Today's Watchtower study. Good example of "talk is cheap."

stillin

All about love. How to do it. Why JW's are the experts at it.

gag

leaving_quietly

JWs should take particular note of paragraph 7. How many JWs like to have people come to their door over and over and over and over? Just saying...

I thought it was interesting that the paragraph about the hurricane coming through NYC mentioned that the friends organized an effort that 'enabled them to help' each other and non-believers. It didn't say that they actually helped anyone. I don't doubt that they helped fellow JWs but it was a surprisingly vague statement if they really wanted to sell us that idea that JWs are a charitable people. You'd think they would have said, "Dozens of members of the public were given __ and __ to help them deal with the lack of __ and __." Instead it was just effectively stated that "we could have helped some people; maybe we did, maybe we didn't."

blondie

Instead of making this an exclusive little group:

1) Could you at least post the paragraph

2) and for those unfamiliar that they can and how to access that magazine:

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20140615/

Thanks

DesirousOfChange

It was a "tickle the ears" study article.

All about LOVE.

It failed to mention that JWs should treat any DFd children; grandchildren; family member as F**KING DEAD -- "not even emailing".

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE LOVE!!!!!!!!

FEEL THE LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doc

Saltheart Foamfollower

Was it just me or did the opening image appear to show the samaritan holding the injured man by the crotch. If nothing else, it looked like a very strange way to hold someone. Do they still get people to pose for pictures then do drawings of them?

Island Man

I found the Watchtower's use of Proverbs 24:17,18 to make the point about loving your enemy, rather humorous. That text says:

" When your enemy falls, do not rejoice, And when he stumbles, do not let your heart be joyful;

+ 18 Otherwise, Jehovah will see and be displeased, And He will turn away his anger from him."

If you are to love your enemy, aren't you supposed to want Jehovah to turn his anger from him? In that case, wouldn't rejoicing at your enemy's calamity be the good thing to do, so that Jehovah will turn his anger away from your enemy?

Is Proverbs 24:17,18 really about loving your enemy? I don't think so. It looks to me like those verses are really warning you not to show yourself happy about your enemy's downfall in order that Jehovah does not show pity on your enemy. It is telling what to do to safeguard your enemy's downfall - don't rejoice about it.

But Watchtower foolishly applies this passage to the matter of loving your enemies. LOL.

stillin

Blondie, if you would resurrect your "things you will not hear at the WT Study" series, I would have an easier time putting some context to my observations. Otherwise, an opening post like I just did will be appreciated most by ones like me who sat and endured the Kingdom Hall version. Truly an elite group. ;)

i am not at all proficient with my present gear. I don't know how to copy/paste with an iPad, nor have I figured out how to even post a link. Sorry, all you get are my random thoughts. No showmanship here.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Apog: the hurricane coming through NYC mentioned that the friends organized an effort that 'enabled them to help' each other and non-believers. It didn't say that they actually helped anyone

WT's version of "helping people", as mentioned in the article, was to preach to them. Providing food, clothing, shelter? Nada.

WT's modern take on "keep warm and well fed": go to JW.Org.

Apognophos

Interesting, Island Man, I didn't catch that. This subject was of interest to me because, until recently, I believed that Jesus was flouting the Mosaic Law, and I was corrected by a member here (think it was TD). If Jesus was going to redeem mankind through a sinless life, then he had to follow the Law without exception; the disagreements he had with Pharisees over things like healing on the Sabbath did not represent a denial of the Law, but were simply a dispute about the Pharisees' understanding of the Law, as well as rejecting their oral laws which were expansions on the written Law.

So I was trying to figure out during the study if the statement, "You heard it was said to hate your enemy" was referring to something in the OT (the Law) or if it was a saying among Jews of Jesus' time. If it was the former, then Jesus was contradicting the Law. Proverbs 24 seems at first to support the idea that one should not hate one's enemy, but as you just pointed out, it's really not saying that at all.

Today's Watchtower study. Good example of "talk is cheap."

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