Posts by insearchoftruth

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WTF makes you annointed?

by gloobster in

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ok, so i have a serious question.

probably my first on here, but this has always bugged me, and i've never received a satisfactory answer.. how does someone become annointed?

when i was a child, my grandpa, who was an elder, told me that if you are of the annointed, you just know.

I have asked my wife and briefly her former pesky study sister about the anointed and the remnant and the sister was really unsure of the number....I think intentionally because she knows I am a numbers person. How could I approach a question on why the number of the remnant has been stable, in not even slightly increasing, lately.

The sister said that someone can lose the anointment if one is unfaithful, and if one loses their anointment, another anointed will fall in place (incorrect term, but you get the point). Remnant folks that pass away are immediately given their heavenly calling, if I remember correctly, and they are not replaced, since the total number of anointed includes those who have passed as well as the remnant, and this number is fixed at 144,000.

Also, what is the jw logic behind the number being literal and the stuff leading to the number, like the reference to 'those who have not defiled themselves with women', the tribes of Isreal (for the most part) among others being figurative??

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Just showing off

by purplesofa in

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jada marie, my little grand daughter!!!.

insearchoftruth

Thanks for sharing and quite adorable!!!!

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Thinking of an method to get my wife to think about the organization.......

by insearchoftruth in

am still trying to come to a course of action to deal with my wife and her renewed zeal for the wts.

one new detail that i find interesting is she was assigned a sister to study with and the gal called somewhat early yesterday morning and my wife chewed her up and told her she does not want to study with her, she want so study with sister whatever.

i am sure that the sister that called was somewhat taken aback by this.. i think a slant i may be able to use is the anointed/fds since my wife really did not know anything about this and especially since she gave me the phone when she was talking to the first sister she knows and i asked her some questions and she confirmed that they were one in the same as well as how people can fall from being anointed by not be 'faithful'.

insearchoftruth

Still looking for some input.....so bttt

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New here, but not to being an Ex-JW...

by amama2six in

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i just thought i'd briefly introduce myself.

my name is april, i am a navy wife and mother of six children, will be 30 next month, and have been disfellowshipped for almost 12 years.

i was also reproved two years prior to that.

insearchoftruth

Hey April, glad you are here!! thanks for the sharing, lots of great people (and often interesting opinions) here!!

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Image all important to WT

by Outaservice in

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i found it interesting in the july 1st watchtower (the public's edition) that in their introduction to the article 'coping with grief' they feature a scripture from gen. 37:35 and under it the caption, 'the holy bible-new international version'.. are they trying to show how reasonable they are to the public by refering to the niv instead of their biased new world translation?

also, in that same magazine in an article on 'tel arad', a place by the way, i have visited, it again mentions that......" the findings at tel arad cover a long period of bible history, ranging from the days of the judges of israel down to the babylonian invasion of judah in 607 b.c.e.

" the still cling to that date 607 in view of overwhelming evidence that they are 20 years off.

insearchoftruth

My wife is a history minor and I am trying to think of a way to fold the date issue into a discussion with her, but I need her to have a WT out, or maybe a looking through reasoning with the scriptures as a starting point. I think we have a few of her history books out and about that I could 'do some research from' to get this question going.

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Could you explain 1914?

by digderidoo in

1914 doctrine was a major thing to me at the time i was a witness, i loved explaining it and saying we had the truth.

but there were so many witnesses that couldn't explain it at the time and only had a basic concept as to how they came up with the date.

i wonder how many here could explain and understand this when they were a dub?

insearchoftruth

Sounds like a conversation my wife has with me when she is all 'culted up'.

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Thinking of an method to get my wife to think about the organization.......

by insearchoftruth in

am still trying to come to a course of action to deal with my wife and her renewed zeal for the wts.

one new detail that i find interesting is she was assigned a sister to study with and the gal called somewhat early yesterday morning and my wife chewed her up and told her she does not want to study with her, she want so study with sister whatever.

i am sure that the sister that called was somewhat taken aback by this.. i think a slant i may be able to use is the anointed/fds since my wife really did not know anything about this and especially since she gave me the phone when she was talking to the first sister she knows and i asked her some questions and she confirmed that they were one in the same as well as how people can fall from being anointed by not be 'faithful'.

insearchoftruth

Thanks for the clarification Aude, I don't think she knows the details, but don't want to provide incorrect info.

Good question about use of the NWT vice another translation, any thoughts? And is there any biblical reference/quote I can use to have her put away the jw pubs when she reads the bible....what are some things to be looking out for in the Insight book??

jwfacts is loaded with great information!!!

Appreciate it all, thanks and keep it coming!

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Witnesses are coming to stay with me during the Convention! Should I go?

by Witness 007 in

a witness family is staying with us next week for the convention!

brother x has been pressuring me to attend.

first i said i would go on sunday.....but he said he would love me to go all 3 days.

insearchoftruth

I agree with recording the goings on....I went on Saturday, you just can not make this stuff up..

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To Mrsjones5, Freudianslip, snowbird and other folks of color

by donny in

based on the material below from the faithful and discreet slave, i was wondering if any of you experienced any of this "enlightment" during your jw sojurn.

based on your pictures, i would have to say you must have been weak in the faith.

what is puzzling though, is why did michael jackson dissassociate himself just before reaching perfection?

insearchoftruth

Strange thread, but exposes just how ignorant and beyond belief some of the organization's teachings have been, and there are some today that continue to be pretty darn stupid as well.

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Need all of your imput now!!!!!!!!!

by tiffy0212 in

just got a call from a lady who informed me that her husband died.

very close friend of my mate.

memorial service is aug 2nd.

insearchoftruth

Good luck, wish you were not going through all that you are....I can relate on a very minor scale!