what is the meaning of life?
we all die, so what is the meaning.
religion tries to bridge the gap with absolutist answers to this problem of existence by giving immortality to it's members in good standing(so join us or parish).helps to pay the bills using fear of annihilation to keep members as a source of material $$uport.
David Jay, I would have liked now, to query the Jewish witnesses that were converts as to why their new wt worldview on the meaning of life and suffering contrasted with what they left behind.
The suffering of "jesus" is not of such epic proportions compared to endured by others, even in natural death of that period. Only the "virgin birth " makes it outstanding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3arnnsfkk&feature=youtu.be.
no mention whatsoever that it was watchtower themselves that strongly hinted towards this date.
instead they blame those who "put their trust in a date, not jehovah".. let's recap... .
the organization had its highest growth percentage wise in its entire history.. Fs:
Yeah, it is a heady feeling to be contributing to an event of cosmic proportions, reverberating into the far reaching of the universe, 25 billion light years away. Could it be that Franz wrote this stuff to force "god's" hand into somehow live up to bible stuff? By involving a million plus others, voluntarily, making the case more urgent? Knorr bsw was very skeptical of most of Freddie's fantasies.
i went through the original footage to get a good look at the watch.. from these pictures we can probably say that it is a apple watch and that it has a golden color.
the color on the pin is black, and the band is white, grey, silvery or beige.. .
the pin is in the exact place for it to be a apple watch.. only apple watch edition have the gold color.
maybe it was a golden handshake so vigorous, that that watch slipped along the hands from one wrist to the other? Trump tried that trick with Abe of Japan, remember? or that piece of jewelry is just on loan? gifts are tax free?
the belief system of witness has often been well described as a "house of cards"....seemingly stable, yet fragile at the same time.. as we try to awaken our loved ones, we may share certain topics and issues...trying to remove a card or two from the tower of cards.. sometimes in our eagerness, we try and remove some key hot topic...or a card or two at the base of the tower.. that can be very destructive and cause loved ones to act defensive or protective of their beliefs (the society).
they may dig in their heels.. rather, success comes from carefully and casually removing smaller cards from the top of the tower....then allowing them to even remove them for themselves!.
as keen as we are to just bulldoze them down, take it slowly and carefully.. show dignity, poise and grace....and patience....
The stability of your marriage might in part be due to your "believing" mate being in "fear of the Lord," or the prying eyes of the elders. do not remove that strong incentive to remain faithful to your marriage. and
In the 1940s, we played a stick came called "Mikado" the object was to remove these skewer type thins from a random pile, one at a time, without moving any other. would be nice if any jws would be exposed to that kind of removing their delusions one by one until the bare real life is left.
what is the meaning of life?
we all die, so what is the meaning.
religion tries to bridge the gap with absolutist answers to this problem of existence by giving immortality to it's members in good standing(so join us or parish).helps to pay the bills using fear of annihilation to keep members as a source of material $$uport.
very well said David, I knew a few JWs of jewish background. why would they embrace WT doctrine with such a valuable, positive outlook, were they , and you back then not clearly aware of these positive, pragmatic (almost deist) jewish values?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3arnnsfkk&feature=youtu.be.
no mention whatsoever that it was watchtower themselves that strongly hinted towards this date.
instead they blame those who "put their trust in a date, not jehovah".. let's recap... .
those date-believing apostates.
a-post-ates/
Those that set the post (1975) , namely the wtbts writers were the a-post-ates. still are. Those that saw the newly set post ,1975, just as another landmark in their journey of eternal service to the creator. The creators of 1975 were the WT, The r&f merely ate gobbled or over-lapped up the good news . after all it was good news to be finished with H&H in only six years.
a post: 1975, set by wt,
ate: devoured as timely spiritual food by devoted and sincere servants of what the imagined as the creator.
what i'm saying is the white race is the only one that has a verity of eye and hair colors , so what gives?
is it that this race was influenced genetically by a group of pre humans that didn't mix with other races?
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My birth certificate has me marked as WHITE-HISPANIC, though I am neither. DJ.
Nothing personal, just the observation, that in my home country, the jews, by virtue of their names, were the most german germans around, the Rothschilds, Oppenheimers and Dreifuss. Then a Jewish customer answered my question about that: These local sounding names were given these families for taxation purposes.
i recently watched a documentary about andamanese people on youtube.. the andaman archipelago is officially ruled by india and lies in the bay of bengal, between the eastern coast of india and burma.. the indigenous people are or were stone age people, hunter-gatherers.. they have the general appearance and stature of african pygmy people.. there are 4 main surviving groups: great andaman (made up of several tribes, although the remaining people are few in number and have discarded tribal boundaries), jarawa, onge, and sentinelese.
i've read a bit about their languages (only on wikipedia - tsk!
tsk!
what i'm saying is the white race is the only one that has a verity of eye and hair colors , so what gives?
is it that this race was influenced genetically by a group of pre humans that didn't mix with other races?
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This is a trick question, right?
Ask the OP, Crazyguy, The Ashkenazi surely were considered part of the white race?
Freud, Marx, Einstein? probably more Nobel laureates per capita?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3arnnsfkk&feature=youtu.be.
no mention whatsoever that it was watchtower themselves that strongly hinted towards this date.
instead they blame those who "put their trust in a date, not jehovah".. let's recap... .
The ongoing 1975 affair showed some jw members at their finest, and wt at it's worst. This theater piece when analyzed, will cement that fact; hopefully all the way to the cemetery.
