Posts by bats in the belfry

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WT to Brethren: "Are you still spreading our recently exposed lies that we were forced to change to save ourselves from utter embarassment? (Watchtower -April 15, 2013 page 9)

by Calebs Airplane in

of course, that question was softened up and changed to:.

"is your teaching up-to-date?

" (see illustration on page 9).

bats in the belfry

Now they are drilling down to the faithful the 'ever-increasing light' (?) , lest they forget: up-to-date = overlap

Yet they used to say this:

If we were to fear the arrival of Jehovah’s day with all its awesome accompaniments, we would not be awaiting it and keeping it close in mind, but would be wishing to postpone it into the indefinite future beyond our lifetime, beyond “this generation.”

The Watchtower 1975, 12/15 p. 752 par. 2

Q.: Isn't that exactly what the FDS/GB has done with the new theology?

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My Husband Said "Victims Of Pedophiles Come Forward Soon, Not Fifteen Or Thirty Years Later!" Right?

by AuntConnie in

my husband had gotten into a fight with a couple of victims of different pedophiles, he said in all his years of elderhood, "men and women who were sexually assualted came forward when they were old enough, they did not wait for decades to report they were abused.

you must have some kind of false memory or you are just trying to bring shame to the congregations.

" what is the truth of this?.

bats in the belfry

When an elder in the KH befriends and puts repeatedly his arm lovingly around young boys not his children instead of his wife . . . bells and whistles should ring.

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The scientific hypocrisy of Jehovah's Witnesses

by jwfacts in

i have been involved in an email exchange with a jw regarding my article on noah's flood, and whether it was global.

it got me really worked up, as i find the watchtower mentality totally hypocritical.

here is part of the conversation.. .

bats in the belfry

Pure fun, great reading, and totally enlightening:

Letters to and From the Watchtower Society Concerning Noah's Flood

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How many decades/centuries before 1914 becomes irrelevant?

by jwfacts in

how long do you think the watchtower can speak about 1914 and have followers think it relevant?

i think for people born in the 1900's, it feels like an acceptable year.

but what about those born since 2000, will 1914 seem like a year of relevance?

bats in the belfry

If we were to fear the arrival of Jehovah’s day with all its awesome accompaniments, we would not be awaiting it and keeping it

close in mind, but would be wishing to postpone it into the indefinite future beyond our lifetime, beyond “this generation.”

The Watchtower 1975, 12/15 p. 752 par. 2

Isn't that exactly what the FDS/GB has done?

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How many decades/centuries before 1914 becomes irrelevant?

by jwfacts in

how long do you think the watchtower can speak about 1914 and have followers think it relevant?

i think for people born in the 1900's, it feels like an acceptable year.

but what about those born since 2000, will 1914 seem like a year of relevance?

bats in the belfry

Now they are drilling down to the faithful the 'ever-increasing light' (?) , lest they forget: up-to-date = overlap

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How many decades/centuries before 1914 becomes irrelevant?

by jwfacts in

how long do you think the watchtower can speak about 1914 and have followers think it relevant?

i think for people born in the 1900's, it feels like an acceptable year.

but what about those born since 2000, will 1914 seem like a year of relevance?

bats in the belfry

jwfacts >>

By what year would the majority of believers have fallen away, because 1914 is just to distant to make any sense?

That question, or a variant of it, is a definitive 'must' to ask any elder, circumstances permitting.

Was there not also a 100 year period in the OT that Freddie did away with? Maybe it is to be added on after all.

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Flip-flopping all over the place

by confusedteenager in

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friends

one minute i'm believing completely in god and in jesus christ, and in the next instance i'm questioning all religious systems in general.

i think i'm just lacking faith, but then in the back of my head i'm wondering if i've just been so indoctrinated and deluded...that i can't imagine living without considering that there is a god to be worshiped, or that i need to worship god in order to be happy.

i don't know how full-blown atheists or full blown christians do it either way.

bats in the belfry

EntirelyPossible >>

- You can define your own purpose. For instance, mine is to live a life that makes me happy and be a good parent and a decent person. I work hard, take pleasure in my children, in backpacking, in a good round of golf, spending quality time with my friends.

Of course, you do understand, this attitude is exactly that the WTBTS condemns. They mistakenly will quote: "If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that." - Matthew 5:47 (NLT)

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In exodus 10:17 NWT why is the word ENTREAT in capital letters?

by solomon in

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cant find the reason in any wt publications.

bats in the belfry

With the incident at Babel HE confused the languages. What did you expect? Clarity of the written word?

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Why has the WT not tried to shut down this board?

by hamsterbait in

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friends

we all know that beth hell monitors this site.. they have repeatedly had sites shut down for quoting large portions of their litterature.

not this one.. do you think this board enables them to keep a finger on the pulse of what is going on in ex and aposto land?

hb.

bats in the belfry

do you really think the wt view this site?

Yes - this site serves as their prime instrument of choice for amending policies and development of doctrines.

WTBTS has moles // J-W.net has moles.

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Awake says in Eden lions ate apples and Crocodiles ate Pinapples...are they crazy?

by Witness 007 in

bats in the belfry

Once a lion acquires the taste for human flesh he becomes as bold and daring in his pursuit as any two-legged Nimrod.

1951 Awake!, April 22, page 15