dr. jena barchas-lichtenstein is an anthropologist who received her doctorate through ucla.. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jena-barchas-lichtenstein/43/427/702.
in 2013, barchas-lichtenstein submitted the paper "when the dead are resurrected, how are we going to speak to them?
": jehovah's witnesses and the use of indigenous languages in the globalizing textual community as a partial submission for her doctoral dissertation..
I can't find the quote yet, but the WTS has said that the earthly resurrection will start with the first people who died working back in time so there will be people who speak their language and are from their time, family, etc.
I remember this as well, but I believe it was heavily qualified with things like "likely" "evidently" "we might expect" type stuff. I think it was primarily based on the "god not of disorder but of peace" scripture. It was basically idle speculation.
not sure where to post this, but the other day my jw mom says to me, 'the number is increasing they announced that we need 40,000 new kingdom halls'.
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ok, who else has heard this, and how should i respond, other than to say well your cong is smaller now than it was 15 years ago..... where your growth?.
40,000 KHs would mean, on the low side, that they need space for roughly 4 million JWs. So, apparently, half of the JWs currently need to be moved into a new KH, which means that literally every current KH should be overcrowded.
It's amazing how terrible JWs are at simple math when it comes to something cult related.
killerjones, from this other thread, made an interesting comment (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/94810001/you-might-j-w?page=4#/96370003.
) i don't remember if it has been discussed before here, but take a look:.
how many iphone's generation do you see?
I love to correct JWs anytime they talk about iphone generations (or any group of generations) and say "don't you mean overlapping generation?"
The looks I get are priceless.
i just pushed out an update that should now show post votes and provide some feedback when you click the like / dislike button.
the votes shows as a +5 / -2 next to the like and dislike options.. i just realize i linked the display to the ability to vote and given that the vote links are hidden on your own posts, that currently means you can't see the votes that others have given you (i'm almost wondering now if that may be for the best, lol).
expect it to change when i push the next update out.. duplicate votes won't be counted even though they may appear to update in the ui so don't bother trying to go click-crazy - every member only get's one vote on each post.. just a word of caution: i take serious people who try to game the system.
I expect to be at the very bottom of the dislike pile so no one should worry that they will be the most disliked person on the forum
10 people in, and I guess I'm the only one that took this as an invitation to dislike your post.
the great crowd, the other sheep will live forever on planet earth.. years will move from centuries, millennia, and millions of years to billions of years.
after 4 billion years, the sky will fill as their milky way galaxy and its neighbouring andomeda galaxy collide, with amazing changes in gravitational forces.
what an amazing sight!.
today... i'm going to talk to you..... about "sisters!!".
now our dear sisters... have a place ... in god's organisation.
they are not permitted to teach!.
i recently went to a wedding and listened to the wedding talk at the kingdom hall the couple had both heard the talk before as they were both married in kingdom halls before.
this is his second time and her third.
the advice given.
i can't think of any chronology that has not been changed.
even their "absolute" dates are suspect.
there's been numerous discussions about the singing cart thing in this month's video.
i decided to watch at least a portion of the rest of the program though because sometimes things are said that are interesting to pick up on.
this one started off on the topic of unity, and, unbelievably, herd talked about brainwashing and how we like to have our brains cleaned.
You know, somehow I'd never really applied that scripture to JWs, but you're absolutely right - they do just as the nations do. Though a JW would tell you that they show love to everyone by waking them up on saturday and trying to force their cult on them.
The comment about brainwashing is one I've heard before at a meeting. It's the stock way of twisting a word to redefine it as a good thing, part of the loaded language of a cult. It is telling that they're willing to admit that the common perception of JWs it that they're brainwashed, though.
for god so loved the world he gave his only begotten son and then took him back.
that's not love, its a big legal loophole.
people have technically died in the past, and by the standards of diagnosing death in bible times you could definitely beat 48 hrs and return.
Yeah, that always irritated me to. They'd always say oh how horrible it must've been for got to watch his son tortured and killed. A) if he'd wanted to he could've stopped the torture and had him die painlessly and B) it's not quite the same as a parent watching their child die because he knew he'd be back. Anyone who thinks that god had it rough watching Jesus die must go through horrible trauma every time they watch their child fall asleep!
Taking your point a little further, why is it that if someone is technically dead for a couple days that they don't come back perfect? Death is the price of sin, and they've paid to the same standard as Jesus, so when they come back they should have been raised to perfection and live forever!
