Posts by bennyk

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Film Scenes that got burnt onto your memory

by greendawn in

jw
friends

what were some film scenes that pleased or horrified you so much that they stayed vivid in your memory for a long time?

the one i always recall is the scene where anthony hopkins (playing as hannibal lector) lobotomised ray liotta (paul krendler) cutting off pieces of his brain and giving them to him to eat.

he also took some of liotta's cooked brain in a plane and gave them to an unsuspecting passenger boy sitting next to him to eat.

bennyk

Disclaimer: I have not seen very many films.

In the film "die Bruecke" (1959) there was a split-second scene shot from behind of the silhouettes of two helmeted heads inclined towards each other as the sixteen year old boys spring back up from the safety of their foxhole to man a machine gun. The scene was very reminescent of numerous still shots found in history books and I found it very disturbing. That image has stayed with me throughout the years and even now as I type this my stomache is in a knot as I ask myself: What in God's name were those children doing in a foxhole?

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I left!!!!

by Hawkeye in

this is my first posting on jwd!

i wrote out my disassociation letter.

i am sending many in the congregation copies of my letters exposing the fine "elders".

bennyk

Good on you, friend !!!!

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I'm confused about literature cited....

by Kristofer in

i noticed that some of the literature cited has references to pages in the hundreds like pg 127 etc.... i know the wt publishes books but are there any discrepencies between the original mags published and the bound versions?.

i ask because when i was presenting some info to a friend and gave her the source, she said, "how can that be?

this is a small magazine with only a few pages and you are saying the pages are in the hundreds?".

bennyk

I should note that the Reprints available from the Chicago Bible Students comprise only the years 1879-1916.

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I'm confused about literature cited....

by Kristofer in

i noticed that some of the literature cited has references to pages in the hundreds like pg 127 etc.... i know the wt publishes books but are there any discrepencies between the original mags published and the bound versions?.

i ask because when i was presenting some info to a friend and gave her the source, she said, "how can that be?

this is a small magazine with only a few pages and you are saying the pages are in the hundreds?".

bennyk

The Watch Tower Reprints are a set of six bound volumes printed in 1920(?) comprising the years 1879-1919 (June), and the pages are numbered sequentially throughout the entire set, thus numbering into the thousands.

Incidentally, those Reprints may still be purchased (as a twelve volume set) from the Chicago Bible Students).

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question about reprints of studies in the scriptures

by The Lone Ranger in

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friends

i am sure that the watchtower did reprints of ct russels books of "studies in the scriptures' in the early 80's, can anyone confirm this ??.

what year exactly were they reprinted?

atfer reading the coc book i am convinced that they reprinted them only to prove ray franze wrong, but thats another story.

bennyk

Although the books were altered post-1914, the changes to volumes Two and Three are documented in the 15. March 1915 issue (english) of the Watch Tower.

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Letter following Disfellowshipping

by inbyathread in

here is a letter recently sent to the local elders.

quite small so here it is as i can type it out.

february 1, 2006

bennyk

Yadda,

Among other things, the "Flock" book (pp. 94,95) states:

"Apostasy includes action taken against true worship of Jehovah or his established order among his dedicated people.... People who deliberately spread (stubbornly hold to and speak against) teachings contrary to Bible truth as taught by Jehovah's Witnesses are apostates.... The Bible condemns the following: causing divisions and promoting sects. This would be deliberate action disrupting the unity of the congregation or undermining the confidence of the brothers in Jehovah's arrangement. It may involve or lead to apostasy. (Romans 16:17,18...)"

Romans 16:17 was quoted as an explanation of the Elders' decision to disfellowship the author of the letter.

(Since the Society promotes its own sect and creates divisions by its unscriptural disfellowshiping policy, perhaps it requires disfellowshiping.)

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Comments that made feel pity at last Sundays WT study

by drew sagan in

i believe it was paragraph 17, the one that spoke about the faithful slave and how there are those who wish to be "independent" and that this is wrong.

two comments came, both from elders.

elder 1: so what the paragraph is telling us is that instead of developing an independent spirit we actually want to be developing a spirit of dependece upon god's organization and the spiritual food they provide.

bennyk

Sadly, this isn't really anything all that new, and the two Elders are not simply "loose cannons". The Society has been encouraging this sort of nonsense for a long time. Anyone remember the cover article from the 01. March 1979 (english) Watchtower: "Put Faith in a Victorious Organization" ?

On a personal note, in similar vein I recently received correspondence from an Elder "encouraging" me to return to congregation meetings, etc. He requested I ignore the troubled history of the WatchTower Society and 'develop confidence in the Faithful and Discrete Slave'. The irony of this is that -- while yet a Witness -- I had professed to be anointed...

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Letter following Disfellowshipping

by inbyathread in

here is a letter recently sent to the local elders.

quite small so here it is as i can type it out.

february 1, 2006

bennyk

That's "I have no choice but to FORGIVE your arbitrary commitee..."

Yadda, the Author of the letter was tried and convicted of having "spoken negatively regarding the Organisation", i.e. 'Apostasy'.

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In a few sentances, why did you leave the truth?........

by jambon1 in

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friends

if you had to write down just a few sentances about why you left the truth, what would you say?.......

jambon;.

wholeheartedly embraced it for a few years after love bombing etc then saw widespread hypocrisy.

bennyk

Beyond the Organisation having proven itself emphatically NOT God's Channel--

First Corinthians 5:11 strongly encourages that we "quit mixing in company with anyone called a brother that is... an idolater". Altogether too many JW's are worshiping the Organisation. Literally.

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how to behave in judical committee? pls help

by albertjw in

i am new here, excuse my english.

it seems that some of you are serving or have been serving as elders and have judical committee experience (stillajwexelder for example).

i want to know how i must behave in jc meeting to avoid disfellowshipping.

bennyk

James 5:16 (NWT): "Therefore openly confess YOUR sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may get healed." No Clergy/Laity distinction there.

You confessed your sin to US. WE will pray for you. You will be healed.

Do NOT go to the Elders: that is a self-inflicted wound. Go your way and sin no more.