https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ssv2nh0rc.
and two weeks ago i highlighted another video where sparlock helped an ex-mormon.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmesmlhydru.
though it still depresses me to think of all the young ones (including my own relatives) falling under the influence of this dangerous piece of propaganda, it's at least some small comfort that the sparlock video is backfiring so dramatically among thinking non-jws.. .
Humans grew from being superstitious and eventually rational thought prevailed, giving us science and technology, and lighting up the night.
Then along comes this woman and her manipulative irrationality. The Watchtower evidently hates women, to cast such a demonic antiperson as a woman.
this'll probably get me disfellowshipped eventually but it's been hella fun!.
so lately every time an opportunity arrises while speaking to other jdubs at the meetings or assemblies or even just overhearing their conversations about new light or new publications, service, anything really i drop little things that pass unoticed by most but make some stop and think for a minute.. for example, after one sunday meeting, a brother came up to me with about 5 other jdubbies to poke fun at me saying, "i thought you said you never sat at the front?!
huh?
You won't likely turn anyone with that, but those who know it's a load of BS will find it amusing, and you will notice them.
You could try this, at a service meeting you tell them you have a prospect of attending the next meeting, and then don't show up.
there has been some renewed interest in the meaning of the name jehovah on the forum in recent weeks.
combined with the ongoing discussion about the new "overlapping generation" teaching, speculation among the friends and among the ex-friends has been reaching something of a frenzy.
so it's perhaps appropriate that a little more should be revealed now about the meaning behind some of the perplexing events that have been taking place.
Thanks for clearing that up Lars, uhhhh, I mean Slimboyfat.
"in a similar way, at the beginning of the 20th century, there were a number of wrong expectations among true christians regarding the last days.
(2 tim.
3:1) for instance, in the year 1914, some thought that their being taken to heaven was imminent.
2 However, it may have seemed to some as though that path has not always gone straight forward. At times explanations given by Jehovah’s visible organization have shown adjustments, seemingly to previous points of view. But this has not actually been the case. This might be compared to what is known in navigational circles as "tacking." By maneuvering the sails the sailors can cause a ship to go from right to left, back and forth, but all the time making progress toward their destination in spite of contrary winds. And that goal in view for Jehovah’s servants is the "new heavens and a new earth" of God’s promise.—2 Pet. 3:13.
Tacking in a sailboat, huh?
14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
my dad is currently attending a week long elders school.
dad is in his 70's and not in great health at the moment so this is adding to my anger that he is having to leave the house at 7am and doesn't return until 6pm and then has to lock himself away to study further in preparation for the next day.. he has also been told he is not to discuss anything about the school with other elders until they have all attended.
what are they learning about that isnt' already out there for all to read anyway.. they can't be learning more bible stuff as the bible is there to be read by the general public so i can only assume that its all top secret stuff that the rest of the congregation can't know about.
I remember at one school we were going over the Watchtower and Bible Study Conductor role. One brother said: "I like to do extra research and tell the friends about". Our instructor said: "So you are telling me that the Governing Body didn't do a good enough job on the article". There was complete silence. Then the instructor followed up by saying: " Just ask the questions, you are not a player, you are the Conductor".
This is a fatal flaw, and why someone in the organization will never be more spiritual, moral or scholarly than David Splane or Stephen Lett.
in fact, it would seem that christianity was from the very beginning catholic... hmmmmm, how they fail when it comes to history.... .
"the earliest evidence of the use of the term catholic church is the letter to the smyrnaeans that ignatius of antioch wrote in about 107 to christians in smyrna.
exhorting christians to remain closely united with their bishop, he wrote: "wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever jesus christ is, there is the catholic church.
Some people confabulate the catholic church with the Roman catholic church, which is a breakaway sect. There are plenty of catholics in Europe, Asia and the middle east who do not answer to Rome.
The JWs like to bash Christians because they want to undermine the long Christian history and cover over the fact that their little sect is a recent invention and has no connection with historic Christianity.
the man who spent 27 years in prison in his relentless effort to free south africa from apartheid has passed at 94.. he sought peace, understanding and tolerance in his efforts to reconcile the nation and the peoples of south africa.
he learned the africaaners language his captors spoke to be able to communicate and share his ideas for a better future.
when ronald reagan and margaret thatcher wanted him to remain in prison mandela forgave them.
LouBelle and I were at the site where he was captured before being imprisoned.
Then later on I was in Cape Town and saw the building and balcony from which he addressed the nation in 1994.
Robben Island is visible from Cape Town too, but I didn't take that tour. I had some scenic nature things I wanted to see instead, but I became very aware of his influence at a critical time in South African history.
there was an short article in my local paper today that started out with "mormons expand use of technology".
i am horrible at scanning so i will quote some of the article, it said "the common images of mormon missionaries has long been two young men wearing white shirts and ties walking through neighborhoods, knocking door-to-door.
but in a few years, that image may be replaced by one of young mormons sitting with an ipad, typing messages on facebook.
Here's some details.
Apparently their channel is tuned to a clearer station than the Watchtower channel is.
so (according to the bible) methuselah lived to be 969, noah 950, jared 962 and so on and so on.
did they simply count years differently back then?
what accounted for the long life spans in bible times?
One 'tell' is the age of Enoch when he was taken, 365 years. That is a nod to the idea of being some kind of a sun god. These numbers have mythological significance in the original stories they were derived from, but which is lost to us now.
help me people!
i can't think of anything good that the old, drunk misogynist ever did.
what "good" things made jesus choose him?.
Watchtower Jesus is a psychotic narcissist, so when looking around for a representative on earth, he saw Hitler was already taken by the bankers and Satan. Looking around more, he saw Rutherford would do nicely for the role.
