Posts by Finkelstein

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Did anyone else see the Beach Boys on Charlie Rose Friday and Mick Jagger on SNL

by Band on the Run in

i was flooded with such great memories!

oh, when i saw the stones and the beach boys in relatively small venues in the 1960s, i thought maybe it would last another year.

brian wilson's mental illness and treatment tragedy make him very special.

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I thought Mick looked rather haggard and old on SNL and his singing wasn't good at all.

Putting things into perspective he is 68 years old now and frankly the years in the R & R industry has taken some toll on the guy.

I think he really tries hard to keep up that sexual appeal he once had in his younger years but the dyed hair and the saggy lined face doesn't

help in this effort at all. Time to give it up Mick, old age doesn't fit with rebellious R&R, its indigenous to the youth market.

I sort of felt a bit sorry for him, trying to be comedic actor and a R&R singer on SNL.

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Evidence for God...

by tec in

jw
friends

life come from the living, and this is a universe of life.

his teachings are truth.

which is why i weight it against the truth of the teachings (and one other thing that i will get to).

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In concerning YHWH, couldn't and wouldn't mankind all be better off by using his imagination once again and creating

a god without unflappable moral values, perhaps one that isn't so viciously cruel and apathetically murderous toward mankind ?

Not to throw dirt on the Jesus god but his father is something else.

One could describe him as primitively barbaric but I suppose since he was created thousands of years ago by primitively barbaric people,

this particular God is generic from the ancient Hebrews.

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Evidence for God...

by tec in

jw
friends

life come from the living, and this is a universe of life.

his teachings are truth.

which is why i weight it against the truth of the teachings (and one other thing that i will get to).

Finkelstein

The answer has to be nothing but ..... - Humans have a fantastic imagination.

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Be honest with me "how soon is soon?"

by Sour Grapes in

the witchtower is being more careful now about putting a date.

out there for the beginning of the great tribulation.

they have learned their lesson from 1975. however they sure.

Finkelstein

Since the WTS expressed doctrines from its very beginning weren't solidly created, other than for their commercial appeal

to attract attention to its literature, the organization has now some real problems on their hands trying keep that self purposed

image that god has chosen their organization and their organization alone to preach "The Truth".

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Be honest with me "how soon is soon?"

by Sour Grapes in

the witchtower is being more careful now about putting a date.

out there for the beginning of the great tribulation.

they have learned their lesson from 1975. however they sure.

Finkelstein

Soon still works into the minds of people, to keep them in a state of fear which is the main ingredient to create power and control for the WTS. over people.

100 years from now they will still be saying soon and probably have a picture of great atomic disaster on the front cover of one their magazines.

The marketing formula the WTS. uses to attract people to their organization and turn these ones into obedient and subservient slaves, has been set in

stone so to speak, all the new incoming leaders (GB) have to do is rehash the doctrines that have already been expressed and people will absorb it

like they've always have.

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Rutherford's death and "the evil servant"

by Old Goat in

i became a witness a few years after rutherford died, so i know little about the events right after his death.

i found this in the march 1942 informant:.

"the effort of the demons is to scatter the lords sheep and to wean and lure them away from the lords theocratic organization and thereby cause them to fail of performance in the lords strange work.

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In short ..... " The Kingdom Interests were The Watchtower Interests " worthy to protect at all means and cost. $$$

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Rutherford's death and "the evil servant"

by Old Goat in

i became a witness a few years after rutherford died, so i know little about the events right after his death.

i found this in the march 1942 informant:.

"the effort of the demons is to scatter the lords sheep and to wean and lure them away from the lords theocratic organization and thereby cause them to fail of performance in the lords strange work.

Finkelstein

"The effort of the demons is to scatter the Lord’s sheep and to wean and lure them away from the Lord’s Theocratic organization .

Here the WTS. is self identifying itself as God's solemnly chosen organization, the only Theocratic organization being solely guided by god.

That sentence says it all since the WTS. had created a following of its own and these people were very important to them, not only morally but also financially as well.

So why not demonise people who would try and fracture a personal kingdom of which you had power and control over ?

Religious organizations do it all the time, the JWS have been quite the prodigious pointers of people and other organizations who oppose their organization.

If religion is a game of power and control, there has to be an assertive effort to maintain that power of which one acquires, even if you have to use fear to

accomplish this feat.

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Rutherford's death and "the evil servant"

by Old Goat in

i became a witness a few years after rutherford died, so i know little about the events right after his death.

i found this in the march 1942 informant:.

"the effort of the demons is to scatter the lords sheep and to wean and lure them away from the lords theocratic organization and thereby cause them to fail of performance in the lords strange work.

Finkelstein

It has to be noted that the Great Pyramid does has symbolic significance with the Free Masons and it also has to be noted that Russell

did occasionally give talks at Free Mason Halls. He might have been inspired by some of this significance embellished with

his Pyramidology beliefs which is not of questionable doubt.

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Rutherford's death and "the evil servant"

by Old Goat in

i became a witness a few years after rutherford died, so i know little about the events right after his death.

i found this in the march 1942 informant:.

"the effort of the demons is to scatter the lords sheep and to wean and lure them away from the lords theocratic organization and thereby cause them to fail of performance in the lords strange work.

Finkelstein

The Monument was put up by the ISBA headed by Rutherford in the early 1919.

The said evil slave was an self imposing attack onto those who didn't want to follow Rutherford as the President of the WTS.

There was a definite power struggle being developed by Rutherford and his supporting colleagues and people who wanted to stay

close to Russell's teachings. 2/3 of the IBSA finally broke away from Rutherford and the WTS. by the early 1930's.

What had become apparent that anyone who followed directly with Rutherford right up to his death within the association of the JWS,

people who had been long time members of the IBSA, were identified as the evil slave, who were out to perhaps regain and boost up

their own membership. Religion is a game of power and control and what can be observed within the history of the JWS/WTS.

as at many times the leaders of the WTS. took it upon themselves to demonise opposers to their subjective power of which they've

acquired.

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Hope my American friends won't hate me for this.. LOL

by tornapart in

to the citizens of the united states of america from her sovereign majesty queen elizabeth ii.

in light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for president of the usa and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give ...notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.. .

(you should look up 'revocation' in the oxford english dictionary.).

Finkelstein

I say this to the Queen ... I fart in your general direction you English dog, if it wasn't for us Americans you'd be talking German right now

and your flag would have a swastika on it.

You disrespectful pompous arrogant little Crumpet !