Pudgy

My question is:
Who is your target audience for all the above?
There is only about six people reading this blog, and they all know this stuff.

Oh…. I have been meaning to ask someone, how do you close out a thread from more comments?

My question is:
Who is your target audience for all the above?
There is only about six people reading this blog, and they all know this stuff.

Does @boyle count as five of the six?

Knock yourself out.

God's love is not partial. The same sun that touches the righteous touches the unrighteous. It is evidence of His love for them. His love is higher than anything we can imagine.
 
Jehovah says He will forget the sins of those who repent. But before they repent, even if they never choose to repent, He still shows them love.
 
They say "an elephant never forgets" but I don't know how true that is.
 
 
I do know this is true:
 
"Jehovah has comforted his people, 
And he shows mercy to his own afflicted ones.  
But Zion kept saying: 
“Jehovah has abandoned me, and Jehovah has forgotten me.” 
Can a woman forget her nursing child 
Or have no compassion for the son of her womb?  
Even if these women forget, I would never forget you. 
Look! On my palms I have engraved you. 
Your walls are always before me."
 
Jehovah does not forget any of His children. Even the ones who choose to stop loving Him. He knew them in the womb or when they were being made out of the dust, like Adam. Adam and Eve stopped loving Him, but we still know about them in the Bible. We will never forget about that. Jehovah loved them. They chose to leave Him, but that doesn't change His love for them. He couldn't let them keep living, because they would have gone around killing everybody. They had a choice, and they chose poorly, but that doesn't mean Jehovah forgot them.
 
The name of the wicked will rot in that they won't be around anymore, and all bad memories will fade, but love is not a bad memory. Jehovah hates what is bad, but He is not sorry that He made His children. He is not sorry that He loves. He gave them free will, and they all have the potential to reflect His glory. If they choose not too, that is a chance Jehovah is willing to take, even though it pains Him. But that doesn't stop His love from flowing. Jehovah never forgets love. He will always love you, He wanted you, that's why He created you, and His memory of the good things in you will endure even if you choose to disconnect from Him and fade into death. That's part of Jehovah's torture stake, the One He's carrying. (Jesus learned how to carry it from watching Jehovah.)
 
Jehovah's love is forever. The joy will outweigh the pain.
 
"Praise Jah! 
Give thanks to Jehovah, for he is good; 
His loyal love endures forever."
 
"It is because of Jehovah’s loyal love that we have not come to our finish, 
For his mercies never end.  
They are new each morning; your faithfulness is abundant."
 
"“Jehovah is my share,” I have said, “that is why I will show a waiting attitude for him.”
Good is Jehovah to the one hoping in him, to the person who keeps seeking him."
 
(I have nothing more to comment on this thread at present. You can believe what you want, @boyle @Pudgy et al. I believe in Jehovah and His Love, and I am one of Jehovah's witnesses, which includes being a witness of His love for you. Peace out, kiddos!🌍💖🙂)
 
 

As you wish.
 
 
"“With whom, therefore, should I compare the men of this generation, and whom are they like?  They are like young children sitting in a marketplace and calling out to one another, saying: ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance; we wailed, but you did not weep.’  Likewise, John the Baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, but you say: ‘He has a demon.’  The Son of man has come eating and drinking, but you say: ‘Look! A man who is a glutton and is given to drinking wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’  All the same, wisdom is proved righteous by all its children.”
 
Okay, @boyle dear. Bye for now then. I do hope you have a good afternoon.🌷💖

I think Wally’s bragging was just that. That weapon is VERY expensive, and not easily obtained. I believe he was lying.
…. when Jesus said “return your sword to its place”, I am assuming he meant a belt scabbard at Peter’s waist.

Since you asked my opinion, I think your evaluation is delusional, in a naïve innocent way, and he is suffering from narcissistic disorder, and delusions of grandeur, overshadowed by a huge inferiority complex for which he constantly overcompensates by denigrating others.
If this is true, combined with his multiple personas, and him bragging about having a .50 cal SNIPER RIFLE, I think he is a very, very dangerous person.
All merely my carefully considered opinion, of course.
Perhaps Wally will follow up after these posts with a more accurate explanation of why he is so consistently McNasty with slanders and insults, not based in fact.
 
 
 

I wasn't offended. I was touched that you would think enough of me to offer advice, and thankful.
 
I know I come across in an awkward kind of way - I don't quite "fit" in. 
 
