by cedars 107 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Hi everyone
I've finally turned my attentions away from Anthony Morris III (just for the time being!) and done a video about another Governing Body member... Gerrit Losch.
In this video, taken from a 2008 talk (given in Sydney, Australia), Gerrit gives us his grim predictions for the future...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4BL_HzHjZM
Cedars
He's a really poor speaker isn't he! Not at all engaging...
Love it, Cedars. I bet they're all wondering..."am I next?" :)
When I was in Brooklyn I thought that Losches morning worships were very dry. However, he would sometimes come out with some interesting points. My feeling about him is that he was willing to go beyond basic JW understanding and enter the realm of intense speculation. He would talk about things that were not written, could not be known. were not discussed previously, ect... Many bethelites loved him for this, and many hated him for it.
I talked to him a few times. Personally I thought he was very standoffish and mentally distant. The only one that I really felt comfortable with was Dan Sydlik. Dan was awesome. Dan was an interesting character. He ALWAYS went against the grain. He would occasionaly talk about things that he didn't like in the organization during morning worship. In private conversation he would go into more detail. He loved the young guys at bethel.
While I hate the current and former leadership at bethel, those feelings don't bleed over into my feelings about Dan. I really think he was disturbed by what he saw in many situations at bethel and in the organization. I think he was brainwashed like the rest of us were. It had been his whole life. Where else was he to go off to? I EASILY could have seen Dan being a Ray Franz type if only he grew a pair. Personally I don't think he had the guts to do what Ray did. So he just stayed in and died with it.
Didn't this already happen in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
I have a question...where in the Bible does it state that there will be JWs burying
billions of rotten corpses????? This man is a f*&$wit.
Wow! That is the first time I've heard that "new light." Is there a watchtower article (or other written publication) about it being very possible for God to use "divine radiation" and that JWs will need to bury billions of dead? I've tried searching on wol.jw.org but couldn't find anything about this (perhaps this has been stated before as I don't have the CD with me, so please correct me if I'm wrong).
Question(s): If this is "new light" as it comes from a member of "God's Sole Channel TM " why is it not in a written publicaton, but rather just given as conjecture in a talk? Also, him being a member of "God's Sole Channel TM ," was what he said approved by the rest of the leaders with 2/3 majority vote? If not then it's just speculation (and could explain why it's not in our publications). Perhaps this is why the leaders of JWs don't want members to record and the distribute/discuss such talks.
"Divine Radiation" must be very special if it kills selectively - I suppose that JWs just across the street would not even get a sunburn.
radiation...whew. well..im glad we now know from the modern day prophets how we are going to die. what a relief.
What a sick, twisted vision of the future…only worthy of Hilter or Stalin.
Very bad hermeneutics on Jeremiah…the application applies to the destruction in 587/586 BC. The verse should read, "from one end of the land to the other end of the land." If one extracts an antitype for this, it happened in 70AD.
This was the sort of theology that bothered me greatly. Who could love a God like this?
