Posts by careful

If we may stay with info within the early part of Genesis itself (not later interpretations or modern feelings), the fact that the phrase "in his likeness/image" next occurs at Gen. 5:1 and 3 when Adam fathers a son in his likeness/image likely shows how the Hebrews responsible for writings Genesis meant the phrase to be understood in both places: parentally.

I try to read and understand scripture as divorced from modern thinking as possible, and as close to its original context as possible. After all, we are talking about ancient documents from a culture far removed from modern Western civilization. I hope this helps.

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Commentary To Revelation

by Kosonen in

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hello, i have made a commentary to revelation chapters 1 to 22.. you can find that at my youtube channel in separate videos or by downloading an mp3 file for the whole thing from the link in the description in the video below.

the mp3 file is 1 hour and 23 minutes long and i have used an ia voice reader to record it all.

it reads so much better than me.

careful

Have you considered checking out reality? You might find it a refreshing change.

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What happened to Juan Viejo2?

by careful in

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he used to make such interesting comments and reports here, but his last post was 3 years ago.

see the final post in this thread:.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5767560678080512/dubs-going-back-kh-again-covid-19?page=2.

careful

He used to make such interesting comments and reports here, but his last post was 3 years ago. See the final post in this thread:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5767560678080512/dubs-going-back-kh-again-covid-19?page=2

Is he still alive? Engaged with the community somewhere else? Anyone know?

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Visited the Russell gravesite yesterday

by dropoffyourkeylee in

wife and i visited the russell gravesite in allegheny (pittsburgh) pennsylvania yesterday.

i’ll post photos if i can get them to upload on the hotel wifi..

careful

Thanks, dropoffyourkeylee, for starting this thread and your recent pics, and truth seeker, for the old pics and updates. I remember visiting there many years ago when the pyramid was there. I don't suppose the local police have investigated the supposed vandalism? Doubtless they have more important matters to investigate.

The bird turd on the top of the pyramid is funny, eh?

dropoffyourkeylee & NotFormer, spot on! History is usually quite important—at least for insightful people.

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Article - New Zealand: Jehovah's Witnesses lose last ditch court case over abuse in care report

by AndersonsInfo in

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522908/jehovah-s-witnesses-lose-last-ditch-court-case-over-abuse-in-care-report?fbclid=iwzxh0bgnhzw0cmteaar1g3qvzxlojo2szcm6xlsf2tsc_0rehd4dp4i6rda6zxafplc_v2hzvvf4_aem_pztghhvtf5to8qsjtv3m0g.

july 23, 2024. jehovah's witnesses lose last ditch court case over abuse in care report.

jehovah's witnesses have failed in an eleventh hour attempt to block part of a lengthy report about abuse in care that is about them.. .

careful

Is it just me and my misperceptions or are the GB so hell bent on keeping all this stuff hidden just to save face among non-Witnesses (like the justice/judge implied), that is, among "worldlings"? A PR concern?

Or are they really more afraid that R&F faithful Witnesses will find out that the org leadership is not as squeaky clean as they have put forth for decades now? Aren't they more concerned that their "always right, even when non-believers would say wrong" façade will begin to crumble?

Why else would they be investing a million bucks in futilely trying to stop the report?

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Apostates are still public enemy number one - WATCHTOWER August 2024

by raymond frantz in

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https://youtu.be/rqyqibpnuos?si=zayoa2c-zvmj9_br.

under the theme "help for those who are removed from the congregation" study article 35 in august 2024 wafchtower that deals with the many changes the organization introduced recenly we specifically look into paragraphs 14 and 15 that deal with the way that we now treat disfellowshipped ones, or more accurately removed ones , since this is the new term.

and see how they still try to micromanage their members down to the finest detail and how still apostates and more accurately active apostates are public enemy number one.

careful

SBF: I'll believe that only when I see it.

You predicted certain things before on the forum that never came to pass, like the org's complete fall. Are you engaging in wishful thinking again? After all, the Pope might convert to Islam tomorrow at 2:00 PM GMT.

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JW Ranking System

by NotFormer in

it's fairly evident to little old outsider me that the organisation has a class system, perhaps even a caste system.. from what i've read, there seems to not only be an official ranking system (m.s., elder, c.o.

) but an unofficial one.

has anyone ever sat down to figure out what the unofficial ranks are and how they affect the pecking order?

careful

Earnest: "I can only speak of the congregation I attended at the time, but they were all elderly people and were treated with respect but nothing more."

My experiences were quite different. If someone from outside of the cong. was going to meet one of the professed anointed old timers, there was plenty of pre-discussion of the sort that no one else got. In one cong. one bro. on the BOE was professed anointed and he was regularly deferred to by all, not just at Memorial time. In another cong. I attended for one summer in the 1970s there was an old elder ("other sheep") who told me about a younger bro. who had begun partaking of the emblems. The elder thought it was terrible "since being of the real anointed is such a sacred thing." He felt this young bro. was blaspheming—no joke. He probably would have brought up judicial charges on him if he could have! Naturally he put those he felt were really anointed (pre-1935 baptism criterion at that time) on quite a pedestal.

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Interesting that the other cult-cousins are going thru nearly identical hemmoraging of members.....

by WingCommander in

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i still read on reddit.

(though no longer post) occasionally, i'll venture over to the ex-seventh day adventist (sda) sub and catch up a bit.

it's been a long time.

careful

Some examples from non-Witness land:

https://currentpub.com/2024/03/05/big-changes-at-trinity-international-university-trinity-evangelical-divinity-school-and-the-evangelical-free-church/

https://kanahoma.substack.com/p/the-christian-college-crisis

https://www.sdpb.org/education/2023-01-23/longterm-issues-to-close-doors-at-presentation-college

https://cincyjewfolk.com/2024/04/19/how-to-close-a-campus-huc-jir-bleeds-money-while-cincinnati-pays-the-price/

The church/synagogue/congregation members are simply not there to financially support the old program anymore. The youth are leaving; older ones are dying off; their worlds are shrinking.