The only thing I can relate it to is not a perfect fit for an illustration, but I read the book with my kids "Facing the Lion" about Simone Liebster's experience. She was removed from her family for a few years during Nazi times and forbidden to talk to others, treated harshly, etc. When she came back home at the end of the war, her parents returned from the concentration camps as well. Some other local girls who had not been through the same types of experiences were together with her for a social event. She didn't fit in with them anymore. It was difficult for her to just "shoot the breeze" so-to-speak and to talk in a "normal" way. She noticed it, but couldn't really do much about it. (It's not a perfect illustration for my experience, but it might help.)
 
Sometimes there are trials we go through that change us. It doesn't mean we're better or worse necessarily - that depends upon how we meet those trials - but we are changed nonetheless. Even before I was "culled" from the congregation, I had been through two unique experiences that kind of changed my ability to "fit" in like before. I do my best to compensate to the degree I can and try not to totally blow off the social norms and what is "expected" as far as "appropriate accepted" rules of society. But I learned, when the dung hits the fan, so-to-speak, none of those "expected" rules of society matter anymore. Love matters. Trust in Jehovah matters. Faith and hope matter. It is what got me through that hell time.
 
I am completely convinced that everything Jehovah says will come true. I cannot tell you the details of why I know because it would take many many posts to share everything that Jehovah has gotten me through and much of the material would be not proper content for a public forum. There is no way I could have survived if it wasn't for Jehovah and His Word. I have "seen" His hand so many times, in so many ways, He is more real to me than any person on earth made of dust. It's like gravity. You can't "see" gravity, but if you think about it you are aware of it every moment of your life looking back. The earth is heavy. Jehovah is heavier.
 
 
Thank you. I said earlier "I love @boyle" (I think there's a saying somewhere probably that "@boyle has a way of growing on you")...how much more so I can say "I love @Pudgy". I am not afraid of showing love. Life is too short in this world not to express love at every opportunity, and we don't know all the details of what today or tomorrow will bring.
I hope everything works out well for you too, my brother.🌷

I am glad you were not offended by my butting into “your business”.  As stated, it was intended as “practical advice”., and of course, if it blew up it would be you to pay any consequences, not me.
I made many assumptions.
Hope it works out well for you.
 

… and it might help to seek out a congregation that is not nutso ….

The composite humorless, agenda driven Wally McNastys of the organization drive many (unknown number) away.

The composite humorless, agenda driven Wally McNastys of the organization drive many (unknown number) away.

How to talk like an Evolutionary Theorist and Impress All Your Friends...
 
Randomly select four words from this list:
 
virtually
lineages
microorganisms
originated
process
common ancestors
organisms
fundamental
progeny
molecular
genes
mimicry
comprehensive
DNA
diversity
distinguishable
differences
modifications
successive
generations
fundamental
keystones
species
million
any word ending in "-ity"
any word ending in "-istry"
any word ending in "-ology"
any word with at least five syllables
any word that sounds like Spock might use
 
Add an adjective to every other word you selected from the above list and make a grammatically correct sentence. (It doesn't have to make sense, as long as it sounds good.)
 
Form the sentences into paragraphs until you fill several pages. Then go back to each paragraph and insert the name of somebody who published information on evolutionary theory (you can use Google if you want.)
 
Congratulations! Now you are a convert to the Cult of Evolutionary Theology! And you didn't even need to get a degree! 😃

You tend to talk about things that are bothering you, @boyle, so as to any female pedophile problem you have, here are some things to consider...
 
In ancient Israel, there were many forms of disgusting and sordid behavior. Child sacrifice. Baal worship, with male and female temple prostitutes. The people came out of Egypt and were given laws against bestiality and abuse, why? Because that's the kind of lifestyle they had known. That's what was going on in the cultures around them. 
 
Rahab was from Jericho. Many false religions of old would make girls give their virginity at the "sacred temples" in a form of ritual prostitution. It was part of their culture. It was wrong and bad and disgusting, but many people took part in it and supported it. Woman allowed their children to go to the "temple" to be used in immoral ways.
 
Jehovah regulated polygamy because the people were already so prone to rebel against God's standards, He made the concession temporarily for polygamy, but can you imagine what a mess that would have been to live in such a household back then? We don't have to imagine - there is a Bible record. Before the Mosaic Law: Sarah and Hagar; Leah and Rachel and Bilhah and Zilpah. After the Mosaic Law: Hannah and Peninnah. And I'd hate to know how it went in Solomon's house.
 
When Jesus walked the earth, there was still immorality in Israel. Mary Magdalene had been abused by seven demons. The account in Noah tells us that wicked spirits used to materialize bodies and they would take anyone they chose. Can you imagine poor Mary Magdalene being abused by seven of them at once? What kinds of sick twisted immoral things did they put that woman through? 
 
