the next new light?.
ok a bit of idle speculation here feel free to add your own thoughts.. a few changes that the wts might make over the next 5 years and my odds:.
144,000 is symbolic odds 2/1.
If there is cancellig of a magazine, I think it would be the public Watchtower instead, and merging its contents into the Awake. Then it's a clear cut distinction: Awake for public, Watchtower for the hardcore.
I say this because in the public's eyes Awake is the more interresting magazine. In my FS I heard several times people say that they read the Awake, but the Watchtower not so much.
the next new light?.
ok a bit of idle speculation here feel free to add your own thoughts.. a few changes that the wts might make over the next 5 years and my odds:.
144,000 is symbolic odds 2/1.
They could sidestep the issue of 144.000 as symbolic by saying there always were "other sheep" even in the first century, that would allow them to almost completely fill up the numbers just in the modern days. If 1935 wasn't a seal on the annointed, then it wasn't a door on the "other sheep" either, was it?
if one 'googles' the phrase, you get 167,000,000 hits!.
'bing' it, and you get 129,000,000 hits.. here is a sampling of opinion from just the first page of google hits.. 1] douglas groothuis, ph.d., teaches philosophy at denver seminary.
here is his 'take' on truth: http://www.leaderu.com/theology/groothuis-truth.html.
I have pondered on the meaning of what "Truth" in fact means for a JW. They are well aware that the teachings have changed, often radically, so by no means can it be called truth. I have come to the conclusion that the JW definition of Truth is very simple: anything the GB says right now.
jw news(jwn) removes audio talks in keeping with direction from april 2010 kingdom ministry.. .
http://jehovahs-witness-news.blogspot.com/2009/11/talks-talks-more-talks.html.
bangalore.
The ads are just the ones from Google adsense, not controlable, like on this site. It picks up on some keywords and gives relevant ads. It doesn't make it an apostate site, though if the owner is a hardcore JW he should have did something about it.
Still, Bethel Tours? Now that's something I didn't thought I'd see. What next? Coupons for 50% off of the Watchtower subscription?
Hotspur, I trust you know I was joking The site is indeed horrible.
for me there are many obvious issues, but the big one is......... the big daddy of the universe, the father of all this incredible creation, is not about to annihilate everybody who is not a member of this late 1800's american religion, jehovah's witnesses.. that's it for me.. what is your big issue?.
That they take over and hold hostage your conscience, telling you what to think.
"the trouble is that in an infinite multiverse, everything that can happen will happen - an infinite number of times" (newscientist mar 2010).
everything that can happen will happen
Assuming multiverses, you still have that nagging "can" word there. As long as JW teaching often contradicts itself, there can't be a universe where it's right.
jw news(jwn) removes audio talks in keeping with direction from april 2010 kingdom ministry.. .
http://jehovahs-witness-news.blogspot.com/2009/11/talks-talks-more-talks.html.
bangalore.
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Hotspur, exercise your old ability to follow directions, and hover over the text, as you're told The layout is a throwback to those weird 90's webpages.
It breaks their hearts, yet they do as they're told without questioning. And they don't see a problem with it. If the bad really outweights the good, they should have noticed it long before by themselves. Now if it's "pointed out" to them, they wholeheartedly agree too. Weird cult...
i was raised a jw and left nearly 15 years ago before/when i went away to college.
since then, i have had nothing to do with organized religion (or non-organized religion, for that matter).
in my experiences, fervent religious belief has not correlated well with things such as critical reasoning ability or secular success as measured by profession, level of education, income, etc.. i was browsing the blog of a semi-well-known guy who has worked in some of the same fields as me and came upon the following passage:.
Let me butt in the statistics discussion too. Snotrag, have you considered that our universe may not be the only one, and it may not have been the first? There's a theory about "pulsing" universe - big bang / big crash ad infinitum. That would invalidate just about any statistics based proof.
blood transfusions and jehovah's witnesses.. http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleid=7288.
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bangalore.
Interresting read, ty.
Nkandu, JW spokesman says:
in family law, it is a parental responsibility to choose a name for the child, the religion of the child and unless a child is 16 or over, or he is of sufficient age and understanding to consent to any treatment, decision on the latter is a matter of parental responsibility
So in effect he's saying if my personal conviction would be that every child born under the full moon should be sacrificed to Satan, and that is in the child's best interrest, then it's ok to sacrifice my child, right? Brother Nkandu would sit around and cheer for me for acting according to my convicions.
in treehouse of horror xx (don't have a cow, mankind"), the simpsons parody of 28 days later and i am legend, bart simpson is the "saviour", the source of the anti-mutation vaccine.
the soldier explains that men have to eat his flesh to get saved:.
marge apparently disagrees:.
My favorite is from Simpsons 10e17, Maximum Homerdrive. Marge installs a new doorbell, and anxiously awaits for someone to come use it, but noone comes. Then:
Lisa: Wait! People are coming! I think they're Jehovah's Witnesses!
Marge: Yyyyes!
A man and a woman JW approaches the door. As the male JW was just about to push the doorbell, the female holds his hand, and says:
Noreen: Wait Marvin, you know I just had a thought. Maybe we're bothering people by trying to change their religion. What if we don't have all the answers?
Marvin: You're right Noreen. Let's go get real jobs.
As they walk away, they toss away all the magazines they're carrying.
Marge: Hrrrrmm... I would've feigned interrest...
