there have been a number of posts made about the watchtower society closing or downsizing branch offices and i think the hard consequences of this desperate move have not been fully appreciated.. ok, so you have c.o.
's all over the place and who do they report to exactly?
i believe various brothers (and lawyers) have pointed out the danger of having a catholic style chain of command and centralized leadership.
Maybe they will just keep disfellowshipping everyone until there are only 2 elders left, and week after week they will sit there at the meetings and look at each other and think to themselves, "he who endures to the end is the ONE that will be saved....."
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as an african american associate of jehovah's witnesses (since the age of 5, actually i remember going to the kingdom hall as young as 3).
i've always wondered why most of the annointed were and are white.
i know there are a lot of white people on here so why is it that there are.
They're just a bunch of serious deluded white folks with Alzheimer's and really bad breath, who have been overcome by the Watchtower's idea of being "anointed". It isn't much different from Hitler's "Master Race", which he also got from the Bible.
Even if Revelation was a literal book, the qualifier for being "chosen" is to be decapitated for being a Christian, not spending a few decades running around with a book bag selling Watchtower rags in between really long coffee breaks. Aside from that, according to the Bible, no one is "chosen" yet, only "called". But of course, the New World Translation deletes that little tidbit.
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are demons big or little?
do they take up space?.
do they infest our cells and peer out like they are trapped inside a jelly bean?.
The Gnostic gospels that the Roman church did their best to destroy portray demons in quite a different light. According to them, the demons inside Mary Magdalene were egos, the constant chatter of those false identities that are constantly competing for control of our mind. There is no limit to how many there can be. The Dalai Lama said it could number in the thousands. It all depends on how badly we've been brainwashed by everything we're exposed to in this world. That's why in eastern philosophy it is stressed how important it is to quiet the mind during meditation in order to "hear" the Divine source within, otherwise known as "intuition". Satan can do NOTHING without human agents to work through. So just like God is within, Satan and the demons are within, and if people read the Bible with that in mind, it would make all the sense in the world and the book would actually be useful for something. A couple of examples, the Gnostic interpretation of the otherwise ridiculous Cain and Abel story is that Cain represents the egos and Abel is the Divine Inner Self. Jerusalem is the Holy Place which is within you, and the King of Babylon (Antichrist) who conquers and takes captive is the egos that put a person into exile away from God.
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the bible metaphorically tells us that the earth (universe, and other worlds) were spoken into existence.
"god said" and then, so it was.. whatever our creator is, it generates a frequency.
making sound waves visible is called cymatics.
notverylikely, O Earthbound One, how do you think thousands of fish, or locusts, or any large group of living things move in perfect unison? When birds migrate and fly in formation, who tells the lead bird to lead and the others to follow? All done by sound eh?
I bet you don't believe in ESP either.... or is it witchcraft?
Telepathic Dolphin Communication
http://members.internet.mw/xanthe/Dolphin%20Communication.htm
Old theory my ass. It's a plasma universe. Maybe there are enough references for you here.
http://www.plasma-universe.com/99.999%25_plasma
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the bible metaphorically tells us that the earth (universe, and other worlds) were spoken into existence.
"god said" and then, so it was.. whatever our creator is, it generates a frequency.
making sound waves visible is called cymatics.
Leolaia, this is not "sound" as we know it and doesn't need "air". Everything in the universe "vibrates" in an AETHER, which is also known as "plasma", which makes up 99 percent of space. Our brains can presently only pick up a very narrow bandwidth of the total reality. If you want a glimpse of our potential, look at the dolphins and their telepathic communciations.
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having a discussion with my sister and she remembers that there used to be a teaching that the earth had a watercloud over it and that's how we got rain.
anyone else remember this?
i vaguely do..
Isaaac Newton Vail first proposed the Canopy Theory in 1871, and the Watchtower teaches to this day that this is where the floodwaters of the deluge were stored. In the meantime, the theory was disproven decades ago when meteorologists figured out that the barometric pressure from only 40 feet of water in such a canopy would have heated up the earth to a slightly uncomfortable 800 degrees F. At least 30,000 feet of water would have been required to cover the top of Mount Everest by fifteen cubits.
Whenever the deluge occurred, and it certainly was not global nor was it anywhere near as recent as the Bible's version of it, the Bible itself says that the water came from the "watery deep", where it was sealed and pressurized under the earth's crust (Genesis 7:11; Proverbs 8:28). It is amazing that the Watchtower wizards never figured this out.... or maybe they did, and didn't want to have to explain to everyone that the earth a much more stable ecosystem before the deluge, and that all the wicked weather we have today is because Jehovah decided to ruin his earth instead of blaming himself for what was wrong with man.
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the bible metaphorically tells us that the earth (universe, and other worlds) were spoken into existence.
"god said" and then, so it was.. whatever our creator is, it generates a frequency.
making sound waves visible is called cymatics.
And depending on the rate of vibration, shapes are formed making the basis for sacred geometry. We've been in the age of the octahedron, which is two pyramids with their bottoms joined to each other, for quite a few thousand years now, and this is why pyramids are so sacred to the Masons...they are spiritual and atomic energy collectors. In the coming age the higher frequency changes the shape to a cube, which is the way the New Jerusalem is described in Revelation. This rate of vibration is determined by our position in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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i never did understand this parable, and now i know why.
the caretaker of the field was told to let the weeds and the wheat grow together until the harvest.
i've had gardens, and i've never had one morsel of harvestable food survive an onslaught of weeds.
I never did understand this parable, and now I know why. The caretaker of the field was told to let the weeds and the wheat grow TOGETHER until the harvest. I've had gardens, and I've never had one morsel of harvestable food survive an onslaught of weeds. Then I did a little farming research, and its a FACT that if you let weeds grow in a wheat field, they will kill the crop entirely and you will have nothing but weeds. I thought maybe I was the only one who experienced cognitive dissonance with this until I recently read a book called "The Gospel of Thomas, Annotated and Explained" by Stevan L. Davies, and he made the very same point.
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ex: a christian family,lives by bible principles,has high moral standards,has faith in god & jesus,are unselfish,honest,peaceable,kind,have a fine reputation in the community,volunteers & does charitable works,donates to the red cross(this is an org.
that is 1st on site when disaster strikes with food,shelter and medical aid).. when one of this family member becomes an apostate and decides to become a member of the wbts as a jw.the gb tells the apostate that his family is evil and that he must not associate with them because that would be like partaking of "the table of demons".
i abhor such hate speech.. b.
Let's face it, the Watchtower gets the vast majority of its Pharisee ammunition from the Bible, compiled by a corrupt priesthood who were in the "sin" business, just like they are.
Unfortunately for JW's, as the Great Master taught, judging is what gets you a ticket to hell, and they are the Grand Masters of the craft.
Religion is on the way out, and so are its "holy" books. The Internet is just what we needed to get people's heads out of their asses and wake up and recognize their own true potential.
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joshua 10:12-14 (new international version) .
12 on the day the lord gave the amorites over to israel, joshua said to the lord in the presence of israel: .
"o sun, stand still over gibeon, .
The ancient Jews believed the sun revolved around the earth, which was shaped like a pizza. The Bible is entirely geocentric, with hundreds of scriptures that either directly say or indirectly suggest that the earth is flat and motionless, and that the universe goes around it every day. There are actually some Bible-believing nut jobs online who have a whole movement going to overthrow Copernicanism.
As usual, the literal (what they call "vulgar", and vulgar it is) reading is ridiculous, while through allegory it esoterically reveals kabbalist cosmology, which is very cool. The former is Paul's "milk", the latter is the "meat".
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