NATHAN KNORR WAS A MEDIUM!

badboy

SO I UNDERSTAND!

THINK IT WAS A 1942 ARTICLE.

BluesBrother

And Charly was my Uncle ! - do us a favour!!!

Yes, the Watch Tower claims to be a society led by people who are channels for spirits. That, by definition, makes them spirit channelers, also known as spirit mediums.

The current membership contract (baptism) tells all members they are associating with an organization that is directed by spirits (ghosts).

The Watch Tower leaders claim to have psychic powers and they claim to be able to channel with the ghosts of dead former group members as well as being able to channel with invisible spirits that (they assume) are messengers sent by God. The Watch Tower leaders claim to be capable of extraordinary mental processes in their channeling, and they claim to have extrasensory perception and mental telepathy.

Extrasensory perception in the sense that they claim to have the ability of recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli that's outside the normal range (or bounds) of the capacities of common group members. They (claim to) have mental telepathy in the sense that they (claim to) have communication (with ghosts/spirits) through means other than normal human faculties by the exercise of a miraculous power given to them by God in 1919 and kept by merit and corporate succession.

It's an interesting topic. Thanks for bringing it up. If you find the Knorr quote you refer to, please post the location.

Terry

Yes, the Watch Tower claims to be a society led by people who are channels for spirits. That, by definition, makes them spirit channelers, also known as spirit mediums.

The current membership contract (baptism) tells all members they are associating with an organization that is directed by spirits (ghosts).

The Watch Tower leaders claim to have psychic powers and they claim to be able to channel with the ghosts of dead former group members as well as being able to channel with invisible spirits that (they assume) are messengers sent by God. The Watch Tower leaders claim to be capable of extraordinary mental processes in their channeling, and they claim to have extrasensory perception and mental telepathy.

Extrasensory perception in the sense that they claim to have the ability of recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli that's outside the normal range (or bounds) of the capacities of common group members. They (claim to) have mental telepathy in the sense that they (claim to) have communication (with ghosts/spirits) through means other than normal human faculties by the exercise of a miraculous power given to them by God in 1919 and kept by merit and corporate succession.

It's an interesting topic. Thanks for bringing it up. If you find the Knorr quote you refer to, please post the location.

Yes.

But, they merely say it a different way.

Any JW would bristle and deny Gary's comments. It would take patience to demonstrate the truth of it, however.

But, what Gary says is entirely true!

Mum

He thought he was large.

I heard him speak, and think he was pretty small.

Regards,

SandraC, seeking a happy medium

38 Years

I could believe this. After all, the GB seems to have the greatest insight into Satan and his demons and all of their past and future activities. They also have the solutions using the scriptures to get demons out of your life. Beware of going to garage sales, especially in places like Salem, Mass. Don't play Dungeons and Dragons. Say Jehovah three times if they bother you and it will scare them away. Why, they even know the scriptures to back up their knowledge.

satanismysavior

One of the myriads of issues that kept me from ever becoming a JDUB.

The major one is, of course, the mind-numbing control it spawns upon its members. Never a big fan of mind-controling cults. ;)

Gopher

Here's a research article that shows a link between the early Watchtower Society and a spirit medium during the dictatorship of JF Rutherford.

The article is "Ray D. Goodrich and the E.R.A. Ouija Board"

Link: http://www.seanet.com/~raines/goodrich.html

Here's the first part:

In 1928, Roy Goodrich, a Jehovah's Witness, went to an E.R.A. practitioner on the advice of Watchtower Society representatives. What he witnessed convinced him that the E.R.A. methods were spiritism and the operator of the oscilloclast was a spirit medium. He began a one man campaign to eradicate the use of this medical procedure from Jehovah's Witnesses. After a shouting match with the Society's president, J.F. Rutherford over this issue, Goodrich wrote an article for The Golden Age in 1930 explaining his views. The Society had a "Bethel" doctor, Mae Work, write a response for a subsequent issue, declared the matter closed, and continued to use the E.R.A. Goodrich found out that the E.R.A. "ouija board" methods were still being used at Bethel in the 1940s. He complained once again to Watchtower officials that they were involved in spiritism and was disfellowshipped as a result.

Later in the 1940's the Watchtower Society later received "new light" on this subject (from whom????) and disavowed support of the E.R.A. medical procedure, in line with what Goodrich had been saying all along.

hamsterbait

MUM - is a silly sausage!!!

Of course nathan Homo Knorr thought he was large. He only ever played with his own penis.

HB

Open mind

A curse on you Hamsterbait!!!

You beat me to it. Oh well. Nicely done.

Open Mind