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What major WTBTS change(s) do you predict for 2014?
by ABibleStudent inwhat major wtbts change(s) do you predict for 2014 to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the wtbts's 1914 prediction?.
after posting to what's in it for them?
(gb), i started to think what major change(s) could the wtbts make to thin the flock and cleanse the congregations of social jws who do not donate or go to meetings.. my premise is that the wtbts is a business, a dangerous cult, and that its printing operations are losing money.
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JW radio podcast was great !
by snare&racket in.
really is a good listen, some members here called in, a big "hello" to you guys xxx.
http://blogtalk.vo.llnwd.net/o23/show/5/382/show_5382613.mp3.
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Great podcast and great job SCULLY!
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What major WTBTS change(s) do you predict for 2014?
by ABibleStudent inwhat major wtbts change(s) do you predict for 2014 to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the wtbts's 1914 prediction?.
after posting to what's in it for them?
(gb), i started to think what major change(s) could the wtbts make to thin the flock and cleanse the congregations of social jws who do not donate or go to meetings.. my premise is that the wtbts is a business, a dangerous cult, and that its printing operations are losing money.
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Does it show a deplorable lack of faith to have a bucket list?
by compound complex inas a baby boomer making the best of every day, i have a casual list of things i want to do before i, well .
we all know about the promises made, and, gee whiz, i want to be a good and faithful boy.
but i'm beginning to wonder if i should buy a few more baskets to put my eggs in.
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I think a "bucket list" shows not a lack of faith, but an ambitious desire to do the best with what you've got!
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1975 - The Killer WT quote
by tim hooper inone thing is absolutely certain, bible chronology reinforced with fulfilled bible prophecy shows that six thousand years of mans existence will soon be up, yes, within this generation!
(matt.
24:34) this is, therefore, no time to be indifferent and complacent.
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I think it's obvious who was "toying with the words of Jesus"
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What Does Keeping The Congregation Clean Mean To The Governing Body?
by frankiespeakin innow we all know how the governing body hates any defecters from watchtower corporation's control.
listening, obeying, and be spared alive from jehovah's wrath blah blah blah has become their new mantra sung to a liltingly slowly moving indoctrinatingly booring tune taylor made to dull the mind and not sharpen it.. so uncleaness that the congregation need to be kept clean from are things like people who celibrate birthdays, mother's day, christmas, even if you go to another church and participate the congregation needs to be cleaned from your pesents.. no gay couples, no crossdressers, no masterbaiters(they make sky daddy real sad), definately no children bringing wizzard like toys to the kingdom hall to play with(jehovah considers these an afront to his sovereignty and make him sad, striaght dope from the gb who know what jehovah feeling at all times).
ipads and other electronic devices are ok but might bring in some uncleaness especially if they watching videos of hot looking brothers signing on and on about not touching those private spots and getting all horny and stuff because jehovah don't want to be looking down from heaven and see one of his worshippers masterbaiting because he's been deprived of the experience because he's god and he ain't got no wife nor anybody to work his dingaling, he don't even ease nature at all until he has a relevation climax or something repressing all that sexual energy can make you mean i hear.. and no apostate material or looking up web sites critical of the governing body while at the kindon hall meeting facility.. no idols, visible tattoos, child molesters.. person stealing money from the contribution box, they are very unclean and considered a judas of sorts.. .
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No Idols, visible tattoos, child molesters.
No child molestors that anyone knows of.
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If the big change at the AGM meeting is dropping the literal 144,000...
by slimboyfat inthe best conjecture seems to be that the gb are going to drop the literal 144,000 teaching, especially in view of the december watchtower that pointedly does not mention the 144,000 number.
if they are dropping the literal 144,000 number, but still claim that only a small number are anointed, and can partake, and that only a few are left on earth, then it is fair to ask what has really changed?
they are simply clearing up the embarrassing situation that there were obviously more than 144,000 "anointed" believers from 36 ad until now, and that the number of partakers has been increasing in recent years.
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Of course, Jackson is not yet 60. . . .he can expect to live another 30-35 years.
And Sanderson is only 48, so he's potentially got another 50 years left in him. . . .
Of course at any moment now the UN will declare war on false religion, the GT gets kicked off, and those bastards get sucked up to heaven.
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Yet More Annual Meeting Speculation. . .
by breakfast of champions inso, yes, there will be a "new bible" released at this annual meeting.
worst kept secret ever.. however, the new bible will no longer be called the "new world translation".
again, this is pure speculation, but it would kind of make sense since the term "new world" is very mason-y, old-time jw-y, and doesn't appear in the bible anyway.. what they would call it, i couldn't even guess..
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Will it have a green cover?
Yes. And pyramids and dinosaurs on the endpapers.
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How did Rutherford come to Power?
by Daniel1555 inin the last wt article it was said that 4 of the 7 directors rebelled against the decision to install rutherford as president in 1916. then it is said that they left in 1917; a cleansing happened indeed.. .
does anyone of you know the details how rutherford came to power?.
if 4 out of 7 are against it, that doesn't seem to me allright.
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There's a decent summary on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Tower_Society_presidency_dispute_(1917)
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What's in it for them? (GB)
by SyntaxError1974 inif the wbts is just another business?
then what do the gb get out of all this?.
tim cook (ceo apple) makes around 378 million a year.. donald trump makes around 60 million a year.. i understand the wbts may have vast property holdings, stocks, bonds, and revenue from donations.. but i can't grasp the incentive for the gb to make this stuff up.
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Welcome SYNTAXERROR!
This is something I go back and forth with, which probably means there is no simple answer.
As far as what's in it for them, I agree with SMIDDY: they are big fish in a little pond. If they were in "the world" they would be slobs just like us, not CEOs. So I think it's the power, which is just as intoxicating (even moreso) than money.
Also consider that any organization this large takes on a life of it's own- at a point the whole system exists for the sake of existence.
Do they really believe their own BS? I think some do, some don't. A few might be delusional enough to believe all of it, but I'm sure most only believe parts of it- I mean, how else do you come up with new light unless you are dissatisfied with what you've got?
I appreciate your distinction between "informational" and "attitudinal" apostates. Personally, I also wanted the just facts when I was doing my initial research (sites like JWFACTS.com are great for that). The emotional, ranting stuff turned me off too, at first, but I now see it as just people coping differently. Have gotten a little emotional and ranty myself at times.