I find it fascinating that men can't leave a perfect thing alone without peeing on it like a dog with a tree.
What clergyman, preacher, religious leader can stifle the urge to interpret, expand, or otherwise attempt
to amplify the textus receptus?
There is a William Miller lurking in all these folks.
a wall is a wall, right?
question: what if each day a brick was removed and replaced with wood?.
the watchtower religion pretends to be like a brick wall built of truth.. however, each brick of truth been replaced with wood (changing opinion.).
There is a Chinese proverb: "No man ever steps into the same river twice."
Even inside our own body the cells die and are replaced twice a year. (Don't make me prove this!)
The point being: WHAT REALLY IS the thing which constantly changes in actuality, but is always called the same thing?
Marriages change because people change.
I can think of no worse insult than this: being voted the 'least changed' at a High School reunion.
But, in the case of channeled TRUTH--we are dealing with (supposedly) the absolute mind of the living God.
OLD LIGHT is a counterfeit patch on the reality of FALSE INFORMATION.
at what point in the average person's life does he/she reach a crossroads between purposeful pursuit of a life's goal and mad fanaticism?.
we have all known these automatons; these uber-witnesses.. we might even have been one ourselves!.
the uber-witness can make an excuse for any watchtower mistake at the crack of a whip!.
FadeToBlack: How could I end up wasting over 30 years of my life in a cult?
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Males can aspire to be a BIG fish in the small pond of the Kingdom Hall with noblesse oblige the order of the day.
I can't really imagine how most Brothers would fare if they suddenly had to face a non-compliant
'wordly' wife instead of the subjection-martyr Sisterhood of witnessdom. You know how it goes, "In the country
of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
"Honey, what did you do today?"
"Just out savin' the world."
for anyone who may have looked at, or attended the wt study for this week.
the first two articles of the magazine in subject use, in my opinion, the word "legal contract" too often.
anyone noticed this?
The Jehovah's Witnesses can thank the LEGAL mind of "Judge" Rutherford for the appropriation
of such legalese as "witnesses" "District" assemblies "Circuit" servants and the promotion of the
idea that Jehovah's name was slandered and the witnesses must testify in order to restore His reputation.
Today's Society is pretty much monitored 24/7 by legal advisors and may even be run by lawyers for all we know.
i just watched it on dvd, and holy cow, i can see so many similarities to the watch tower!
i don't want to give anythng away for those who would like to see it, but i really wish the way it ended was a possibility in watch tower world..
Try reading the book by Ira (Rosemary's Baby) Levin titled THIS PERFECT DAY;
the New World Society-ish vibe is uncanny.
Book Review:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/nov/16/thisperfectbook
when i was a kid, it seemed like not a meeting went by when you didn't hear about jonah or sampson and other tall tales from the bible.. now though, they seem to have been sidelined.
i guess the rest of the world caught on to the fact that these stories couldn't possibly be true and were so far fetched (yeah, even by bible standards) that they are just treated as 'stories' like aesop's fables.
saying that you believe in them as genuine accounts just makes you look like a crazy zealot.. but the wts is different.
There is a strong possibility today's Jehovah's Witnesses is pig ignorant, is there?
Do these people read, memorize, reflect, discuss, debate? I'm going to guess the answer is negative.
Without a core of basic, fundamental knowledge (which would include history, of course) there is not much
to hang one's faith on.
Oh wait!
How stupid of me!
Today's modern JW has THE ORGANIZATION to believe in. The Org does all the reading, studying, analyzing and reflection
FOR THE OTHERS.
So, the rank and file is just an empty vessel.
They KNOW nothing, like the character of LENNY in OF MICE AND MEN.
They just want to hear the same story over and over about how great it is going to be when they get to where they're going.
"Tell me about the rabbits, George. Tell me about the rabbits."
yesterday i had a conversation with a man and lady who were with a literature cart in our local town centre .
among other things discussed was the accuracy of the nwt , which i said wasn't very accurate.. the man , of course , led the discussion from the jw perspective and looked up on his phone some quotes from "experts " endorsing the translation .
he asked the lady to make note of the names , at my request, so that i could check these quotes later .
Today's JW's seem to "know" nothing.
They are empty vessels.
Without a publication nearby they are but the sound of wind blowing through an empty cave.
Jesus directed his disciples to carry nothing with them, not even a bag.
I assume the disciples knew something when asked.
i'D LOVE to show this article to a JW and ask them to comment.
http://www.equip.org/articles/88-reasons-what-went-wrong/#christian-books-5
judges chapter 15:.
14 when he came to lehi, the philistines shouted triumphantly at meeting him.
then jehovahs spirit empowered him,+ and the ropes on his arms became like linen threads that were scorched with fire, and his fetters melted off his hands.+ 15 he now found a fresh jawbone of a male donkey; he reached out and grabbed it and struck down 1,000 men with it.+ 16 then samson said: with the jawbone of a donkeyone heap, two heaps!
DARWIN: I remember Neil Sedaka.
He's the only artist to ever record entirely reworked and rearranged versions of the same song a #1 hit TWICE with the exact same song.
" Breaking Up Is Hard To Do " (No. 1, two weeks: August 11 and 18, 1962
AND 1976 version also hit No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.
a wall is a wall, right?
question: what if each day a brick was removed and replaced with wood?.
the watchtower religion pretends to be like a brick wall built of truth.. however, each brick of truth been replaced with wood (changing opinion.).
I believe Aristotle described truth as " that which describes reality."
That encompasses a means by which we distinguish our formless, ephemeral THOUGHTS about a real thing and the real thing itself.
Example:
We can assert "Nothing is real." But, we still have to use a door to enter and leave a room rather than walking through a wall.
