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This is funny!

I am acquainted with the button crowd.  The kind of buttons the button crowd is interested in are old sewing buttons.  I joined this world of the buttons about four years ago.  Before that I had found four big jars of buttons at a thrift store and I bought them all for $32.00.

Buttons are a mood enhancing phenomenon for many people.  It is a competition for finding the best, pettiest, rarest ones.  There are millions.  I bet you did not know that!

I have been thinking of getting to know the ladies (and the few gentlemen) of the button club better.  The meetings are the only place we see each other and the meetings are busy, noisy and short.  Therefore there is not much time to get to know each other.

To remedy the problem I had a luncheon for the group members.  Eight ladies and one gentleman came.  One of the ladies brought wine.  She is a button seller.

It is rare for a button collector to sell any favorite buttons.  Usually the owner must die for the buttons to be let go of.

I am young and alive but if I die, my buttons will be sold for sure.  Everyone gets excited when new old buttons come up for  sale.  Even if it is just to see them is exciting as every collection I have seen so far is unique and special.  Sometimes the collection is sold for well under auction value.

This is the story for a short piece.  The lady who brings the wine brings poison wine so that more buttons will appear for sale faster.  Haha.  What ever made me think of that?  It was the wine.  I did not think it was a good choice.  It's a story.

What is worse?

Let's just imagine for a second that someone can see something and knows that what is being seen is not being seen by anyone else.  Let's say she who can see has been looking for others who can also see.  And she has not found anyone. Which certainly does not mean that no one else can see.  After a time of several years of looking and nothing being found, how does she feel?  Does she feel as though she has been given food, a drink, clothes or been visited?

I think the only answer must be no.  Can it be yes?  Hello?  LOL

It's not funny.

OK.  What is worse?  Not seeing and saying "I can not see" or not seeing and saying "I can see"?

What are the Christians saying?  What are ALL the Christians saying?   How many are there saying "I can see" but they can not see?

You don't see it.

I am not sure, like some people think they are sure about what they know, that I know what the truth is about the truth.  I have discovered many places in scripture where I believe Man's thoughts have crept in.  It is not good to be putting faith in Man's thoughts.

The fact that I see people doing that and I see people failing to do what it is commanded to do for life, proves to me that knowing it is not good for me.

It is not good for me to understand the Sacred Secret.  Why not?  Why is it not good for me to understand that people are headed strait for the edge of the world?

Do you understand that many people live their lives in such a way that for someone to know what Heaven knows she can see them headed for destruction?  It is because they believe they are headed for The Kingdom, there is no stopping them.  And there has proved to be no reasoning with them.

Did you see what the lady who is a Jehovah's Witness wrote?  Is that not shocking?  She didn't mean it?  You are right but it is true.  She wrote it about You, but is is about her.  "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks".  

Why be gathered together?

Hebrews 10:25 says do not forsake gathering together.  Why would I want to gather to people who are passing me over?  

Remove the beam they'll say

They think "why should I listen to you?".  And I'll say I never said you should.  But I should listen to you.  The only problem with that is I hear nothing.  

Love is not listening

I think if some people have the opportunity to present  their accomplishments to the Heavenly Throne they will say "I loved YOU so much I would not listen!"  I wonder what they expect to get for that?

One major response that is forthcoming is "does this poster listen?"  And I say I am straining very hard to hear you not saying anything.  

You did it to me

Yehoshua says 'surely I say to you to the extent as much as you did to one of these the brothers of me the least to me you did'.  from the Greek Matthew 25:40

Did what?  Feeding him when he was hungry, giving a drink to him when he was thirsty, taking him in when he was friendless, clothing him when he was naked, and coming to him when he was sick or in prison.

The sheep on his right hand say "When?" But the word pote (Strong's 4219) has the meaning of possibility not time.

How does doing something for the least one mean doing it for Christ?

It is because  a believer who is hungry, thirsty, naked, sick or in prison has only Christ to comfort him unless the labor is shared by other believers.

It is about all those who did not go off to leave him alone.
John 16:32 Behold is coming an hour and has come that you will be scattered each to his own and I alone you will leave...

Holy Spirit

Someone on forum says Kingdom Secrets are revealed only to the faithful and discreet slave.  The Faithful and Discreet Slave means Jehovah's Witnesses, but not all Jehovah's Witnesses.  The faithful and discreet slave say salvation comes from accurate knowledge which they alone have.
Fine.  There is no proving it either way, right?
So I say one good thing I took away with me when I left my Bible study is that a person can not know what the Holy Spirit is saying without help from the Holy Spirit. But JWs say only 144,000 can have the understanding of the Holy Spirit.
The offensive posts goes like this; no, they teach all can have holy spirit--but only through the anointed are truths revealed at the proper time.
So I say why if holy spirit can come to anyone is it silent to most people?
Does anyone know?

