Posts by John Aquila

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Preach, preach, preach....feel guilty...preach some more

by Tornintwo in

since starting to wake up, i can't help notice how so many talks emphasise preaching, increasing your hours, pioneering etc...with a hefty load of guilt on the side.. i always noticed the guilt, but now i'm noticing how talks that seem to start out on another issue always seem to come back to hours!

visit talk seemed to start out about persecution, trusting in jehovah etc...but the main thrust in the end was, 'do more hours, pioneer, don't get an education or pursue a career, don't get distracted, hooray for the pioneers!

if you dont do more hours you will be 'the sort that shrink back to destruction'.

John Aquila

so you watchtower cynics/realists out there, what is the real reason?

Converts = $$$$$

If one convert donates $1 a week X 52 weeks in a year that's $52 a year

8 million members X $52 = $416,000,000 a year (almost 1/2 a billion)

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After twenty years of marriage…

by John Aquila in

i just got a call from a friend who informed me that a brother whom i've known for a while and is an elder, just found out last night that his wife of 20+ years declared she was gay, and left him..

i still need to confirm but my friend is very reliable and was close friends with the family.

heres the thing, she spent 20+ years with this man, has children with him and now decides she wants to follow her heart.

John Aquila

I just got a call from a friend who informed me that a brother whom I've known for a while and is an elder, just found out last night that his wife of 20+ years declared she was gay, and left him.

I still need to confirm but my friend is very reliable and was close friends with the family.

Here’s the thing, she spent 20+ years with this man, has children with him and now decides she wants to follow her heart.

If she would have come clean to begin with, he wouldn’t have wasted the best part of his life only to start over in his late 40s early 50s.

Would you be upset if this happened to you?

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Unconvincing Evidence in September Watchtower

by bemused in

i was looking at the september 2015 issue of the watchtower, which, unlike the simplified and study editions, appears to be aimed at non-jws.

a couple of articles caught my eye that quote biblical sources which are somewhat less than convincing to a non-believer.. firstly 'what do jehovah's witnesses believe?

' says that the core belief is that 'all scripture is inspired of god and beneficial'.

John Aquila

Firstly 'What do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe?' says that the core belief is that 'all scripture is inspired of God

So why do they admit in another magazine the complete opposite??

*** w96 4/15 p. 19 Why True Worship Receives God’s Blessing ***

Bible translations themselves are not inspired by God. Translations, by their very nature, may reflect variations of the understanding of the original tongues in which the Bible was recorded.

Including the New World Translation!!!!

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Paul said NOT to be "Harsh" in Shunning

by FusionTheism in

the apostle paul warned the corinthians not to be too harsh in their shunning of a man who was guilty of sexual immortality / adultery:.

2 co 2:5-11: now if anyone has caused sadness, he has saddened, not me, but all of you to an extentnot to be too harsh in what i say.

this rebuke given by the majority is sufficient for such a man; now you should instead kindly forgive and comfort him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by excessive sadness.

John Aquila

This was Paul's idea.

I wonder where he got the idea?

(Acts 8:3) . . .Saul, though, began to deal outrageously with the congregation. Invading one house after another and, dragging out both men and women, he would turn them over to prison.

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Paul said NOT to be "Harsh" in Shunning

by FusionTheism in

the apostle paul warned the corinthians not to be too harsh in their shunning of a man who was guilty of sexual immortality / adultery:.

2 co 2:5-11: now if anyone has caused sadness, he has saddened, not me, but all of you to an extentnot to be too harsh in what i say.

this rebuke given by the majority is sufficient for such a man; now you should instead kindly forgive and comfort him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by excessive sadness.

John Aquila

This rebuke given by the majority is sufficient

Not everyone in the congregation was to shun him.

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this weeks bible highlights: Jehovah slaughters his own people to teach David a lesson

by nowwhat? in

from 2 samuel 24. i am so mad at myself for not making a comment how could anyone explain this away?

then after he slaughters 70,000 he then feels regret?

John Aquila

JA, essentially correct except you've got a couple of things out of order. David knocked up Bathsheba first,

Oubliette

Shame on me. How could I forget? David saw her bathing.

Ha punkofnice, I hadn't seen that one before.

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this weeks bible highlights: Jehovah slaughters his own people to teach David a lesson

by nowwhat? in

from 2 samuel 24. i am so mad at myself for not making a comment how could anyone explain this away?

then after he slaughters 70,000 he then feels regret?

John Aquila

Finkelstein 7 hours ago

Let it be correctly acknowledged that the ancient Hebrews embellished stories about their god into creating its power and relevance, much like the majority of ancient civilizations.
In other words these stories are of fiction and that should be an accepted fact.

What if these stories are really true. What if there is a God and he is a maniac. That would explain all the crazy shi** in the world.

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this weeks bible highlights: Jehovah slaughters his own people to teach David a lesson

by nowwhat? in

from 2 samuel 24. i am so mad at myself for not making a comment how could anyone explain this away?

then after he slaughters 70,000 he then feels regret?

John Aquila

Hold Me-Thrill Me
They don't really believe in God do they.

No they don't. They should post here. Hey, maybe they do!!!!!

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this weeks bible highlights: Jehovah slaughters his own people to teach David a lesson

by nowwhat? in

from 2 samuel 24. i am so mad at myself for not making a comment how could anyone explain this away?

then after he slaughters 70,000 he then feels regret?

John Aquila

Ok, let me see if I got this right because I want to be a good example and follow the Bible.

David has someone kill Uriah, (sort of like something the mob would do) then he steals his wife Bathsheba. She becomes pregnant and her first son dies, (poor bastard) the second son is named Solomon and he is given the Kingdom, Godly Wisdom, Gold in abundance and 1000 wives and concubines. Bathsheba becomes part of the linage of Jesus Christ. So everyone is blessed

Next example; David counts people and Jehovah kills 70,000 people who had no idea that they were dying because David counted them.

Moral of the story; find some good looking sister, get her pregnant, hire a hit man to kill her husband and you will be blessed.

And whatever you do, “Don’t count anyone”

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Convention Invites are Idiotic

by cookiemaster in

so, like every year, there's a campaign going on about giving people convention invites and urging them to attend the convention.

what an utterly moronic waste of time.

we live 500+ kilometers away from the convention hall.

John Aquila

So, why do they keep this idiotic practice going year after year?

For the same reason they keep teaching that 1914 was the beginning of the last days!!!