on october 2, 1914, charles taze russell, founder of the watchtower, announced that the gentile times have ended!.
tomorrow will be exactly 100 years since his historic announcment.. to commemorate this centennial occasion, i will gladly take bets in any amount of money that the world will not end tomorrow and that on friday, october 3rd, 2014 gmt, we will still all be here, for better or worse.. any die-hard jws interested in taking the other side of this friendly little wager?
still hoping the big "a" is coming tomorrow and your loving god, jehovah, is going to commit mass genocide and execute 99.9% of earth's population because they don't follow the dictates the 7 members of the "faithful and discreet slave," aka, the governing body of jehovah's witnesses?.
Oubliette:
“On October 2, 1914, Charles Taze Russell, founder of the WatchTower, announced that “The Gentile Times have ended!”
2 October 1914 corresponds to 12 Tishri on the Hebrew calendar. The equivalent date for 2014 would be 6 October. At which time, nothing remarkable will happen.
comments you will not hear at the 09-28-2014 wt study (july 15, 2014, pages (28-32) new testament jesuswitnesses.
review comments will be headed outside the boxes.
wt material from today's wt will be in quote boxes.
blondie:
Jeffro: Did I say that "October 1914 was a significant date"? Or that it was not the date the WTS said it was, or adjusted it to say it was?, Blondie?
Significant to someone, falsely so though.
Yes, it was a direct quote from what you'd written in your comments about paragraph 10. And yes, I did understand the context you meant it in. I was simply elaborating on the alleged significance attributed to it by JWs.
at the end of his final talk he said of the gb: they are telling the higher ups , "start getting ready we're not going to be around much longer!
" and we expect the angels to release the four winds any day now!
" my first thought was why are you building a corporate country club then?!
CrimsonAshes:
This real enough?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-29414574
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/30/theresa-may-extremism-disruption-orders
I didn't mean to suggest that nothing in the Daily Mail is ever correct.
But it is renowned for tabloid nonsense, so as a rule of thumb, it should never be the first source you provide.
You really should skip straight to legitimate sources in the first instance.
comments you will not hear at the 09-28-2014 wt study (july 15, 2014, pages (28-32) new testament jesuswitnesses.
review comments will be headed outside the boxes.
wt material from today's wt will be in quote boxes.
blondie:
October 1914 was a significant date...
Except... it wasn't. Nothing remarkable happened in October of 1914. The 'Bible Students' were supposedly waiting for Armageddon to 'break out' with "suddenness and great force" in or after October of 1914. No sudden 'woe' was precipitated by events 'in heaven' starting in October 1914. Not only did it not happen, but by mid-1914 it had already become impossible for such a thing to happen suddenly in October. World War I had already begun, which was itself basically a continuation of the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913. Funnily enough, though the Watch Tower Society has published articles about a lot of different wars, it has not even mentioned the Balkan Wars in living memory, instead claiming that World War I was a 'surprise', all the while quietly ignoring that WWI itself started too early.
at the end of his final talk he said of the gb: they are telling the higher ups , "start getting ready we're not going to be around much longer!
" and we expect the angels to release the four winds any day now!
" my first thought was why are you building a corporate country club then?!
CrimsonAshes:
Looks like it could be true..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2774285/I-ll-silence-preachers-hate-vows-May-Home-Secretary-ban-extremists-speaking-public-spreading-poison-social-media.html
Ah... the Daily Mail. But did it appear in any real newspapers?
at the end of his final talk he said of the gb: they are telling the higher ups , "start getting ready we're not going to be around much longer!
" and we expect the angels to release the four winds any day now!
" my first thought was why are you building a corporate country club then?!
Keep in mind, October is a magical month in JW superstitions.
from an email i received of a conversation had with people from patterson:.
it seems that the wts legal dept.
has been working with the fb [facebook] legal dept for about a year and also with youtube whoever they are, to enforce transparency.
The claims in the e-mail sound like complete nonsense. There is no reason why Facebook and YouTube would 'co-operate' with the Watch Tower Society merely on the basis of people posting things Watch Tower 'doesn't like'. And there is no basis for claiming that JW elders would be allowed to 'count time' for following up on 'deviant' members.
my son and i were discussing this yesterday over coffee.
since the wt society in previous years virtually demonized going on the internet at all for jw's - now wt leaders are doing a complete turn around or about face probably so as to " compete " or keep up with all the anti-jw websites that are out there to give the wt society point of view.. however- it very well may backfire on them as once people start doing google searches looking for jw.org it will bring up all the other websites dealing with any jw issues and in the privacy of their own homes out of curiosity i'm sure lots of jw's are going to want to check out some of these sites to see what all the " apostate " hoopla is all about.
i wonder how many jw's will do this and will it have an effect in opening more minds to other views ?
Outlaw:
The WBT$ Intends on Becoming an Internet Provider..
baltar447:
Outlaw, you're really putting the tinfoil hat on with the ISP thing lol. No way they can afford to do that. It's probably some deal to cheapen their own infrastructure costs.
The documentation in question indicates that Watch Tower is acquiring a telecommunications company for the purposes of providing phone and data services for their new headquarters. There is no indication of a broader ISP arrangement.
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2006/109/spirit-rock-growth.htm.
sometimes it seems like the really cool stuff on mars is always in the distance.
maybe martian celts built it.
Looks more like a single rock with a rough surface. Putting the picture next to something that is superficially visually similar is not a valid means of identification.
this is the daughter that told me she will never shunn me.. this is the daughter that told me dad, i pray one day you.
will be sitting with us (her family) in the assembly, that one.
day i will come back.. it was a $100.00 check with big bold letters "love you"... i'm going to frame it, she knows i don't need it..she is.
jgnat:
Let her know you framed it. That way you satisfy the wife (the money stays in their pockets) and you have a permanent reminder of her generosity and love.
