to illustrate how the botchtower's groupies are losing brain cells...last year an elder told me some of the increase in the anointed is due to those who have been unfaithful and needed to be replaced.
when i was in first grade i knew that if i had 10 marbles and i lost one and a friend gave me a marble to replace the one i lost that i once again had 10 not 11 marbles.. jdubs are very good at not thinking..
It has ballooned and will continue to. There was even a story on here several years ago of a whole congregation in the US that went 'apostate' and started partaking, then was disbanded.
Beyond that, I wonder how many more that partake in private and aren't counted. I'm one of them, and I've read of others who do the same, because they don't want to put on airs or tacitly agree with WTs definition of what it means to be anointed.
according to scripture, god has a wife -israel.
he is her husband/husbandly owner.. the nation was cast off but jehovah said he would never leave israel.
that being said, jesus spoke of israel as a spiritual nation and the 144,000 to be picked from both israel and the nations (to fulfill the number) who were to be king priests with him.
You just answered your own question. Israel is still said to have God's favor, except now Gentiles are grafted in, not exclusively Israelites by birth.
on the local news last night it was reported that two kingdom halls in olympia wa were set fire to.
i wonder who has a grudge with those congregations?
unfortunately we know the jw"s eat this crap up and enjoy the "persecution.
to help me deal with periodic back and neck pain and stiffness, she suggested i sleep with a pillow between my legs.
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i bit my tongue, she wouldn't have gotten it anyway..
stuckinarut2:
I know, it's ironic how many of us know more about the org than when in it, and than those now in it: obscure beliefs, publication quotes, history of doctrine, secret publications, convention releases before the convention, elder's letters before the elders 😄
to help me deal with periodic back and neck pain and stiffness, she suggested i sleep with a pillow between my legs.
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i bit my tongue, she wouldn't have gotten it anyway..
To help me deal with periodic back and neck pain and stiffness, she suggested I sleep with a pillow between my legs
I bit my tongue, she wouldn't have gotten it anyway.
many who have been a jw since the 70- 80s remember the jw dramas coming out yearly.. today they are movies but to the topic.... many of the voice actors are the same.. one however is plain odd.. lets list his roles as i remember:.
the exodus drama: janes.
gideon drama: an anger worshiper of baal.
No, I wasn't thinking of brother Barr, he has a very pleasant voice. I just listened to the recording of Job chapter 4 you cited and that is indeed Joel Adams, who I mentioned in my first post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zr-Aj4nXyE
The one with the sniveling voice and British accent I thought you meant played background characters in many dramas including the Moses one.
many who have been a jw since the 70- 80s remember the jw dramas coming out yearly.. today they are movies but to the topic.... many of the voice actors are the same.. one however is plain odd.. lets list his roles as i remember:.
the exodus drama: janes.
gideon drama: an anger worshiper of baal.
There were three from this era who had creepy voices. The first two, Karl Klein and Joel Adams, had American accents. The one you're describing, who I remember very well but have no clue who it is, had a British accent. It's possible they channeled a demon and gave it a script 😜 That, or it's Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine's grandpa.
happy st. paddy's day.. that being said, life is a bag of shit.. so please give me some sort of positivity in this post.. i wish i could get it from whom i would like it from, but that is a bullshit dream.. life sucks then you die!.
jk.
Life is good.
i didn't know if i should put this in humor or what?
have you seen those new doorbell devices with built-in camera/microphone/speaker?
i wonder how that will work with jw's coming to the door?
These are on YouTube already, that's why they showed that video at all congregations warning JWs not to talk too much at doors because of cameras 😄
i used to think that before the governing body was introduced in the 1970's as we know it today, that they used that term for the 7-member board of directors.
but the article written by milton henschel in the '50s that was just posted showed another angle.
apparently all shareholders were the "governing body" and the board was their representative, just like later they would say that all anointed ones were the faithful slave and the gb was their representative.. the governing body at present has 402 members, who reside in 29 countries and elect seven ministers as a board of directors.
Well no, the term shareholder has been used consistently by the org itself since then, up to even the most recent annual meeting, as I mentioned on the last page.
