many ass kissers would put their name down so they could have him over for dinner......"okay now, they can't eat milk products,red meat, white meat, flour, sugar, salt, water...." .
Since the weather is generally good in San Diego, we'd never get any C.O. younger than 50. I never had a problem with any of them; some were pretty funny and reasonably down to earth. I never had a problem with any of them. Maybe you guys got all the "I'm so awesome" younger C.O.s?
And to address the topic, I didn't treat any of them like gods. I did look up to them, though.
from where we are in phoenix, it was barely detectable.
a neighbor said he felt his bed move.
i was sitting in a chair and felt like i was back on the cruise ship in wavy water.
That was a very interesting experience! I love how we're just so nonchalant about earthquakes.
have the faithful and discreet slave been replaced (quietly and surreptitiously) by the governing body?.
doctrinally, has there been a subtle shift?.
with the internet and apostate information sites up in proliferation would it not be tactically correct to shift emphasis away.
I always hated the phrase "the Faithful Slave and its representative governing body." It's misleading because they have never represented any group of people.
A representative in Congress is--in theory--supposed to represent you and the people in the district when dealing with national affairs. If I want to write to my representative, which happens to be Susan A. Davis, I can. In the California state legislature I can write to Lori Saldaña. The bottom line is that with representation comes accountability because I can vote against my representative during re-election if I do not approve of the work my representative is doing.
Do anointed members have this ability? Of course not. The Watchtower throws in the strawman argument that "not everyone makes decisions," which is the same scenario in the state legislature or in congress. I don't get to vote on bills and then send my decision to Susan Davis for her to follow. But I do have the ability to tell her how I think she should vote on something. Or I can voice my displeasure with her voting record. If enough constituents don't like her, out she goes.
So now the question is, are these governing body members accountable to the anointed class? If I were anointed, could I write Ted Jaracz and tell him how I think he should vote on a certain issue? Upon that rhetorical question the myth of representation is slain. We don't know what goes on in those weekly GB sessions. There's no transparency. We don't know who voted on what issue. And there's no voting anyone out because the appointments--chosen from within--are for life.
Furthermore, how is anyone to be represented when they aren't even properly accounted for? Allow me to return to the comparison with Congressional representation. Based on my voter registration (which I finally had the testicular fortitude to submit last year), I can only vote on the incumbent or challenger(s) for my particular district. I can't vote on another state's representatives. Now think of the anointed: who are they? Besides a head count after every memorial, what data are there about them? Is there an official list of partakers? Of course there isn't an official list; to have one would expose the literal 144,000 doctrine as false. The end result is a faceless sea of partakers which will keep growing, thanks to "new light" on the 1935 cutoff date. Members of this group have tried to influence doctrine, but were flatly denied consideration, despite claimed anointed status.
The Watchtower Society is a totalitarian state. Since when did totalitarain states make themselves accountable to the governed?
is there anyone here from san diego or the surrounding areas?
i'm from east county and da'd about a year ago.
i was just curious as to how many from san diego frequent this site.. pvt81.
SirNose is in San Diego.
Indeed. You on Facebook, Piercingtheveil81?
i wonder what's been going on to cause this.. this is the second time it's gone down in the last week or so..
The new channel design wasn't too bad, but I don't like this new video format.
almost anyone who has ever attended the jw annual commemoration of the "lord's evening meal" (memorial) has heard the term "equinox" at least once.
the term is important to jws because they use the vernal equinox in attempting to set the correct date for this event.
despite how important it seems to be though, when jw literature explains the term, it is usually wrong.
Whoa, I'll be sure not to misinform anyone else. I was under the assumption that equinox meant equal parts day and night.
this afternoon my wife received aphone call from an old elder friend, she was quite surprised.. we da'd ourselves a little over a year ago.. he basically invited us to the memorial on tuesday night, and he went into some story about how many people in the hall.
are inactive/da'd/ df'd.
and he launched into some info.
from the CO about how the society is implementing some new
"programs" to help ones who are not attending the meetings.
My take is, prepare to be underwhelmed. I'm guessing the program is asking the brown-nosiest pioneer to give inactive people a call.
memorial posts must be a dime a dozen right now, but i'm hoping this one's at least quarter-worthy.. jehovah's witnesses teach that only those of the anointed, the 144,000, are entitled to partake of the bread and wine at the annual memorial of christ's death.
because only the 144,000 are part of the 'new covenant', thus going to heaven to rule with christ.
the great crowd merely attends as 'observers' of this event.. is there any scripture in the bible that refers to any group of people 'observing' the lord's evening meal without eating it?
Wrong date? What's that about?
Some years ago I noted that Jews celebrate seder one day earlier than the JWs do. I was a bit confused by this but ultimately paid it no mind. Since the JWs claim to adhere to Nisan 14, I always wondered why they didn't do it as the same time as the Jews. Right now all the Jews are gettin' down to Passover town!
for the last 13 years, we haven't attended and didn't even care about it.
but since we became card carrying members of jwn in september, we have an interest in what are friends here on jwn are doing.. for us?
we will be watching 'dancing with the stars'.
Karaoke at a cowboy bar! Yeeeehaw!!
per a "top secret, confidential, burn this after you read it" letter to all boes, dated march 2, 2010, but not read in our congregation until this past week:.
new "kingdom ministry" school for all elders and ministerial servants, to be held (in the us anyway) between november 2010 and january 2011.. 6 hours of jaw dropping tedium instruction for ms, 9 for elders.
ms session to be held on a sunday, elders on friday and saturday.. the "super secret surprise", for elders only: a new textbook will be released to be studied at this "school".
It will be all blank pages so that all notes we will be hand written during the training school. God I'm so glad I am not an elder anymore. The training schools were complete tedium.
Anyway - please scan and post online when you get it.
I think you might be right! The smartest thing they did was to not print the really controversial stuff.
