is it me or do i notice that all the weird and hateful cultish statements are now appearing in the 'study edition' washtowels?.
anointed are nuts - august 15, 2011 watchtower (the study edition) pg 22 qfr: memorial partakers.
this is the number.
So we have the following outcome from the recent WT's "light":
1. A great number of Annointed ones are mentally ill, that's why the GB will stop counting the total number at the end of the year
2. Apostates are also mentally ill...
Does it make any sense to you??? I mean if they are all mentally ill, then the GB is running A MENTALLY SICK RELIGION, that produces mentally sick people...
the center for constitutional rights, a new york-based nonprofit legal group, requested that the pope be indicted by the international court for church practises protecting catholic priests, who abuse children: http://news.yahoo.com/abuse-victims-seek-intl-court-case-against-pope-100135627.html .
if the pope is indicted by the international court and found guilty, could the gb be indicted for protecting elders, who abuse children, or for not advising child abuse victums to go to civil authorities?
if the gb is found guilty of not following victoria's child protection laws and an elder in victoria raped/abused a child after 2002, could the gb be indicted in the international court, because gb members would refuse to surrender to australian authorities?.
That's a joke!!! GB has more superior possition from Pope, since they are "God's Channel", "God's Mouthpiece" and you cannot mess with "God". While Pope he is just "God's Representative" of the Roman Catholic Church.
finally my wife and i got around to reading george orwell's " 1984 " .
as many of you know who have read the book that " the party " or " big brother " as the ruling power in the book is called ; constantly changes records of it's past dealings so as to deceive the public about any false forecasts they may have mistakenly made ; in an effort to put forth a positive image of itself it destroys past embarrassing records or paperwork which would expose the " party " as a failure.
much the way the wt society has altered their history to deceive the public and their own members.. notice this quote from george orwell's " 1984 " on pg.
All I can say is that they are masters of altering history. I consider my self lucky since I have in my library all Judge Jo's books, plus a 1-2 from Russell. If you try to compare that WT with the one we have now, you will find that there is no connection at all, in dogma, practices and mentality. What really make my foundations shake, were all the failed predictions that WT did, and most of all many stupid things that didn't make sense.
Very few JW's know what 1874 & 1878 & 1914 stood for many years, or the failed prediction of 1925 that the Ancient Prophets would resurrect and go to live along with Booze Jo in a luxury villa located in San Diego Cal.!!! (There was no explanation how those Ancient ones, located in Israel and Palaistine, talked in a language that has long gone, would just appear in US and try to communicate with Booze Jo!!!)
If anyone today comes with the past teachings of the WT, and try to present them today, then that person it would be an apostate! But I guess if you really feel like reading apostate material just find WT's old publications and read them...
in the simplified english edition of the july 15th, 2011 watchtower, in an article that warns jws about apostate influences, the following quote is given as a reason to stick close to the watchtower organization:.
"the organization has never disappointed us and always gives us an abundance of pure waters of truth from god's word.".
a scan of the page can be found here: http://www.jwfacts.com/images/watchtower-2011-jul-15-p12-apostates.jpg.
The leadership of WT is in a tragic situation. Failed prophecies, flip-flop doctrines, blinking light, are the results of this mind control cult. Perhaps they are the only ones, amongst the extreme Protestand, doomsday cults with the highest record of failed prophecies:
1874, 1878, 1914, 1916, 1918, 1925, 1942, 1975, the famous generation that will survive Armageddon before 2000 A.D.
I left 11 years ago, and what I see from posts in various forums, JW's have lost their zeal. They are just a club, that in order to be part of it, you just blindly obey what ever comes from Brooklyn...
my personal spiritual journey- from watchtower - christianity - agnosticism.
i guess life is a journey and this journey becomes more exited when someone is willing to take that journey.
one of our greek poets wrote: "it is not the destination, but the journey that matters".... my story is very similar like many thousands of ex-jw's around the globe.
let say noah did manage to get all the species into the ark... about half of them would have been predators and the other half natural prey.. are we going to belive that they went without eating for 40 days and nights?
or the ridiculous theory as the wt would have it that noah fed them nice tasty bales of straw which they happily munched on?.
and even if one of these two exhuses were true, when the animals were let out of the ark into a world now deverstated by a flood, then wouldn't they have continued eating eachother???
At that specific time, ALL the animals, they used to eat grass. They became flesh eating after the Flood!!! Actually animals became wild when Nimrod start to hunt them.....
Hope my answer did sattisfied your question enough
in a 1996 questions from readers, the watchtower reported the following regarding the number of partakers in 1935: .
w96 8/15 p. 31 questions from readers ***.
the facts over the decades reflect both the completion of the calling of the anointed and jehovahs blessing on the growing "great crowd," who hope to survive "the great tribulation.
So we have 52,000 in 1935, that leaves 88,000 anointed ones from 33AD-1935A.D!!!
Physically speaking there shouldn't be any anointed ones be alive since 1935, and the number has increased the last few years.
So WT has to go back to their first understanding in Russell's era, that there are 2 classes of anointed ones, because numbers are against their dogma.
apologies if this has already been discussed, but saw this on the fb jehovahs witnesses, new, library, history page and wondered if anyone knew anything about it or has any idea what it could be about.
date: august 17, 2011 5:38:59 pm cdt.
to: the librarian <[email protected]>.
yeah, same old trick. Special meetings
Special announcements
Special "light"
Special spiritual ones
i know this post will bring out all those who love to criticise and rebut.
the following information is timely and very plausible.
in view of recent posts and special announcements to be taking place in the organization i found the following to have credibility.
Billy the Bethelite and the story goes on....
We don't need anyone to tell us that WT is in a deep sh@t...
Unfortunately not. I'm the only one, amongst my family
