Posts by Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

by V in

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

'celebrated WT scholars ... the majority do not reside in Bethel.

Name one... you? Are you somehow responsible for writing the Watchtower? Does Ted Jaracz call you for your input on the interpretation of "this generation" in Hebrew and Greek? Or maybe you wrote the Awake! article on puppet operas?

I assure you that Writing Department is very much in Bethel. If they seek outside input, it will be for confirmation of their already decided viewpoint.

What do you prefer, doubt over 'faith, confusion over adjustment.

I don't like being told to have faith in what amounts to lies. Yep, I toed the WT line and learned first hand that they have no idea what they're doing. If you like putting your faith in ongoing 'adjustments', you deserve to be a JW. What do you think, is a 'false hope' better than 'no hope'?

I will let you into a little secret. The Society does not and has not protect pedophiles for these are the hysterics of such apostates as ...

No, I'll let you in on a little secret. I have experience with the Society's policy on child molestation and their legal department.

How's your research coming on Gilbert Simental? Maybe he's a celebrated WT scholar?

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Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

by V in

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Scholar,

it replete with references to other sources and as a major scholarly journal it is well suited in embracing the whole international community of scholars. Its contents can easily be presented in a suitable academic format for publishing in any leading academic journal if required.

I was in Bethel, there are no "celebrated WT scholars". They would be ashamed to publish this article publicly because it would admit that they are false prophets. Scholars would laugh at their flip-flopping reinterpretations.

By the way the Society does not protect pedohiles for that is simply apostate-evil propaganda.

I was in Bethel. They do protect pedophiles. Don't believe me or JWD, just find out about "Gilbert Simental" somewhere else. You are a 'scholar' and aren't afraid to research "the truth"?

B the X

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A Major Announcement next weekend

by JWRESEARCH in

a huge announcement will be made in the end of watchtower study next weekend.

we may post here the main issue soon.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Probably the cleaning assignments for the upcoming District Convention.

Now that's a major announcement worth showing up for !!!

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How the new "generation" study went down in the meeting today

by slimboyfat in

i made a big effort to get to the watchtower study today.

i have not been to the meetings much for months, but i figured this was a pretty historic "study" and i wanted to see reactions and how it would go down locally.

well a few things struck me as a bit odd in the study itself, and in the audience response as well.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

It was pretty much an "in one ear and out the other" study here. It had already been discussed when it first arrived. Basically, everybody knows WTBTS was wrong about the 70-80 years. The noolite 10 years ago was meaningless. This noolite is meaningless. The end will come soon. Let's go out for pizza after the meeting. I'm too tired for service.

"Time" is the biggest enemy of the WTBTS.

B the X

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Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

by V in

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Wow "Scholar", you took my thoughts exactly!!!... well almost. Let's say:

Amateurish it is, scholarly it is not but is simply another Watchtower Study article dressed up as scholarship for the R&F. For starters, the WT article has no evidence of wide reading or research, there is no use of Lexica, Commentaries or Journal articles to support their opinion. The only references they use are their own publications, of rather questionable reliability as their latest version of "present truth". Further, many of the areas that the WT article touches on are the subject of much varied opinion within scholarship which they fail to mention to the congregation. They create the opinion that all matters are black and white or true and false such as whatever they published before wasn't really "lies" or "wrong" but were merely "untruths" or "previous misunderstandings that Jesus is now shedding new light on". Yet, as they change their "Bible based understanding" frequently, they still claim to be the only channel for divine truth, which is deceit at its very best.

Oh, and they value the confidentiality of pedophiles above the protection of innocent children.

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Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

by V in

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Thanks Leolaia!!!

I'm sure WTBTS would have loved to back away from any interpretation of Matt.24. They wish they could erase their previous references to "this generation". But they cling helplessly to one verse in that chapter. They need all the R&F to unquestioningly believe...

(Matthew 24:45-47) 45 "Who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so. 47 Truly I say to YOU, He will appoint him over all his belongings.

If they lose their grip on their interpretation of "this generation", how will they qualify to apply the phrase "the faithful and discreet slave"?

generation = flip-flop-flip-flop
faithful and discreet slave = flip-floppers?

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Article by Morman Organization about JW'S

by whereami in

jw
friends

watchtower and awake!

' not so with the watchtower and awake!

the watchtower and awake!

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

So, is it supposed to be a good thing when one cult praises another cult?

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Another proof that these are the end times...

by Nathan Natas in

jw
friends

check this out!

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=l02zaoylwu4

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

And I hear that they taste just like chicken !

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More Suicides

by JWD in

jw
friends

within the past week a couple was found dead in their home here in.

southern osaka japan.the couple was in their 50`s and the husband was.

the elder in a congregation in a city named kishiwada.the husband.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Hey JWD,

Perhaps it was a case where the brother had a judicial committee meeting and was told he would be DFd. Then he committed suicide in the few days before it was announced to the congregation that he was disfellowshipped. Since he wasn't officially DFd, he still had a JW funeral. Sources inside the elder body may have disclosed later that he was disfellowshipped although it wasn't actually announced.

Anyway, when a DFd person dies, the service dept of the branch is to be notified by the local congregation to remove the record from their file. So, it's not possible to disfellowship someone posthumously according to bOrg procedure.

I do know of JWs that have committed suicide, MS, and pioneer, but no elders.

B the X

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