i remember when a gb member spoke at a circuit assembly, how the society would not pick him up for the airport unless he was dressed in a suit.
i found it a strange thing to say, because i believed him in charge.
but he was not.. of course, this is common knowledge, but im mostly typing this to make sense of it:.
I believe the board of directors can be non-anointed men. So any who weren't quick enough to jump on the "I'm going to heaven" bandwagon (after they re-opened heavens gates by geting rid of 1935) would hope to be appointed to this board.
Maybe they will do an elijah / elisha type hand over if the GB run out of sycophants faithful anointed men to propmote to the FDS.
it seems the finland branch has taken over the work from estonia, latvia and lithuania (see http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/offices/finland/).
Come on brothers and sisters, sing-a-long
"Hail the theocracy ever decreasing
won'drous contraction is now taking place "
friends,.
sunday my father, a strong believing witness, former elder and still a ms, collapses at home after the new light watchtower study.. the cause was extreme stress.
i asked him about his worries.
I feel bad that as a born in I only woke up in my 30s, I can't imagine the emotions if I had awoken in my 60s or 70s.
I'm so sorry Gorby, I really do wish the best for your father and strength to you for supporting him.
the best conjecture seems to be that the gb are going to drop the literal 144,000 teaching, especially in view of the december watchtower that pointedly does not mention the 144,000 number.
if they are dropping the literal 144,000 number, but still claim that only a small number are anointed, and can partake, and that only a few are left on earth, then it is fair to ask what has really changed?
they are simply clearing up the embarrassing situation that there were obviously more than 144,000 "anointed" believers from 36 ad until now, and that the number of partakers has been increasing in recent years.
Whatever the 'adjustment' is, I do hope it's as big as everyone is hoping. However, it's more than likely it will be a damp squib. I just get the feeling that GB 2.0 want their historic 'Cedar Point, Ohio' moment.
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/386/386043103/386043103_201204_990.pdf.
continues to be a good little earner for the wtbts - donated 750k dollars in 2012 & the royalties seem to be rising year on year.
i just wonder how much knowledge of this income stream the average rank & file jw member is aware of when they are increasingly called on to pay for the wtbts building projects..
The circuit assembly 'shortfall' is an utter scam.
The congregations of the circuit donate and donate until there is enough money to buy or build a circuit hall. The title of the new hall is held by the society.
The society then charges the circuit congregations a 'per head' fee for using the damned hall they already paid for.
So for example, if a circuit section made up of 10 congregations has 1000 publishers between them, the society will charge maybe £3 per head for the assembly, this means the circuit will start with a deficit of £3000.
The elders of the circuit have a meeting at lunchtime and 'agree' the suggessted donation to the society, so the circuit funds are hardly ever in 'surplus', I've known a surplus announced about once in my years attending.
I did wonder, even as a faithful dub, how one day's use of the hall could require £3k in electric bills, cleaning supplies and toilet paper.
should a female publisher wear a headcovering if she is accompanied by a male publisher at a door step bible study?
when a female publisher conducts a regular ,scheduled bible study and a male kingdom publisher is present, she should wear a head covering.(1cor.
11:3-10)the july 15, 2002 issue of the watchtower, page 27, explains: this is a pre arranged session of teaching where the one conducting the study actually presides.
It's "for the angels" doncha know. Seeing a JW sister wearing a hankie on her head helps the angels be submissive to Jehovah.
How?
Stop asking questions.
i was reading a passage from "the book of jasher" in chapter 66 which i want to share with you:.
14 now therefore our lord and king, the eyes of all egypt are upon thee to give them advice with thy wisdom, by which they may prevail over israel to destroy them, or to diminish them from the land; and the king answered them saying, give you counsel in this matter that we may know what to do unto them.. 15 and an officer, one of the king's counsellors, whose name was job, from mesopotamia, in the land of uz, answered the king, saying,.
16 if it please the king, let him hear the counsel of his servant; and the king said unto him, speak.. 17 and job spoke before the king, the princes, and before all the elders of egypt, saying,.
adamah - sorry - JW teaching is that moses wrote job in it's entirety
i've been thinking about how the governing body now say they are the faithful and discrete slave, and trying to think about how this will play out.. as i understand it, the 15th july wt now says that the fds is identified with the governing body since 1971, and before that with a small group of anointed brothers taking the lead at watchtower hq since 1919.. of course they can't come out and say that the fds before 1971 was the wt board of directors because for a few years in the late 1940s hayden covington was both on the board of directors, and he was vice pres of the wt society too.
hayden covington was not anointed and never claimed to be.
he was 'other sheep' through and through.. .
What do you think the noo lite at the AGM could be?
Do you think they're ready to jettison the odd and frankly insulting 'overlapping generation' theory?
Accept the date of 586 & shift 1914 to 1933 (the rise of Hitler)?
Or do you think the AGM will be a damp squib apart from the new new world translation?
i've been thinking about how the governing body now say they are the faithful and discrete slave, and trying to think about how this will play out.. as i understand it, the 15th july wt now says that the fds is identified with the governing body since 1971, and before that with a small group of anointed brothers taking the lead at watchtower hq since 1919.. of course they can't come out and say that the fds before 1971 was the wt board of directors because for a few years in the late 1940s hayden covington was both on the board of directors, and he was vice pres of the wt society too.
hayden covington was not anointed and never claimed to be.
he was 'other sheep' through and through.. .
They instruct all Jws to start partaking and use, basically the gospel as justification, BUT they can retain the whole 'only 144k go to heaven' by using the revelation scripture & the "many are called by few are chosen" scripture.
This would allow:
Them to stop counting 'partakers' & everyone getting pissed/confused because the numbers aren't going down;
They could use talented company men who haven't partaken on the GB & their committees,
A good selling point to the flock "we're all equal, Jesus will chose who he wants"
There's no downside for them to this.
in the very first paragraph, matthew 13:38 is to be read - "the field is the world; as for the fine seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; but the weeds are the sons of the wicked one..".
jesus speaks of only two groups, so if you accept the wtbts "anointed" doctrine, then if you haven't got the "heavenly hope", then you've got no hope!.
simply put, there aren't any 'other sheep' members of jesus' "one flock" mentioned, unless of course theyare also "sons of the kingdom", but of course, that would be ridiculous!!.
To be honest, I've thought this for a while - I think I may have posted it earlier:
They instruct all Jws to start partaking and use, basically the gospel as justification, BUT they can retain the whole 'only 144k go to heaven' by using the revelation scripture & the "many are called by few are chosen" scripture.
This would allow:
Them to stop counting 'partakers' & everyone getting pissed/confused because the numbers aren't going down;
They could use talented company men who haven't partaken on the GB & their committees,
A good selling point to the flock "we're all equal, Jesus will chose who he wants"
There's no downside for them to this.
