well, here's the latest.
i'm almost inactive with regard to the ministry - i simply don't go out.
if i do the "guest star" thing, i never talk to anyone.
This religion is about survival. No JW is going to take off his life jacket and give it to anyone else. They teach selfishness and self centeredness. Sure, they give
lip service to love and sacrifice. But that's all it really is--- lip service. And it comes from the leadership, from the GB. They DO NOT CARE.
there have been a number of posts discussing reform in the watchtower, mostly revolving around a letter on this thread.
i just wanted to put my two cents in on this issue.
because i am not attached to any of the main doctrines and teachings of the jws, i feel no personal need to reform them.
I hope it crumbles like the walls of Jericho! Reform? Hell no! To the ground, I say! That's where it belongs.
restrangled mentioned that there has been some heavy stuff on this forum recently.. she asked for some positive things from members.
i didn't post on her thread, but.
decided to start my own.
Glad to hear you're going to get out and meet others. I've been thinking that I need to do the same thing.
All the best.
take a look at most religions: if you change a doctrine here or there, it usually makes little difference.. you can be a catholic and take birth control.
you can believe in evolution and still be active in most.
protestant churches.. but what about the "truth"?
They themselves admit that a Witness must accept the entire range of Christian teaching "including those that are particular to Jehovahs Witnesses."--- Flock Book.
It is all or nothing. What many witnesses do is become de facto apostates by NOT accepting the entire range of teachings, but staying in because they consider
being a Witness better than being anything else. They are not interested in Truth, because if they were, then their whole paradigm would crack, as you said. It is
a house of glass, of cards, built on shifting sand. Only by DENYING the truth can a witness stay in. Emotionally and mentally I believe it is a heavy price to pay.
"nineteen fourteen - nineteen schmorsteen" ?.
we've had some threads about this, but it seems the general consensus is that they cannot change the 1914 date - it is what the entire organization rests it's doctrine on.. but why do we say that, really?
at one time (and for many, many years), the years 1799 and 1874 were pivotal dates to the bible students.
The leaders know its all a crock. No one on the GB feels INSPIRED. What they feel is ENTITLED to do whatever they need to do in order to perpetuate the illusion of
God's One Sole Channel of Communication. Think of the hubris it takes to declare something like that. I think Ray was far too generous with them.
some wonder why the fds is singular in mt 24:45-47 but then is described as a "class" of more than one by the wtbts.
our new do said this weekend at the circuit assembly that this has been done before by jehovah at isa 43:10: "you are my witnesses(plural),....my servant(singular).
he implied that the "slave"(singular) could be a group of people using this precedent.
Isaiah was written in Hebrew and Matt. was written in Greek. Wouldn't the two languages have different rules of grammar?
I say this because your DO's answer is typical JW response to a question. They never ANSWER the question, just use a strawman instead.
1tim 2:14-15 adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived and came to be in transgression.
15however, she will be kept safe through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and sanctification along with soundness of mind.. so how do yall interpretate this scripture?.
is it saying that it was eve's fault, that adam was not deceived.
Paul was talking about Christian women of his day and used Eve to keep women down.
No authority for you! Females are NOT to be trusted. They need to be barefoot and pregnant!
The only apostle who never met Jesus, who participated in killing the disciples of Jesus, (and who apparently was a virgin) got to determine the rules for the Christian Church. Hmmmm?
no hellfire.
no trinity.
any others?.
Birthdays? Gone.
Christmas? Gone.
The Cross? Gone.
All beleivers go to heaven? Gone
Rapture in 1914? Gone.
Respect for beleifs of others? Gone.
Pyramidology? Gone.
Symbol of Ra on literature? Gone.
Make money selling literature? Alive and well.
LMAO!!
there was a thread recently about "universal soveriegnty.".
as a dub i never really thought about the concept, i simply accepted it.
it was a nice, neat sound bite of an answer to the.
Awakened07: Thanks for the links.
