recently i saw a link to an article from the st. petersburg times (one of these links on the side of this forum to sometimes old articles).
it was an article about jws and their preaching work.
imo, middle to favorable.. but the one thing was from a door where the jws are saying they're not here to convert anyone, they just want to share a scripture.. what sort of bs is this?
Of course they are recruiting.
They call it 'life saving work' and believe if you don't sign up, you are very likely going to die at Armageddon meaning no magical 'living forever on Paradise Earth' prize. In other words, you HAVE to be a JW AND preach for Jehovah in order to gain eternal life.
when i think of integrity, a lot of positive connotations come to mind.
i think of individuals grounded in principles, who do not operate on opinions that change based on the breeze of political or social change.
a life that is directed by a code of morality, not on capricious emotions.
in this video the popular saudi cleric sheik yahya al-jana discusses the joys of paradise, saying that men will have the strength of a hundred men in paradise and will be busy tearing hymens, while the virgins of paradise, whose breasts are like pomegranates, become virgins every time again.. the cleric also explains it is mostly men who enter paradise noting that women in general are bad because they refuse to wear the veil, they wear tight clothes in shopping malls, put on perfume and jewelry, and use filthy social media platforms.
source.... this is what young men from conservative muslim families are raised on.
is it any wonder islamic countries treat women appallingly?.
Oubliette said: I guess they're coming your way!
I'm-a just duck to the side here then.
Oubliette said: Seriously, these nutty religious ideas clearly make no sense and defy even basic logic. I suppose either Mohammed was either bad at math and logical thinking or he knew that most humans are or both.
Yes very true. Religion and faith require you to leave reason and logic behind. Facts and reality seem to constantly contradict these groups. I was a teenager doing the math on the JW 'we preach to all the inhabited Earth'. There is no way the number of JWs on the Earth can service the population of this planet going door-to-door. There was no interwebs back in my youth. Even today, there are a lot of people on the Earth with no interwebs.
recently shared this with me.. they compared the tiredness they felt after attending an assembly and meetings, and noted how much worse it was than actually working and studying hard for hours for their secular employment!
why were they so exhausted after an assembly/meeting?
no, it wasn't satan.
in this video the popular saudi cleric sheik yahya al-jana discusses the joys of paradise, saying that men will have the strength of a hundred men in paradise and will be busy tearing hymens, while the virgins of paradise, whose breasts are like pomegranates, become virgins every time again.. the cleric also explains it is mostly men who enter paradise noting that women in general are bad because they refuse to wear the veil, they wear tight clothes in shopping malls, put on perfume and jewelry, and use filthy social media platforms.
source.... this is what young men from conservative muslim families are raised on.
is it any wonder islamic countries treat women appallingly?.
VI: So, a little bit of logic here. Most women don't make it to Paradise but there's a hundred for every man?
Oubliette: It makes perfect sense. Most women do NOT make it, and obviously only 100th of the men do!
But this is contradictory to what the prophet Mohammed/Muhammad (however you spell it) said about most of the dwellers in Hell being women. Is there somewhere different that the men are going besides Paradise or Hell?
all states in the us mandate health care workers and teachers to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement.
this year our commonwealth expanded the law to include clergy, and to include a mandatory two hour training on what to look for and how to report, required for all mandatory reporters.. my coworker at the hospital said she and her husband did the training together, because her husband volunteers in the sunday school at the church, they required him to take it too.
i asked several witnesses when this law came into effect if all the elders and ms are going to be taking the training and everyone looked at me like i was an alien and they had no idea what the heck i was talking about.
The Borg have already stated they feel child abuse is a sin not a crime and therefore, won't report it unless mandated to do so. They hide behind a scripture that states don't take your neighbour to court.
If they can fly under the radar on this, they will. It's all about 'not dragging Jehovah's name through the mud' which is just a cop out to not take action as this will cost them time and money. They care nothing for the membership, particularly the women and children.
hear: http://audiocdn.ebiblefellowship.com/questions/interviews/2015.10.06_mccann_-_interview_with_alan_colmes_on_fox_news_radio.mp3
Wow, you'd think people would have learned by now. This crap has been going on for thousands of years. 'eBible Fellowship' ... Chris McCann says 'God hides truth'. Uh... yeah.
the number of pyramids in the world just keep going up and up.
an egyptoligist thinks using satellite scanning technology he has found the remnants of another 17 pyramids in the egypt.
in central and south american they keep finding more pyramids and in java a couple of years ago they surmised that the riuns their was actually a step pyramid possible the oldest in the world.
hi... i am new and after nearly 20 years after being disassociated at 15 i would like to make contact with others who have similar difficulties.
my mother was disfellowshipped shortly after my rebellion and had all ties with both her mother and brother cut and that remains the case.. just really hacked off with not being able to put things in the proper place in my life after all these years.
for the record i don't know if i believe in god but am searching for some peace as i seem to self destruct on a regular basis.. any ideas anyone?.
Hi Kurteous and welcome. I am glad you are awake so your children don't have to go through what you did.
I am 3rd-gen, born-in, never baptized. I was around the age of 10 to 12 when I started having my doubts but kind of in reverse order.
The Ethiopian Famine of the 1970s had me questioning an all-powerful, all-loving God. As I moved into my teens, my doubts about religion grew. The JWs weren't making sense to me. The Catholics were in the news about their pedophilia problem. I just figured my life was going to be lived without God and I was fine with that. It's been a tough road with parents being in and getting more zealous as we kids grew up and left home. None of us are JWs. My Mom is dead now and my Dad is in a nursing home with dementia. He doesn't even remember his religion anymore.
As for me, I am a non-believer. Researching the history of the Bible, Bart Ehrman's information on the contradiction of the 4 Gospels and outright lies in the Bible, the factual errors in it too helped me conclude that God is just a figment of the human imagination. Ancient peoples used them to define their world. We have Science to help us with that now. Thank the Goddess! ;0)
So what are the things you enjoy doing beside being a parent? Any hobbies you enjoy? I love horses, crafting, having fun with family and friends. Work and looking after my Dad are my primary activities at the moment.
hi simon, sorry to disturb, but i would appreciate it very much if you could kindly change my username for me - from just kidding to divergent.
i've decided to change my username because i'm not the same person i was when i first joined this site.
back then, a part of me still believed, and i thought that if my doubts were wrong and the religion actually turns out to be true and i posted negative stuff here... hey, i was only just kidding!!!.
Congrats Divergent. Looks like Simon has worked his magic... again.
