by TheListener 47 Replies latest jw friends
7. Be determined to resist spirit of the world; not getting involved in chat rooms, Materialism, Entertainment, Drunkenness, Pornography."
For heavens sake.....STAY AWAY FROM CHAT ROOMS! Stay away from the internet entirely for that matter. After all it's full of entertainment, materialism and pornography for crying out loud. Surly it will corrupt the most spiritually strong of our brothers.
So says Gods earthly representative!
7. Be determined to resist spirit of the world; not getting involved in chat rooms, Materialism, Entertainment, Drunkenness, Pornography."
Whew... for a moment I was worried and then I noted that it was the FDS that resolved to do those things.To the GB no more wild nights and wild parties. I think spanking the monkey is also out although it had probably been years since they could even find their monkey.
In the early days of the WTS, resolutions played a different role than they do today. First, there were not that many members. Second, the door to door work was new to most of them. Third, many times these resolutions were distributed in the millions. Now think, how did so few members distribute so many??????? Not door to door. My details may be fuzzy but they distributed them through the newspaper service, much the way inserts today are distributed. Also, they paid newsboys to distribute them. It wasn't until the 1940's that the WTS started what we know as the "bible study program." People were warned through such whole distribution and were expected to seek out the JWs.
As more people came in, were trained in the indoctrination techniques of the WTS, one on one studies were more usual, the "magic" of the resolutions waned.
It has gotten to the point that JWs don't remember there was a resolution, let alone what it said. The WTS doesn't even print the content in their publications, let alone for distribution to the public.
Since 1945, the end of WW2, resolutions are rare, with the WTS recording the existence of only 10 or so since then let alone their content.
Blondie
It has gotten to the point that JWs don't remember there was a resolution, let alone what it said. The WTS doesn't even print the content in their publications, let alone for distribution to the public.
I think the last really BIGGG resolutions were those for the assemblies in the 1920's.You know the ones that were supposed to be part of the 7 trumpets in revelation. Don't know what they said but it must have been important. I don't know why they don't talk about it anymore.
Yes, they haven't mentioned those resolutions much, 1988 Revelation Climax book the last resource, last studied in 1996. It's been 10 years, time for a review. I wonder if they will revised the Revelation book or write a new one?
The WTS doesn't distribute the tracts any more since the focus is on the rank and file and not on the general public, a change from the past.
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re chap. 21 p. 138 Jehovah’s Plagues on Christendom ***This convention assembled in Columbus, Ohio, July 20-27, 1924. No doubt at the direction of the angel that sounded the third trumpet, a forceful resolution was there adopted and later 50 million copies were distributed as a tract. It was published under the title Ecclesiastics Indicted. A subheading presented the issue: "The Seed of Promise Versus the Seed of the Serpent." The Indictment itself roundly exposed Christendom’s clergy on matters such as their taking of high-sounding religious titles, their making commercial giants and professional politicians the principal ones of their flocks, their desiring to shine before men, and their refusing to preach to the people the message of Messiah’s Kingdom. It emphasized that every dedicated Christian is commissioned by God to proclaim "the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn."
Poztate said: "I think spanking the monkey is also out although it had probably been years since they could even find their monkey." Nice; disturbing though. I see it this way: they don't want the rank and file to be online, in case they accidentally meet them in a porn chat room. Don't want to be doing the cyber and find out it's another witness. P
Does anyone remember one of these things a week after it has been passed? Completely wasted effort by guys that don't live in the real world.
At least the neo-resolutions aren't prolific, article long documents, with paragraphs so long a normal person would pass out trying to read one of them as they are written.
Those old resolutions were written as a challenge to uninterested people belonging to still functioning, successful groups like the Catholic Church and the United States Government. Ridiculous!
And in the Revelation book published 50 years from now, the new light will state that these resolutions are the seven trumpet blasts....
I can't help but wonder about that. Perhaps they're gonna change the whole seven convention twist. Maybe that will pop up in the up and coming book: "Revelation: It's New and Improved Climax!"
If the source of this Resolution info is the same place I saw it, I have reservations about its authenticity, given the caliber of some of their posters.
Didn't somebody here sit through all 3 days and posted his notes? He didn't mention any resolution and some I know who have attended didn't either. Perhaps it's one of those urban myths. Perhaps the audience were so comatose by the end of Sunday afternoon, nobody noticed.
