i stumbled upon this video while doing my periodic youtube search of the keyword "jehovah".
in the video a jw (actually two jws, but only one does most of the speaking) debate an atheist.
the atheist is a mild-mannered iranian who at first seems deceptively easy and clueless (i think it has to do with the fact that english is not his first language), but soon proves he's no walkover - calmly, mildly and civilly.
This is one of many reasons why JW's will sit in front of carts and never engage people when they come by and look at what's on the cart. JW's can't win any discussion. This is thier future silent ministry.
If i look behind, I remember, in the meetings, we was taught a lot on the manner to place the literature and very few to set out arguments!
as with the scribes and pharisees, there are a number of unwritten rules that witnesses are supposed to follow.
here's a couple : "worldly" kids in society depictions are shown quite often wearing their baseball caps backwards.
jehovah's witness youths would not want to imitate that "look".
even having a chess chess board was very questionable .... (war games)..
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make me think here, in France, we had a stupid rule too : no clinking glasses, no toast!
just because i'm an hopeless curious, and it's a bunch of year i didn't open a wtbts book, i downloaded right now the new booklet "return to jehovah" in french (my language).. i read the 3 first lines, and i was already bored.
what is this childish way of speaking ?
it's me, it's just the french translation or it's the case in another language too?.
They've been patting themselves on the back for a while about simplifying "the truth"
bach to the milk!
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i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!
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I wonder how much of their teachings the GB members really believe themselves...
Not a single one. They know exactly how these lies come to life! Because they create them! :)
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i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!
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just because i'm an hopeless curious, and it's a bunch of year i didn't open a wtbts book, i downloaded right now the new booklet "return to jehovah" in french (my language).. i read the 3 first lines, and i was already bored.
what is this childish way of speaking ?
it's me, it's just the french translation or it's the case in another language too?.
And now they have understood that the army of robot will follow anything they say...
That's why before, "new light", was at least a bit refined.
Now I feel they even don't bust their arse no more... They pull clearly the "new light" out of a hat...
More it's big, more it's admissible...
last month, i had the privilege of traveling to jamaica with a study abroad group from my community college.
while there, we went to a place called my father's house in which severely disabled children lived when they had no one else to take care of them.
as part of their day, they hold worship in a small, outdoor meeting place.
this short video has interesting statistics (without any citations or references available) i.e.
"there are 5.9 billion searches on google",...."to whom were these questions asked bg (before google)?".
"time it took to reach a market audience of 50 million?
this meeting in the sky is known as a conjunction.
this conjunction between jupiter and venus usually isnt rare, but this is the closest they will have been in 2,000 years!
together, they create the rare star of bethlehem.
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i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!
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