it's true.
last night, a kid got marked for having worldy friends.
the usual no friendship with the world texts made its way in.
Prov 22:6 is a scripture that Jehovah's Witnesses have never come close to fulfilling.
" Train up a boy according to the way for him; even when he grows old he will not turn aside from it."
It's as Billy said,
And that is exactly how they manage to lose 2/3 of their born-ins.
credit goes to anony mous=http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/215963/1/ready-to-leak-wikileaks-style=anony mous wrote:=hi,=i have a cache of documents that are direct from the branch.
they include letters, forms, videos, booklets, instructions on how to handle everything in kingdom hall locally and rbc's financially and otherwise.=includes the branch's instructions on how to write the local incorporations so that all assets go to watchtower inc. and in case that corporation doesn't exist anymore or is no longer tax free, to the governing body (that's what it says!).
i have them for all states but only going to include ny (since that's where they are located).
Hi Janice, and welcome to the forum. I noticed your post did not take. If you are using some versions of Internet Explorer there can be problems, but it seems that Firefox works pretty well here.
Others can give better advice I'm sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c__xwmsz4au.
http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?code=rkt.
friday.
He says,
"People confuse a data point with a trend," in reference to the 20th Century violence of WWI and WWII.
He goes on to explain that those two spikes in violence were temporary and did not lead to a trend in violence. He makes sense.
Watchtower will always look at isolated episodes of violence to try to makes it's case that it is on the increase.
Also significnat is the fact that when there is an episode of violence it is replayed over and over in the media, giving the impression that there is more violence than there really is.
yesterday i posted the crazy thread and wish to apologise.. .
i was found by a friend and taken to hospital.. .
a mental health team will also give me further support.. .
I will no longer comment lest I cause offence.
I am happy to say that your posts seem very sincere, as does your apology. I believe it is accepted by all, but certainly by me.
And there is no need to withdraw from here; your posts are as welcome as anybody's.
yesterday i posted the crazy thread and wish to apologise.. .
i was found by a friend and taken to hospital.. .
a mental health team will also give me further support.. .
Usualusername said,
Scenic it was very real
If it was real (and I'm a terrible judge of these things) I wish you the best in the coming days. I hope the issue you found hard to deal with can be taken care of with an approach that brings you good health and well being.
All the best to you.
yesterday i posted the crazy thread and wish to apologise.. .
i was found by a friend and taken to hospital.. .
a mental health team will also give me further support.. .
Curious here,
Were you really downing pills and alcohol in an attempt to end your life, or was that a hoax? I left the thread thinking it was probably a hoax.
could be coincidental, but after announcing our scheduled dialogue program to be broadcasted live on feb. 21, 2012 with seven unthank, pay pal alerts me of suspicious activity in the six screens account..
Mad Sweeney said,
I was kind of disappointed when Mr. Unthank declined to appear on Cult Free Radio.
I am disappointed too. I wasn't necessarily hoping to have him taken away from the 6 screens show already in the works, but I was hoping for him to be on your show at another time. Or did he decline your show before making arrangements with Rick Fearon?
Did he give reasons for declining that you can share?
coming to a kingdom hall near you, in a public talk.
jesus did not die on cross, says scholar .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7849852/jesus-did-not-die-on-cross-says-scholar.html.
@ No Room For George who said,
"...to argue over whether it was an upright pole with or without a crossbeam is just as retarded as to argue over whether the wood was from a cedar or an oak tree."
George, you make way too much sense to still be a JW. Are you sure you fit in there?
Your post is very nicely put, with such great common sense!
(Speaking of the idolotry issue, which is a lable JWs like to lay onto cross supporters, I know JWs who idolize the Watchtower by wearing a small Watchtower icon as a necklace, just like Church members wear the cross, and they can't see it's the same thing.)
england - snowing like the north pole.
europe - deep freeze.
alaska - super deep freeze & snow.
Flipper, those farmers in Central Caliornia...
I'm in Central California's San Joaquin Valley, and it's been dry and much warmer than usual. Feb and March can be wet but as Flipper and Skeeter1 said, if this keeps up there will be drought and water woes for the farmers.
There hasn't been much of the usual heavy fog either.
i think that many of them begrudgingly admit that they are going to die.
they are not going to live in a paradise with all the animals, blah, blah, blah.. i think that even if they won't speak out about it, it has to do more than just cross their minds.. nobody likes to be duped..
James_woods said,
they were actually saying that Jehovah...was TESTING HIS PEOPLE THROUGH A FALSE PROPHECY!!!
I always found remarks like that troubling, and now it makes me smile and shake my head; JWs will make every excuse they can think of to keep the Society propped up as God's Oranization in their own minds. The rationalizing never stops.
It would be so nice if they judged their own religion by the same standards they judged other religions by. Any other religion that engaged in false prophecy would be promptly condemned by them, but when they do it they say Jehovah is testing them. Yikes!
It has gone way beyond ridiculous. Not having to be around people who think like that is a very positive thing and a great relief.
