Oh, I misunderstood. Thought you were saying, that they said, this pre-1914 group was never anointed at all. Gotcha' now!
Thanks for sharing, I can appreciate how rough it is to sit through all that BS, and your notes help me in dealing with family still in.
~Sue
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District Convention ruminations
by sir82 inif y'all can stand one more dc thread, i thought i'd post some miscellaneous rumbling ramblings about this year's edition.. to protect my privacy, i'd prefer not to disclose the location - pm me if interested.. ***** attendance, as in all other years i can remember, was much lower on friday than the other days.
in fact, the attendance was 22% lower on friday than on sunday.
so, as usual, they hammered home the point about the importance of attending all 3 days....on friday!
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District Convention ruminations
by sir82 inif y'all can stand one more dc thread, i thought i'd post some miscellaneous rumbling ramblings about this year's edition.. to protect my privacy, i'd prefer not to disclose the location - pm me if interested.. ***** attendance, as in all other years i can remember, was much lower on friday than the other days.
in fact, the attendance was 22% lower on friday than on sunday.
so, as usual, they hammered home the point about the importance of attending all 3 days....on friday!
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This "generation" is NOT all anointed Christians since 33 CE, but instead all anointed Christians since 1914.
WOW.
So what were all 100+ thousand faithful, now-non-anointed Christians prior to 1914?
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Why We Suffer: reading suggestion
by behemot injust finished reading this book, which i found very insightful:.
http://www.amazon.com/gods-problem-answer-important-question-why/dp/0061173975.
anyone read it?.
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No, but thanks for mentioning it!
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God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer
by Bart D. Ehrman
In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly, though, the Bible does not have one answer but many "answers" that often contradict one another. Consider these competing explanations for suffering put forth by various biblical writers:
• The prophets: suffering is a punishment for sin
• The book of Job, which offers two different answers: suffering is a test, and you will be rewarded later for passing it; and suffering is beyond comprehension, since we are just human beings and God, after all, is God
• Ecclesiastes: suffering is the nature of things, so just accept it
• All apocalyptic texts in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament: God will eventually make right all that is wrong with the world
For renowned Bible scholar Bart Ehrman, the question of why there is so much suffering in the world is more than a haunting thought. Ehrman's inability to reconcile the claims of faith with the facts of real life led the former pastor of the Princeton Baptist Church to reject Christianity.
In God's Problem, Ehrman discusses his personal anguish upon discovering the Bible's contradictory explanations for suffering and invites all people of faith—or no faith—to confront their deepest questions about how God engages the world and each of us. -
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Theocratic Lurker spies
by vikesgirl101 ini have read a few threads that speak of lurking spies for the jw that watch this website.
is this true?
i really don't have a problem with that, but to me it appears entirely sacreligious from what they preach.
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The Internet is their worst nightmare, exposing their criminal behavior. They cannot afford to ignore sites such as this.
Watchtower leaders might be like the Orthodox Jews who hire a non-Jewish shabbos goy to flip their light switches and flush their toilets during the weekly Sabbath.
They would never taint themselves personally reading here, but what's to stop them paying worldly "bird food" people to do their dirty work? If their scummy lawyers are worth their salt, ex-Witness sites are being surveiled.
The Governing Body puppet dictators could rationalize it as a "safety precaution" the same way the United Nations debacle was "just a library card."
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I have turkey meat slices. What should I eat with it?
by asilentone ini want to thank you in advance for your suggestions.
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Whole grain bread, honey mustard dressing, a little smoked gouda and lots of arugula.
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The Good , The Bad & The Ugly
by Blithe Freshman inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3gp7b8wc4q.
sorry i couldn't get it to embed.
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Michael Jackson is Dead!
by slimboyfat insomeone else posted on another forum they heard on the radio michael jackson is dead.
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For the Jackson family — Jehovah's Witness or otherwise — may you have peace.
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"Apostates can only criticize , tear down and destroy "
by BluesBrother in"apostates can only criticize , tear down and destroy " say the active dubs, "where is their hope of something better?
what is their message to mankind ?
if they have nothing better to offer, how can they attack our faith, which at least offers a hope of a better world?".
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Excellent post!
But there is no coordination, no chain of command , no unified plan of attack.
Right, but can we still use the secret handshakes?I was already lurking here, seeding my bible Watchtower publication study with what I was learning, and no, I was not receiving "satisfying answers" to my many well-researched questions.
So I had a brother explain talk down to me about avoiding those wicked apostate websites, all they did was spew vicious lies... and thought, "How could you know, unless you read them!"
And I don't for one moment think he that he did, he was brainwashed from birth. Following "The Party" line for JWs is worship through fear, not faith. Sad.
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Name Things JWs Believe That Are Not Actually Biblically Provable
by minimus inhere's one example: being a congregation publisher.
nowhere in the bible does it say you should be a "publisher" and turn in your time if you preach.
they try to twist the scriptures by saying that numbers are constantly being recorded in the bible so then conforming to the rules of being a publisher is from the scriptures.. yeah, right..
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Baptizing minors.
Disfellowshipping minors.
Shunning minors.
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My Project
by snowbird inok, maybe endeavor would be a better choice of words, but here goes.. this past year, both my daughters have given me some good smelling perfume - about 8 bottles, in fact.
it's too hot down here to wear perfume, so i've come up with what i hope is a good solution.. last saturday, i bought a corked container at the goodwill store for about $1.. i'm going to pry the atomizer off the bottles of perfume, pour the perfume into that container, and re-cork it.. when i take a bath, i will add a few drops of the perfume to my water, and i should emerge smelling like a rose!.
sylvia.
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That's a great thought, Sue, but I've opened and used all of them.
Alrighty then, enjoy them in good health!Luxuriate.....please, please don't experiment, but enjoy, enjoy, most women never have real perfume in their lives. What darling daughters you must have!
~Sue