my father would have started college 49 years ago this week.
about three months earlier, the week he graduated high school, the awake!
magazine came out with some very clear direction to teenagers.
Sorry to hear all those affected by the cult.
Luckily I was baby during 1969, raised by protestant parents who gave me the best childhood ever.
When I was in the cult, an elder came and counseled me that I am too materialistic and should think of quitting my fair paying job to go for a menial one, as I could do more in the FS non sense.
Thank myself, I never listened to him as I always had the doubt that this is all a scam.
one of the recent threads on the talk about the hailstone message got me to thinking.
the problem with putting out a message like that is what to do when nothing happens.
i have to think that somebody will be asking that question.
They always have this magical "Invisible" Keyword
When nothing happened in 1914, they said Jesus Started to rule invisibly.
The angels are guiding the preaching of the good news invisibly.
The mighty heavens, the Legion of angels, Jehovah, Jesus and Satan are all damn real but invisible.
Likewise the hailstones are being pelted invisibly.
the following is the talk of the assembly followed by my 15 minutes commentary.i have included part of my notes below which i used for the commentary .
what is the hailstone message?.
is it literal or symbolic?.
Are you telling me you don't think the account where a doney talks to a man is real?"
That one annointed donkey should have been inspired and filled with holy spirit.
when i started investigating "the temptations" at matthew chapter 4, i had no idea that i would develop the ideas contained in my study paper.
so it cannot honestly be said that i set out to prove the conclusions i arrived at.. it is available at:.
http://www.jwstudies.com/the_devil_who_tested_jesus.pdf .
This is how religious people retrofit their religious events with the modern understanding of things
Jesus = Real
Satan = Not real. Just a Temptation
Mountain = Not real. A metaphor.
Moral of the story. Resist temptations like Jesus. Don’t take the events literally.
This is how religions survive, even in Scientific era
the following is the talk of the assembly followed by my 15 minutes commentary.i have included part of my notes below which i used for the commentary .
what is the hailstone message?.
is it literal or symbolic?.
In the same way Jehovah destroyed the nation of Egypt with the use of 10 plagues
An Almighty god can free his people in an instant with infinite ways. Why negotiate and bargain with the Pharoah and punish the innocent people with all those plagues. A very silly and horrific fairly tale
the following is the talk of the assembly followed by my 15 minutes commentary.i have included part of my notes below which i used for the commentary .
what is the hailstone message?.
is it literal or symbolic?.
a lot of people are confused over the teaching of the trinity, some doubt it, some outright deny it, where some can't get their head around it.
the bible supports it through scriptural evidence.
this video explains from the whiteboard the difference between the god of the watchtower to the god in the bible.
All trinitarian/ multi in one gods are myths and utter nonsense
Also,Trying to Prove 1+1+1 = 1. I dont think this this can proven even anywhere in the universe.
when i was a jw and still living with my parents i remember the way my father held what could almost be described as contempt for archeologists, paleontologists, and other scientists who dared to try explain what happened in past.
he justified this attidtude with the argument that these people don’t have enough evidence to make such claims with any certainty.
however, i see now that his viewpoint was more likely a defense mechanism to protect his presupposed conclusion that everything described in the bible actually happened.
Two elders came to my home recently to revive me up.
It started with Noah’s flood. They argued it was true
I asked them "If Noah’s flood is true, why don’t any of the Science channels today authorize that such a world wide event happened"
Their reply. "All Science channels are against the Bible"
What else to argue with these “Self Deluded, heads buried in the sand” zombies
in the genocidal instructions supposedly given by god we find this interesting command: “now kill all the boys.
and kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” (numbers 31:17, 18).
in the midst of killing and plundering, how were the israelites to determine whether each girl “has slept with a man” or not?.
Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” (Numbers 31:17, 18 )
I was never shown these type of verses during my Bible study, nor in my Sunday Schools.
If shown, Would have become an atheist sooner in my life.
witnesses are used to saying that every other religion but their own makes up “false religion “....how would a devout witness handle being labeled as a member of a false religion??
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Perhaps their reply would be:
Only the Bible is true out of all religious books and only JWs use god’s name out of those 32K Christian Denominations.
Perhaps we can ask them: “Really, and this Almighty god of yours, who kills a man instantly for preventing the ark from tumbling down, didnt do anything when his Holy name was taken out of his Holy book and remains silent for 1875 years, until CT Russell came to restore it."
When 999 religions out of 1000 are false, why cant we scrutinise that one one "True" religion with the same criteria as you did for those false ones ?
