It seems reasonable that god's chosen organization would have stocks and shareholders in a Corporation,
god is a well known for his business investments and gambling acumen.
i see many threads that address this issue, but i still don't have a clear thought on this.
so i want your help.. the governing body misleads the members- no doubt.
they do change some of their history to make the wt organization look smarter or better-guided by "jehovah.
It seems reasonable that god's chosen organization would have stocks and shareholders in a Corporation,
god is a well known for his business investments and gambling acumen.
when i first realized that the wtbts was not teaching the truth, i thought "well, they are basically good people and teaching some morals, so what real harm is there?"..
then i started looking at the opportunity cost.
by this i mean all the things that a jw does not have access to if they believe the wtbts nonsense.
Perfectly true and well written Happy Guy
The reason the teachings are redundant and unsafe is the WTS. thinks the best way to run and guide humanity is to emulate
ancient cultures such as the Israelites and their social morals of their time. In practice this can be a very damaging and counterproductive
of an effort.
now that my "eyes are open" i was amazed as i sat at a brothers funeral {he died due to lukemia/not taking blood} the elder mentioned his "spiritual" acomplishments for 20 minutes, his worldly acomplishments like creating a home buisness from scratch and employing his whole family was mentioned in one sentence.
and worst...his worldly family was barely mentioned...he did not mention he was the son of so and so {worldly folks} this was commented on afterwards by worldly friends!???
too much time was spent talking about paradise and the hopes he had etc etc...same old bible verses that were done to death.....blah blah......we may as well have been at a communist party meeting!
The JWS exploit ever opportunity they can to sell their religion, funerals are just one of these opportunities.
Mostly they are infomercials for themselves, a whole lot of JW dogma and very little talk about the person that actually passed away.
It is deemed a sin to give praise of an individuals accomplishments while they were living, unless of course how well that
person preached or pioneered as a devoted slave to the WTS.
first, i'll answer the question that most everyone seems to be asking: .
q: should i upgrade to windows 7. a: if your xp or vista is working for you, don't waste your time or money upgrading.
(if it ain't broke don't fix it) if you plan on buying a new computer, certainly try windows 7.. .
I was a beta tester this summer and the improvement over Vista is noticeable for just about every user.
I now use it as my main operating system on my computer with VISTA and XP as secondaries.
Recently installed a SSD drive from OCZ put Windows 7 on it and it is the fastest OS that I ever had.
considering the truth about the truth, how the heck did they manage to spread around the world and at least have a witness in most of the countries/lands???.
i hope my question makes sense.. stillin9.
It is well known fact that the psychology of fear spreads quickly ( imminent Armageddon ) and gets people attention and motivates people to take action.
The WTS. exploited bible scripture as well as the people that listened to them to buy and sell their literature .
All under the label of god's will and purpose of course.
Stir in a bit of manipulation, exploitation and a bit of corruption and you have the WTS. religious publishing company.
i dont know if this has already been posted..but 20/20 has this as one of its segments tonight (fri 11/20/09 9pm cst..abc).
devout jehovah's witness is suspected of murdering his wife of 19 years in cold.
snakes (rich .
There'd be blood all over me. Sounds like maybe an accomplice/hired killer.
That was my thought as well and it certainly is common when trying to kill a spouse off
to collect on a life insurance policy. I think the police were right, it was all a carefully but sloppy
devised murder. Perhaps Kelle knew his marriage was going down the tubes which may have financial ruined him
so he took action to that would have put him a much better position, financially rich with the kids all to his own, not to mention
all the love and empathy from the local congregation and community.
is being followed daily at www.swrnn.com for those interested.. this afternoons coverage said he was an elder at the time of the murder.. i think when the story first came out no one was sure if he was or not..
Satan is particularly hard at work getting humans to commit murder and cash in on life insurance policies since 1914
when he and his evil spirits were cast down to earth , isn't that right Godiswithus ?
is being followed daily at www.swrnn.com for those interested.. this afternoons coverage said he was an elder at the time of the murder.. i think when the story first came out no one was sure if he was or not..
But god_be_with_us your forgetting that god is the greatest teacher of murder and rape.
You can read about his murderous profile by reading the bible carefully this web site goes into more information
on this subject www.evilbible.com
reading the book, you can live forever in paradise earth, on page 81 end of paragraph two it reads, "this raises the question: did almighty god create such a place of torment?
well, what was god's view when the israelites, following the example of peoples who lived nearby, began to burn their children in fire?
he explains in his word: "they have built the high places of topheth, which is in the valley of the son of hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing i had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.".
An abbreviated answer to the original question is yes, added too, have men burned people for the sake of their select gods ?
and the answer again is yes. This includes devoted Christians by the way.
so i'm stopping at the local pizza shop this morning .
when i see 4 jw's dressed up in their wt uniforms about a block away, just pointing at houses, for about 5 minutes.
so they break up and this one 21 year old kid is standing at this door.
You little demon truth speaker
Or the kid may tell a tale of when he was out in service one day and one of Satan's evil servants tried talking to him,
but he wouldn't listen and quickly walked away. Well at least thats the one he'll tell when his father is in listening distance.