Posts by humbled

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The Watchtower: Does This Game Of Jenga Ever End?

by metatron in

jw
friends

there are a great many fine posts here - and some from 8 years back - detailing how apathetic and perfunctory the organization has become.. and yet, it still stands, doesn't it?.

is there any point to be reached in this apparent 'experiment in sociology' in which they wake up and say 'screw this?

' if they crammed 10 congregations into one hall and stole the money, would any witnesses wake up?

humbled

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The WT has a feature that makes it certain that there will always be some faithful adherents. What other religion has completely segregated the cult object from the common worshipper?

God and Jesus are made remote and unknowable by design. And though some of us had doubts and left there will be others for whom here is no way to know or not-know God unless they are tuned in to the "Channel". These are so indoctrinated that they will never be able to examine their own experience and thoughts of whether God even exists or examine the scriptures with honesty.

They will die as martyrs by slow suffocation.

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Drinking and JWN

by BU2B in

jw
friends

i am drinking a japanese beer called kirin ichiban right now exploring the wonderful threads of the past here on jwn.

i love this forum so much.. how many here enjoy an adult beverage while browsing jwn?

i love all of you guys :).

humbled

I am a lousy typist so I can't drink my beer and type at the same time.

Which is a drag--because I at least fancy I can think when I'm drinking--something that I doubt otherwise.

Maeve-who-loves-her-beer

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Pioneering: How the GB shamelessly capitalizes on members' worldly desire for prominence.

by Island Man in

the bible likens the preaching work to a sacrifice of praise - praise to god.

pioneering is also a sacrifice that involves praise.

it's the sacrifice of a specified number of hours that wins you the praise of men.. when you really analyze the psychology of pioneering it is apparent that the praise of men or prominence before men is at the heart of it.

humbled

Good point, quelly. Anonymous like donations. Why not?

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Family Lost- Dealing with the "Inevitable"

by BLWashington in

so... recently lost my favorite aunt, mother of my favorite cousin- she was a "witness" when she died.

inactive, but still a witness.

who lived with my witness mother and stepdad.

humbled

NewYork44M,

I do think it's like that. You have already had to accept their loss. The grieving has past.

My clue was from my non-JW husband whose mother YEARS ago moved across the country to be near her only daughter and then dried up as far as her two sons and their families were concerned. She had so completely dried up that when my husband drove to California to help clear out her house (daughter had died), her neighbors were shocked to learn she had sons--she never mentioned them.

She had money to travel--the sons and families scraped to get by. She had her own world.

Theirs was a grief passed before she died.

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Israel ... Jehovah ... The Promised Land ... Genocide

by wannabefree in

this is a topic that i was always uncomfortable with, but, as a good indoctrinated jw got myself to accept the spin.

of course, now that i am out, when i speak with other "christian" friends, they make the same excuses.

god's ways are above our ways ... okay, sure ... but really???.

humbled

"Well-founded, cogent, true, admirable" is one of the several dictionary definitions for the word "good".

As I was scrolling down the thread i was glad to see ADCMS hold up Perry's insistence on finding a common ground for defining "God".

But there must be a shared definition of GOOD as well as GOD.

Do they fit together, Perry?

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Please write: show but not tell.

by compound complex in

greetings, fellow posters!.

movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

not so easily in writng.

humbled

Nancy-drew-pictures.^^^^^^^^ to show and not tell.

"Kickin' back in the sun in margaritaville--palmtrees and --where's my lime?"

Good times.

Rip, we'll write the body-snatchers out of the script and take back your writers' colony!

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Incomplete quote,, does it make any difference?

by jonahstourguide in

in the dec 15 2013 study article page 19 paragraph 10 a professor jonathan klawans is quoted.. i found the original quote here:.

exodus 12 commands the israelites to repeat this practice every year, performing the sacrifice during the day and then consuming it after the sun has set.

(according to jewish tradition, the new day begins with the setting of the sun, so the sacrifice is made on the 14th but the beginning of passover and the meal are actually on the 15th, although this sequence of dates is not specified in exodus.

humbled

Oubliette,

Your points above are clear-cut assessments. Either option damns the operation of Holy Spirit.

When I first sensed something of the same I couldn't understand it so well as you have put it here. My feeling of doubt began when I pondered a troubling OT episode that I had researched and wanted their considered opinion of it.

I knew a faithful old pioneer sister whose son was still on the writing commitee. I brought up my concern to her. She said casually--"Next time ____ calls, I will ask him about it."

Something didn't set right with me on this. But some weeks later she told me "I talked to _____ yesterday and he said that there was nothing about such-and-such in the literature."

And then it struck me that the swift-moving chariot was run by these human computer-bots. These questions or points that are submitted to the FaithfulDiscreetSlave are never examined by the Holy Spirit/God's channel. It was very, very troubling to me then.

This thread fleshes out the inherent flaws of the development of the literature.

Bad tree, bad fruit.

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Please write: show but not tell.

by compound complex in

greetings, fellow posters!.

movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

not so easily in writng.

humbled

Ha ha !! Bruja! you have a children's book!

English you second language?!!!!???

I'll tell you something about this morning (add to your story?)

Goldie has been showing them how to "scratch" for feed and so thoroughly has messed up the feed and water for this past week by throwing wood shavings around that----(wicked me) ---I put her out of the house :(

the chicks were dispondent. they cried. then were silent. They sat like stones.

I poured my coffee and felt like the sh*t I truly was.

Goldie would have none of it and had come up the steps. I heard here clucking at the door! My conscience made me open it. She didn't waste a glance at me and marched in. She forced me to open the lid of the chick house, passed in front of it twice and jumped to the rim and --PLOP! In she went---

You know the rest! You have it all now!

(shamme on me, I know)

If you draw--DO IT!

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