i had a conversation with my dad concerning the legal cases the jws are loosing and how their policies are still lacking.
he answered that he has confidence that jehovah will give his people the wisdom and discernment necessary to make the changes.
i then explained that most of the improvements were made as a result of various court cases, including the australian commission.. my dad: well, than, jehovah uses the governments to discipline his people just like he did with the jews.
Insight, Volume 2, Rebelliousness
Often Jehovah let other nations serve as instruments to inflict punishment upon the Israelites when they yielded to the pressure to be like the surrounding nations and rebelliously abandoned true worship.—Jg 2:3, 11-16; 3:4, 5; Ne 9:26, 27.
i had a conversation with my dad concerning the legal cases the jws are loosing and how their policies are still lacking.
he answered that he has confidence that jehovah will give his people the wisdom and discernment necessary to make the changes.
i then explained that most of the improvements were made as a result of various court cases, including the australian commission.. my dad: well, than, jehovah uses the governments to discipline his people just like he did with the jews.
hmmm
The principle, as I understand it is....
There are Old Testament Bible accounts of God using other nations to discipline the Israelites, aka the Jews, for the bad things they did?
If God disciplined 'his' ancient people, the Jews, for the bad they did back then (like worshipping 'false' gods etc), then surely he could do the same with 'his' modern organization and punish them for the bad things they have done.
we are off to the convention this weekend!
the program will be full of informative and faith-strengthening information.
here is the program:.
Still Totally ADD: Does anything like this come to the U.S.?
Looks like it does? This weekend just past (November 10 to 12, 2017)
And in 'merica it's free!
it's rachel from new zealand here.
i am currently helping a nz journalist source potential interviewees for a short documentary she is making about child sexual abuse issues among jws in new zealand.
nothing of this nature has been seen in the news in nz before so this is quite exciting!
There was that shocking Antonie Dixon story?
http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/antonie-dixons-sister-gives-evidence-in-court-2008072218
stumbled across this by accident and was mildly surprised:.
https://imgur.com/gallery/m3ffm.
there's a "tipping point" phenomenon on the internet, where people and organizations that nobody knew about before, (like martin shkreli, for example) suddenly become the butt of every joke in the 30 and under crowd.
This was the background:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7c8xac/im_about_to_make_an_imgur_post_on_the_4000day/
This was when it went 'live':
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7cak2p/holy_shit_my_4000day_post_on_imgur_just_hit_most/
so my mum asked me to watch the broadcast and to my astonishment i got through it without smashing my screen haha.. so i let her know what liars they are for saying they would never deliberately distort a quotation.. she is ok for me to give her some printouts of watchtower material where this has in fact happened, contry to what they say.. where should i start and what would be your best link, or way to approach this.
i think this is a good opportunity of waking her up, if she can see that the broadcast has lied to her, she won't be happy.. any advice is you can give is so appreciated.. thanks everyone..
I'm still laughing at the Gandhi quote explanation.
Useful if you have a copy of the 2011 Yearbook to hand
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7cezit/november_broadcast_and_accuracy_of_research/
Then there's also:
Watchtower, November 1, 2011: "When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?"
Footnote: None of the secular experts quoted in this article hold that Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 B.C.E.
There's a 607 infographic here:
this was posted on the christian century magazine yesterday.
don't know how these folks could be dubs and go to another church without getting caught by some busybody in dubland,.
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/first-person/why-my-church-stopped-decking-halls.
It's an interesting article.
The author's church website is: https://www.firstmennonitechurch.org
As slimboyfat has probably already noted - they seem to be an 'online' church only in the UK nowadays:
this was posted on the christian century magazine yesterday.
don't know how these folks could be dubs and go to another church without getting caught by some busybody in dubland,.
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/first-person/why-my-church-stopped-decking-halls.
The author just refers to JWs as they are the only Christians he knew of who didn't celebrate Christmas - he mentions it as he was surprised that this non-JW couple, attending his Mennonite church, also did not 'celebrate' Christmas.
Aside from meeting Jehovah’s Witnesses, I had never encountered Christians who did not celebrate Christmas.
Actually they did, but in a much more non-commericalised, more religious way - that was the point of the article - it lead the author to re-evaluate his view of Christmas too.
this was posted on the christian century magazine yesterday.
don't know how these folks could be dubs and go to another church without getting caught by some busybody in dubland,.
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/first-person/why-my-church-stopped-decking-halls.
Isn't that kinda the point of the article.
They're Mennonites?
latest perspective of the san diego reader on wts loosing its $4000 per day sanction appeal.... https://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/nov/10/ticker-jehovahs-witnesses-withheld-info-4000-day/?templates=mobile.
There's also been coverage on the local newspaper's website - San Diego Union Tribune - and on the local TV channel - NBC 7 San Diego:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7c7kt7/san_diego_union_tribune_appeals_court_scolds/
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7c7kpe/nbc_7_san_diego_jehovahs_witnesses_face/
