i was thinking when reading another thread where it was mentioned how god's name was never used in the nt, but how often it is uttered in khs that it is used so often, not because we need to use his name, but because it is the name associated with their organization.
it is their name really.
could that be why it's used so often?.
Worst part about the name Jehovah, is how it is overused. Take for example when a public prayer is being said and the individual offering the prayer from the platform repeatedly and I mean repeatedly mentions 'Jehovah'. It sounds almost childish like to hear a grown man (especially an Elder) sound off like that.
A person who prays like that sounds immature IMO.
comments you will not hear at the 05-15-2011 wt study (march 15, 2011, pages 12-16)(trust god/end near).
review comments will be headed by comments.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
Par 10 says in part: ...................... 'Jehovah has given us a truly verdant spiritual estate'.
Yah, a spiritual estate filled with divorced JWs, broken JW families, youth who want nothing to do with the organization, unhappy JW men and woman alike dependent on meds to help them cope......... The list goes on!
We owe this all not to Jehovah but to the WTBTS and its' GB. Thank you GB for nothing!
Blondie, I don't know how you do it...................but you do. Thank you.
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when i was growing up i was told that the "holy spirit" assisted in the selection of elders.
Ain't by Holy Spirit!
You're right, 21stcenturywoman, congregational politics has alot to do with it. Self promotion also plays a part (the theocratic term for self promotion is 'reaching out').
the most disengenuous aspect of "official" pronouncements from the society can be identified.. it is in the positioning of the speaker/writer as a passive onlooker commenting on exterior happenings.. this bystander mode is clever by half.. why?
it spoon feeds information without taking any active personal responsibility.. sort of an "oh gee, wow--look at all this going on" stance, while taking a stand-offish tone, is printed in the official magazines and books approved for publication by the governing body as mouthpiece of jehovah.. think about that.
it is insidious incitement without responsibility.. the person (likely fred franz) who crafted these bulletins had gone through several previous incidents of failure and disappointment and was well aware of the effect of any speculations upon jehovah's witnesses in the past.. this makes what was printed all the more calculated and irresponsible in the extreme.. let us parse the language printed by the watchtower society with careful attention to what is said and left unsaid.. w68 8/15 p. 494 why are you looking forward to 1975?.
The Governing Body/WTBTS is guilty of speculating on numerous occasions on numerous topics and of violating each time the Bible rule @ 1Cor 4:6....'Do Not Go Beyond The Things That Are Written'.
s-77 and s-79 disfellowshipping and disassociation forms.
today i added a new article on my blog addressing why clergy-penitent communications with local elders is an illusion.
this article contains links to images of the forms known as s-77, s-79a and s-79b.
Sorry, I have been having problems with some of my postings disappearing.
I wanted to thank you Marvin for your work and to tell you that they are really informative.
s-77 and s-79 disfellowshipping and disassociation forms.
today i added a new article on my blog addressing why clergy-penitent communications with local elders is an illusion.
this article contains links to images of the forms known as s-77, s-79a and s-79b.
the thread started by someone else that was asking about "local needs" talks that are given and the people who need to hear them are never there, got me to thinking.. i remember an elder giving a talk on local needs on "praising jehovah with your valuable things.
" .......this was the same brother who everyone in the hall knew had just bought a new lincoln town car.
his wife was a regular pioneer, and he would not allow the car do be driven out in service.
An example of a hypocritical Elder giving a talk is one who is notorious for going way over his alloted time when giving his part.
one group of women who are forgotten are mother's but never had the chance to hold their child because they have lost a child.
some because they chose to give their child up for adoption.
others because of miscarriage or stillbirth.
kh meetings were utter hell.
the boredom, particularly for a child, was awful.
i feel it was a form of child abuse.
if you could describe the jehovah's witnesses, in a sentence (no run-ons please) what would it be?.
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jehovah's witnesses are mostly harmless; just don't join 'em..
