from the reddit agm blog:.
god's will to be completed by the end of the millennium.
very casually said by louche.. .
SlimBoyFat is exactly correct, this is not a new understanding.
You guys need to dial it back a notch and fasten the chinstraps on your thinking hats.
Let's try to be AT LEAST as accurate as the WTB&TS.
Histrionics is SO unbecoming of a dedicated apostate; it's in the UADNA handbook.
first 30 min announcing a collection of bibles collected from r & f that is to go on display at bethel.
also accounts of how they "miraculously" received bibles that they didn't think they could get - eg.
geneva bible.. now - watchtower study review as there is no meeting tomorrow..
"Sister-proof" because sisers become unclean once each month.
http://www.amazon.com/i-wept-rivers-babylon-ebook/dp/b00fmhq4gk/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=utf8&qid=1380884339&sr=1-1&keywords=i+wept+by+the+rivers+of+babylon+terry+walstrom.
i wept by the rivers of babylon is now instantly availabe at amazon.. i published the 6x9 trade paperback version last monday and the e-book book (non-kindle) versions.. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/m0rtslaw.
i hope the decent reviews are posted before the customary savage knee-jerk jehovah's witness crew jumps on and finds the juggular.. .
unconfirmed rumors (but credible).
new bible.
new insight volumes (starting 2014 theocretic school year talks will be taken from the insight books).
I hear they're going to slap some crap between two covers and call it "good."
despite knowing ttatt recently and trying my very best not to absorb the fds-supplied "knowledge" any further, i could not help but feel inadequate again during today's meeting.
strange, right?
yet, normal.
Here are a few ideas I picked up years ago that helped relieve me of "theocratic performance anxiety:"
The JWs assert that the Bible is a communication from God to the members of Christ's BRIDE ( the anointed).
Thus it follows, as the Watchtower teaches, that the command to preach and otherwise outperform is a task given to the ANOINTED.
I never considered myself to be "anointed," and no one ever suggested I might be. If that is true for you too, a lightbulb should be coming on by now...
The Warchtower says it is your "priviledge" to "share" the work of the anointed. There's NOTHING that compels you to do so, however!
Take a day off!
Go fishing!
or sleep late!
Let the anointed "exert themselves vigorously," you're going for the Grand Slam breakfast at Denny's!
The idea of being someone's "bride" just never appealed to me.
i am very happy that my dear old mom is finally seeing the truth about the "truth".
what hit her like a ton of bricks is the latest wt.
study article that exalts the governing body and pretty much negates everything the bible students and russell, the founder of the watchtower, ever said was truth!.
The worry is always "they've given such a large portion of their lives to the Watchtower, how will they go on knowing it was all for nothing?"
But the saying is, "Where there is LIFE, there is HOPE."
Maybe just knowing that they are now FREE of a LIE is comfort enough.
I really am happy for you Min, and especially so for your Mom.
dear all,.
today i decided i will write a book.
it will not be a book about my findings or revelations about ttatt and neither will it be a book about my personal experiences.
May I offer one suggestion?
In order to apeal to the largest possible audience, make sure your book contains an absolute minimum of Watchtower dogma and mythology and misology.
Try to keep it kinda-sorta mainstream Xtian.
i just finished reading this book, by our terry, and i thorougly enjoyed it.
terry has an amazing gift for words and expression - as most of you already know - and he lured me in from the very start.
reading this book is an actual experience... and i don't want to say much more than that, because i don't want to color your experience as you read for yourself.. .
[My attempt to post a link to http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?type=&keyWords=i+wept+by+the+rivers+of+babylon&x=-888&y=-8&sitesearch=lulu.com&q= failed.]
It seems that the book is not on Amazon yet.
i think wickedness comes from evil people.. there are many people in between the two extremes of, overly good people and overly evil persons.. i do not believe in a devil.. i think he is a concept dreampt up by evil ones to blame bad behavior, as a red herring, on anyone but themselves.. the watchtower makes up attrocious lies, brow beats good people not to better themselves,.
all the while, they are building their own empire.. they say, do not isiolate yourself.
it is not good for you.. but if you don't agree with them and their current teachings, you will be shunned, disfellowshipped.. that can and does, have earth shattering results.. so many things, i was taught as a born in, are now considered apostate teachings.
Q.: Where Do You NOW Think Wickedness Comes From?
A.: My pants.
i had been wondering over the past few years whether there really was a historical jesus at all, until a few months ago when i read bart ehrman's latest book "did jesus exist?
" initially i was persuaded by his argument that the nt contains multiple sources that testify to jesus' existence.
but more recently i have been reading the christ myth position of richard carrier and his responses to ehrman.
Maybe there was a person at that time in history, but he was no more the messiah than you and I are.
Today there are 52 people in the USA named "Clark Kent." None of them are Superman.
