okay so i think it might be the concussion making me go on this rant...not too sure.. the girl scouts started selling their cookies yesterday and for the first time in my life i will be ordering cookies.....i mean wtf is so wrong with ordering cookies from them?
i love the thin mint's and guess what?
you can only buy them from girl scouts!!!!!!.
In Norway we don't have girl scouts selling cookies. So I'm not familiar with it or to what degree these little girls fills them with satanic symbols. Obviously eating them would be part of a satanic ritual. Am I wrong about this, or is JW philosophy still deep in my mind?
Would be awesome if someone brought them to a KH and started sharing them ^^
Matsimus
hello, i want to discuss with my mother about jws saying we only use a small percentage, and that we will use the entire brain when we become perfect in the paradise.
if someone could provide me with som references or quotes about this from the literature, i would really appreciate it.
thanks in advance :).
Thanks Soontobe :) Tried to do a search, but only found threads about brainwashing. I wont ask why.
Matsimus
hello, i want to discuss with my mother about jws saying we only use a small percentage, and that we will use the entire brain when we become perfect in the paradise.
if someone could provide me with som references or quotes about this from the literature, i would really appreciate it.
thanks in advance :).
Hello, I want to discuss with my mother about JWs saying we only use a small percentage, and that we will use the entire brain when we become perfect in the paradise. If someone could provide me with som references or quotes about this from the literature, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance :)
Matsimus
...for you to vote on the 2012 jw survey!
only just over 3 months remaining until the survey closes!.
i've been trying to think of ways to get the word out and get more people voting.. .
Kurt, how can you not find a catagory for yourself? They seemed general enough to me.
i can't stop playing skyrim.
how did this happen?
i was never into this stuff before and never thought i would be.
Skyrim isn't a game, it's magic lol. It can make me forget all bout the real life for hours. Why some people use drugs to get this effect I do not understand.
- Matsimus
i was born into a family already some generations into jehovah's organization.
from the time i was four years old i can remember my birthday being no more significant than me turning four years old.
later i saw the significanse of it when my classmates had their birthdays, but i knew it was wrong.
Thank you! :D I love this forum!
i just wanted to chime in as a loving atheist father, divorced to a jw, and what plays as far as educating our children.. we have shared custody but the kids are mainly with their mom - 11 and 14 respectively.. the problem i face is keeping a balance for my children.
i have turned atheist during our marriage, so my ex didn't have the spiritual support she signed up for anymore.
i can understand it is not easy.
Thanks for sharing your story. When it comes to evolution, I think it's easy to believe in creation if one has never learned about it. Once I started learning about evolution, I was still reading about it in WT and that old book about it. (Funny that my extended family have sent me several copies of it over the years.) As I learned more, the WT arguments seemed more and more ignorant. I laughed when they stated something like bones being no significant evidence, haha
- Matsimus
i was born into a family already some generations into jehovah's organization.
from the time i was four years old i can remember my birthday being no more significant than me turning four years old.
later i saw the significanse of it when my classmates had their birthdays, but i knew it was wrong.
I was born into a family already some generations into Jehovah's organization. From the time I was four years old I can remember my birthday being no more significant than me turning four years old. Later I saw the significanse of it when my classmates had their birthdays, but I knew it was wrong. I grew up as a Jehovahs witness and got told that I was much smarter than most adults, since I knew the truth. I felt blessed in knowing the truth.
My father was never religious although he was raised as a muslim. At my age of seven, we moved away from most of my extended family. I witnessed that my mother started smoking, and I could not look at her the same way I had looked at her before. I was heartbroken. My life got turned upside down. To me, smoking was a serious sin, and something that my god Jehovah would not easily forget. We had our moments going to our local kingdom hall. I had been encouraged by my extended family to make sure my family did that. What a burden to lay the responsibility of life and death on a nine year old kid.
My grandmother, a devout christian would never let me forget about my christian upbringing. About then my father started telling me about religion being a blindfold. He told me alot about the wrongdoings of the religion, but my grandmother kept me in the dark and told his views were part of Satans work. Of course I believed her, and she kept encouraging me to preach to my father. But the things my father had told me never left my mind. At High school I had a very good teacher, teaching me about scientific reasoning and how you can not interpret the bible literally. Slowly I began to think about all the questions from my earlier years. Suddenly, for the first time in my life I could understand life. I could find answers with logical reasoning. I had answers that made me realize the meaning of life here and now.
I soon had to confront the fact that I wasn't able to live forever in a paradise, but somehow it didn't matter. I had what I had always been looking for, answers that were logic to me. Slowly the things my father had told me made sense to me. I started having constructive discussions with my father, and I believe we teached eachother about what life is. Today the talks have moved onwards to politics but I will never forget the freedom it gave to me. I could actually talk about things that made sense to me.
I one day gathered enough courage to talk to my mother about my views. I believe that she is now an atheist and free from the worries about an armageddon. She still isn't disfellowshipped and regulary talks to my grandmother on the phone. My biggest hope is that one day my extended family will see the truth about this cult, and all the unnecessary troubles that follows with it. All that matters is family, and I hope we will be united in the future without having to lie about our beliefs
- Matsimus
i can't believe do catholic priest get hit with payouts like this.
definitely feel terrible what happened to her but to hold the society responsible for a person not living by bible standards is crazy.
what a pack of lies about secrecy and cover ups.
"I dont undastand why this was posted. Judicial matters in Jehovah's organization are never handled this way, i have a strong feeling this post was made by wolves in sheep clothing. Besides we all should remember that: "when a person states his case, it seems true until the other person begins to cross-examine him "."
I loved this comment! Of course judicial matters are perfect, aren't they? :D:D:D
i think the organization will harp on the idea that the news media is a product of satan the devil and should never be trusted especially if the news is in any way negative of jehovah's witnesses.. with all the negative (truthful) press that will come out over this latest mult-million dollar judgment against the watchtower society, i think they will "demonize" the press more than they ever have.. what do you think?
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Is it against god's chosen organization on earth? Then don't watch it, it's directly from Satan.
Sadly enough this is an easy question to many JWs :( Critical thinking, how dearly I miss you.
