so this morning i'm walking to my office and there's the jws on their carts outside as usual.
and old sister, a brother in his 20s and an elder i instantly recognized from my jw days.
one of my best friends of about 20 years.. i genuinely just wanted to say hi as i havent seen him in 3 years.
Any cult member is a preprogrammed robot and we cannot expect basic Humanity in them.
I was thrown out of a JW dinner party, all because I researched about the WT and questioned it.
That’s my experience. Take heart and continue making the best out of your life.
i am putting this out as an idea, as something to think about.. this assumes that the death and claimed resurrection of jesus has soteriological significance.
i am not seeking comments on the veracity of that position, nor with endeavouring to identify any model that provides an "explanation".. i am simply asking, did jesus die in nisan (march/april = "easter") or would it have had proper soteriological significance if the events took place in tishri (september/october)?.
is it possible - and i doubt there is any way of knowing - that the early christians found it useful to incorporate existing pagan "spring" festivals, as this enabled them to differentiate themselves from the jews' heavy focus on tishri?.
In my honest opinion, the jesus story may have been 25% true and the rest is all myth.
And if he had really existed and died, that may have been pretty much around Good Friday season or to be precise Nisan 14
i guess you can be physically out, like in a huge way, but definitely mentally in.. serena williams claims she won't be celebrating her daughter's first birthday.. i did know people like that, raised as a jw but never actually baptizing.
that didn't mean they were not messed up in the head though..
May be WT came up with a new light that children could be borne without wedlock but celebrating birthdays is still demonic ?
seriously.. https://www.wuv.de/marketing/unternehmer_sichert_sich_marken_der_jehovas.
businessman felt harassed by jws, so he found that word marks "der wachtturm" and "erwachet!
" (german versions of "the watchtower" and "awake!
I thought Jehovah owns these trademarks. Very disappointed now.
does anyone else remember a brochure/ magazine from the early 80s with stories of demon possessed individuals and spiritism ?
i dont think i saw it around very long.
it had a story about some lady having her head snapped around by a demon.
Another Christian woman kept a handbag given her by an aunt who was a fortune-teller. Using the handbag in the ministry, she experienced powerful thoughts of "Go home!"
Before I action on my previous comment, I am secretly planning to buy a handbag from a Fortune teller and give it to my still in JW wife and see the consequences.
We need to make sure of all things, you know, as the Bible says.
does anyone else remember a brochure/ magazine from the early 80s with stories of demon possessed individuals and spiritism ?
i dont think i saw it around very long.
it had a story about some lady having her head snapped around by a demon.
Another Christian woman kept a handbag given her by an aunt who was a fortune-teller. Using the handbag in the ministry, she experienced powerful thoughts of "Go home!"
Ahh, I had this same feeling all the time in the FS. I always wanted to quit , go home and relax. I thought I was too lazy or not very spiritual. Now I realize that I had Purchased a suite from a GoodWill (I think thats a christian Charity store. Hence 100% demonic) store, which I used to wear for FS.
May be I should buy a brand new suit from any "Demon Free" store, get baptized as a JW again and try FS.
abraham was tested by god (genesis 22:1) to know whether he would abandon his attachment towards his son.. attachment is a sign of ego, the fountain head of all vices.
when you ignore all the factors and forces (known and unknown) that are at work behind every happening, you tend to say “i did this and that”thus taking credit for which your part is too negligible.
it is like a farmer taking credit for the agricultural products.
Comparing one imagination with another can never dishonour either of the imaginations.
Believing in either/both of these, dishonors our common sense.
under the heading last days, the introduction promises this:.
"the present wicked system of things, which extends worldwide, entered its last days in 1914, and some of the generation alive then will also be on hand to witness its complete end in the “great tribulation.”.
will the "slave" explain to their followers that such an invaluable "witnessing tool" is no longer to be used, or will they just revise it electronically to reflect "current truth?
When I was new in the cult, I was so proud of this reasoning book as a Roman soldier would have been with his new honed sword.
Time makes everything funny.
Exodus 35:2 Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
I found a whole lot of people not observing the Sabbath last weekend.
my mother in law told us this morning that they read a letter in her cong last night.
from now on kh doors will be locked after 15 min of meeting start.
only the fire exit (one way door) will remain unlocked.
If they want to lock the doors of KH during meetings for security reasons, then what the heck are those legions of angels doing ?
