Ding

Joined

• started 106 topics
• posted 6,781 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Ding

• 
  17

  Can watchtower really continue with cart preaching?

  by Hellothere in

  1. social
  2. current

  can watchtower really continue with cart preaching?

  it has become like zoom.

  we're people attending zoom not wanting attend halls.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  It's all about counting hours...
  
• 
  8

  Is the GB equal to God & Christ?

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  w56 6/1 p. 346 par.

  rebellion against the slave is rebellion against god.. w57 6/15 p. 370 par.

  7 - it is vital that we appreciate this fact and respond to the directions of the “slave” as we would to the voice of god, because it is his provision.. w10 9/15 p. 23 par.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  But they don't claim to be infallible or inspired...

  No, no, no... they're just humble brothers serving Jehovah like all honest-hearted JWs...
  
• 
  29

  Been years since Ive gone - should I bother with a letter?

  by BeaverEater in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sig other is half assed still in, one family member is in... its been years... wondering if i should just let it be or just call up hq and say i resign... i will be pissed if they announce shit at the kh, though i dont even remember the last one i went to... lol.

  for me, its none of anyone elses business... thoughts?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  You've been out for years, and you don't think your status is anyone else's business... so why tell the elders anything at all?

  That would just stir things up to no purpose, wouldn't it?
  
• 
  20

  Do Jehovah's Witnesses view faithfulness to Jehovah as being equivalent to faithfulness to the Governing Body?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i thought this was an interesting response to the question.

  "being faithful and loyal to god implies or includes.

  being faithful to your spouse (hebrews 13:4),.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  They equate Jehovah and "Jehovah's organization."

  In Crisis of Conscience, Ray Franz said that even the GB members themselves seemed to think of the organization as if it were a separate entity from themselves, as though "Jehovah's organization" made decisions and set policies, and they only administered them.
• 
  31

  Predict JW life in future

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a sister said the other day at the ministry group “”what is all this talk that the end is still some way off” she said she has been waiting for decades and she was told there is no way it would take this long.

  some others said in an annoyed kind of way yes they would have made different decisions decades ago if they knew the end still would not have come by 2023.. how will the majority react in a few more decades time when the end still hasn’t come?.

  why all that talk of sense of urgency decades ago?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  They think:

  1. I would have made different decisions if I knew the old system would still be here in 2023.

  2. Surely now Armageddon is CLOSER THAN EVER.

  3. I can't waver now and throw away everything I've worked for my whole life.

  4. I must maintain my integrity and stay loyal to Jehovah and his organization.

  5. I'll just keep my mouth shut and stay the course.

  6. After all, where else can I go?
  
• 
  15

  Organization is God

  by Longlivetherenegades in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the belief was jehovah/god is not the organisation when you are a member of the organisation .

  when you disassociate or leave the organisation, the belief becomes jehovah/god is the organisation.

  someone somewhere will tell you return to jehovah or hand you a publication that has the title return to jehovah.. .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  Quite ironic, given that Russell wrote, "Beware of organization. It is wholly unnecessary."
  
• 
  32

  Is the ministry really taken seriously by most JWs?

  by XBEHERE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what say you?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  Some take it seriously. Some don't.

  I think they took it really seriously right before 1975.

  When that came to nothing, many became really subdued, just putting in time.

  That said, there has probably always been launderette "witnessing" and "the pioneer shuffle" going door to door.
  

  It's all about hours, not results.
  
• 
  60

  WARNING! If you DELIBERATELY avoid the JW memorial.....

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  .......you will experience a fate worse than death!

  you have been warned - don't come crying to me if you don't go.

  you've got one month to change your mind.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  If everyone were released from his or her sins at death, wouldn't that mean that all would be resurrected and make it into the millennial kingdom?

  But that's not what the Watchtower teaches...
  
• 
  4

  Found this picture on my Facebook page today

  by wozza in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  .

  well i think this pyramidion (a capstone to a pyramid ) looks a lot like the remembrance stone of charles taze russell, the watchtower president ,they may have taken and hidden his stone away but those of us who can remember it, it says a lot about russells belief in his version of prophecy based on egyptian pyramids holding gods secret of false prophecy..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  Interesting how "God's Stone Witness" (Russell) became "Satan's Bible" (Rutherford)...

  That's "new light" for you...
  
• 
  10

  Wise counsel for JW's in latest WT

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  june 2023 study watchtower p. 13, par 15 - “we will not be fooled if we “make sure of or, “test” all things.”...we need to test what we hear or what we read to determine whether it is genuine.....instead of naively accepting what others the org say, we use our thinking ability to compare what we read or what we hear with what the bible and jehovah’s organization say.”.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Ding

  To most JWs, "make sure of all things" = find out what the GB currently says about it.