hi folks,.
i have a difficult dilemma.
since i'm not pioneering any more, i'm reducing my hours wasted at that artifact known as cart or trolley.
If you're in the USA, you could grow a beard! Of course, that might be a problem with the family too.
But your comment is revealing on one point: back when those carts first appeared, it was only pioneers and other "highly privileged ones" who could work them. So now it's just about anyone???
and it is ... why do most at the hall prefer to sit at the back and leave front rows empty?.
In addition to the comments above:
1. Less visibility. If you sit in the front, people behind you can see your every move. What little privacy JWs have can be better preserved is you sit in the back.
2. If you want to duck outside for a breather, it's easier done from the rear.
hey everyone.
so this is what 10 years out feels like.
employed, paying bills, and watching the slow demise of planet earth.
Thanks for stopping in ATJ. I've enjoyed your posts from the past, and thanks for your comments on my post re: the current Gilead (or whatever it's called now) curriculum. You may well be right about Jackson et al. wanting to quietly do away with the type/anti-type stuff of FF. Now there is nothing of depth at all.
It really is remarkable how much has changed in the last decade or so within the org. ANYTHING of depth seems to be gone.
i cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.
are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.
Do they all collect money?
As for the resurrection, while some believers, of course, ≠ a denomination, there is this:
and the idea is dropping in belief in the USA:
forgive me if this has already been posted.
i laughed when i saw it and figured others might enjoy it as well.. .
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Forgive me if this has already been posted. I laughed when I saw it and figured others might enjoy it as well.
after we heard some time ago that before the time of russel there was no "faitful slave" or no anointed ones who formed a faitful slave class, now we learn that we dont know if before russel there were not "faitful ones" or "anointed".
indeed jackson says that we know the bible teaches that throughout the history there would be a large number of "sons of the kingdom" ..or anointed ones.. beginning from this month in several projects including a film about christian bible translators who gave an example of "faithfulness" and "discretness" in translating the bible, the christian bibletranslators and missionionaries who used "jehovah" by the way are receiving ultimate praise of the governing body, in the first place at the moment is shown the video about tyndale, wo so is very much supposedly a "faithful one" and perhaps even "anointed" because he loved the bible.. jackson says that those early missionaries of the christendom already "preached the message" before russell.
january broadcast.
This is part of the preparation for their new "Bible Museum" at Warwick. It's supposed to be some kind of collection of old looking Bible translations from the Protestant Reformation on. The translations are ones that used the name Jehovah somewhere in them. No doubt the faithful sheeple will visit the new exhibit and "ooh and ahh" over the old looking Bibles and feel the org has the truth all the more.
It seems a bit odd to me since the WT publications have long called the people at that time "unfaithful Christendom," a highly derogatory term as we all can remember. Maybe they are now giving some kind of exception to those who produced translations that had the sacred name as Jehovah in them (?). Their thinking: "They must have been okay because they used Jehovah." Or evidently, more than okay, even "anointed"? In the Witness world, there can be no greater approval than calling a person "anointed."
please note that this post links to websites that are in spanish, if that's a problem, please do not click on the links!.
it is now just over two years since the wt send the now infamous 17 september 2014 letter regarding the programme of building kingdom halls to all congregations in spain.
(letter page one / letter page two).
One cannot help but think of slimboyfat's observation that the number of congregations, not publishers, is the true measure of a religion's growth or decrease. If applied here, it shows things are not looking good in Spain for the WTS.
some years back alltimejeff reported on what gilead's curriculum was like from a guy who had gone thru it.
it was detailed and enlightening for those of us in the dark.
(hey, atj, are you still checking in here?).
Thanks, blondie. So I guess nobody here has experienced the recent curriculum. Therefore, we cannot get a report of what it is now like such as ATJ gave us. I can see one big difference now: ATJ reported that it was mainly on type/anti-type prophetic fulfillments. Since this has now been rejected, with nothing to fill the theological void, it's not being taught at the current Gilead. I'm still wondering what the sisters do there (?). Surely they are not privy to the heavy administrative hoopla that seems to be the emphasis now.
some years back alltimejeff reported on what gilead's curriculum was like from a guy who had gone thru it.
it was detailed and enlightening for those of us in the dark.
(hey, atj, are you still checking in here?).
SBF
What year was Gilead downgraded?
I don't know. Obviously they haven't trumpeted it, so they want to downplay the whole thing. By my post I was hoping to get some info on this now dark subject. Gilead used to be such a huge deal. Then it suddenly went off the radar. Thanks for the refs in the old and new ybs.
about this time last year i uploaded a document as part of my going away post.. as stated at the time i had to lie low, and am still doing so.
sort of.
mostly.i pop up rarely to chip in when my 'ardour comes up into my nose' about something lol, but still read the leaks and back-and-forth between the members here.
Splash, good to see you back here. I'm glad your break was not permanent. As always, thanks for your update and work.
