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spouse said local congregation meeting they attended they were handing out jw.org pins and most of the brothers/ some sisters were wearing them during meeting.
speaker was wearing one.
lol.
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as you know i am still in but have no strong conviction for this cult..but i still go because my wife is still asleep to the false teachings.
for a few months now...when we have family study it is stricly from the bible.
which is great, while we study we are taking the bible as it is, i think it is opening her eyes and how important jesus is.
goingthruthemotions you have a PM.
the boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive.
the premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
the story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually.
Thank you Phizzy. You got my point
the boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive.
the premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
the story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually.
Too bad it doesnt work that way. The boiling frog story is just that a story, an urban myth.
I know it's a myth, but the sad thing is that what's happening with the JW's is very real.
the boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive.
the premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
the story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually.
The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually. This has been the story behind the old WTBTS and the new JW.org. Jw's are being cooked slowly by the GB.
did anybody else get an announcement at their meeting about the branch approved jw.org business cards?.
apparantly, they're real slick and fit into your wallet (making it easier to informal witness).
the logic was, some people don't want to be handed a big tract and would prefer something smaller.. so strange considering how little there is to those tracts!
go here and see them in my post 358: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/281949/2/Testimony-card-returns#.U9ABi_ldUuc
old timers, or careful readers of the proclaimers book, are familiar with the "testimony card" used in the early days of rutherford-era door to door witnessing.
the jw would traipse up to a house, knock, hand the card over to the householder, and wait while he read it.. well, it seems that "everything old is new again".
here is an excerpt from a recent boe letter:.
my father who is an elder with decent organizational connections mentioned that very soon there would be "new light" regarding the resurrected being able to be married.
this would make sense because our current understanding has never made any sense to me.
has any one else heard anything about that?.
New English Translation (NET)
35 But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.
These words of Jesus make a lot of sense if we consider a spiritual and not carnal resurrection .
...and new species of "humans" have appeared gradually, do we have "x-men" amoung us??
so many people are willing to automatically discount abilities that cannot, as of yet, be explained by our current scientific knowledge.
is it too frightening to entertain the idea that there are new and possibly better "humans" in our ranks?
i was wondering if there was anywhere someone could point to in the bible for the watchtower belief that the great crowd is not included in the new covenant.
i know that this is their line of thinking when it comes to jesus being mediator.
they say that jesus is only mediator of the new covenant and since the gc is not under the new covenant, jesus is not specifically a mediator to them.
Thanks leaving_quietly for those texts. It is very clear that in the amended covenant ALL were included.