bats in the belfry

Joined

• started 66 topics
• posted 860 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by bats in the belfry

• 
  41

  Unproductive Anger

  by agonus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi friends,.

  i have a feeling i may need to cut back a bit here.

  it's doing nothing but fueling my anger and i'm not sure that anger is any longer productive (kind of like the org itself).

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  Unproductive anger? Psychology teaches that anger is more useful than dispair.
• 
  66

  Was The Internet The Clincher For You To Mentally Leave The Organization?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think it was for me.. i knew a lot of the history of the bible students, russell, rutherford and the "old light".

  .

  once i could see all of the overwhelming evidence right in front of my eyes, there was no ignoring the reality..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  Excerpts from the Yearbook 1970, p. 72:

  "It may be beneficial to set forth here a typical everyday schedule followed by the Gilead student during his five-month course:

  7 a.m. Discussion of daily text, conducted by the Society’s
  president, followed by breakfast
  8–11:50 a.m. Fifty students, in two groups of twenty-five each,
  attend classes in Bible and languages; the other half
  of the student body receives practical training in
  various departments of the Bethel home, office and
  factory, under supervision of departmental overseers
  12:15 p.m. Dinner
  12:50– All students attend lecture in school lecture
  1:50 p.m. hall. A Society director, overseer of a Bethel
  department or an instructor gives a one-hour talk on
  Bible, ministerial or organizational subject
  2–5:50 p.m. Half of student body alternates in same program as morning sessions
  6 p.m. Supper
  7-10 p.m. Study in dormitory room or in school’s 10,000-volume library
  
  Saturday afternoons and Sundays are set aside for attending meetings of the congregation in New York city to which the student is assigned, and for field service and study. Friday evenings are filled by attendance and participation in the congregation’s Theocratic Ministry School and service meeting.

  This busy program keeps everyone spiritually healthy and equips the student for the very active schedule he will follow in the missionary home or branch home of the Society to which he will be assigned after graduation. "
  
  
  
  
• 
  27

  do you think the GB are wondering why armargeddon dosn't come?

  by highdose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are they deluded enough to think that it must happen soon?

  or are they just stringing everyone along?.

  personaly i think that russell had good intentions and probably belived what he wrote ( although dosn't make it right) but i don't belive that any other gb has really belived the trash that is supposed to be the jw religon.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  They are so used to lying,

  they don't even tell The Truth™ to each other.
• 
  17

  RUSSIA: No ban - 'Watchtower' major income source of GB

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jehovah's witnesses contested the order in a moscow commercial court.

  they said the ban on their publications was unlawful because the publications were the major sources of revenue for the organization.

  banning the publications violated their rights to pursue their core activities as an organization.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  To my knowledge the magazines are on a givaway basis. Maybe they are using 'theocratic warfare' tactics on the Russians.
• 
  17

  RUSSIA: No ban - 'Watchtower' major income source of GB

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jehovah's witnesses contested the order in a moscow commercial court.

  they said the ban on their publications was unlawful because the publications were the major sources of revenue for the organization.

  banning the publications violated their rights to pursue their core activities as an organization.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  The Jehovah's Witnesses contested the order in a Moscow Commercial court. They said the ban on their publications was unlawful because the publications were the major sources of revenue for the organization. Banning the publications violated their rights to pursue their core activities as an organization.

  Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/314648#ixzz1eMSOG4hp
• 
  449

  "Feeling sorry for yourself" about being hit by your husband is not Christian 2/15/12 WT Page 25 P 12

  by yourmomma in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  have anyone of you read, the absolutly jaw dropping paragraph in this article about a women who was hit by her husband?

  its in page 25 of the 2/15/12 wt study edition (i read the dumbed down version).. .

  if there was any question, that the watchtowers stance is for wives to simply take it when their husbands abuse them, this makes it crystal clear.. who the hell is scanning these things before they go to print?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  "Every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny"
• 
  34

  Question

  by redspider in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why was it 3 days before jesus was resurected after he was torched on the stake?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  In the Bible “three days” does not necessarily mean three full days.

  In the Bible “a generation” does not necessarily mean a generation of 48/70/80 years.

  Roughly 2,000 years ago they were 'spot on', give or take a few hours.

  Nowadays it is a bicentennial hit or miss lookout.
• 
  43

  Do You Miss Even A Little Bit Your "Friends" From The "Truth"?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i miss a few but honestly i could count them on one hand after being in the organization for almost 5 decades.

  some jws are ok but most, i simply tolerated, due to being an elder..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  Shying away from education leaves one scrambling for those people able to hold a conversation. Many of them 'friends' are not the brightest bulb in the drawer. If you find one, you've got a winner !
• 
  3

  Bible Student Monthly's-PDF!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  file name: bsm2.zip.

  file size: 90.3 mb.

  file 2:.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  Thank you very much.

  ... and ... my, oh my, they really believed their own press! Dabbling in mysticism (oh, look, swastikas!)

  

  London, November 1, 1921 - The Bible Students Monthly
• 
  81

  How did plants survive the Flood?

  by dgp in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  noah is not said to have carried plants in his ark.

  supposedly the flood was severe enough to cover "even the tallest mountains", which would mean that mount everest was covered.

  and this for forty days.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  bats in the belfry

  NVR2L8 >

  By the way, where did Jesus say the deluge was universal?

  
  
  
  For those who believe that the Bible is God’s Word, though, a global flood is more than a possibility. It is a fact. Jesus said to God: “Your word is truth.” (John 17:17) The apostle Paul wrote that God’s will is that “all sorts of men should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth.” (1 Timothy 2:3, 4) How could Paul teach followers of Jesus the doctrinal truth if God’s Word contains myths?
  
  Not only did Jesus believe that the Flood took place but he also believed that it was global. In his great prophecy about his presence and the end of this system of things, he likened those events to the time of Noah. (Matthew 24:37-39) The apostle Peter also wrote about the floodwaters in Noah’s day: “By those means the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.”—2 Peter 3:6.

  w08 6/1 p. 8, Was the Flood of Noah’s Day Really Global?

  The GB has insight from above - that's good enough for me !