Posts by Amha·aret

Steve Lett gave the talk Will Your Family Survive Armageddon? This
talk was all about the family study night. He said to family heads
that it's their main responsibility to make sure their families are
spiritually strong and that we will survive only if we are spiritually
alive and strong when the great trib begins. He said the GB has
prayerfully deliberated this matter for several years before making
the decision they did. There are 2 objectives for the family study night:
1. To Draw Closer to Jehovah-He read Ezekiel 9:5- Pass through the
city after him and strike. Let not your eye feel sorry, and do not
feel any compassion. Old man, young man and virgin and little child
and women you should kill off to a ruination. - He emphasized the
fact that children must be taught to draw close to Jehovah if they are
to survive Armageddon. They must receive their own mark if they are
of the age of accountability. Parents must use this time to help
their children draw close to Jah.
2. To Draw Close as a Family- Married couples who spend
time20together with Jehovah draw closer to each other. This goes for
parents and children too.

So basically they want the parents to brainwash their own kids now to save the GB a job?

Any clues on what this mysterious "age of accountibilty" might be? I suppose its that magical time in one's life when you're old enough to enter in to a lifelong non-escapable contract called baptism but too young to get married....

He said there are 3 elements for success. They are:
1. Be Consistent- Do not adopt a hit or miss arrangement. Such
arrangements are usually miss. Their suggestion is that we use the
same evening that we currently use for Book Study. Also, we have prep
time for book study such as getting ready, travel time to and from so
our evening is longer than the one hour for the study. He said this
to emphasize that we do not have to limit our study time to one hour.
He said if we use this time for TV viewing instead of study, Satan
will have gained a victory. He read Job 1:6 and 2:1 to show that
Jehovah has set aside designated times to instruct his heavenly
family. Shouldn't we?

Satan is easily pleased if he ranks a victory when a family watches some tv together! And the study has to be as long as it takes to get ready, travel to and from and attend the book study? That's at least a couple of hours! And, according to their application of those scriptures, even if you do all that you might still raise a child to turn out like Satan!!!

2. Make it Practical-periodically we could have Field Ministry
practice sessions, have practice sessions on how to help your kids
cope with peer pressure at school, use this time to implant spiritual
goals in your children such as pioneering, bethel, int'l construction,
gilead etc. Use material that addresses specific family needs.

This just screams cult indoctrination at me now. Why don't people see this?!

Give your kids goals such as pioneering (aka fulltime recruiting), bethel (live in a cult compound), int'l construction (free labour) and so on.

"It's good to be alive and serving the living God. We are
serving a God that is Good. " Psalms 25:8, Psalms 100:1-5

Except for the verse mentioned in Ezk where he kills lots of children, right?!

Nothing greater can happen to a human being than to become one of
Jehovah's Witnesses.

Yeah, my sentiments exactly - not! Note that they didn't say coming to know God, Jesus or the Bible. No, no, being a JW is far better than all that stuff!

Please eradicate all thinking from your mind that since we are at the
end there is no need to preach more. That is Satan's thinking and we
need to be at the preaching with urgency!

Translation - Get a move on slackers! we're leaking people fast and need replacements!!

I used to really enjoy hearing all the experiences. Now it just makes me sad to think of all the people falling for this crock of crap.

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A knock-down argument against the WBTS interpretation of Matt 24:45-47!

by yadda yadda 2 in

the wbts teaches that in 1919 jesus inspected all of christendom and appointed the wbts "over all his belongings" in fulfillment of matthew 24:45-47: "who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?

happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.

truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.".

Amha·aret

Does someone have a reference for the 1995 "new light"?

I was always led to believe that Christ "came" on to the throne in 1914 after he kicked Satan and Co. out of heaven. Then he cleansed (by imprisonment) the pure worship he found on earth and in 1919 appointed the FDS over the belongings, ie r&f. Of course, I no longer believe any of this but lots of my family are still in and I'm pretty sure that'd be their view on it.

I think lots of JWs miss new light. I remember talking to some after the generation shift and they either hadn't noticed or didn't understand it.

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Chocolate & Wine Experience - talk about Indulgence!

by LouBelle in

jw
friends

tonight i've been invited into the country to expereince a chocolate & wine evening.. "" join us for the waterford & wine expereince where executive chef, leanne roberts, will pair a 5 course tasting menu with wines from this estate..." mmmm mmmm mmmm.

got to go take pics for 'my' magazine - oh life is sooo hard darling.. tomorrow we are going to check out the local pubs in the area and sample som home brew with names like pickled possum, tiddley toad.

a good start to the weekend.. enjoy yours!.

Amha·aret

What's the "Waterford" part about? The wine part I understand!

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Funny Noah's Ark site

by Aculama in

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friends

i thought you all might find this funny.

http://home.att.net/~hideaway_today/t133/noah.htm

Amha·aret

Worked that time.

Thanks for posting. Very funny!

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Has there been a shift in how JWs deal with disfellowshipped ones?

by LouBelle in

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friends

i ask this simply because two jws happend to be passing by me on two different occassions and both times i was greeted ""hello louise"" -- now these witnesses were in my congregation sooo i'm wonderfing if perhaps they've been told it's "okay to now greet those that have been disfellowshipped.

jehovahs' light is getting ever brighter in this time of the end and the direction, we do not need to be afraid of them, perhaps by your greeting them, they will realise they are still loved and want to come back to the truth.

we'll be here to welcome them back with open arms".