when we look at the total universe imagine a jar of sand.
just one grain of sand would be our galaxy so we may be able to see our earth with an electron microscope.
with that in mind, it always made we cringe when at the meetings an elder would say "jehovah has prepared a spiritual banquet for us tonight," or "it makes jehovah happy that we made the effort to attend the meeting tonight.
If he's actually behind this he's a damn ignorant God figure.
figure he is not. but if he is the cause of all this creation, it speaks for itself.
Attributing wt material to the creator is blasphemy, perhaps using a middle eastern "walker in the garden" minor deity, and a supposed holy name thereof is demeaning to.
Pretending to know "god's" mind is elevating the speaker or writer to be his psychiatrist. good luck with that in the long run.
last month i got caught by my wife after a late night out with her (and some drinks).
i guess i am evil.. just wondering if anyone else has had this misfortune.. rub a dub.
1942 in Austria, in a room housing 4 boys, at night, nature called, when the toilet was down the hall in the hotel, many sinks, but only one toilet. got caught and punished.
just a heads-up that i will be testing some updates this evening.. the nature of the changes means it's difficult to test every scenario in advance offline (translation: it's a lot more effort and i just can't be bothered) so i'm going to go with the "wing-it" approach:.
deploy, check for errors, try to fix errors before anyone else notices them.. i can switch between the new and old version pretty quickly so if there are significant issues, i'll rollback and revert the changes while i work on the fixes.
worse case is the pages won't display quite right (dates might be a giveaway) but a full page refresh should fix things.. http://www.refreshyourcache.com/en/home/.
no edit button on chrome google aplle?
last weekend i was watching darkmatter2525 on youtube and came across this new thing in the bible.
jehovah has evil spirit!!
was just wondering how i didn’t come across this absurdity when i was a jw for 11 years.
..OK this may start a new topic, but your view on the 40 year track though the desert.
well it is tenuous, but on topic! why would the anti-idolatry god use a snake idol to cure viper bites, as through magic, weird action at a distance as Einstein would say?
hope this works .
was listening to this on youtube today.
check out brother bradford's comment about the picture of the governing body at about the 1:11:38 mark.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_jnua-ua0.
He is the professionally trained hotel, restaurant server, (kellner) on the dinner tables, are they waiting for their timely spiritual food?
last weekend i was watching darkmatter2525 on youtube and came across this new thing in the bible.
jehovah has evil spirit!!
was just wondering how i didn’t come across this absurdity when i was a jw for 11 years.
"The Name" is supposed to mean he can become to be whatever he wants to become, and it seems to be becoming that he commissions out the dirty works to underlings, the whole satarn the debble thing seems to just deceiver even putting on a [bible ] drama to convince, who copied that?
the wt articles for the past 2 weeks were the typical every-3-months-or-so attempt at justifying the sovereignty of the jw popes, the governing body.. aside from the usual specious reasoning and ridiculous assertions, i noted this:.
the articles went through great semantic pains to emphasize that, for the jws, jesus is "the leader", while the gb are merely "those taking the lead".. what, exactly, is the difference between a "leader" vs. "one who is taking the lead"?.
in what other sphere of human experience is such semantic pretzel logic even close to rational?.
Surely the pivotal word is 'taking'
F: nowhere is this ruthless but often subtle craving and seizing of control more apparent the in WT land. Out of a pool of untrained or uncertified candidates, the winners emerge, and the losers of those struggles are the obedient sheep.
Control, the lead has been taken; take it or leave it.
dear brothers and sisters,.
it has come to our attention that many in our ministry are encountering individuals who question the accuracy of the bible on scientific grounds.
for example, they may ask questions such as, how does a snake talk when it has no vocal chords or mouth and lip muscles?
Actually in the "science copies creation" series of the WT/ Awake, there should have been an article how the makers of heartburn, antacid remedies, copied the means God must have used to change the chemistry of the fishy guts into an oxygen producing benign environment.
There was a story about an Oregon man who got fined for suggesting a change in the timing of traffic lights. he was fined for taking the lead, in doing engineering without a [ local] license.
the wt articles for the past 2 weeks were the typical every-3-months-or-so attempt at justifying the sovereignty of the jw popes, the governing body.. aside from the usual specious reasoning and ridiculous assertions, i noted this:.
the articles went through great semantic pains to emphasize that, for the jws, jesus is "the leader", while the gb are merely "those taking the lead".. what, exactly, is the difference between a "leader" vs. "one who is taking the lead"?.
in what other sphere of human experience is such semantic pretzel logic even close to rational?.
good illustration Simon, but wt has it's [spirit appointed] commanders, if you try to take the lead, while you think there is a lapse in their command (like their grasp of scriptures)' the appointed leaders will try you for treason.
the congregation i attend had it's watchtower study on thursday night because of l.d.c work this week-end, and another congregation i have some not very spiritual friends in had their watchtower study on wednesday.
from what i have delicately prised out of people, the congregations loved the watchtower study this week, saying it was so encouraging and all the usual stuff, with no-one seeming to realise the g.b.
said they're not inspired, so the spirit int he past has moved them to teach wrong things, and all the other ideas excellently summed up on reddit.. today's watchtower will wash over the heads of most j.w's like it never even happened, the all remaining as loyal as ever, and it makes me so, so sad..
and he skips over the entire first half of the paragraph. He didn't say anything about the GB being infallible. He spent like 30 seconds on the paragraph
This the shame, hypocrisy of the wt leadership. GB, Zone, branch. hiding even the watered down version of the truth. If you did not know about Paragraph 12, you would never know it even existed, from that talk. Zone approved. A dutch treat.
