Personally, I think the best parody of Brother Lett is from "BROTHER LETT."
He's like Jack Nicholson playing Jim Carrey who is playing Mister Rogers.
even if someone may have posted this, it's worth another post.. hilarious parody.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kvrqwwgnq&feature=youtu.be.
Personally, I think the best parody of Brother Lett is from "BROTHER LETT."
He's like Jack Nicholson playing Jim Carrey who is playing Mister Rogers.
even if someone may have posted this, it's worth another post.. hilarious parody.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kvrqwwgnq&feature=youtu.be.
Even if someone may have posted this, it's worth another post.
Hilarious parody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-kvrqwWGnQ&feature=youtu.be
even if you don't regard yourself as a practicing jw, some may view you simply as inactive, a lost sheep, etc.. if you were baptized but not disfellowshipped or disassociated, you may still be a jw---right?
your thoughts please..
I am technically a JW in an inactive state, but that's because of their shunning rules.
But if that's what they force me to do, I will live with that.
can anyone recommend which steve hassan book to read, i see there are 3.. my mind is all over the place during this process of finally acknowledging and researching my doubts, ive been recommended his books on here, but which one is best?.
The third is like a merger of the first two. For the sake of saving money, it could be read online instead of the other two, but I much prefer the first two.
I felt that COMBATTING was better for my personal freedom of mind and that RELEASING was better for helping someone else.
bullet point #13 is what they want to focus on .
7. construction servant ............................................................................................................................ par.
11. kingdom hall maintenance ............................................................................................................... par.
i don't believe for a second that the wts can be god's chosen organization, if he does have an earthly one, especially one with such a hypocritical past.
but the question begs; why are there people professing having the heavenly calling usually found in the wts?.
does anyone know or have heard of other denominations having the genuine heavenly calling?.
Most "anointed" Christians (or those with the calling) are simply overzealous and dealing with some kind of cognitive dissonance. It may seem "crazy" to many of us, but they seem to be fully functional people. But there are some crazy ones mixed in, too.
Top Ten Signs That Your Christianity is Conflicting With Your Sanity1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
if we are in the congregation, do you think our comments or questions actually reach elders or others in the congregation?
do our comments on this board affect witnesses to the point of questioning their faith?
I had wanted to start a thread like this one, but found that Min's thread was current. You all know how my greatest quality is humility, but I have to toot my own horn to make this point.
I mostly post on this forum for self-therapy. (Apparently, I still need quite a bit.) Recently, another fader said this to me in a text:
"Just wanted to remind you to keep it up! You're more help to more people than you realize."
That fader couldn't really know how "more people" are helped, but it indicated that I've helped make a difference in one person's life.
I wrote a book for my own therapy, and it greatly helped me. I self-published it on Amazon secretly (http://www.amazon.com/Fade-Truth-Learning-Unlearning-Witnesses/dp/147523001X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432912259&sr=1-1&keywords=Fade+from+the+truth ) because my JW wife was too highly upset by the idea of me actually putting such a book on the shelf in Barnes and Noble. The reason I put it on Amazon was to help even one person. I set the price as low as could be because it wasn't about money. I think I made $400 in the years it's been available.
Anyway, I have met more than one person who thanked me and said it made a difference to them.
If not for these people, I wouldn't have thought I was making a difference.
so, i was thinking - who of the above still has the most influence on current wts doctrine and dogma?.
rutherford obviously created the smokescreen around 1914/607 but overall his work has been superseded i would suggest.. knorr created the various schools and they or their offspring still live on.
wasn't it during his tenure that all the blood doctrine, types/anti types (now chucked away of course), transplants etc came along?
Rutherford turned Watchtower from a fringe belief to a serious business and used Fred Franz' strange writings, then Knorr fine-tuned the idea of "publishers" and was all about efficiency while he was using Fred Franz' strange writings. Fred Franz is virtually single-handedly responsible for keeping the "generation of 1914" alive for so long and including 1975 and "the 20th-Century." While there's nothing spectacular about Fred's presidency itself, it seems he was rewarded for his long years as the oracle with that title, and others saw the need to make a "Governing Body" and take away the all-encompassing power of the single leader. Also, Fred being there, further reward for his long years got Ray Franz onto the GB.
Ray is responsible for revealing more things about the GB than anyone else, responsible for more people waking up, and his situation is more of a reason why GB 1.0 turned further toward harshness and shunning.
Such a combination gets us to today's GB 2.0. So it's gotta be Fred who is most responsible for "process" now. And while his take on doctrines is pretty much dead now, GB 2.0 is having to deal with long-held Freddy writings in morphing WTS into something else. So Fred is still most responsible for doctrine.
threads on the newer jw face of public "witnessing" have shared in common the astonishment that jws safely park themselves behind their literature trolleys and exercise incredibly little contact with passersby.
whether the poster is talking about europe or the united states or australia, descriptions here are the same.. literature stands are protective sheilds behind which jws huddle, talking to each other, sipping on their espressos, whilst the disinterested world passes by.
neither the jws nor the passersby catch each others eyes.
Cell phone providers set up tents. Even though they have a free product that people want, they have learned that the prominent word needs to be "FREE."
I tell you what, though. I am glad it wasn't so easy when I left. I doubt it, but I might have stayed.
watchtower september 2015 study edition, "stand firm in the faith," paragraphs 16 and 17:.
following jesus example, we must read the bible daily, study it, and meditate on what we learn.
along with general bible study, dig into topics about which you may have questions.. you can imitate jesus by meditating on the wonderful promises jehovah has made to you.