well, i haven't been here in about 5 months.
ever since my ex-pioneer partner and bethel roommate roy baty died.
looks like i've have missed out on some fun.
The sooner the name of Lord Avons becomes anathema, the better.
anathema (noun)
1. something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
2. a formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine.
Maybe he can become involved in some other issue that needs a prevaricating parasitic narcissistic
sociopathic leader.
do you feel a draft?
(jw’s did-in the 1960s)i thought you might find it interesting to review exactly what the u.s. government thought, studied, and wrote about people of conscience during the vietnam war.what follows comes from official records…more than half of the 27 million men eligible for the draft during the vietnam war were deferred, exempted, or disqualified.
(cortright, david (2008).
Maybe we can say that those Jacuzzi boys lived like queens?
i found a company and employed an elder as an underwriter and two ms as sales and marketing.
anyway, this elder will delegate his work to the ms in sales and marketing, so he can go home early.
he knew when he got started that this would be a 10 hour a day job with some saturday.
As the saying goes, you need to give them an opportunity to seek their bliss - ELSEWHERE!
the org has been exposed for abusing dmca laws to hunt down and punish anonymous faders/jw's.. https://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2022/05/watch-tower-drops-its-effort-to-identify-a-dissident-blogger-based-on-spurious-copyright-claims.html.
if you talk to a jw, tell them how wisely the "faithful slave is looking after the masters belongings.
" (matt.
I hope Kevin McFree makes a Dubtown episode about this case - none of it is copyrighted to the Watchtower.
a new book on the events of the 1917 schism titled rutherford's coup is officially out on amazon.. authored by rud persson.
description.
raised a baptist, in 1906, joseph franklin rutherford, a provincial missouri attorney with a shrewd and scheming legal mind, became a baptized “bible student.” in 1907, rutherford became the legal counselor for the group's legally chartered corporation, the watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania.
My copy arrived today. Yay!
hi everyone i would like to say hello to everyone,.
i just started attending kingdom hall about a month ago now and am doing bible study with a brother..
i was blown away when i found these watchtower records with rutherford on them.
these aren't the ones that were used door to door.
these are 16 inch records that were sent to radio stations to broadcast rutherford over the airwaves.
DAY-um!! Great find! Is there a date on these, or can you guess an approximate date?
so imagine a governining body member faithful slave who's uncle wrote the new world translalation bible and predicted 1975 would be armagedon writes a book in 1980 that changed my whole life...thank you raymond franz for setting me and my wife free love this man forever.
true pioneer!
👍 love ❤️ .
1 Corinthians 3:4-6
Worldwide English (New Testament)
4 One says, `I belong to Paul.' Another says, `I belong to Apollos.' Does not that show that you have the spirit of this world?
5 After all, who is Apollos? And who is Paul? We both work for God. You believed because of the work we did. The Lord gave each of us our work to do.
6 I planted the seed. Apollos put water on the seed. But God made the seed grow.
my favorite bethel bookrandy watters.
vignettes of this famous author's life, as reviewed from her out-of-print book, "visions of glory--a history and a memory of jehovah's witnesses" (new york: simon and schuster, 1978).
barbara gave exclusive rights to her book to randy just months before she passed away in 2002. the whole book is available as a pdf download from the free minds store.. .
Wow, Randy, how long did it take for you to turn that book into a pdf file?
Did you have help with that task?
do you remember some of the weird and wacky stuff emanating from the watchtower society?
let's make a list from memory that we can use to inject a little humor into our discussions with jehovah's witnesses.
- venus may be an enormous jurassic park.. - germs don't cause disease.. - no beards allowed.
Yes, as Davros observed,
So, THAT'S how they figured 607 BCE!!!! That explains it.
I've always wondered WHY we didn't have a ZERO-FINGER. Figuring Bible chronology would have been SO much easier!
