God hates divorce.....but t t t....most of his favored "friends" had multiple wives and concubines. Go figure.
Even later, you only needed to have one wife if you wanted to be a "servant" or elder.
when god hates certain things does that mean you are not expected to do that particular thing or certain things 100% .
1. god hates divorce does that mean we are not expected to divorce at all?
(hint: jesus allow divorce) .
God hates divorce.....but t t t....most of his favored "friends" had multiple wives and concubines. Go figure.
Even later, you only needed to have one wife if you wanted to be a "servant" or elder.
so, here i am going through boxes and boxes of old wt literature.
i’m stacking it up from 1940’s to 1990’s.
i also have quite a few gems, like one 1917 studies in the scriptures.
Be sure to photograph and scan some of the illustrations and charts to upload on ex-JW and JWhumor websites. It adds spice to posts and helps young JWs see Watchtower for what it is...a joke.
so, here i am going through boxes and boxes of old wt literature.
i’m stacking it up from 1940’s to 1990’s.
i also have quite a few gems, like one 1917 studies in the scriptures.
We made a little over $2000.usd selling our remaining old JW lit. The portable record player and Rutherford records brought 1,000. Surprisingly a JW bought them for an assembly hall display.
We listed on eBay and Craigslist with cross-links. It took two days to do.
Previously the garbage man rejected our recycle can for being "too heavy" lol. So I loaded up the 1/2 ton pick-up....but the springs bottomed out too much to drive it to the dump. lol
I got rid of some in a big 4-hour burn pile, and had to use gasoline!
We saved a few 1960s gems to share with visiting JWs....which has never happened. I love the old Paradise book illustrations and the 1975 predictions and chronology chart in the red Freedom of the Sons of god
book. :)
i just saw the new wt is up and available.
the cover picture looks to me like the one that should have been used on the august 2024 wt but was pulled at the last minute and released with a different picture many weeks later.
someone on here uploaded a low res version of the picture last year.. of course we all know why the picture was pulled in the first place........ george.
Remember.....JWs are taught they are "special" and everything is "directed by angels"...or DEMONezzzzss. Having a random thought of empathy or kindness couldn't possibly occur. :)
(much like those biblical bronze age goat herders who thought their dreams were inspired by god himself). :)
the watchtower—study edition | march 2025. keep walking by faith.
7 note how javier, a brother in south america, saw the need to walk by faith.
he says: “i had applied for a prestigious job that would double my salary and provide considerable personal satisfaction.” however, javier had the deep desire to pioneer.
Yes, Jehovah doesn't have time to intercede on behalf of millions of sick, enslaved, homeless widows and orphans around the world, but gets this moron a pt job asap!
Hard to believe anyone with the internet still thinks this Watchtower excrement is inspired.
from barbara:.
my dear husband, joe anderson, has had very real problems with his short-term memory for at least a year which really worried me.
as his mental health deteriorated, i decided to have our local longtime physician talk alone with joe during an office visit last september.
We are so sorry to hear this news Barbara. You and Joe have given so much to so many. Please hang in there.
2025-01-15-ages for ministerial servants and elders.. see page 2. .
https://pdfupload.io/docs/1b0b5c00 .
https://imgbox.com/p3a9yjmr.
A 21 year old "Elder"...just the person to trust with important life issues.
Most medical journals agree that males don't fully develop their frontal lobe until the age of 25...and some not until 30 years of age. Most insurance company stats back this up noting that risky driving habits wane after the 24th birthday...and their rates usually reflect this. Under 25, young males are easier to manipulate...therefore easy targets for cults, cons, and the military to mold. ( It's easy to see Watchtower's angle here).
Quote: "It doesn’t matter how smart teens are or how well they scored on the SAT or ACT. Good judgment isn’t something they can excel in, at least not yet.
The rational part of a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed and won’t be until age 25 or so.
"In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with good judgment and an awareness of long-term consequences. Teens process information with the amygdala. This is the emotional part.
In teens' brains, the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision-making center are still developing—and not always at the same rate. That’s why when teens have overwhelming emotional input, they can’t explain later what they were thinking. They weren’t thinking as much as they were feeling." end quote. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content?ContentID=3051&ContentTypeID=1
hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.
these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.
malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..
From 3rdgen and I, Our hearts go out to the victims. Having experienced close calls with major wildfires, we understand the feeling of anxiety and fear when the wind kicks up in the wrong direction and you await evacuation orders.
Nothing like a natural disaster, flood, fire, earthquake, hurricane, or tornado to make you powerless.
To any who feel "libtards deserved this"...re-examine the Watchtower-trained doomsday cult mind control that instilled this hatred of "others" imagining their future destruction at an Armageddon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7pohqumwg in the year 2525 i. ii the year 2525, if man is still alive .
if woman can survive, they may find.
in the year 3535ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lieeverything you think, do and sayis in the pill you took todayin the year 4545you ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyesyou won't find a thing to chewnobody's gonna look at youin the year 5555your arms hangin' limp at your sidesyour legs got nothin' to dosome machine's doin' that for youin the year 6565you won't need no husband, won't need no wifeyou'll pick your son, pick your daughter toofrom the bottom of a long glass tube.
1975....50 years ago...I was a wide-eyed gullible youth who thought the big A was "any day now." "Staying alive till 75 !"
What a maroon.
- Grizzled old guy.
2025**pdf**s*147**announcements.. here.. https://pdfupload.io/docs/73dbf41c.
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Thank you, Petra.