[quote]Magicpunch wrote:
[quote]honest_lifter wrote:
[quote]Magicpunch wrote:
[quote]honest_lifter wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/32180_worlds-longest-running-and-most-popular-periodicals-[/quote]
http://nyrm.org/2010/05/13/the-most-widely-read-magazine-in-the-world/
Mine is from the New York Times, dated in May, 2010.
Your article is from Bukisa, dated in Feb, 2009.
Take whatever facts you feel are correct, I am not here to argue a moot point. The take home point is that we are doing what we set out to do, and what the magazine’s purpose is, to make God’s name known throughout the earth. That objective has become successful.[/quote]
Pretty sure that the muslims and catholics have been far more successful in making this god fellow’s name known throughout the earth. Their 2 billion to your 7 million.
That’s like your country winning a single bronze at the olympics, in archery. Forgettable.[/quote]
That was actually pretty funny. But on a serious note, the vast majority of Christian religions have taken the name of God OUT of the Bible, including the religion you mentioned. [/quote]
Yeah, just being flippant here. Have spoken to a few regular Jehovas who visited me weekly. Spent a couple of hours talking to them. I must say, a HUGE variety in how far they’re willing to back their claims, and how much time they’re willing to spend.
I had one guy who was pretty aggressive, and even jabbed his finger into my chest. Not setting a good example for the young lad that be brought along with him.
On the other hand, a couple of ladies were extremely friendly and patient. Overall though, your lot have a lot of religious fervour. Top grades for effort. For content, not so much. But that’s just me and religion generally these days.[/quote]
You are right, there are going to be many different types of …personalities among the lot of us. From my experience, those who grew up in the city are more straight forward than those who grew up in the suburbs. Even more still, when I do volunteer work in very rural communities, I find that I have to just shoot the breeze with them for between 5-20 before even talking about what we are there for, or they find it rude. Just different lifestyles I guess. In fact, one older man that I went to (he lived on a farm) showed us around his land; all his deer, fowl, bucks, farming equipment. It took an hour or more before we even mentioned why were there. We had to build up that rapport first. However, it was a great experience, I never got to be up close with newly born deer before.
Now as regards content, it is going to be different than many religions. Jehovah’s Witnesses view their faith, and the Bible as study lessons. There is real “homework” that needs to be done. We don’t feel religion is a “feeling” that you get. It is very tangible information that needs to be sorted through; in fact, that is what God has told us to do; to search for the deeper things. It is more than just “being a good person”. All of it can and does make sense with enough study and the right heart condition. That is why we spend Billions and Billions of hours a year in the preaching and teaching work, like those Witnesses tried to do at your door.