Jehovah's Witnesses say....

 Whatever choice we make, God will not force us to change. If we are operating under a delusion then it is one we have sought and are happy with, so God allows us to be deceived. That is our choice.
We will all reap what we have sown.

God would not allow it

That is what the consensus is isn't it?  I will tell you why He has.  Because to make is too close to cause to get rid of make and to cause is the goal.  Heaven cannot honestly say "do not make disciples".  But it was not the command.  What has the command caused, do you think?  Conquest.  What leads to conquest?  Should I tell you seeing that I don't give a rat's ass?  Whatever that means.  War.

OMG I told you so.  I am in exile.  What is that?  Oh you lucky duck.  You do not want to know how it is I am exiled? The obstruction between me and you I am not imagining it.  What is my country?  I am exiled in spirit, not flesh.  Oh God.  My country is the Kingdom of God.  Where have you been?  The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons

Make me

To believe The Lord commanded us to make disciples is to believe our way is better than their way.  Is it?  Can you prove the way of believing is better than not believing?

Also, can you see that making people over causes resistance?  Is resistance a good thing?

The biggest problem though is that to make someone over in the likes of yourself, is to settle on something.  If we are to make disciples we must know what it is we are making.  Who decides what a disciple is?  History has proved we don't know. We do not know what we are suppose to be "making".

Does God tell us to do anything we do not know how to do?   

The difference between BE and MAKE

What am I jibber jabbering about?  The counterfeit Bible.  Someone said "surely the Jewish scrolls are correct?"  And I say the problem started with them.  Does anyone remember The High Priest Yehoshua said "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees"?  Leaven is what makes bread taste good.  They serve the people what tastes good.  Sometimes truth is bitter but it must be eaten or the person will die.  We all die.  But some of us are hoping to live on.  Why?  It is the will of The Father.

"Go make disciples"  "Go disciples"  "Go be disciples" "Go look for disciples" "Go find disciples" "Go disciple (the verb)"

Choose one.

What has Christianity chosen?  Make.  They chose make.  It has been a long long time for the making of disciples.  Does anyone still think it is make?

What is the difference?  Well if it was to make then all disciples have the same job which is to make more disciples.  If it was be disciples then each person has an assignment to do well, or not.

But does it say "baptize"?  Yes, I think that is correct.  Does it say baptize the individual?  No I don't think so.  It says baptize the nations.  Are the nations baptized?  

What am I that people of all kinds avoid me?

A porcupine?
A skunk?
(I hear a voice saying) a snake?
Really?
I don't want to say a bull.  A bull is male.  Isn't it?
A lion!
A hungry lion.
OOH a bear!  A bear with cubs.  A hungry bear with cubs.  A confused hungry bear with cubs.  An injured hungry big bear with cubs.  How many did I hear you say?  Two I think.

They are making it hard

I have heard the command that I should not be sighing sighs against those who are related to me in the faith.  I wonder if they know how hard they are making it for me not to do.  I suppose they might be thinking the same about me.  

I want to say this

I can not say this on the public forum.  The reason why is it will be construed as trolling. The Jehovah's Witnesses teach that the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses is the only entity that has rightful communication from Heaven.  They call it "food at the proper time".  Please explain how it is the proper time to announce that hell is not to be feared? That is what they have been announcing to the World since the 1870s.  Maybe they should have waited for sinners in the likes of Hitler and Mussolini to be passe. Does no one else think the fear of judgement is a good thing?

Oh! People will say

They will say I am overly critical.  They say Jehovah's Witnesses are some of the best people.  They will say even the rebels are grand.  Well, then, why not try disagreeing with them?  You see?  They have nothing to resist about you.  Do they?   I do not know if you can fake it.

I am one

I am just me against millions.  I dare call You hateful and bigoted?  Shame on me!  Do you know what your millions do for me?  You put me in exile.  Well, now you know, I don't like it.

Horrible people

If I was obligated to judge between Jehovah's Witnesses and former Jehovah's Witnesses I would judge for the Jehovah's Witnesses.  I have not met a decent former Jehovah's Witness yet.  Even though I believe the Jehovah's Witnesses are in grave danger from Heaven because of going against the order of Jehovah and doing so in The Name of God, the former ones are worse.  They are a hateful bigoted bunch.  Just like Jehovah's Witnesses care only for their own kind, but in blind obedience, the former ones do so, but by free choice.  

Good sense

http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/are-jehovahs-witnesses-a-hierarchical-religion-and-does-it-matter#comment-1736

I am providing a link as I believe it is clear thinking and true.