Nathan...Didn't you see any Lemurians while living in Mt Shasta? They're all over the place.
-BONEZZ
so, the long awaited trip began for my son and i to return to the same place he heard a bigfoot a year ago in the forests of northern california.
the trip started out unfortunately for us to be a 7 mile hike instead of a 2 to 3 mile hike in to our base camp , as huge snow drifts covered the road , making it even inaccessible for 4 wheel drive, so , with packs on backs we hiked over 50 ft long snow drifts on places on the trail.
even snow was covering one creek near the lake we were destined for .
Nathan...Didn't you see any Lemurians while living in Mt Shasta? They're all over the place.
-BONEZZ
years ago, the "weak family" were the ones that always were nice jws but considered "weak in the truth".
they still went on their vacations, might've sent their kids to colleges, had plenty of "worldly" friends and so forth.
but if they had to make a stand, let's say on the "blood issue", they'd rather die than accept a transfusion!
Minimus...
I can see that a lot...and some variations of it. I think the borg relies on the young ones NOT knowing the old light and the old ones to carry on their warm and fuzzy rendition of the "old days." A lot of those old ones you mention probably have so much of their lives invested they don't even want to consider the possibility of the WTBS being false. They have ruled out things like 1975, regurgitating the WTBS version of those days.
Then there are the "hangers-on" like I was. Born into it, but something just never connected for me so I never made the troof my own (i.e. dunked)...but of course I felt it was my fault. they had the truth...I just wasn't worthy enough to carry the JW banner. I remember coming to their defense many times. I was probably a lot like a self-professed "JW simpathizer" who frequents this board. Not good enough to become a card-carrying JDub but by gawd defending them to the death, which just might give me an outside chance at Armageddon.
-BONEZZ
so, the long awaited trip began for my son and i to return to the same place he heard a bigfoot a year ago in the forests of northern california.
the trip started out unfortunately for us to be a 7 mile hike instead of a 2 to 3 mile hike in to our base camp , as huge snow drifts covered the road , making it even inaccessible for 4 wheel drive, so , with packs on backs we hiked over 50 ft long snow drifts on places on the trail.
even snow was covering one creek near the lake we were destined for .
Mr Flipper...
That's some good stuff. Were you in Trinity County by any chance?
-BONEZZ
Excellent work.
-BONEZZ
found this online, for those of you who don't know, during the 1960s and 1970s, the watchtower society occasionally used the translation of the new testament by johannes greber to support their similar renderings of john 1:1 and matthew 27:52,53. in 1983 they officially stopped using his translation because of its "close rapport with spiritism.
" the information that geber was a spiritist was readily available to the society's writers.
in 1955 and 1956 the society's writers themselves wrote of greber's spiritism.
RR...Thanks for the download. Fascinating stuff.
I have to agree with the Dawg with the badge. They are ultimate liars, and hypocrites beyond belief. In 1955 in their booklet entitled, "What do the scriptures say about SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH"?" they take Johannes Greber to task for his communication with the spirit world and the fact that as a former Catholic priest he became a spiritualist.
Then in 1962 in their booklet, ""The Word", Who Is He? According to John", they attack the Trinity using the Johannes Greber Translation of the New Testament...the very same translation Johannes "received" from the spirit world.
I am sure there's a JDub sympathizer somewhere out there who has a good explanation for this.
-BONEZZ
PS. Can't wait to read it RR. Maybe I can finally get the real story about those demonic smurfs the WTBS hates so much.
it is not infrequently that jehovah's witnesses make the statement that the name of their organization is "scriptural.
tony wills, in his book "a people for his name" makes an interesting point about the misrepresentation of that name as "scriptural" and the appropriateness of this name-change by the impostor "bible scholar" rutherford -.
[rutherford] showed the need of a new name by such texts as the following:.
Nathan...
What's that sound I hear? Why it's the sound of reniaa rustling thru the pages of her Proclaimers & Aid books...stand by...any moment now...
-BONEZZ
let's start a list of reasons why you were told, or overheard people telling, won't make it through the big a day.
i'll start.. 1. they don't take showing up for cleaning the kingdom hall seriously and never show up.
i overheard a sour puss old elder say this to his wife after he just gave a scolding talk on it.
It's gotta be a toss-up between....
Owning a 2-door car or....
saying "Bless You" after a sneeze.
-BONEZZ
the "ever-changing doctrine" of the watchtower org.
is now creating an "incubator of doubts" that seems to be "hatching" this so-called "new breed" of witnesses.
watchtower publications written with purposeful ambiguous articles seems to be allowing many witnesses to become extremely liberal in their way of thinking.the watchtower org's view, as of late, in making more things a conscience matter, blood issues, voting, alternative service, organ transplants, attending weddings and funerals in churches, celebrating holidays, etc.
I think there is some validity to your statement. For example, my EX who used to be hardcore is now in real estate and misses lots of meetings and field service and I even know she goes out of town to fornicate, looking for rich guys and the elders look the other way. So I don't really know what's going on. They talk down about higher education but they don't seem to have any bite to their bark because I know quite a few young people going to college.
I think they're still trying to control thru fear but without a big A date I think the sheep are wandering.
-BONEZZ
this is prompted by reniaa who claims that one of the things that jws have right is the name jehovah.. you know how if you're trying to convert someone to be a jw, you put your best foot forward and try to keep the controversial stuff that might "stumble" them on the back burner?
(like say, mother's day or when i was a kid, pinatas?
) well, that's how i categorize the whole topic of the divine name.
Openmind...
she'll be back as soon as she can find more Slobbering Body stuff she can cut and paste. The fact of the matter is, if I were a Dubbie I'd be damn sure that the pronounciation was correct before i used it...afterall the Guy is known for whacking kids who poke fun of the hair-challenged.
Now for my Andy Rooney impression...Have you ever noticed that Dubs really can't think logically on their own...they have to parrot something from Mother. Didja ever wonder why...maybe it's because they're in a cult...shhh don't tell 'em.
-BONEZZ
when did the wts stop the sale of publications and start "givng them away" ?
also does anyone know what it costs publishers/pioneers for the wt & asleep rags now?
Yeah, them and Jimmy Swaggart. Sorry don't have time to fill you in but I'm sure someone else will give you all the true facts as to why they lovingly started the donation arrangement.
-BONEZZ