How about the woman in this account: 
 
"Now one of the Pharisees kept asking him to dine with him. So he entered the house of the Pharisee and reclined at the table. And look! a woman who was known in the city to be a sinner learned that he was dining in the house of the Pharisee, and she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.  Taking a position behind him at his feet, she wept and began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them off with the hair of her head. Also, she tenderly kissed his feet and poured the perfumed oil on them.  
 
"Seeing this, the Pharisee who had invited him said to himself: “If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman it is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”"
 
What kind of sinner was she? The Bible doesn't say. And yet Jesus said she was forgiven.
 
"But in reply Jesus said to him: “Simon, I have something to say to you.” 
 
"He said: “Teacher, say it!” 
 
"“Two men were debtors to a certain lender; the one was in debt for 500 de·narʹi·i, but the other for 50.  When they did not have anything to pay him back with, he freely forgave them both. Therefore, which one of them will love him more?”  
 
"In answer Simon said: “I suppose it is the one whom he forgave more.” 
 
"He said to him: “You judged correctly.”  
 
"With that he turned to the woman and said to Simon: “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet. But this woman wet my feet with her tears and wiped them off with her hair.  You gave me no kiss, but this woman, from the hour that I came in, did not stop tenderly kissing my feet.  You did not pour oil on my head, but this woman poured perfumed oil on my feet.  Because of this, I tell you, her sins, many though they are, are forgiven, because she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”  
 
"Then he said to her: “Your sins are forgiven.”  
 
"Those reclining at the table with him started to say among themselves: “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”  
 
"But he said to the woman: “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

You just expose your heart every time you speak.

I don't know anything about IP addresses, @boyle. It's your heart that shines through every time to make you easily identifiable.
 
"Out of the heart's abundance, the mouth speaks."

..

 
I answered that question before you asked it, as shown.

I have also heard the saying “Kill them all, let God sort ‘em out.”.

I thought it was an excellent Watchtower article, that’s why I qualified my statement with “underlying axiom” to start with.
WDS Is an affliction that like a sword, cuts both ways, and affects those on the outside looking in … AND …. On the inside looking out.

As you two are well aware, I disdain many words that flow into rivers of words, which are by nature with EVERYBODY, self hypnotic.
That’s how hypnosis is induced.
….. but in the totality of everything I have read and experienced, the following underlying axiom is true;
 

 
… those with agenda driven deliberate lack of reading comprehension perhaps will differ.

Muppets are usually Presbyterians, like Fozzie Bear. If they were Witnesses, it would be JW.frog.
….. cues the cymbalist ….

There are a lot of people who hide behind a mask or a profile or a puppet. I don't know the real names of many of them.
 
"Kermit" was such a nice puppet. Jim Henson's beautiful heart was made manifest through his creations, and "Kermit" was one of those lovely creations.
 
If "Kermit" was here (I mean, Jim Henson), I'd tell him that it's not "magic"; it's Jehovah's Love-Clean-Spirit-Power-Force that made the Rainbow, and it's Jehovah's Voice written in His Clean Word that we should listen to, not the other voices. Instead of wishing on a star, he would be wise to graciously incline his heart and humbly make requests to the One who made the stars. Maybe when "Kermit" wakes up, he will learn this song with the proper edits made in the vocabulary, an "evolution" of lyrics. How lovely it will be when we can all be a happy family, Jehovah's Family, Truly United In Love.💖🌈✨
 
For all the people behind the puppets/profiles/masks - a Love Song About Hope...
 
The Rainbow Connection, (written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher)
 
"Why are there so many songs about rainbows,
and what's on the other side?

Rainbows are visions,
but only illusions,
and rainbows have nothing to hide.

So we've been told and some choose to believe it,
I know they're wrong, wait and see.

Someday we'll find it,
the rainbow connection,
the lovers, the dreamers, and me.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered,
when wished on the morning star?

Somebody thought of that,
and someone believed it.
Look what it's done so far.

What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing,
and what do we think we might see?

Someday we'll find it,
the rainbow connection,
the lovers, the dreamers, and me.

All of us under it's spell,
we know that it's probably magic.

Have you been half asleep, and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.

Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailor?
The voice might be one and the same.

I've heard it too many times to ignore it.
It's something that I'm supposed to be.

Someday we'll find it,
the rainbow connection,
the lovers, the dreamers, and me.

La da da di da da doo.
La la da da da, dee dah dooo!"
 
 
"Love Hopes All Things" 💖🌈✨

And did you know that over eons Fozzie Bear evolved into Yoda? (… albeit in a galaxy, far, far away ….)
Proof?

Listen to their voices! Look at the hair in Yoda’s ears!
They BOTH sound EXACTLY like Frank Oz!
… and by counting the ear hairs and multiplying by 3.14159 you can prove mathematically boyle is smarter than everyone here!  
…. Yeah, it was a surprise to me, too!