watchtower's ignorance around the historical background to many biblical directives has had a very negative effect on the lives of witnesses.. for instance paul said women should cover their heads because in corinth prostitutes walked the streets plying for business with their heads uncovered.
hence head coverings were never a symbol of headship but a directive very specific to that period, as was the blood directive!!.
watchtower leaders have been lawyers, businessmen, civil servants and door-to-door book salesmen, never, ever historians or biblical scholars.
Hi Christian Guy. I too really enjoyed your post. Thank you for taking the time to write it. I just wondered what you thought of the fact that almost all scholars are certain that Paul did not write either Timothy 1 nor 2 ?
Xanthippe I am absolutely certain you are right. Like the hand washing and burial rules and your Hindi example, most of these things began on a practical basis and then folkloric ideas were subsequently added.
watchtower's ignorance around the historical background to many biblical directives has had a very negative effect on the lives of witnesses.. for instance paul said women should cover their heads because in corinth prostitutes walked the streets plying for business with their heads uncovered.
hence head coverings were never a symbol of headship but a directive very specific to that period, as was the blood directive!!.
watchtower leaders have been lawyers, businessmen, civil servants and door-to-door book salesmen, never, ever historians or biblical scholars.
Watchtower's ignorance around the historical background to many Biblical directives has had a very negative effect on the lives of Witnesses.
For instance Paul said women should cover their heads because in Corinth prostitutes walked the streets plying for business with their heads uncovered.
Hence head coverings were never a symbol of headship but a directive very specific to that period, as was the BLOOD DIRECTIVE!!
Watchtower leaders have been lawyers, businessmen, civil servants and door-to-door book salesmen, never, ever historians or Biblical scholars. And it shows!
jackie kennedy was considered the most beautiful for years.
melania trump is obviously an ex model.
michelle obama has been touted as a true beauty.
Barbara Bush looked like the Quaker Oats guy.
Oh yeah?????
Young Barbara
first of all, i'm not a conspiracy chaser.
personally, i've related with mason borothers alot and confirmed that jw.org is no more related with freemason after russsel who was never a member of freemasonry.. one of my friends again raised the questioning link between jw and freemason with the above picture.
specifically the letter a.... .
The guy who designed probably vaguely thought the inside of the A shape looked like a book? He thought he’d choose that font as a representation of study?
this is an amazing video presentation delivered by a competent speaker.. https://youtu.be/-efxcobj1vk.
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Oh thank you Vandy This came up on my you tube feed a few days ago and I was absolutely blown away.
Thank you Micheal for your kind offer. Though I am Agnostic I will certainly give your book a look over since you have been kind enough to offer it free of charge. Please message me the link if you would :)
interesting screenshots of internal wt databases appear in the 2018 coordinators' committee report video (that's in fact a presentation of their hub software) at 6:34-6:50. they contain, among others, the following information:.
there are 61,349 kingdom halls and 841 assembly halls;.
4,308 properties are held for sale, including 2,925 khs;.
Thank you @Anders. I was just about to work out percentages for someone, so you saved me from sending a mistake to them!
interesting screenshots of internal wt databases appear in the 2018 coordinators' committee report video (that's in fact a presentation of their hub software) at 6:34-6:50. they contain, among others, the following information:.
there are 61,349 kingdom halls and 841 assembly halls;.
4,308 properties are held for sale, including 2,925 khs;.
Oh wow Listener . If accurate those publisher numbers show there's quite a discrepancy between peak publishers ( the only numbers given in the yearBook) and average publisher numbers Canada : 115, 959 (Peak) 84, 831 (ave) USA 1,234, 837 (Peak) 861, 575 (Ave)
Of course there always was a difference but it would give a much better picture of true numbers which they no longer give in the year book ( for obvious reasons)
theodore ("ted") jaracz1925-2010.
about 7:30, june 9, 2010, theodore ("ted") jaracz, one of the members of the governing body ruling over jehovah's witnesses, died.
previously, on may 19, 2009, he had had a serious stroke, but recently seemed to have made a big recovery, giving some assembly talks.
If they can prove that Ted Jaracz was removed from the Australian Bethel due to molestation, it will be dynamite.
His legacy lives on and if that legacy was instituted by a known abuser the Governing Body will have nowhere to hide.
i have a married cousin who has moved to work at the walkill farm.
what is the financial situation of someone like this?
i would assume they do not build social security or medicare.
Unless your relatives have highly sort after skills it is extremely unlikely they have been taken on as full-time Bethelites in other words signed the ‘vow of poverty’ and “Special order of full time serpents” with the small monthly stipend ( they sign this as a crafty get-out for Watchtower not to have to make the social security contributions all other employers have to).
Watchtower recently kicked out thousands of Bethelites all over the world and are too cash strapped to take on more. They do, however, take on temporary Bethelites who do full time work without even the tiny monthly stipend they used to get. These people have to provide their own accommodations and finance themselves entirely for the whole time. Additionally Watchtower does not help with medical expenses, which at least full time Bethelites used to be provided with ( unless of course the actually became ill in which case they were kicked out ).
Either way unless they have very wealthy relatives or plenty of their own investments and/or property they’re not too stupid to sell and donate to Watchtower they’ll most likely end up poor, worn-out and disillusioned.
