I would assume so. I wouldn't guess why not?
There isn't a religious reason I wouldn't have thought. Never heard of a religion not allowing people to have fun and exercise before, although I have to admit I'm not entirely well up on the Jehovah's witnesses lifestyle!
They only believe that 144,000 of them warrant heaven, and that's only if they work very hard so they work hard to recruit others to their misguided cult religion.
They only believe that 144,000 of them warrant heaven, and that's only if they work very hard so they work hard to recruit others to their misguided cult religion.
Interesting fact to know. Nothing to do with them being able to ride a bike or not, but all the same, haha!
I don't know any Jehovah's witnesses, and the only time I've even seen any around where I live is when they're going door to door trying to sell watchtower and convert people. Never seen them on a bike though, always walking, so maybe there IS a rule that they can't ride a bike? Who knows...I'm not joining just to find out anyway, I can tell you that, haha!
I used to know a JW and he had no qualms about riding a bike, I've never heard if they have any rule against this. I have no idea how their religion works, though, so the ones in the US might be operating under a different set of rules for all I know.
Not exactly, their current dogma is that all true believers can get into heaven, but only the best 144 thousand will get to spend the eternity directly with Jesus, while the rest will have to contend with heavenly economic class.
I don't think you can classify JW as a cult, they're a stupid sect even by religious standards, but membership doesn't really interfere with your normal life... unless you need a blood transfusion, of course *grins*
We should have a special thread on cults and relate them to bicycles. There are those who look at the Catholic Church as a cult.
They only believe that 144,000 of them warrant heaven, and that's only if they work very hard so they work hard to recruit others to their misguided cult religion.
All religions are cults in my opinion, that's one of the reason I don't follow any. A person can live a moral life and believe in God or a higher being, whatever you want to call it, without going around and trying to preach to others and ramming your religion down other peoples knecks.
How do you ram anything down a kneck? What's a kneck?
Obviously run out of constructive things to say on the thread, as your just creating a post simply to point out a spelling mistake. I'm done with the thread anyway, but please...feel free to continue discussing cults and cycling, a very interesting topic, I'm sure no one will agree.
I used to argue with them concerning their misguided interpretation of the Bible. They take a passage out of Revelations, which talks about the 144,000 saints, who were martyred after the tribulation. That in no way relates to them, but it's a "free country", one has the right to believe as he does. I then did a great deal of study on them, since I was seeing them quite often. They evidently deemed me a challenge. Unfortunately for them, when I was at work, the missus was home, and she was in no mood to discuss anything with them, especially since they constantly sent over-weight, dangerous looking men to our door when I was at work. Looks like they could have benefited from a bicycle.
Then it must be true that JW's cycle since you have taken offense by having your toes stepped on. Keep on peddling that Witch Tower. If you distribute at least 10,000 more you might be able to get one foot into the gates, whereas had you read the Bible, it would have told you that all you needed was to believe in the son of God, ask him to forgive your sins, and to come into your life to make you whole.
That would do it. I am normally more diplomatic and just point out the fact that the prophecy that the world was going to end in 1974 didn't come true and that any cult will try to impose fear onto people. That normally gets them.Jehova's Winesses only drive in cars around where I live, and No Trespassing signs don't deter them, but the shot gun my wife wielded got rid of them, and they haven't come back to peddle their Witch Tower.
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