why wasn’t judah punished for sleeping withtamar?
even though she had the legal right to an offspring by his family he still thought he was sleeping with a prostitute.
if it is wrong to even think of having relations with a woman similar to the “sin” of watching pornography why wouldn’t what judah did be wrong?
talking about not so beautiful wives and "so much. to get away" from:
many of the 1k females in King Solomon's entourage were probably the tokens of strategic marriages. and he took it upon himself to go after the perhaps 12 year old Shulamite to escape that quantity that lacked quality.
why wasn’t judah punished for sleeping withtamar?
even though she had the legal right to an offspring by his family he still thought he was sleeping with a prostitute.
if it is wrong to even think of having relations with a woman similar to the “sin” of watching pornography why wouldn’t what judah did be wrong?
Potiphar’s wife in all likelihood was not ugly..but was probably good-looking because a man of his stature supposedly could get the best-looking woman in the land..
LHG: Prominent men often got their positions because they married the ugly, aged daughters of the heavies. Anyway,
Joseph was the house slave and she ordered him to service her,
I recommended Joseph's line: " it is against my religion" as a non-offending refusal to my children too.
"Every one is drawn out by his own desire", and Joseph was not, This week's wt portrayal of a young witness cultivating desire for a young lady, was a total mixup of that. Joseph was not restraining himself.
No peep from wt either, that he was the exemplary whistle blower, telling what really went on with the ten.
, as many here do about wt'BtS inc's and their minion's doings.
you will die.
i will die.
those who have gone before us, the great and the small, the powerful and the weak, have shared the common fate of dying.
Belief in the afterlife is like wearing a condom
DOC:yeah, a condom will guarantee to dull the experience. guarnatee to keep your genes to be passed into the future.
you will die.
i will die.
those who have gone before us, the great and the small, the powerful and the weak, have shared the common fate of dying.
Dying must be good for life, otherwise it would not exist today. so,
do your part. I will, probably sooner, or later. than you. because I am probably oldler than you.
have you heard many elders complaining about selling out of kh and having a online religion?
i mean many elders have put years of visiting meetings and sitting there to have it all taken away now.
reaching that position of elder for nothing .
some elders are probably elated that their dominating- neering, ugly, grinning faces are now beamed, zoomed right into the homes of the jw hapless.
i posted what follows elsewhere but thought it might be of interest here as well.
my forst posting here so i apologize in advance if this is not in the correct place.. a tribute to ray franz (on what would have been his 98th birthday) and to ed dunlap, his collaborator.
last week would have marked the 98th birthday of a man for whom most of us here have high regard.
Franz dealt with doctrine. During his time we preached "superior" doctrine at the doors.
The current leaders, D. Splane included, inherited that dead end messy morass.
The chariot is stuck. All the fault of the talking snake [story]
i am pimo, but now have 40+ years of being a jw as i was raised in a 3rd generation family of witnesses and continue to fake my way through things - fading as i can.. for the vast majority of my time as a jw, the meetings were the central focus for all jws to get teaching, association, information and so on.
nothing was more important than being at the meetings!
over the last 20 years starting with the elimination of the weekly book study in homes and continuing down to today - my opinion is that the value/purpose of the weekly meetings continues to be diluted or minimized.
Great topic, really insightful comments.i see meetings dominated by fewer and fewer characters, devoid of real content, except cult indoctrination, force fed.
if young people can't legit socialize, and do it "on line " anyway, where is the benefit for the members?
today, i got an email from an old friend with a story told by brother andre ramseyer who attended training at patterson in england.
a service dog regularly attended the meetings with his owner.
when the owner passed away, the dog was given to another blind man.
Brother Andre Ramseyer who attended training at Patterson in England.
SL: do you have a scrambled story right there?: "Frere Andre'? " Ramsayer. "Patterson in England" ? in a New England state perhaps?
to all that been in betel service.
as 1440.000 are suppose to rule like kings they must also be an example of putting the fruits of the spirit in there daily life(charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity (kindness), goodness, longanimity (forbearance), mildness (gentleness), faith, modesty, continency (self-control), and chastity.).
have you meet a gb member or other from the 144.000 in betel when you were there that you could easy see that this person wakes up in the morning and is determined to apply fruits of the spirit in there life?
Br. Friend?
i have known many elders who were much more into the idea of being an elder and getting all the old ladies to tell them what wonderful talks they give and the power then really being a believer.
i had one elder tell me that when he became an elder he was on top dog on top of the heap.
i knew some who were really all about the religion and following the cult.
it would be unlikely for such a person to exist for very long in that position.
LHG: If a "Jesus" character as depicted in the gospels, were to move into a wt congregation, with good recommendation, as deserved, he would be disfellowshipped within 3 1/2 years.
