Im feeling what your saying dude
There has to be an inteligent designer.
Just dont go slicing into anyones brain to figure this out, please.
ponder this scenario:.
an alien "scientist" totally unfamiliar with the human and its anatomy comes to earth and sees a human sleeping.
it sees no other humans around, so has no frame of reference to evaluate this creature nor understand what it is doing.. the alien slices into the mans skull and pulls out the brain.
Im feeling what your saying dude
There has to be an inteligent designer.
Just dont go slicing into anyones brain to figure this out, please.
when i look back, i think of some things that really angered me about the organization.
i was raised as a witness and i was taught from a very early age that "reaching out" was the most important things i could do in life.
i was to reach out for "privileges" and get baptized.
Being told to reach out for more in the congregation and only getting crap jobs like :
Timekeeping in ministry school.
being on the sound team and being told i was doing an important job and they needed me.[Only to be replaced easily when i left]
Announcements person for tuesday book study [To be replaced when i started missing meetings by some guy that had left for years and had only been back five minutes.
All your so called friends dissapear once you stop going to meetings.
And lots more.....
on the island of patmos john see's visions of "seven headed beasts coming out of the sea" and 'harlots and diadems and locusts" and........stop this ride i want to get off!!!
why all the nostradamus non-sense?
why all the cloak and dagger mind freak?
Well the key to it all lies in scripture.
2 corint 11:25- Apostle paul admits it all as he says- 3 times was i beaten with rods once was i stoned.
So there you have it they were all smoking the plants or something.
to control a person, or control a group of people , any cult , including jehovah's witnesses , have to gain your trust that they are the authority on what you need to know.
even people have been known to use these " catch phrases " to gain trust , or " hook lines " as you'd call them to gain control over groups of people or individually in their own lives.
see if you are familiar with these phrases which empower the sender of the phrase , but demands rapt allegiance from listeners to be the " gospel truth " without challenge , which can take the listeners power away.
Ive been told by elders since i left:
You need the meetings/Jehovah.
Your reasoning is false and i can see it.
accused blames his bad behaviour on his jehovahs witness mother abandoning him.. http://news.smh.com.au/victim-sobs-as-rock-thrower-apologises/20080228-1vij.html.
goes and breaks into a kingdom hall..
also intresting new book exposing the watchtower
accused blames his bad behaviour on his jehovahs witness mother abandoning him.. http://news.smh.com.au/victim-sobs-as-rock-thrower-apologises/20080228-1vij.html.
goes and breaks into a kingdom hall..
Accused blames his bad behaviour on his Jehovahs witness mother abandoning him.
http://news.smh.com.au/victim-sobs-as-rock-thrower-apologises/20080228-1vij.html
Goes and breaks into a kingdom hall.
http://www.slideshare.net/deeeteee/a-message-to-jehovahs-witnesses.
it's just a basic slideshow presentation, but i think it might be the first slideshow on slideshare about jehovah's witnesses.
i got the idea from the recent threads about the do not call list.
Thats a really great idea.
for me it was the tuesday night book study.
i didn't like reading, opening/closing with prayers and the uncomfortable, close, claustrophobic setting it was in.
this meeting was the first one to be binned when i started to fade.
Thats an easy question- It was the thursday ministry drooool meeting.It was the most boring meeting on the planet and probably still is which is why although ive been back to a few meetings the past year or so ive not been to a minstry meeting in about 2 years or more.
reading aleman's intelligent and erudite posts in regard to prophecies and other things biblical got me to thinking and prompted me to ask the following question - just what is the watchtower bible and tract society's current [as of this month, february 2008] interpretation on the identity of the wicked witch king of the north?
when i was in - many moons ago in the late 1970's - the king of the north was depicted, if my memory serves me correctly, as the soviet union.
but as the expression goes, s*** happens.
This is a very intresting question.One that had alarm bells ringing in my head.
When i was joining the tower i studied all the literature from the 80s and was quite concerned then that they were saying that the king of the north was the soviet union.
When i was in the tower i had questions as to who was the king of the north now?
Everyone kept telling me not to speculate because we dont curently know who the king of the north is!
Apparently he is yet to arise and he has changed roles again and could be anyone.
Watchtower mags over the past few years have pointed this out too.
We dont know as he hasnt risen yet and is lying dormant until the new king of the north lets himself known
Sounds a load of old b@@ls to me.
is this picture a good example of love bombing?
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Yes his well and truly screwed surounded.