i?m sure most of you have seen some coverage about the murder/suicide by a member of the evangelical church called the living church of god.
the church was founded in the mid-1990?s when it split from herbert w. armstrong?s worldwide church of god.
the living church observes the sabbath on saturday along with other old testament rituals.
JAVA,
I'm glad to see you counting time on JWD.
I often wonder about some of the fringe JWs that might be disappointed with the Tower?s end-time carrot. It?s a wonder this hasn?t happened at one of the Kingdom Halls.
That's true. It may happen sooner or later. There's more stuff on this subject in the following threads:
Neo
anyone here planning on playing it?
at first, for the first few days i played it...it was like every other mmorpg out there.
a storyline that follows after the matrix movies is evolving...and its really good.
Cool!
Matrix 2 and 3 really sound like video games (actually the best video games ever!). It was all natural that the series would "continue" as a game.
It' sooo good to remember that I'm unplugged now!
The One Neo
when i left jw's in 1993 i remember that year because the "proclaimers"book came out in the same year and i never got a copy because i da'd myself.
i was recently at the library and was shocked to see the proclaimers book on the shelf.
i grabbed the book and checked it out and took it home and read it from cover to cover in 2 days.
PS: Check also AlanF's Notes on the Proclaimers Book .
when i left jw's in 1993 i remember that year because the "proclaimers"book came out in the same year and i never got a copy because i da'd myself.
i was recently at the library and was shocked to see the proclaimers book on the shelf.
i grabbed the book and checked it out and took it home and read it from cover to cover in 2 days.
The Proclaimers book was a kind of "response" to the Ray Franz scandal in the early eighties and to the accompanying reactions in the years that followed (COC, ISOCF, etc). They made oblique mentions to some of their past embarrassments so they could say they were "rebutting" and "antecipating" objections made about the WT history.
The Proclaimers book is the magnum opus of Watchtower sophistry. (or is it Jehovah's Witnesses in the Divine Purpose?)
Neo
(Read an extensive analysis of the book at: http://www.cftf.com/booklets/proclaimers/index.html)
from watchtower jan 15 2006.
" another fine example for our youths is that of 4 year old "jessica", who wrote to the society to express appreciation for the faithful slaves' counsel regarding what to do if one is tempted to read any of the "poison" of apostate literature; "i am writing to you dear brothers to express my sincere, heartfelt appreciation to those of you entrusted with the administration of carrying out our master jesus' spiritual directive to supply us with our 'food at the proper time'.
as a young one, it is sometimes difficult to resist the great deceiver: satans' crafty acts.
from watchtower jan 15 2006.
" another fine example for our youths is that of 4 year old "jessica", who wrote to the society to express appreciation for the faithful slaves' counsel regarding what to do if one is tempted to read any of the "poison" of apostate literature; "i am writing to you dear brothers to express my sincere, heartfelt appreciation to those of you entrusted with the administration of carrying out our master jesus' spiritual directive to supply us with our 'food at the proper time'.
as a young one, it is sometimes difficult to resist the great deceiver: satans' crafty acts.
I really can't stop laughing.
oh lordy, at yesterday's botchtower study, paragraph 17 (i think) asked what we personally found "encouraging" about the 2004 stats that are listed by country in the wt.
anyway, someone finally put up their hand and remarked about how wonderful it was to see that ethiopia had a 5% increase......ya, i guess if you're starving to death, who wouldn't want to hear that paradise is right around the corner.
one bro put up his hand and actually mentioned the fact that there was 0% increase in virtually all the industrialized nations, but that we "shouldn't let that discourage us".
This thread is crackin' me up.
Neo
there is a new fad presentation going around, a simple but loaded question.
"what would it take for you to be interested in the bible?
of course you can't say no, and if you say, "nothing" the followup question is "why?
bttt
most of us have experienced the frustration of trying to convince a friend or relative that the wts is not what it claims: an organisation backed by 'god'.. of course, it is very difficult to prove a negative and a real die-hard believer will explain-away any evidence of wrongdoing by the org.
as they are trained to do so well.. i have found it good to reverse the question and ask them:.
"what would the wts have to do to convince you that it wasn't god's organisation?".
Check the thread: The Loaded Question
Neo
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hi dear friends.
one question..... who knows about the "watchtower.observer.com" site?.
The Watchtower Observer site is online.
Check http://watchtower.observer.org/apps/pbcs.dll/forside
Neo
