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"Instead, we can resolve our doubts by asking ourselves such questions as: ‘Who are truly doing their best to conform their lives to the Bible’s standards? Who view the Bible as an authority on all matters?’ (2 Tim. 4:3, 4) ‘Who are doing Jehovah’s will today. In connection with doing God’s will today, we can ask ourselves, ‘Who is doing the preaching work that Jesus foretold would take place during the last days. We are identified by God’s personal name, Jehovah, and we are proud to be called Jehovah’s Witnesses. The next time you do, reflect on the love and unity among our brothers and sisters. It will underscore that Jehovah is indeed using his Witnesses to accomplish his will today."

How are these the things that prove JWs are God's people?
Suppose there is another religion, with the same exact characteristics, called "Those bearing witness of Jehovah" this religion supposedly ticks all those boxes. Is it a true religion? It must be.

Now suppose this religion is different in some ways:
They allow smoking
They have a different interpretation of Acts 15:29, they allow the small parts of blood to be received
They can have birthdays
Their meetings' official dress code is jeans and polo shirts.

Is this a true religion? If yes well then why don't I walk it instead of your religion?
If not, do you realize the things that are changed are simply personal interpretations of the Bible, and you yourself 10 years ago would find a completely different religion from the one you practice now? Which is the real truth? Your old religion? Your current one? The future one that may be exactly as I described in a few years?

Can anyone answer?

And I see your eyes
Everywhere I look
I feel your heat
Everywhere I am
You move me, dear
You make me me

Do not withhold your love from me
Keep close to me and warm me
Even in the heat of summer
Especially then

Light me up
Torch my insides
Incinerate my heart and lungs

Wake my ashes with your love
And scorch me once again

Fill my deepest wounds with your eternal flame

Love me, dear black eyes
Kill me with your love

Let my life end in your warmth
Do not spare me, I beg you.

Jesus says we should show mercy to those who most need it, the spiritually sick. Yet if someone does a sin the witnesses who "follow jesus" will no longer help him 🤣

It goes to show their extremely apparent hypocrisy that they are so blind to. How will they ever see it? Who can show them it? Oh well.

I work mainly in middle eastern music and I need a way to be able to start my clef on the right and basically invert everything. Is it Possible?

I clearly realize that this post has been made probably hundreds of times, but I genuinely feel better if I get advice that work in my specific case 😁

I am 22M, 195cm tall (6'4?) ~110kg weight
I have good muscle strength but not enough that I would call myself fit (I can do 3 pushups in a row at most, maybe 10 situps in a row, I think the most I can lift comfortably is 40kg)

For the last 4 years I have tried multiple gyms, none of which I could actually continue in. The most time I ever spent exercizing was maybe 6 years ago during covid doing at home workouts, so I got out my dusty yoga mat and did some of the exercises I remember doing then, it feels good and natural to me.

I used to play basketball 3 times a week but my ankle is currently injured and I'm still out for maybe the next month, I only get any sort of exercise 1 day a week let's call it hiking.

I occasionally go on ~1 hour morning walks but not so often that it really benefits me.

To put in short, I am looking for advice on which plans I could follow, or maybe youtube creators, or really any tip you could so graciously give me.

Thanks in advance

This is the introduction of an essay I am looking to write, however I do not truly know the best way to continue my train of thoughts. Criticism encouraged, suggestions welcome.

What could one call a human? IF we allow the definition of "animal" to be a living thing guided by instinct, and a human is guided by his instinct, how could one differentiate them? WE CANNOT allow an abstract definition like "An animal doesn't think while a human does think." That definition falls short when you take the example of a crow that has been proven to have critical thinking skills. The definition we are looking for must be logical and scientifically provable. It must not reflect a mere opinion, rather a consensus of "fact" among scientists. Humans share the scientific characteristics of mammals, therefore we must not allow a definition to reject the animalistic nature of humans. Rather, we look for a definition that admits to the animalistic side of humans, either naming the differences in humans and animals, or being forced to realize that humans are no different from animals.

A few days ago I got in a heated discussion with a PIMI, I was saying that I don't smoke because I don't want to smoke, not because someone told me not to smoke. He said that's not true, you don't smoke because the GB tells you not to smoke. It was a heated argument and in it he said "we follow the GB, whether right or wrong, we obey their every word" and I said speak for yourself, I do the right thing and follow my own standards, if that happens to coincide with what that they say so be it.

Then just last night I was watching the spain game with my PIMI friends and a we talked about a divorced guy getting married soon without actually being free of his wife, a very spiritual regular pioneer ultra PIMI girl said she doesn't love the idea of having one partner for life and "if they let us I would have sex with multiple people."

The fucking nerve on these people even uttering such things, they are openly admitting that they are being controlled by mere humans and are not only okay with it, but literally speak openly about it.!

