Uhm...

[silversolitaire]

This is odd and somewhat strangely amusing, but also very creepy...

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1010/1010_01.asp

Look at the insane gleam in her eyes... O.o Religious fanatics, gotta love them. I finally know who those people are! I already collected a bunch of their booklets, given to me on all sorts of different places all over the world, Paris, Edinburgh, NY, London... I never knew who they belonged to. I still don't, actually... look at that weird pose for prayer they assume... Who are these people?

Other titles they sell:

Are Roman Catholics Christians? - Religion can't save, only Jesus can!
Allah Had No Son - The Allah of Islam is not the God of creation
Who Murdered Clarice? - It looked like they were going to get away with it ... but Someone was watching. An anti-abortion message.

You know, they seem to sell their booklets expensively too poor people who try to become soul-collectors. This is sad. I thought you couldn't buy salvation! Sheesh...

*is now serious freaked the more I think about it...*

Comments

[starla9.livejournal.com]

This is a Jehovah's Witness site, right? they don't just come and say it, which is annoying. A friend of mine left home when she was sixteen after she confessed to her parents, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, that she was NOT a JW. Well...they couldn't live in the same house anymore. She felt so alienated from her own family by their religious beliefs that she had to leave. That doesn't seem like a good kind of religion to me. *shrugs*

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

I have NO freaking clue who those people are! Somehow I don't think they're JW. They'd teach slightly different things and there's no booklet about the blood and organ donation issue, I believe. Or do you know it for sure? I really wish I knew who those people are.

And yeah, I know what you mean. I have many friends who had to leave their families because it was impossible to live with them any longer. A friend was outed to his family and they completely cut him off from everybody he knew, totally removing him from their life. That's just so sad... Our neighbors were JW. They were very nice and they never tried to convert us, but it was just very strange. They always had their gathering in their garden and I remember that their son married a girl that we had never seen before in our whole life and she couldn't even speak German and later we heard they just were paired off by their community...

[(Anonymous)]

Whoever those people are, they're certainly not JW. There are several things in their statement of faith that contradict what JW believe. Like, they clearly say that Jesus died on a stake, NOT a cross. They also don't believe that the church is nowadays the 'body of Jesus'.

The pairing people off through their community, I've actually never heard about anything like that while I was there or later. But many things happen there under the cloak of faith that others don't know about, and if, it's never talked about anyway.
Well.

Just stating those crazy people aren't the crazy JW's.

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I thought. It didn't sound like the JW at all from what I know (even though my knowledge is very limited, I've only argued with my neighbors and a friend a bit).

I've never heard of the pairing off bit before that either. Or let's say, after that, since I was 13 or so when they married, but we've talked with them a bunch of times and at some point they let it slip. Plus, I knew Harold pretty well and before that he'd never as much as dated anyone. I remember when his future wife arrived for the first time. It must have been the first time, because the car pulled into the driveway and she got out (she was very beautiful) and Harold went up to her and shook her hand very shyly. Don't think he knew her. And shortly after that they already arranged the marriage! Unless it was love at first sight, this is rather dubious...

[(Anonymous)]

If they say it was arranged then I don't doubt it was, but it isn't the general way of finding a partner among JW. So much shit happening, makes me so angry...

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[starla9.livejournal.com]

I just thought they were JW because they kept talking about "witnessing" to people and ways to do it...also the huge focus on the devil and the dangers of the occult...well, they're not Catholics, obviously, since they keep talking about saving them.

I had a friend who came out to his Mormon family right after our high school graduation. The sad thing is that he had always been really devout and involved in his church, and when he couldn't deny to himself any longer that he was gay, he realized his church and his family wouldn't support him. He was already booked to go on a two year missionary trip to London, and now he didn't want to go there and spend two years promoting an organization that didn't even support him. After he came out ot his family, they told him if he didn't go on the missionary trip, they would disown him. :-(

[starla9.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think they're Evangelists. "How to turn Halloween into a night of Evangelism." O_o;;;

[starla9.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yeah, look at this (http://www.chick.com/bc/2002/culture.asp)