Thanks Blondie for regularly posting your comments. I rarely comment, but I read almost every week out of curiousity of what is up in the cult. Very much appreciated.
Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-28-2013 WT Study (TAKING GLORY)
by blondie 14 Replies latest jw friends
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nonjwspouse
I posted asking about you right before you posted!
Thank you again, and good to hear your Dr had good news. I am sorry you were not feeling well.
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SAHS
Blondie:
Glad to hear that you are “on the upswing.”
Thank you so much for putting things in logical and reasonable perspective for us. It helps take the sting out of the fear and guilt that goes along with having been brought up in the religion organization since birth.
Actually, now I always leave some kind of subliminal point in my comments at the Sunday Watchtower study. Just as an example, a few weeks ago I mentioned how the 1914 date had been taught to be something entirely different than it is now (i.e., end, not beginning), and that such had been taught right up to at least 1929 (so much for the teachings in the ‘decades leading up to 1914’).
I always like to glean some little tidbits from this forum that I can somehow incorporate (hopefully “safely”) into my comments on Sunday to make people think, or at least say to themselves “Hmmm.” (I always get called on by the conductor seeing as my dad is a fairly well-known elder.)
You always do a good job at bringing out points that a lot of people probably wouldn’t even see. (Connecting those hidden, or maybe not so hidden, dots.)
I often think when I read your comments, Man, that’s a really good point; too bad I didn’t get the chance to have mentioned it last Sunday. I was thinking – certainly not to create any pressure, of course – that it would be really awesome if your comments were posted at least a day or two before the Sunday on which that particular study is to be considered. Then, at least in our congregation, perhaps some of your comments might very well end up being ‘Blondie’s Comments You, In Fact, WILL Hear at the [Next] WT Study.’
You have some excellent points. That would be awesome if some of us could have the chance to actually use them. (Hopefully done “safely” with discernment, of course, when that cordless microphone gets passed.)
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PaintedToeNail
Nice job, as usual, blondie. Thanks
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BluesBrother
Glad that you are feeling better Blondie....We love your reviews and comments
My thoughts ?
P 2 "While we may be impressed with the power, position, or reputation of another person, what does God look for in humans?"
I am sure that God appreciates the humble soul, but in the congregations of J W?....It is the go-ahead pushy pioneer sister, the enthusiastic but bombastic elder and ambitious young M S that get all the praise. I suppose if they sat back to be led, nothing would get done, but there is a correct way of doing things. All too often bad human traits rise to the surface unchecked . That has been my experience
p14 " 14 We receive messages from ‘the house of wisdom’ and from ‘the house of stupidity.’ (Prov. 9:1-5, 13-17) Both wisdom and stupidity keep crying out to us, as it were, and that presents us with a choice. Whose invitation will we accept? The answer depends on whose will we wish to do. Jesus’ sheep listen to his voice and follow him."
It is true that humans often choose to hear what they want to hear. e.g. When I was a dub I once found a book, in a shop, that was full of WT quotes that showed how contradictory and theologically poor they are. I reacted with derision, saying that they all must be out of context and twisted.....I was not prepared to consider it because I was not ready to hear it. I wanted to believe what I had always believed........
NB Should it be "Jesus' sheep that they are speaking of. or WTS followers.......Every week they obsuscate the two. What used to be a clear distinction is now one and the same, in their writing.......
Rock On Blondie !!!