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Maybe you could put it in clearer terms, Bert, for those of us who are too dense to get your humor.
Just how, in simple words, -how are any of us coming at you in any contradictory way?
Please explain in simple words so that we can understand.
Do you accept or not accept as a fact that this church ("fellowship") known here on TMB as the 2x2's started
by a few people in Ireland at the end of the the 1800's ?"
Sorry Dmmichgood, I missed your query from February.
Here are a few contradictions I noted. When you think
about it, they truly are Funny:
ps Straight "yes" or "no" statements can be a logic
fallacy in themselves - look up False DichotomyThey can’t agree on anything.
They all think the same.
Believe they are the only ones saved.
They can’t tell if they are saved.
Obsessed with works
Morally lazy.
Live like royalty and never lift a finger
Work themselves to the bone for nothing
Most of them have TV’s.
Shun those who have TV’s.
Will not survive beyond the next ten years (written 2007)
The church is becoming another Megachurch
Workers don’t speak long enough in meetings
Workers speak too long in meetings
The Secret Sect book put the kybosh on the "Shores of Galilee" claim.
After the Secret Sect published the overseers pushed the "Shores of Galilee" confusion.
Turn Workers graves into shrines.
Neglect Workers graves.
Enforce a dress code.
Don't bother to enforce a dress code.
Their doctrine varies from one place to the next.
...the system won't change in one area and not the rest of the world.....they all want to be "unified."
Initiated the “quietness program” before the start of meetings in the 1960’s or 1970’s.
The quietness before the meetings came from Victorian attitudes towards respect.
Invented the quietness program out of reverence because people in meetings in the preceding time zone would, at that moment, be partaking of the emblems.
Early Christians didn't meet in homes
Early Christians met in homes for fear of the Jews
Jesus is not mentioned at funerals except in hymns.
Don’t talk about the deceased at funerals, only Jesus.
Conventions don’t have proper amenities
Some conventions now have elaborate amenities
Conventions have become sacred sites
You would think the convention grounds were just farms.
Stand at gospel mission exits to gain handouts
Stand at gospel mission exits to turn exes away
They are blinded by their feelings of self importance.
Too taken up with personal humility.
Workers don’t care about the problems of the friends
Workers spend too much time in the personal lives/business of the friends.
Friends don't visit former members who are dying
Friends visit former members in hospital to save their own dirty conscience
Can’t get outsiders to attend missions.
They have strict rules to keep outsiders away.
Too organized and too authoritative
Can't organize themselves in a fit.
Too much focus upon Paul and not enough on Jesus
Too much on Jesus and not enough on God
They dress like they are stuck in the morass of dowdiness.
Their girls show bare legs and cleavage which Christians of any denomination should not approve of.
Spit on the divorce and remarriage in every meeting as part of worship, as is officially written into their doctrine.
Men Workers like to stay with attractive divorced women.
Workers act as confidants instead of wise counsel or directing them to a marriage counsellor, mental health professional or financial planner.
Don’t spend time with the sick
Workers don’t accept alternative sexual ideas
The Work is a natural gravitating point for homosexuals
Workers flee from adversity
Workers tell about their sacrifices
Worker’s preaching is too simplistic
Workers have made the gospel too complicated.
Believe good works don't count towards salvation.
They believe they are saved through good works.
Nothing ever changes
They change all the time
Workers don’t preach anything outside the bible
Workers tell too many personal stories
They can’t live without their Workers
Most people enjoy times when the Workers are out of town
They are indoctrinated by the Workers.
Most indoctrination is done through mothers rather than Workers.
Men are chauvinistic woman-haters because they offer thanks for emblems
Women are spiritually lazy for not offering thanks for emblems
They suffer from loneliness
2x2s have ready made friends without exertion.
They join the fellowship to have happy marriages.
They fake happy marriages.
People repeat themselves in meetings.
People are pressured to have something new in the meeting.
Young friends marry young to avoid the Work.
Young people join the Work to gain Worker approval.
Don’t read their bible.
Refuse any reading material other than their bible.
They are not allowed to swim on Saturdays.
They are not allowed to swim on Sundays
The “friend" is the attractor, and the "Worker" is the preacher.
Friends serve to repulse, rather than attract.
Friends reject the internet
They preach on the Internet.
Parents upset about their children going into the Work.
Parents pressure children into the Work.
Professing men look at women top down because they are used to long skirts.
The men FIRST looked all the way up her pretty short-skirt legs BEFORE they developed a frown of disapproval on their faces.
Friends shun those who leave
Friends try to make exes feel guilty by continuing grace towards them.
Worker control keeps the Truth from falling apart
Worker control is the reason the Truth is falling apart
Become obese because eating is the one physical pleasure that is allowed by the Leadership.
Stay slim to have that certain "professing" image
Irvine was Communistic
Irvine put the fear of Communism into people to convert them
Membership started falling in the 1960’s
Membership started falling with the internet in the late 1990’s
Meetings don’t mention Jesus
All they do is talk about Jesus
Workers allow the singles to source Christian mates from other churches, thus providing new blood for outcross bloodlines.
Workers won't allow friends to marry outside the church
They are dying out
They pack them in like sardines.
They don't read their bibles.
They try to live solely by the bible, and ignore what's been written in their hearts.
The church is becoming more like mainstream churches
The church is becoming more like a cult
Gospel mission congregations are shrinking.
Some stopped attending Gospel meetings because they are large and lack intimacy.
Are a bunch of dejected, self deprecating people trying to compete for last position.
Too taken up with wanting the top position.