everywhere communist indoctrination was being pushed, in factories, offices, schools, hospitals, and in apartment blocks and streets.
political committees organized weekly meetings to teach communist doctrine.
the rectification movement was begun, designed to rectify wrong thinking and ways.
I'd highlight key phrases in that paragraph, but then I'd have to highlight the whole thing...
Funny how the organization talks about how it's 'progressive'...has weekly meetings to teach doctrine...tells people to clear out their old spiritual or worldly views...adopt their ideas....spy on each other and report comments critical of the leadership...
...But hey, that's just coincidence..."As a detective, we're not allowed to believe in coincidences."
--sd-7
Trying to trap him & make him look like a liar & an idiot is NOT a loving Christian thing to do. It is NOT something Jesus would do.
--Actually, that's exactly the kind of thing Jesus would do. He did just that to the Pharisees, when he asked them if the baptism of John was from heaven or men. He was trying to get them to admit the truth to themselves, but they evaded an honest answer...because they were trapped. It wasn't hate that made Jesus do that, it was a desire to uphold truth and expose self-righteous behavior on the part of those religious leaders.
This isn't the approach I would have taken, but then I've come to realize it's just not worth my time to do this sort of thing. I'd give this video a listen but I don't want to upset myself about it all. It just isn't healthy.
--sd-7
i thought the kingdom ministry feb 2014 had a couple interesting things in it:.
1. a short talk encouraging the jw sales force to publicize the jw.org website at every opportunity.. 2. do not put out bibles on your table displays keep them hidden underneath.
i thought they were so p-p-p-p-proud of their new nwt??.
Well, guess if you want a free Bible with no obligations attached, better stick with the Gideons...
--sd-7
for the last several years a number of things have been coalescing to make deeper space exploration and colonization possible and even feasible.
it seems that the velocity of such endeavors has really increased the last couple of years.
big things are in the works such as:.
Hey, that's cool. I'd love to be able to live to see the day man lands on Mars. If I can just live long enough to see first contact with the Vulcans, I'll be happy...
--sd-7
so i grew up in new jersey in a very urban part of the state.
i literally only saw white folks if they were in a police car or if i went to the assembly.
the funny thing is at the assembly there was still a level of segregation as well although it was self-imposed.
--sd-7
sat on the sound again, listening to this twaddle about the governing body, hearing the parrotted answers and cursing my stupidity and ignorance for the decades in which i did the same.
posting on here during a meeting is fun!
you guys are a great support group.
"So, how should we feel about the Governing Body? Uh, Brother Stanton?" [pdpdm *mike being passed*]
[needlessly loud] "UH, WE SHOULD FEEL, UH, THANKFUL THAT JEHOVAH HAS PROVIDED THESE SPIRITUAL MEN, UH...TO GUIDE US INTO THE NEW SYSTEM. SO UH, WE SHOULD FEEL THANKFUL."
"Alright."
Man, it's been awhile, but...the horror...the horror is vivid indeed...
--sd-7
january 2014 watchtower study article.
let your kingdom comebut when?.
this generation will not pass away.
The second group included in “this generation” are anointed contemporaries of the first group. They were not simply alive during the lifetime of those in the first group, but they were anointed with holy spirit during the time that those of the first group were still on earth. Thus, not every anointed person today is included in “this generation” of whom Jesus spoke.
So, it looks like we actually have three groups here:
1. Anointed who saw 1914.
2. Anointed who got anointed before Group 1 died off.
3. Anointed who got anointed after Group 1 died off.
It sounds like they're planning ahead for when this one doesn't pan out, to shift three groups into one 'generation'.
So I see that I haven't missed anything in my time away from this site. Inmates still running the asylum.
--sd-7
i remember them stating something to that affect.
does anybody know where this was said?.
It's the best of both worlds. Magisterium with a disclaimer and a shun gun* to back it up.
*To learn more about shun guns, see 'The Beast-Tower' article "Shun Guns--Are They For Christians?", or some such drivel, published by the Beast-Tower Liable and Frakked Society of New Coruscant, Inc.
--sd-7
at least i think thats what its called.
she was watching it at my parents house just now.
i asked what she was watching on my mums tablet and mum said whilst laughing 'oh sorry but she wants to watch bible stories' then all i heard was something about jehovah and keeping rooms tidy.
My kids watch that stuff all the time. I've noticed my 5-year-old talks a lot about death now for some reason. Maybe it's a phase, or maybe it's connected to 'My Book of Bible Stories' and the JW comic books with Lot's wife dying and 'Noah/David' videos and so on. Huh. Guess this is some sort of bizarre psychological experiment I'm observing. There's actually quite a lot of death and violence in these stories, I've found as I watch them. Caleb by comparison is actually a relief from planetary genocide and coloring in a dying woman's face and all that.
But heck, I read the same stuff, and I turned out okay. Well, there was that unfortunate incident with the broom stick awhile back, but no one was hurt, I assure you.
Anyway, kids are naturally going to ask questions about stuff like that, as they grow. They're good at seeing contradictions, better than adults because they have no previous assumptions when approaching stuff the first time. Your kid will be fine. Just so long as you teach them to think, they can handle the rest on their own, in time.
--sd-7
do you ever wonder if the watchtower writers actually read the context of their key scriptures?.
they seem intent on perpetuating the idea that the jewish law was divine - perfect.. paragraph two asks the question "what would prompt an israelite slave to forfeit his opportunity.
to be free?".
It's just run-of-the-mill doublethink. There is and is not an understanding of how all this is connected to the way the organization operates. But it makes no difference to the writers of this article. I mean, heck, some of this stuff may well be cut-and-pasted from a previous article about the subject.
Just watch 'Roots' again and you'll figure it out:
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