പ്രശ്നങ്ങള്‍ Proverbs 19:11

വ്യക്തിത്വം

പരിശുദ്ധാത്മാവ്

മാതാപിതാക്കള് Colossians 3:20

The Internet Making Wise Use of a Global Tool

Never assume that all information found
on the Internet is good and beneficial. Internet
search engines might be compared to a
legion of mushroom pickers who tirelessly
collect all types of mushrooms—edible as
well as poisonous—throwing them into a
single container and dishing them out for
us to eat. Would you start eating these
mushrooms without carefully examining
each one?Of course not! Internet search engines
use a huge number of computers to
harvest or select frombillions ofWeb pages
containing everything fromthe very best to
the very worst. We need discernment to
separate the wheat from the chaff, as it
were, lest we poison our minds with misinformation.

Source : Watchtower - August 15, 2011; Page: 3.

Do Not Follow “After the Crowd”

In taking a long journey, what would
you do if you felt unsure aboutwhichway to
go? You might feel tempted to follow other
travelers—especially if you saw a great many
making the same choice. Such a course is
risky. After all, those travelers may not be
heading toward your destination, or they
toomay be lost. In this connection, consider
a principle that underlies one of the laws
given to ancient Israel. Those who served as
judges or as witnesses in judicial matters
were warned of the danger of ‘following after
the crowd.’ (Read Exodus 23:2.) Without
doubt, it is all too easy for imperfect humans
to bow to peer pressure, perverting
justice. However, is the principle about not
following the crowd restricted to judicial
matters?Not at all.

Source : Watchtower - July 15, 2011; Page: 4.

WILL YOU FOLLOW JEHOVAH’S LOVING GUIDANCE? “Every false path I have hated.”—PS. 119:128.

IMAGINE this: You need to travel to a certain
destination. For guidance, you turn
to a trusted friendwho knows the way. As he
gives you thorough directions, he might say
something like this: “Be careful about that
next turn. The sign is misleading. A lot of
people follow it and wind up getting lost.”
Would you appreciate his concern and heed
the warning? In some ways, Jehovah is like
that friend. He gives us careful directions
about how to reach our destination of everlasting
life, but he also warns us about bad
influences that could cause us to go the
wrong way.—Deut. 5:32; Isa. 30:21.

 Source : Watchtower - July 15, 2011; Page: 4.

Scattering Feathers in theWind

An old Jewish talewell illustrates the consequences
of spreading hurtful gossip. Told
in various forms, the gist of the story is as
follows.
A man went about town slandering
the town’s wise man. Later, the malicious
gossiper realized his wrong and went to the
wise man to ask for forgiveness, offering to
dowhatever was necessary to make amends.
The wise man had one request: The gossiper
was told to go and take a feather pillow
and cut it open, scattering the feathers to the
wind. Though puzzled by the request, the
gossiper did as hewas instructed and then returned
to thewiseman.
“AmI nowforgiven?” he asked.
“First, go and gather all the feathers,” the
wise man responded.
“But howcan I? Thewind has already scattered
them.”
“It is as difficult to repair the damage done
by your words as it is to recover the feathers.”
The lesson is clear. Once spoken, words
cannot be retrieved, and itmaybe impossible
to undo the hurt they cause. Before spreading
a bit of gossip, we are wise to remember
that we are, in effect, about to scatter feathers
in thewind

Source : Watchtower - July 15, 2011; Page: 15.