watchtower october 1, 1998, p. 14, par.
2. the coldhearted attitude of the pharisees constituted a crime against humanity and a sin against god.
(john 9:39-41) with good reason, jesus warned his disciples, "watch out for the leaven" of this elitist group and other religionists, such as the sadducees.
The Watchtower "study" is always: Paragraph read, Question asked, answer in harmony with the paragraph.
There is often room for personal comments, but are they allowed to be questions about understanding?
If it were truly a "study" similar to school courses, wouldn't the students be able to ask for clarification?
It's a "Reinforcement of Doctrine" session. Same with the Book Study.
that's right folks, the fds in convinced that we are so deep into the end of the system of things they feel it will happen at any moment.. it's funny that this should be taken serious since this sort of thing has been said many times in the past.
however, many of those at that meeting are so drawn in that they believe it as if they saw god himself speak it.. this came from someone who attended, perhaps someone else has direct quotes or other tidbits they can share with us.
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These guys have learned from the past that the bottom line depends on their being convinced that "the end is right around the corner." Plus, even GB members born after 1935 are getting up in age where they are not sacrificing an education, career, happy marriage, children in order to wait until the end arrives. I think this will largely be ignored, though.
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the men had to wear suits and the women.
I became a JW in Florida and I wore short-sleeve shirts with a tie and no jacket whenever it was hot. The brothers had no problem with it. I would conduct book studies w/o the jacket, and put it on if called upon at the KH to give a talk or handle a mic. I moved to Illinois and never changed. The elders knew that I was an elder before moving, so they never said anything. Many brothers were surprised (shocked is too strong) to see me get away with this. Apparently, the elders used to be very stuffy, the cong. got used to that, things never changed. So, many brothers started going out in service w/o a jacket, or taking it off at the hall more often. The elders never complained. They did have an unwritten "No braids" rule for sisters until an African sister with braids moved in and they decided not to counsel her, soon others were wearing braids.
My current cong. is very stiff about dress, but mostly just gossip and no real counsel. Since deciding to fade, but unknown to publishers, I have been able to put people in their place talking about Bible students in jeans or publishers going to the KH in various stages of casual. I really enjoyed telling them, SO WHAT? I started wearing khaki pants, with a shirt and tie, NO JACKET. As it gets cold, I will still do that, but carry a windbreaker or other non-suit jacket.
message: .
i was just told that the 2007 years text is (zephaniah 1:14) 14 the great day of jehovah is near.
it is near, and there is a hurrying [of it] very much.
he said since "the message" has gotten "harder" it's clear the end is so very close
Such JW crap. The message was probably much harder in the early years and in the 70's. I think what that means is that they have been trying to win people over with positive preaching. Since they aren't listening anyway, go back to a negative message. That will help the JW rank and file to feel like "the end is right around the corner."
I wonder if I can work the phrase, "the end is right around the corner" into every comment.
the next domino to fall in the society's muddled chronology-based teachings is very likely to be the concept that the "general call" for anointed members of the 144,000 ended in 1935, when the "great crowd" was identified.
after 2+ decades of seeing the number of "memorial partakers" hover in the mid-8000's, when actuarially speaking the number can't really be more than a few hundred at most, the society needs to do something (as in, change the teaching, just as the passing of time necessitated a change to the "1914 generation" teaching).. at our circuit assembly this past weekend, i heard something which makes me think the society may already be laying the groundwork for this "new light".
the public talk included "4 lines of evidence" that we are living in "the last days".
Maybe the GB can make some big to-do about travelling all over the world interviewing and meeting the FDS, secretly determining the ones they want to count, then control the numbers to suit their purposes. Can you imagine the green handshakes and the talk about how "the end must be around the corner" and the GB can honestly say, "We never claimed it was."
"need greaters" ugh!!
i hate that phrase and i always have.
we knew a jw couple who applied every year to bethel and giliad until the age cut-off (age 35 or 40?).
I said this before. IRREGULAR PUBLISHER makes me picture someone in need of a bowel movement.
name few words or expressions a normal person can say, but not a jw.. when someone sneezes, you can't say bless ya !.
if you want to surprise a jw, you can't say boo !!!
http://www.prankcallsunlimited.com/pcu/booecho.mp3.
I can think for myself.
An answer that disagrees with the one in the paragraph.
i don't really understand who really are the beneficial owners of the watchtower society and all its assets.. so i pose this question: if the watchtower society closed down tomorrow and all the assets were sold off, who would get the billions of dollars?
the wts shareholders??
or are there jw companies which are "owed" huge amounts by the society, and so all the cash would simply go to these "companies" to pay off the "debt"?.
...when the officers and lawyers of the WT see..."The End coming soon"...could they vote themselves enormous salaries and benefits ?
I would have to say yes. Could they move it to offshore accounts? Again- yes. This is illegal in the U.S. and that's why you do it.
Because of this thread, I wondered if they would ever consider transferring funds to a different non-prophet org. and give themselves big salaries, right before the lawsuits overwhelm the WTS.
I am technically an elder until later this week. Well, I resigned weeks ago, but my BOE was afraid to do anything without Mother's directions. They finally got permission to "delete" me.
name few words or expressions a normal person can say, but not a jw.. when someone sneezes, you can't say bless ya !.
if you want to surprise a jw, you can't say boo !!!
http://www.prankcallsunlimited.com/pcu/booecho.mp3.
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