Billy berates 'Keep on the Watch' #3: *New Light - Nobody Noticed*

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite 3 Replies latest watchtower scandals

  • Billy the Ex-Bethelite
    Billy the Ex-Bethelite

    Part #1 cancellation of Jan 08 campaign, page 3 contents: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/147814/1.ashx

    Part #2 show love for molesters - http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/148345/1.ashx

    Now Part #3... What? You read it and didn't see the New Light?

    Shortly after this brochure was released at the 2004 District Cornvention, I think it was Lyman Swingle that was Bethel Morning Worship chairman and quoted this from the brochure, saying it was new light:

    ***

    kpp.12‘TheHourofJudgment’HasArrived***

    REVELATION, the last book of the Bible, alerts us to the fact that an angel flying in midheaven has "everlasting good news to declare as glad tidings." He says in a loud voice: "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of the judgment by him has arrived." (Revelation 14:6, 7) That ‘hour of judgment’ includes both the pronouncement and the execution of divine judgment. An "hour" is a relatively short period of time. It comes as the climax of "the last days." We live in that time now.—2 Timothy 3:1.

    The arrival of ‘the hour of judgment’ is good news to lovers of righteousness. It is a time when God will bring relief to his servants, who have suffered at the hands of this violent, loveless system of things.

    He repeated several times that it was "new light" that we were in the "final hour". Afterward, I discussed it with some others. Did we suspect that this "hour" was now to take the place of the "generation"? Yes, we suspected that would be the intent. Did anybody in Bethel buy this application as at all relevant? Nope. Some material gets tried out in Bethel before the R&F. This was met with a yawn.

    Are there any other ex-bethelites out there that recall this MW?

    So many things troubled me about this brochure, I included the second paragraph above just to note how I thought at the time of reading it...

    The arrival of ‘the hour of judgment’ is good news to lovers of righteousness. It is a time when God will bring relief to his servants, who have suffered at the hands of this violent, loveless system of things. , ungrateful, false prophecying religious organization led by nut cases.

    The rest of the section goes on to describe the wickedly evil wickedness of Satan's demonically wicked Babylon the Greatish falsely Satanic religious system that everyone needs to get out of.

    Okay, this concludes rant #3. Next up, when I get around to it... "Who's this stuff written for?"

  • Atlantis
    Atlantis

    2004 'Keep On The Watch' brochure PDF download. Click the download link by the (red arrow) at the bottom of the next page. http://www.sendspace.com/file/lx5kwa N. Awesome

  • Nathan Natas
    Nathan Natas

    (NN, raising hand) "Uh, Brother Mature, I have a question. Is the arrival of Armageddon an example of Zeno's Paradox? I mean... it keeps getting "closer" and "closer," yet it never actually seems to get here, just like Zeno's Arrow."

    (Brother Mature) "I accept whatever the faithful slave tells me to believe. You should too."

    NotaBene:

    Zeno's paradoxes are a set of problems devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides' doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion.

    Zeno's arguments are perhaps the first examples of a method of proof called reductio ad absurdum, also known as proof by contradiction. They are also credited as a source of the dialectic method used by Socrates.

    In the arrow paradox, Zeno asks us to imagine an arrow in flight. He then asks us to divide up time into a series of indivisible nows or moments. At any given moment if we look at the arrow it has an exact location so it is not moving. Yet movement has to happen in the present; it can't be that there's no movement in the present yet movement in the past or future. So throughout all time, the arrow is at rest. Thus motion cannot happen.

    This paradox is also known as the fletcher's paradox—a fletcher being a maker of arrows.

    In modern times, calculus has been widely accepted by mathematicians and engineers as at least a practical solution for calculating infinitesimal distances.

    (Thanks, Wikipedia!)

  • Brainfloss
    Brainfloss

    bttt

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