This was a comment I made on a post but I figured I'd want to post it too.

I don't know what I want. I read "the book thief" and currently reading "crime and punishment" i enjoyed reading them but I don't know what my taste in books is yet. If you could, I'd love to explore to find out what I love and enjoy.

A small-medium explosion happens in your home, the person you love the most was severely injured. Their foot is blown off, fingers on one arm too, and face is disfigured. They lie on the floor and you arrive first, you asses the situation and call the emergency line in a matter of seconds. They are still conscious, they pull you with what they have left of power and ask you to promise to take care of yourself; you encourage them that they will not leave you, but they make you promise. As soon as you do, they lose their power. Do you perform CPR while waiting for the ambulance to arrive, or do you let them die?

EDIT: i realized i should have added my opinion
I believe I would not try to save their life, as that is selfish, I would rather they leave me than force them back to live a low-quality life.

I'm an MS but I haven't been doing anything to show that I want it or deserve it, haven't been answering or going preaching. I don't want to get visits trying to encourage me to keep working, I want to stop being an MS and stop having anything expected of me. I will need to attend the meeting with pios because I was practically forced to be an auxiliary this month, I also need to attend the meeting with elders or it will be super suspicious. I never needed anyone to tell me to go preach but as I am now the way I am my mom keeps questioning me and saying I'm supposed to be better than this. I have many things to worry about and I literally am getting grey hairs and losing a lot of weight from how much I'm stressing.

I don't know why I'm so anxious, and I don't know what to do about it.

"you're not coming back to see me?"

That's what my dying grandmother told my mother when she said she's leaving. My heart is breaking to a million pieces. What a life we lead, what purpose is there?

My grandmother takes peace in her daughter's presence. And why wouldn't she? She held her inside her guts, she birthed her over 60 years ago! She raised her, taught her everything she knows! Fed her, helped her shit, put her to bed! How could she not find solice in her presence? But, then, what will her daughter find when she is no longer with her? Will she feel a ravaging loneliness that eats her up every time she remembers the person that was never not by her side from literally the first moment she was a cell of life? You can already see the swollen-crimson-colored eyes that cannot believe that someone who used to be so strong and full of life now has death standing above her, extending an arm, while she keeps shooing him away, but he doesn't listen. He wants what he believes is his to take. What coldness his heart is, what hurt him so much that he allows himself to cause such misery?

The temperature is really hot, but somehow the room feels like you're by the riverbank and there's a slight breeze. Mosquitos are biting and flying insects are getting in your ears and nose. Your ass hurts because of all the tiny rocks you're sitting on. Your socks are moist and stuck to your skin. A crab is pinching your thighs. You can't move, you have to sit in the nice cool breeze.

What a joke.

I will happily summarize by saying "jehovah fooled them indirectly by allowing the false prophets to lie and fool them" lets see how they would digest this statement (implied by the reference) when comparing it to how they say jehovah does not cause evil he allows it exist. By their anology, it is appropriate to say he causes evil 😁

I commented this somewhere but I felt it deserves to be a humorous post

I am a PIMO MS, I don't want to be an MS anymore because the idea of being of any responsibility in this religion annoys me.

I am already "falling behind", arriving on time leaving on time, not giving answers, not going in ministry. It has been this way for around 2 months now. My mom noticed and told me I should put my act together because I have responsibilities, I just brushed her off.
The CO is visiting in 2 weeks, I have the jewels in the tuesday meeting. I am almost certain there will be a meeting with him regarding my behavior but it might go unnoticed with all the havoc going on in the congregation right now. I'm thinking if I should approach him as a "friend" and ask him to tell the elders I don't want to be an MS anymore because I am going through some stuff and I need a break, and that I don't want them to talk to me about it.

I got a call from someone at bethel a few weeks ago asking if I'm willing to serve (my A19 was still active) I foolishly said yes but they never followed through. It's just so overwhelming honestly and I'm not sure how it will go.

I wonder if talking to the CO is a good idea, what do you think?

I'm struggling with hebrews 10:39, this was my baptism speech title and my brain is wired that faith is only by means of this religion. I do not agree with this religion anymore but I'm having a hard time accepting the fact that I can still find God outside and learn what faith is even outside. Does anyone have any insight that might help me with this issue? I have been struggling for a while now, not sure of whether I believe in God or not, until I reread this scripture now and I kind of realized I am fighting the wrong fight. I believe there is a creator, but that is not the faith I have in mind. Actually, to be completely honest with myself, I don't know how I should define faith.

This post is all over the place, because my brain is all over the place.

EDIT: there seems to be the idea that I have faith in the Bible, I can see how one can deduce that from my post, but I need to clarify: I do not have any faith in anything other than that there is a creator. I'm struggling with building up from that, that's what this post was meant to be about.