i didn't manage to last the whole broadcast.
it was so unbelievably boring that i only managed halfway before i switched it off.
in this broadcast anthony morris iii (who i affectionately call "the don") stresses to us the importance of studying - not one - but two of their publications in order to understand the bible.
ToMo is 100% correct.
The Bible Teach book is all carrot - pandas and paradise.
God's Love book is all stick - obey the Borg or die.
People that only want paradise, but who do not want to sacrifice their entire life to an unappreciative corporation, will indeed end up leaving.
Search the Bible Teach book for the following:
- faithful and discreet slave (or any variation)
- Governing Body
- disfellowship (ed) (ing)
These terms are withheld for a reason.
shucks only 90 teaching books trashed last week still there is a new week starting lol
I completely agree with the efforts by OP.
There is a good reason that WT is going digital - paper and printing cost real money.
When litterature was sold door-to-door, WT made money.
Also, publishers are trained to ask for donations door-to-door. They are not allowed to ask for donations when cult-carting.
I applaud his efforts.
heard gave 3 talks at the convention.
one thing i noticed rather quickly was how stuck he was to his notes.
he rarely looked up.
IMO Heard and Losch are the worst speakers in the Body. Both barely fit for even the #3 in the Theocratic (old) school.
Not IMO - very observable fact.
the watchtower has held for many years that jesus died on a stake and held strongly to this teaching.
w 1951 3/15 the above agrees with the new world translation of the christian greek scriptures in its appendix, page 769, in saying that the instrument upon which jesus was nailed was a stake without a crossbeam, and not the religiously represented “cross”; and that the greek word used for that instrument in ancient time meant a “stake” and not the conventional religious cross.
they are no longer certain on this point.
I always felt the JWs differ just for the sake of being different in this and other things they teach.
This is the key to most of the practices introduced by Rutherford and Knorr. To be completely different from nominal Christianity, even if there is no basis for it.
As was mentioned, this awesome post was made 12 years ago.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/92381/facts-on-crucifixion-stauros-torture-stake
JWfacts has good pages on the cross, especially the reference to the "ellipses" trick when "quoting" from the Imperial Bible Dictionary, which was used in the Reasoning book. https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/misquotes-deception-lies.php#Cross
Despite the Imperial Bible Dictionary being available for all to view in Google books, WT again pulled off the ellipses trick in the 2011 Watchtower.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011170?q=imperial+bible+dictionary&p=sen
Maybe they are going to ease off of this one.
hi there i am new to this and want to get some advice.
i think i was abused as a child by someone in a hall in central california a long time ago.
i have been seeing on here for a while, two names keep popping up to get help.
Both.
i still believe in freedom of religion even if i disagree with the beliefsof the religion.
what about you?.
OP asked about beliefs.
Many responses are to practices.
These are the key words considered by the courts.
interesting article on the change in mankind's life expectancy, as well as potential, especially with regards to research on worms and mice.. http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/no-detectable-limit-to-human-lifespan/wcm/45192f37-db70-4730-a3a7-1e4169ae703a.
Interesting article on the change in mankind's life expectancy, as well as potential, especially with regards to research on worms and mice.
so in my last post i talked about how i had told my younger siblings how i didn't plan to get baptized or ever be a witness.
i thought i could trust them but i guess i was wrong, they're just kids after all.
my oldest brother (who's 11) told on me today.
Stick it out as long as you can. Play the game. The baptism pressure is on for age 12 - too young for most to wake up.
i was baptized 4 years ago, i have 2 little girls who love their bunnies, so this year we reached out to 4h and started our own 4h group - this was after asking the elders for counsel.
none provided.
now after doing this for 3 months i am being brought before a judicial committee for neutrality.
Did you check Watchtower Library?
From Wiki:
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a couple of years and the wtbts will consist of a bloke on a tropical beach, drinking coctails and writing the latest wacktower crap on his lap top to be emailed to all congregations for them to print, distribute and then transfer funds to his own personal off shore account!watch and see!.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/158870/brothers-were-living-exciting-times#!#2919592.
A couple of years and the WTBTS will consist of a bloke on a tropical beach, drinking coctails and writing the latest Wacktower crap on his lap top to be emailed to all congregations for them to print, distribute and then transfer funds to his own personal off shore account!
Watch and see!
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/158870/brothers-were-living-exciting-times#!#2919592
