed to me either...plus I didn't think I would or could ever deserve heaven....I am way too sinful and imperfect...heaven is right here on earth, or hell, depending on your perspective. mine: it's heaven.
i am an inactive jw who has 3 sons left in the religon.
my oldest son has been baptized for4 years and has recently married again.
he gets his son every other weekend.
I know of one father who was beating his son, and the grandparents hired a man for a reasonable fee to warn him. The hired thug just talked to the father, who would not listen to any other counsel. The hired man said that if he ever got wind of the father hitting his son ever again, he would bring down the entire police force on him, when he gets charged, the entire judicial court system to make sure that he went away for a long time. The father never touched his son again.
Me, I would have no remourse about paying someone to beat the crap out of the dad, sometimes, a bully needs a dose of his own medicine. Yes,I am against spanking, but when it comes to teaching an adult a lesson, sometimes talking, police checks, social services doesn't work as a deterant. They will know that they DESERVED it, and will know that if they hit their child again, they will get it much worse the next time.
Ok, let me have it people.
I cannot stand child abusers. If I was a man, I would beat up a child abuser myself, just turns out I'm a woman and I'm not big or strong enough.
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do we sometimes suffer from literal-mindedness?.
is there a cure?.
My dear sisters brinjen and eclipse , what is this "herb" of which you speak so fondly?
Is it good for making tea?
I know you know what it is:
dear friends,.
much of what we do on a daily basis is routine and of no particular, earth-shaking importance.
however, after reviewing letters of family going back to wwii, it is fascinating to read what dad was doing on board the aircraft carrier in the pacific on any old day, what mom was cooking on her ever-steaming range, how i was dealing with the roller coaster of emotion at bethel [mom saved all my letters], how nana wrote that she would not study with the witnesses [per my request] but 'here are some mittens i knitted for you when you canvass new york with your magazines.
((((((((((Nina)))))))))))
I know I am a stranger to you, but here is a big hug.....
based solely on whats available in the genesis account, what would happen if eve had not eaten the fruit but had continued a relationship with the "serpent" in perpetuity questioning god's motives?
would she be punished for this exercise of free will?.
i ask the question because my personal belief is that if the genesis account is in fact allegory, then what comes after it should be awarded no more acknowledged efficacy that what we prescribe to aesop, confucius or any other pragmatic, non-theistic value-set that has survived history .
The fruit represented full knowledge of good and bad.
''Knowing bad'' was the catalyst for becoming imperfect.
I guess God created ''Bad/evil'' too, otherwise there would be no fruit that contained ''bad/evil''.
If Eve had never fallen to the temptation, her and adam would of stayed in ignorant bliss. They would of never realized they were naked.
If they had children, they would of been ignorant as well....who knows what this ignorance would of precipitated.
That's if I believed that the Bible was inspired of god, and god actually exists.
do we sometimes suffer from literal-mindedness?.
is there a cure?.
My cure would be - smoke some herb, it makes everything funny.
also works
