Posts by fukitol

to all bodies of eldersre: service meeting part for week of december 21, 2015dear brothers:the service meeting for the week of december 21, 2015, includes a ten-minute part entitledshow appreciation for jehovahs generosity.

this is to be a talk based on the november15, 2015, watchtower, pages 14-15. sometime during this part, the video a gift in hand to jehovahshould be played for the congregation.

fukitol

Nothing really new here. The Societys had occasional articles and meeting parts for the last 50 years asking for money.

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Brooklyn Bethel Tours Through The Roof

by freemindfade in

was speaking with someone last night who just recently toured the us bethel's.

the brooklyn tour i heard was awful, very limited and disappointing and conducted by a local pioneer and not even a bethelite.

well from what they are telling the folks on the tour since the tm3 bit encouraging (guilting) people about going to disneyland on vacation when you haven't visited bethel, monthly tours went from 6000 to 16000!

fukitol

The blind idolatry of the Watchtower Society reaches new levels.

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2015 10-20-BOE!

by Atlantis in

2015, 10/20/boe.. .. re: making wise use of printed magazines.. .. page 2: .

this postscript should neither be read to the congregation nor be posted .

on the information board.. .

fukitol

Reporting video viewings WTF? This is like something from a Monty Python skit.

A new nadir reached in the sheer obnoxiousness of this lunatic religion.

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Watchtower Corporation Capitalizes On Jehovah's Wrathfulness Threats To Capture Free Labor

by Brokeback Watchtower in

lets just say everything the governing body says which must be obeyed with out question all hinges on threats of destruction from this wrathful deity if questioned or challenged, loyalty is a must or else it's curtains under the terror of destruction.

fukitol

LOL an otherwise interesting thread trivialized by a stupid Queen YouTube clip inserted? Don't post when youre drunk.

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Something interesting!

by John Aquila in

i was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.

we both served as elders for years.

he is in his late 70s.

fukitol

I'm also calling BS on this. There is simply no way such a large group of critically minded active JW's could get together like this without some kind of witch hunt and lots of judicial committees resulting. Either John Aquila, a compulsive forum attention seeker, is grossly exaggerating the numbers or not being up front about something.

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The canonised Old Testament is no different from the Apocrypha except with more scary fables and mythology

by fukitol in

the apocryphal books are accepted by catholics in their douay version as inspired of god, but rejected by the rest of christianity?.

why?.

when you examine the reasons for and against acceptance of the apocrypha as divinely inspired or not, it dawns on you that the traditionally accepted 39 books of the hebrew scriptures are nothing but the same sort of stuff as the more recent apocryphal books are, with the only difference being that the 39 much older ot books contain a lot more scary stories, fables and mythology invented by the ancient jewish priesthood to frighten their followers into fear and obedience and continued giving of meat sacrifices for the priests to eat.. ultimately, the ot can be summarised as nothing but a mixture of relatively accurate historical jewish war histories and genealogies, such as the aprocrypha is, mingled with scary stories made up by the ancient jewish priests and scribes..

fukitol

You really do mix facts with rubbish Doug.

I'm still waiting for the quotes from the apocrypha in the NT that you asserted exist. Please produce them.

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The canonised Old Testament is no different from the Apocrypha except with more scary fables and mythology

by fukitol in

the apocryphal books are accepted by catholics in their douay version as inspired of god, but rejected by the rest of christianity?.

why?.

when you examine the reasons for and against acceptance of the apocrypha as divinely inspired or not, it dawns on you that the traditionally accepted 39 books of the hebrew scriptures are nothing but the same sort of stuff as the more recent apocryphal books are, with the only difference being that the 39 much older ot books contain a lot more scary stories, fables and mythology invented by the ancient jewish priesthood to frighten their followers into fear and obedience and continued giving of meat sacrifices for the priests to eat.. ultimately, the ot can be summarised as nothing but a mixture of relatively accurate historical jewish war histories and genealogies, such as the aprocrypha is, mingled with scary stories made up by the ancient jewish priests and scribes..

fukitol

Huh? The NT writers never quoted from any apocrypha books.

But you've basically missed the whole point of my opening post Doug.