i'd like to start this post with a part from the movie 'v for vendetta'.
here in a dystopian state, the main character named v, explains why things have gone so bad ....
those who do not want us to speak.
Samcats wrote, "It is foolish to expect anything else from an organization run by humans. If the complainers here were in charge it would be just as imperfect."
Imperfect humans run every religious organization on earth, but they don't all claim to be God's sole channel of communication.
Nor do they all insist on being believed and obeyed without question.
even though i'm disfellowshiped ( & i belive wrongfully so).
i still belive this is the truth.
i have been d'f for about 8 months now and working on reinstatement.
The OP seems to equate "the true religion" with an organization.
That's a big mistake.
But even if you conclude it must mean that, then please read Captives of a Concept by Don Cameron.
It completely debunks the WT's claim that Jesus was impressed with the spiritual food it was dispensing in 1918-1919 and therefore chose to appoint it to be his faithful and discreet slave.
hi i want to tell my story and get advice.
i'm a single sister ( in usa) that has been baptized for 20 years.
i came from the world, so did not grow up in the truth and i have no family in the truth -- i am alone.. last year i met a brother & we did have premarital sex while we were dating.
Before you apply for reinstatement, you would do well to investigate the history of the organization to determine whether it is really "the truth" and "Jehovah's organization" as it claims.
I suspect you have some doubts about that or you wouldn't have posted on this forum, but maybe I'm wrong about that...
Great question.
It's similar to the questions:
1. If the faithful and discreet slave is really Jehovah's channel of communication in these last days, exactly how does he communicate with THEM?
2. If the faithful and discreet slave is really Jehovah's channel of communication (in a way that no other religious organization is), why have they gotten so many things wrong that needed to be changed?
3. If the revelations the faithful and discreet slave receive from Jehovah are progressive truths (getting brighter and brighter), wouldn't they start out as true but incomplete rather than as totally false?
Remember how the WT used to boast that they don't have to ask for funds because the brothers cheerfully and willingly contribute?
annual meeting 2019—talks and 2020 year textthe governing body members are nothing but a bunch of weasels.
here is a talk by jeffrey jackson on how the governing body ''the slave class'' has remained spiritually awake over 100 years and alerted its members.. he looks back on the ''faithful and discreet slaves'' false dates over the 100 years: '' but at times, we look back over 100 years, and there were times they got excited about a certain year or time, and the end didn't come at that time.''.
he makes the comparison between the ''slave class ( who disappointed others when the end didn't come ) to a barking watchdog ( who in his enthusiasm barks at nothing in the middle of the night and wakes up the owner).
Adopting the "GB are just humble brothers whose only fault is their excessive zeal and enthusiasm" defense...
Never mind how many lives they ruin in the process.
Never mind how they require all JWs to believe everything they say or get DFd because of their independent thinking.
luke 23:43 - and jesus said to him, "positively i say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.
nwt places comma here , giving a totally different meaning to the verse.
now the average jw uses this to back their doctrine and it seems in itself virtually impossible to reason with them on it.
The WT doesn't believe that man will actually be with Jesus in paradise.
They teach that he will be on earth and that Jesus will always be in heaven.
after a few years, unexpectedly, my pimi wife became pimq.. today she even asked me a question that i found very interesting:.
if god has been anointing women to be part of the kings and priests over humankind, why cannot they currently rule and guide 8 million people being part of the governing body (acquiring experience in that role as well)?.
You can tell that it's a fiction.
The GB neither know nor care who the "anointed remnant" are.
i think it was a john cedars video or someone else’s where the point was brought up that only baptised jws will be saved?
then one talk about kids of baptised jws hope they will make it but even them don’t know.
most jws probably think that some good people who are not baptised may make it through, but this is not official teaching?.
If the WT said that today people who just didn't know enough would make it, then it would be better to keep them ignorant by not going to their doors.
Moreover, JWs would be in a worse position than a completely ignorant person next door because JWs might prove unworthy and not make it.
Can't have any of that.
So the WT must have it that only JWs will make it.
That not only makes it essential to be a JW, but it heightens the urgency for JWs to witness to as many people as possible so as not to incur bloodguilt.
Fear! Guilt!Do more! Do more!! Do more!!!
atheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.
all they had to do was read their bible to know that.
job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.
Modern translations render it "wild ox" rather than "unicorn."
