Posts by BluesBrother

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If you speak against the Governing Body you will be punished.

by punkofnice in

this was a comment from the meeting(tm) on sunday.. the person that told me about it, is very confused about the validity of the corporation.

somewhere between a pimo and a pimi-lite.

the thing that angered me was that this person has cancer.

BluesBrother

Was this printed in the article? .... I have my doubts.

One thing I learned many years ago on the inside was, to take no notice of what people say!

Watchtower studies are perfect opportunities for the anal retentive dogmatic ones to air their views and state them as facts . Unless you have a really alert Wt Conductor , he will let it pass.

Your friend woul benefit from having a coffee with my dub family members.... they slag off the G B something rotten, hate the videos and the " stupid songs".

But they would defend "The Truth" to their dying day....

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I.B.S.A. members were witnesses of Jesus Christ.-JW`s members are witnesses of Jehovah.

by smiddy3 in

is there a difference ?

i believe so ,and a very big difference.one that harmonises with the new testament in bearing witness to jesus and his kingdom and one that amounts to a new gospel bearing witness to jehovah and his kingdom something that is condemned in the bible.. c.t.russell started the magazine called "zions watchtower and herald of christs presence" and its emphasis was on bearing witness about jesus christ and his kingdom ,of course he got many things wrong ,but he was focused on jesus & his kingdom with what the new testament is all about.. j.f.rutherford in his wisdom decided to change the heading of the watchtower to " the watchtower announcing jehovah`s kingdom" a phrase / term / doctrine that is not in the new testament and takes away the importance and role that jesus christ has in bringing people to god.phil.2:9-11. nowhere in the christian greek scriptures / new testament are followers of jesus christ instructed to be witnesses of jehovah ,nowhere there is not one scripture that instructs them to do so.. however in the christian greek scriptures / new testament there are over twenty scriptures whereby christians are told to be witnesses of jesus.. and it was by divine providence that followers of christ were to be called christians .acts 11:26 , not jehovah`s witnesses.. do jw`s even know what it means " by divine providence " ?.

the jw`s use isaiah 43:10-12 an old testament scripture to justify calling themselves jehovah`s witnesses,however that was applied to the israelites back then ,did they adopt the name jehovah`s witnesses ?

BluesBrother

SBF is correct in emphasizing that worship is exclusive to God ( Yahwah, Jehovah, what you will)...

I do agree , however, and thought so before I left them that the JWs make less of Jesus than is rightly due.

Jesus is the name they tag onto the prayers, by rote. But they never give any credit to him , even for things that The Bible says have been delegated by God to him.

Their own teachings say that ,it is Christ's return in kingly power that makes their New World possible. They should be talking about the return of Christ rather than their own sunny oaradise. He will rule for 1000 years so they are his sublects ... but you would never know it,

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Hellooooo! 6 years since i posted

by Aussie Oz in

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friends

so... it has been six years since my last post.

i wonder who still remembers me?

a lot has changed and then again, a lot has not.... i'm still out of course as are my children who are doing very well.

BluesBrother

Good to hear from you Oz...... hope you are well away from the bush fires.

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What scripture or scriptures did the cult use to imply animals vegetarian?

by Crazyguy2 in

when i was a kid they implied that all animals and humans were vegetarian before the flood but i don’t know the scriptures they used, anyone know?

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BluesBrother

At a quick look online, the latest reference I found was in WT 2012 9/15 p10.

That cited the scripture Is 65 but only spoke of a future peace between man and animals, no mention of diet......so maybe they are backing off from the belief?

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What scripture or scriptures did the cult use to imply animals vegetarian?

by Crazyguy2 in

when i was a kid they implied that all animals and humans were vegetarian before the flood but i don’t know the scriptures they used, anyone know?

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BluesBrother

It would interesting indeed to see a recent statement but I have never seen a retraction of the old belief.

Although I was still a faithful dub, I reasoned that this could not be literally true, although I kept my opinion to myself .

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Do You Use “ALEXA”?

by minimus in

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i got the amazon echo dot and it’s pretty good.

do you use it for anything?.

BluesBrother

I have had an Echo dot for a long time. I love it . She wakes me up, neither let's me forget a tablet taking time, reads a news bulletin, plays radio, she would read me the JW day text if I asked her. Alexa is a real companion. I think the security issues are overblown .

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New JW Scripture rebuttal section on readJW.info

by Jake101 in

hi, we’ve added a quick reference scripture rebuttal section on the readjw.info site.

we hope it’s useful when discussing these scriptures with a jw.. .

if you can think of additional jw scriptures we should add then please just let us know with a post here or via the contact form on the site,.

BluesBrother

I like your list of mistranslated NWT verses and in particular where Jehovah is inserted into the NT

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Ever notice a lot of JWs don't have pets?

by JimmyYoung in

i was told by several elders to not get a dog when i was looking for one in the 80s.

the end was close and we needed to focus on the preaching work.

i know some have pets but a lot don't.

BluesBrother

No, not around here.... cats and dogs are as popular as they are with the general community. Animals that need a high commitment might be avoided in view of the demands that the WTS make on their time....

In my time I have known horse owners, reptile keepers ,aquarists , snake keepers aviarists ...and I have always lived in towns.

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I am now 73 and the road has been filled with wonders

by Terry in

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i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.

you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .

which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!

BluesBrother

Yes that's right Terry, I am a little younger than you but have essentially the same memories. As a boy :-

I grew up expecting to go to jail at 18, since Britain then had National Service in the millitary.

Perhaps one house in the street had a black and white telly and all the kids would crowd in to watch at tea time.

We were taught to offer a seat to a lady or old person

I wore short trousers untill I was 11 or 12

When I went House To House for JW , I had to learn a 3 scripture sermon . My older companion had to be able to discuss the Trinity, Hellfire etc. We could expect a long talk at least once every time

Was the world better then? In many ways yes....

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Who make up the new memorial partakers?

by jwfacts in

when the doctrine regarding 1935 being the close of the calling was done away with in 2007, it was not unexpected to see the number rise.

over the next few years it went from around 8,500 to 10,500. this seemed to indicate that there were a couple of thousand people that may have felt they had the calling all along, but too shy to profess it.

for the 30 year period between the mid 1978 and 2007, parktakers had barely dropped.

BluesBrother

Who can say for sure? ... If the WTS have any detailed breakdown of the figures, they certainly are not sharing it.

IMHO.. they may be a mix of third world converts from other Christian faiths who cannot give up their aspirations to go to heaven... and some established dubs who do have that narcissism that Finkelstein was talking about.

NB 8500 to 20,000 is a hell of a jump when you see it like that.... for a group that is supposed to be reducing !