Posts by blondie

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Awake! No.1 2023, A United Nations Advertisement?

by EasyPrompt in

awake!

magazine no.1 2023 and united nations promotions.

page 3, "world meteorological association".

blondie

In the past, there was much said about the WTS status as a non-governmental organization associated with the UN and the WTS did that to qualify for the benefits/support the UN gives to those organizations. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)They include international charities such as OXFAM and Save the Children, research institutes, churches, community-based organizations, lobby groups and professional associations.

What has the WTS said about what the identity of the UN is?https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/502016102?q=beast+united+nations&p=sen

Info on 1991/1992 revelation about the WTS association with the UN

"https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/united-nations-association.php

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"the other sheep will feed the other sheep"

by enoughisenough in

interesting statement in this video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zchsc1wedns.

blondie

EasyPrompt, I am discussing what the WTS has said, not necessarily what non-jws have said. The WTS does not teach that Jesus and his followers in heaven (144,000) will be coming down to earth to hang out with the non-anointed. But I know of religions that teach that. (Not supporting that either)

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"the other sheep will feed the other sheep"

by enoughisenough in

interesting statement in this video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zchsc1wedns.

blondie

I thought the WTS says that "new scrolls" will be given to the survivors and resurrected in the "new system." Who gives the scrolls, "the other sheep"? I don't think so, not as the WTS says. They say that the anointed in heaven will rule as kings and priests and would be providing these "new scrolls." Of course, the WTS does not say what form the scrolls would take, how they would be given to humans on earth, and how those on earth could prove they were from the anointed in heaven (just reporting not supporting). I asked this question to some elders when I was researching the "new scrolls" in the WT publications and could not find an answer. They told me to "wait on Jehovah"! (I might add, I don't think the phrase "new scrolls" is mentioned in the bible, only "scrolls" in Revelation 20:12).

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No more judicial committee if maybe suicidal

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the new direction in the new elders book is very clear.

absolutely no jd if there is a suspicion of suicidal thoughts.. this is obviously due to the high number of suicidal attempts after the announcement that someone is no longer a jw and the shunning that accompanied it.. so what will happen now going forward if situations arise where there would formerly have been a jd and they say there is suicidal thoughts?.

i can’t see it working, but elders stick rigidly to what it says in the book.

blondie

Probably all the commissions investigating the WTS very thoroughly, even reading what the WTS has put in their publications, not letting the WTS re-invent their past. Probably sued successfully, by families who lost family and friends to the inhumane pressure the WTS puts on its members.

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Secret Elders Book? Bwahahaha!

by NotFormer in

i remember a couple of decades ago when the internet was relatively young and the wt was at war with it, that they were battling to keep the pay attention book secret, commencing legal action against anyone who published it online (and of course, trying to out anyone who leaked it).

i think it was a norwegian skeptics organisation who had it available for download and dared the wt lawyers to come after them.. so i guess the new shepherd the flock book came out to try and put the genie back in the bottle and reassert some air of mystery and secrecy back into the equation.. so i typed jehovah's witnesses secret elder book into google.

colour me gobsmacked!

blondie

But FFGhost, the phrase "governing body" still does not appear in the bible. Just like the word "organization." In fact, the WTS quotes often from the Encyclopedia Brittana saying the since the word "trinity" does not appear in the bible, there is no trinity doctrine supported by the bible. Kind of a 180 from the "proof" of a "governing body." Rather, The Encyclopædia Britannica observes: “Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies.”

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slimboyfat joins the Mormons!

by slimboyfat in

i know that some people on the board have experience of being mormons, so i would be interested in your feedback.

at church this afternoon it was an uncanny experience.

in the past i've read a lot about mormons, so i thought i was prepared in general for what it would be like.

blondie

I went to a recruitment meeting/movie for people interested in LDS. It really opened my eyes to the ruling over your own universe. That beats the WTS somewhat.

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Ivana Trump grave at Trump's golf course

by SydBarrett in

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people who dislike trump will see this as an eyesore and an insult to his first wife and the mother of his 3 children.people who support trump will describe this as a beautiful natural setting, like a woodland.

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blondie

I saw that item just recently in my newspaper. Wow, what are her children doing about this?

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WT and Higher ED

by enoughisenough in

watched this video and was wondering if any of you recall seeing this video besides on this presenter's youtube platform.

anyway, watch it !

it is disgusting but enlightening.

blondie

Here are some quotes about education in the WT publications assembled by an ex-jw. Worth looking at. https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/quotes/education.php

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Secret Elders Book? Bwahahaha!

by NotFormer in

i remember a couple of decades ago when the internet was relatively young and the wt was at war with it, that they were battling to keep the pay attention book secret, commencing legal action against anyone who published it online (and of course, trying to out anyone who leaked it).

i think it was a norwegian skeptics organisation who had it available for download and dared the wt lawyers to come after them.. so i guess the new shepherd the flock book came out to try and put the genie back in the bottle and reassert some air of mystery and secrecy back into the equation.. so i typed jehovah's witnesses secret elder book into google.

colour me gobsmacked!

blondie

PON, In fact, the phrase "governing body" never occurs in the bible ever. Using Acts 15, the WTS does as you say try to "imply" it does. This is how they do it, they say or write "the governing body (Acts 15)" implying that the phrase appears there. Many a long-time jw will assume it does, until I showed them it was not there. Long-time jws don't look that scripture(s) up any more, they have memorized a scripture that does not exist. Before 1971, the WTS never capitalized the phrase "governing body" and the governing body in the present was considered the board of directors of the WTS. What deceivers..

2 days ago

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'Governing Body' is more a secular term IMHO. Yet they try to imply there was one in Bible times. The deception is full on with this Corporation faking as a religion.

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Anthony Morris III demoted to Great Crowd!

by Vanderhoven7 in

well, that is my prediction for 2024 anyway!

hey, if watchtower can speculate..... https://youtu.be/dn8askhhwkw.

blondie

The WTS re-invents its past by "editing out" old comments, and asking members to toss the old one. Not all jws are "obedient" not want to toss away previous study notes they made, or buy another publication (not free back then to members). One night, at a "congregation book study" in a private home, an elder new to being a jw, asked a question from the publication as to time in the bible. One older "brother" started talking about a creative day being 7,000 years ago, where in the new version of the book, now said thousands and thousands of years. The conductor corrected him, but afterwards that brother showed it to the conductor, an old version. How embarrassing, Often what the WTS does it stop mentioning an old teaching, and enough people die from that generation, and the new ones haven't a clue. Did the same with the teaching of 1975.