hello folks,.
i have other news.. i had seen in the brazilian forum that un had removed the document that speaks about the disaffiliation of the watchtower to it.. however, what really happened was the restructuring of the website, which caused the linkto got invalid... follow the official link of the document directly from the website of the un:.
http://search.un.org/smb/secf10.un.org/digilib/$/digitallibrary/dig/www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/pdfs/watchtower.pdf.
But we can flee from Christendom spiritually by abandoning her worldly, untheocratic system of things and thus get out of her danger zone, leaving her to her fate and having no part with her in her adulterous connections with the United Nations and any other political and commercial system of this old world.
1953 The Watchtower, 9/15 p. 565 par. 2
thats my opinion because the wts really has been preaching false information now for so long about the end times and armageddon soon.. also the doctrine that jesus chirt has taken a position over his earthly and heavenly kingdom in 1914 .... etc.
its been a winfall marketing scheme for such a long time, which now really doesn't have much leg to stand on.. time in conjunction with reality has made the wts's doctrines redundantly weak or useless more or less.. i'm even believing the leaders of the wts are even starting to know this for themselves.. the wts future and its main supporting pieces of literature, the watchtower and awake magazines may eventually be tossed aside.
for some new doctrines as well newly named pieces of literature .
That's why the WTBTS wants you to walk by faith (in them), and not by sight (non-WT authorized internet sites).
In Dortmund, Germany, approx 22,000 in attendance - 90 baptisms (0.4%).
i've just finished putting together a fairly exhaustive article that summarizes a number of key details about the governing body that most jehovah's witnesses are completely unaware of.
a link to the article is below:.
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/the-governing-body-of-jehovahs-witnesses-explained.
blondie > > Make sure of all things (1953), page 200, heading: Jehovah's Witnesses
the letter leaked today on "confidentiality" had an infurating set of paragraphs on suicides, attempted suicides, and threatened suicides.
here is the excerpt.. suicides and attempted or threatened suicides.
20. at times, judicial committees may deal with someone who is so distraught that he attempts.
Someone in research perused the old dictionaries Da Judge kept at the Bethel library.
hey!
i just read the watchtower for september 15 and learned that.
momentous events are soon to take place.. .
True earthshaking events you can follow here.
anyone know or have an update on the regional committee and the quick build kingdom halls.
i haven't heard anything about this program for some time now.
has it quietly gone under or what?
In developed countries, and those with high internet accessability, more and more KHs are merged and sold for the sole survival of the core WTS.
i'm doing some research for a new blog article on the governing body.
it's in a question-and-answer or "faq" format, and attempts to give simple but well-founded answers to most questions that people could conceivably ask about the governing body.. one thing i noticed when looking at the history of the governing body is that we seem to be in the middle of a lengthy "dry spell" when it comes to making new appointments.. gerrit losch is currently the longest-serving member having been appointed in 1994. however, his appointment came at the end of a 17 year period in which no appointments were made.
this contrasts notably with the remarkable six-year period between 1971 and 1977 when 15 members were added.. since losch's appointment, 4 members were added in 1999 (herd, lett, pierce and splane) and 2 more recently in 2005 (morris and jackson).. the seven year spell since the last appointments were made has seen the deaths of barber, barr, jaracz, shroeder and sydlik - cutting the number of governing body members almost in half.
Would they hitch a ride on an airplane together?
looks like it's fun.
there's a cool story in there about how a ministerial servant got deleted for playing violent video games, and then wrote to the branch office about it and told people in his congregation.
classy, guys, really classy.
On the day of baptism, just one question asked?
Finally, on the day of baptism, each candidate is asked, “On the basis of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, have you repented of your sins and dedicated yourself to Jehovah to do his will?” Thus, in front of witnesses, these new ones say Yes respecting their promise to serve God forever.
w12 10/15 p. 30, 31
w06 4/1 p. 22 / The Two Baptismal Questions
who is the governing body?.
put simply, the governing body purports to be a small group of anointed men (currently numbering 7) who represent a much larger group (numbering the thousands) of anointed individuals living on earth today.
in nearly every reference to their position of oversight over the worldwide brotherhood, the governing body refer to themselves as being representatives.... .
They are obsessed with governing and ruling so much, they forgot to be the "leading ones".
“LEADING ONES”: THE GREEK WORD HEGOUMENOIS IN HEBREWS 13:17
Again, we must confront the context in order to arrive at the definition to be attached to the Greek word hegoumenois. Should this word be interpreted as “ruler” or “leader’? William Edwy Vine's (1873-1949) comments are very informative in dealing with this word hegoumenois.
Vine calls attention to the fact that the noun hegemon came to be applied to a governor. But the verb hegemoneuo means to “lead the way.” The translations that I have consulted, except the KJV, employs the word leaders, not rulers.
In classical Greek a hegemon was a “guide” who showed one the way or “one who did a thing first.” It might also be a “leader” in the army of a chief or king. Josephus used the word to describe a “procurator” or “prefect” (Antiquities 18.3.1 ).
One thing they for sure were not: A supra-national, governing body with a world-wide reach.
