Love the cover in the OP.
And lol at fulano!
righto poppickers.
as some of you know, i have been putting together a book of interviews and humour.
it is designed (i hope), soften the blow for those inside the wbt$ who want to escape and also prove to those that have left that they are not alone.. anyway.
Love the cover in the OP.
And lol at fulano!
the past five weeks have been perhaps the most painful in my life as a witness.. some months ago a young man (i'd say in his late thirties or early forties) began attending meetings at my kingdom hall.
he had just moved to my area from another state.
he had disassociated himself from his home congregation many years back, when he was 20 years old and going through many of the typical trials and temptations most young men experience.. two of the elders met with him initially, and they later shared the details with the body of elders.
Watchtower... they shoot their wounded.
6 weeks ago some jws came to my door.
i've been inactive for 8 years.
after they gave their presentation i told them i was inactive.
Hi Alchemist... first of all, I do like your username. And... if you truly are an alchemist, the JWs are not for you.
Just curious. You said you have been inactive for 8 years. What made you become inactive?
to all of you in the usa i wish you a safe and happy "independence day" and many more of them!.
cheers.
zeb .
Happy 4th of July, Southern neighbours!
just watch the movie "contact" and it gave me an idea.. our population on earth today 8-9 billion, a day where all of mankind pray, beseech,.
plead for god to show us a sign that he is still up there.
one day all around the world.
I think researching the origins of the Bible and the belief systems that existed pre-Bible, as well as researching the information in the Bible against current Scientific, Medical, Geological, Archealogical etc information is an excellent way for a believer to begin sifting through the doctrine and dogma that has been heaped upon many of us to determine just exactly what is real and what is pure fantasy
Remnants of older belief systems run through present day faiths. The Egyptian 'Book of the Dead', as an example, is an interesting study showing that pre-Bible belief included an afterlife where a type of testing occurred in the subterrane, a judgment of the heart, and either paradise or unpleasant destruction. There are other similarities as well.
i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.
the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .
i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.
so i've been noticing recently that some khs in the area where i live (socal) are putting up the jw.org little blue dot, but others are not.
i would think this would be a mandatory directive from hq.
does anyone here have any intel on the matter?.
Yes... the Botchtower blue dot... far more insignificant than the pale blue dot picture of the Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe as it left our solar system on Feb 14, 1990.
i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.
the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .
i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.
Sooo... Satan's real name is Voldermort?
if you had any doubts about the pitifully poor mental prowess of watchtower and jws in general then i'm sure this week's watchtower study (week of june 15-21, 2015) completely obliterated such doubts.
the study article (watchtower april 15, 2015, page 19: how real is your relationship with jehovah?
) was filled with blatantly fallacious reasoning that were outdone only by the more fallacious reasoning on the part of commenting jws.. the article, in paragraph 2, says this about a relationship with jehovah:.
How Real Is Your Relationship With Jehovah?
Just as real as my relationship with the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus.
does anyone have any theories why our territory that's be reduced six or seven times over the last twenty years is not covered anymore?
we use to cover our area in less than six months and now nobody really keeps track of how the preaching work by territory is going.
is the advent of the mobile-literature machine why we don't see a zealous preaching spirit?
Maybe JWs should start practicing what they preach. If they claim to be Christians, then why don't they start really helping the less fortunate, the ill, the infirm, the elderly?
Maybe if they actually DID something to affect a positive change in someone's life, they'd feel better.