gorby has had a personal paradigm shift lately.. from one point to an other i "feel" and "think" different about the jw subject.. - no more interest in doctrine.
- no more interest in things that happen 100 years ago into an religion.. - no more taking statements too serious.
it doesn't matter me at all what a generation doctrine change is all about, it doesn't matter me at all that brother elder said "blablabla boe!".
Yep, doctrines, prophecies and overlapping unicorns have all the same value: nil.
It's wonderful to realise that no one is looking over your shoulder and that the dancing baboons in Brooklyn only affect those gullible enough to believe in them.
Real life starts when you leave Jehovah's Witnesses.
at the moment i dont beleive in anything.
im pretty much an open book, but my critical mind is very alert to bullshit.
but anyway i decided to re-read the bible with a non jw filter.. i researched online first which is supposed to be the best translation out there.
A very good point Island Man. Who wants to worship anyone at all, let alone a murderous narcissist who demands perpetual adoration?
The obsession with the Bible is an enormous red herring, life is much better lived by thinking things through and using critical reasoning, not gullibly believing in Bronze Age deities and "sacred" demands from crazed cult leaders like Paul.
The Bible is not inspired by an invisible deity, it does not predict anything useful for modern man, Jesus was just another useless saviour figure in a long tradition of god-men who was used to give hope to the ignorant and illiterate peasants.
The JW cult is dependent on these useless ideas and will come to lose all its influence as the world grows weary of myth parading as fact.
at the moment i dont beleive in anything.
im pretty much an open book, but my critical mind is very alert to bullshit.
but anyway i decided to re-read the bible with a non jw filter.. i researched online first which is supposed to be the best translation out there.
Good on you PE! It takes quite a while to get this rubbish out of your mind. What you did looking at the Bible is a natural consequence of having being indoctrinated and needing to see the text without the JW fixations. Another step is to see the Bible for what it really is; the selected and approved writings sanctified by the Roman Catholic Church for the purpose of political control by establishing an imperial Christ cult.
But the time comes when you can forget the cloying madness of the Bible and fully enjoy the imaginative literature of the world of creative humanity. Also the wonderful science writers such as Dawkins, Steve Jones, Steven J Gould and EO Wilson etc.
Be critical and get to the root of things! Don't think, what does it mean? think, why was it written down?
@Zappa-esque, thank you for your wonderful lists of theological depravity!
so the study article 'setting your mind on the spirit means life and peace.
' at paragraph 9 a little pictorial lecture for anyone setting their minds on the flesh.
brother fleshly minded talking about having a sailboat.
I guess sometimes the carrot which is attached by a stick ahead of the proverbial donkey, is actually fed to the donkey by its considerate master.
The paradise carrot dangled by the GB is simply an illusion of hope, one never to be realized, which keeps the faithful plodding on........and without much pleasure in the only life they will ever have.
Funny how the GB all look overfed?
in paragraph 2 of this study, the gbojw evidences once again that they are sticking to the absurd 1914 doctrine – “when the last days of the present system began...”.
i noted that as 2014 approached, the gbojw became somewhat reticent about making reference to revelation 12:12 – the “short period of time” scripture.
so this study is the first one in a long time in which both the 1914 doctrine and revelation 12:12 are mentioned in the same study.
NK, I don't think it was discussed on this thread but there is another phenomenon which flourishes in the JW community; that of fixating on the behaviour of others.
It is a human trait to be overly concerned over one individual but I have seen it so many times where a JW develops a "thing" about someone which bugs them and often sends them into another congregation or better, out of the org altogether.
The edict from the demi-gods seems to be directed not only to the disgruntled group but perhaps to those with JW "personality fixations"?
so we were talking about noah for our family worship tonight and it ended with a little debate between me and my parents about how the flood was possible.
you know, where did the water come from, how did all the animals fit, etc.
of course it led nowhere and my parents came up with some strange theories like that there was "an expanse of water in the sky" and that's where all the water came from.
It is completely absurd to believe that a global flood occurred in historical time, there is no evidence that it happened and it was and remains a physically impossible event.
However once a person can believe that impossibilities are factual; then he or she is capable of believing that any madcap idea can happen, even other magic absurdities such as the idiotic one that the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses are specially chosen and directed by God.
anthony morris iii was representing gb in international convention in helsinki, finland.
in his final talk he mentioned that at the fight of armageddon jesus will fight together with the 144 000. he then reminds the audience that one angel destroyed 185000 assyrians.
so what are "144 000 immortal creatures together with jesus going to do".
TM3 laughing about being able to control weather:
Further to what I said about TM3, it would be at this stage the average person would say to himself, wait a moment this is absurd, I'm not going to heaven and be able to control weather, that's ridiculous! The average non-deluded person would quickly wake up at the realization of the absurdity.
If TM3 doesn't wake up now perhaps it's because he already knows it's a charade?
anthony morris iii was representing gb in international convention in helsinki, finland.
in his final talk he mentioned that at the fight of armageddon jesus will fight together with the 144 000. he then reminds the audience that one angel destroyed 185000 assyrians.
so what are "144 000 immortal creatures together with jesus going to do".
Respectful observer, I do find your comments about tight pants Tony quite disturbing. Even if he has awarded himself immortal life in the heavens with divine powers capable of controlling weather, it would only be a fool who would joke about it.
is is true at all?
if so, are there any independent sources who have asserted this claim?
who did the translation?.
The first principle in listening to Jehovah's Witnesses: Don't believe a word of it!
The NWT (Not Well Translated) was done by amateurs who took liberties with the text promoting their trade mark god by translating the word "Lord" as "Jehovah," all to further their own cultic interests.
It was the date fixated and religious obsessive Fred Franz who led the translation team.
You cannot trust the integrity of the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses.
these are of early '70s vintage, i recall.
my job was to sort through thousands of these and be sure they were not "off register.".
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I never bought the calendars, if anyone came to my house and saw one they would immediately spot that I belonged to a freaky religious cult.
The symbolism of the baptism picture is typical of JWs using "the world" to bolster their lowly status. With a backdrop of the refined classical architecture and the expensive dress and elegance of the female figure; they mislead the viewer into thinking their brand of christianity was about style and high fashion.
In reality these aspects of life are severely played down today by the deceiving JW organisation. Back in the first and second centuries the christ cults were mainly drawn for the 'great unwashed' peasantry who would have been far removed from the likelyhood of such pretentiousness.
