Posts by dozy

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14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

by jojorabbit in

another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

dozy

People look for solutions , but really there isn't any in this situation. You have a country that is already saturated with guns and a weird ( from a foreigner's perspective ) sense of entitlement and glorification of guns among a significant majority. Link it with the proliferation of "shooter" computer games ( which desensitises the action) and it is a truly lethal combination.

These kind of incidents are simply going to repeat constantly as there are always madmen / criminals around and the easily availability of guns means they can kill a lot of people in a short time and with the police being armed , they often guarantee their own death in a macabre murder / suicide death wish. Sadly it is something Americans just have to accept , and , in fact , incidents like this just increase the chance of copycat events.

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Oct 8 1966 Awake! PDF-- pushes 1975 date

by cabasilas in

details about how to download the october 8, 1966 awake!

magazine pdf will appear at the end of this post.

background.

dozy

There has been a degree of revisionism of the 1975 frenzy in recent times , culminating in an astonishingly misleading video on Jw dot org. which condemns "people who were looking to a certain date".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGs300U2FQE

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Does the WTS have a clergy class

by blondie in

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this can be confusing because the wts has adjusted from not having a clergy class to not having a "paid" clergy class.. "a congregation of brothers precludes having a proud clergy class that honors itself with high-sounding titles and elevates itself above a laity" wt 6/1/2001 p. 12, pp 11. still same idea in 2021 wt october, p. 20, pp.

7, but 2022 in the wt publication, frequently asked questions about jehovah’s witnesses, page 13, the wts inserts "paid" in front of "clergy perhaps to shore up their current statement in secular courts they have clergy, just not paid) "following the model of first-century christianity, jehovah’s witnesses have no clergy-laity division.

all baptized witnesses are ordained ministers and share in the preaching and teaching work.

dozy

A Watchtower attorney by the name of Calvin Rouse ( in the Menlo Park case , where the Society were attempting to establish their ownership of a Kingdom Hall ) told a judge: “We are a hierarchical religion just like the Catholic Church.”

The idea that they "aren't paid so we are different" always sounded to me a bit weak even when I was an active JW and I would have struggled to defend it if questioned. The GB are always dressed well and (it would seem) have more than sufficient disposable income if required ( for whisky purchases , for example!) But also - if all your food , accommodation , travel costs , vehicle , laundry , cleaning , vacation costs , healthcare - indeed , every expense is paid for and every service is provided free of charge - what difference in practice does that make from being paid by an organisation? The distinction seems a bit spurious , to me. Indeed - in many ways , it is better than being paid.

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Watchtower Jul 22 - Jesus directed the GB on how to deal with Covid

by Listener in

14 jesus provides wise direction in times of crisis.

the benefits of that direction were evident when the covid-19 pandemic broke out.

while many in the world were uncertain about what course to take, jesus made sure that we received clear guidance to keep us safe.

dozy

Just for comparison , below is a link to the Church of England's guidelines. ( They are , according to the Society , directed by Satan the Devil. ) I honestly don't see anything different in the way that the Watchtower Society has directed matters that shows any specific direction from Jesus. If anything , the Church of England seems a lot more organised in terms of available material - I see nothing similar on the JW dot Org website.

https://www.churchofengland.org/resources/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance#na

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Jehovah's Witnesses: remembering the weird and wacky!

by Vanderhoven7 in

do you remember some of the weird and wacky stuff emanating from the watchtower society?

let's make a list from memory that we can use to inject a little humor into our discussions with jehovah's witnesses.

- venus may be an enormous jurassic park.. - germs don't cause disease.. - no beards allowed.

dozy

The change of thought in 2009 that all unborn babies who died might get a resurrection. My JW sister-in-law , who has had several miscarriages , finds this appealing but when you actually think through the concept and look at the figures , it is a crazy concept.

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I'm Back--Blondie

by blondie in

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yes, i am posting again.

i could not for awhile technologically and it is now fixed thanks to simon.

thanks, simon!

dozy

Wow welcome back Blondie - a true JW.net /JW.com legend! Always used to enjoy your Watchtower dissections.

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4 New GB Helpers

by Reservations in

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apparently 4 new gb helpers as per reddit.

1) paul gillies.

2) johnathan smith.

dozy

Gillies just seems a rather uninspiring brown nosing company man. I guess that is the main qualification for progress through the upper echelons of the Org. He is really exceptionally dull and uninspiring , with no noticeable empathy or warmth though - with a manner like a junior Edinburgh lawyer - I don't know how well he would be in front of the cameras of JW Broadcasting.

If he does eventually become appointed ( albeit he must be in his mid 60's by now , so upper age limit for such as post ) , he would be the first British (and first Scot) to be appointed to the GB since Jack Barr (died - oops , sorry , ended his earthly course - 2010 ).

I hate to be cynical, but I just wonder how genuine these sudden claims ( in their middle age ) to be anointed are from obviously ambitious men who clearly have their hearts set on becoming GB members.

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ENOCH & the Watchtower Society

by Honesty in

genesis 5.

5 so all the days of adam that he lived amounted to nine hundred and thirty years and he died.

8 so all the days of seth amounted to nine hundred and twelve years and he died.

dozy

According to the JWs Enoch was a righteous man, and other violent people wanted to kill him. To prevent this from happening God killed Enoch himself.

Sounds familiar. According to the Society , the world is so wicked that God decides to end the wickedness by killing over 99.9% of the earth's population including women , children and new born babies. Ditto the flood ( with the particular irony that the supposed bad guys actually survived. )

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May 2022 Study Watchtower - FAKE prophecy again for JW's

by BoogerMan in

may 2022 study watchtower page 6, par.

5 “satan instigated an attack on the anointed brothers who were taking the lead in the kingdom-preaching work.

prominent ones among them were the figurative “two witnesses” spoken of as being killed.”.

dozy

Fredrick Franz did notice the discrepancy, so in a footnote to the "Revelation"-book

There was much debate as to how involved the (then) 95 year old Franz had in writing the book.

Although pretty senile by then , it is possible that Franz did have some input - notably after he died , the Climax book was substantially revised (we all remember the long list of changes to the book before it was studied for a third time.) His superb expertise in numerous languages , such as biblical Greek , would doubtless have been helpful to the writing committee.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

dozy

Is his final "confessional" livestream still up on Youtube? I was looking for it the other day but couldn't see it. Admittedly , it was a bit of a car crash.