articles such as this leave me wondering how long until someone goes postal in one of the branches or at Bethel due to being misled and watching their life pass them by.
No Room For George
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Watchtower 15/3/12 "Do Not Look At The Things Behind"
by BluesBrother inthere have been a couple of threads about this issue.
if this has been covered, then i am sorry, but:.
the article warns against looking back with fondness for the "good old days" don't they always do that with the "critical times we live in?
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I still miss Teena Marie...
by serenitynow! init was 1 year ago today that she died, way too soon.
she was a great singer and songwriter and i was lucky enough to see her in concert twice.
unlike these no talent hacks out nowadays, she really could sing, write, and play instruments.
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I may not be a spring chicken but I still got a spring in my step.
Ha ha!! G'head girl.
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I still miss Teena Marie...
by serenitynow! init was 1 year ago today that she died, way too soon.
she was a great singer and songwriter and i was lucky enough to see her in concert twice.
unlike these no talent hacks out nowadays, she really could sing, write, and play instruments.
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Yep, sometimes I'm quick like that.
Considering your age, that's pretty impressive. You ain't no spring chicken.
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I still miss Teena Marie...
by serenitynow! init was 1 year ago today that she died, way too soon.
she was a great singer and songwriter and i was lucky enough to see her in concert twice.
unlike these no talent hacks out nowadays, she really could sing, write, and play instruments.
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Shallow Miz is at it again...
LOL, that didn't take you long...........
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I still miss Teena Marie...
by serenitynow! init was 1 year ago today that she died, way too soon.
she was a great singer and songwriter and i was lucky enough to see her in concert twice.
unlike these no talent hacks out nowadays, she really could sing, write, and play instruments.
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I had every intention on seeing it opening weekend, and never got around to it. I still haven't watched it!!!! I'm gonna fit it in this weekend sometime.
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What were the "anointed" doing from John to Russell?
by Ding inin watchtower teaching, what were the "anointed remnant" doing between the death of the apostle john and the coming of pastor russell?.
during all those centuries, there was no visible organization publishing watchtower literature so as to enable people to understand the bible.
there was no organized worldwide door-to-door preaching work being done (who assigned territories and kept track of time records, for example?).
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The crazy part, to me at least is, if not for other established faiths and their work and research, and proselytizing, there wouldn't be any WT or JWs. If not for the Protestants, there wouldn't be any Baptists. If not for the Baptists, there wouldn't be any Millerites. If not for the Millerites, there wouldn't be any Adventists. If not for the Adventists, there wouldn't be any Charles Russell or Bible Students. If not for the Bible Students, there wouldn't be any Watchtower or any of the other offshoots which resulted from the power vacuum left after Russell croaked.
The WT is the result of several other denominations history of proselytizing. To say that there has always a faithful and discreet slave, or organization present on the earth, yet purposely play dumb so as to avoid coming clean about their own history being dependent upon the very religions they criticise, is just plain dishonest.
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Armageddon Part II
by LostGeneration inone of the things that bothered me as a jw growing up was the idea that there would be a second armageddon.
they don't phrase it that way, but what else could it be when you read stuff like this from the 3/15 wt.. "obedient humans will gradually be set free from enslavement to corruption.
if they remain faithful to jehovah throughout the millennium and during the final test that will come at the end of it, their names will be permanently written in the scroll of life.
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So how pissed would you be if you are a loyal JW who happens to make it through the first big A, only to be faced with billions of rotting corpses and no services like electricity and running water? Once those problems are fixed, you are blessed with 40 bible studies a week, teaching all of the resurrected folk about how wonderful Jah is, although he just got done slaughtering 7 billion people.
This is what always shook me. The literature always shows people in paradise with baskets full of fruit, and children playing with lions. It actually reminds me of vacation brochures for 2nd world countries, or promotional literature for hotels. Yeah the pictures of the beach and resort look groovy, but the pictures don't show the poverty and crime going on in the background, the same way the hotel flyers don't tell you about their cockroach problem or air conditioner issues prevalent in the summer.
It's exactly the same with the WT's paradise fantasy. I work in a major downtown city, and during my lunch break I usually take a decent walk. Somedays I catch myself questioning the sanity of destroying the earth's inhabitants minus JWs, and then the work of turning the earth into a paradise. After looking at all of the buildings, streets, basic infrastructure, it would be lunacy to undertake such a massice project as destroying and then rebuilding. On top of that, there would still be weekly meetings, and neverending field service, to be honest I'd rather die at Armageddon. Satisfying work my azz!!!!
The final test is just adding insult to injury. If there's any truth to that prophecy, is it any wonder why Satan's argument, if he even exists, is it any wonder his argument has some merit?
Timeline of lunacy.............
1. "This Generation" has a twofold meaning with it's final fruition coming over 2000 years later after Jesus original words were supposedly spoken.
2. A sifting work by spreading the good news of the kingdom as the WT teaches
3. The Great Tribulation culminating in God's prelude to a Final Solution resulting in the destruction of all nonJWs, and all non-WT infrastructure.
3. The work of removing untold trillions of tons worth of concrete, nuclear materials, toxic materials, and God knows what else.
5. While the 1000 year Greenthumb project is underway, free time will consist of bible studies and meetings
6. Then the Devil will be let loose again to toy with people's temptations, but only for a little while*
*considering the time lapse between Jesus' words on This Generation, and the end being right around the corner, and the 1969 Awake discouraging career choices because there's no way a career would be fulfilled , a little while could possibly mean anywhere from a century to several centuries.
I have to ask, all of that for what? Because the Devil misled some hapless woman into eating some fruit she had no business chowing down on?
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In the latest tower on page 20 this statement - what say you?
by therevealer inthe other sheep should never forget that their salvation depends on.
their active support of christ's anointed "brothers".
still on earth.
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What is the date and page and paragraph number on the first quote you made revealer?
MTM
3/15/2012 Study Edition, page 20, paragraph 2.
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I gave my kids a terrible present...I'm evil for laughing at this
by fade_away ini found this to be hilarious and cute.
this just made my whole day when i saw it this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4a9ckglprq&feature=share.
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That poor girl's face at the 4:04 mark is classic.
