Posts by Nathan Natas

when a person believes they made a spiritual connection with god and proclaims themselves as anointed, how do they determine whether this person is anointed or not.

does a group of elders look at the person's spiritual resume and check off the person's pioneer stats, bible knowledge, attendance, work ethic, personality, etc and then believe in the person if they have a good track record?

Nathan Natas

...as above, so below; as before, so beyond.

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Promise Keepers

by schnell in

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"real men keep their promises.".

i remember that bumper sticker from the 90s when i was a teenager in texas.

i didn't know it was attached to a kind of cult.. this article is 14 years old, and may well have appeared on this site before, but i'd like to reference it anyway because i see parallels, of course.. whatever happened to the promise keepers?.

Nathan Natas

Schnell, I'm more than a few years older than you, so I have memories of the ancient times.

I was aware that PK was some kind of Jesus-freak cult, and I find the report of their decline pleasant.

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I really hate the word "ones".

by schnell in

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necessary as it is at times, i hate this word.

for one thing, "ones" is a plural form of the number 1. that is dumb, and it's reason enough to avoid it where it isn't entirely necessary.. one could argue that it never is necessary, but it can still come up in colloquial dialogue when discussing objects.

jw leaders use it to discuss people.. interestingly, jws even did this to jesus christ in their own translation of the bible, referring to him in ephesians 1:7 with "through the blood of that one" where another translation would say something like "through his blood".

Nathan Natas

Do you have the same reaction to the word "singularities," Schnell?

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Trumps Inaugural Address - Comparisons

by azor in

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i thought i would start a new post about trumps inaugural address.

has anyone here seen "the new pope"?

jude law gave a stirring performance playing the pope.

Nathan Natas

Isn't ANYONE going to point out that Trump plagiarized Hillary's Inaugural Address?

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How do JW's determine a person is anointed?

by thinker11 in

i've always wondered about this.

when a person believes they made a spiritual connection with god and proclaims themselves as anointed, how do they determine whether this person is anointed or not.

does a group of elders look at the person's spiritual resume and check off the person's pioneer stats, bible knowledge, attendance, work ethic, personality, etc and then believe in the person if they have a good track record?

Nathan Natas

...kind of Rumplestilskin-esque of him, no?

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How do JW's determine a person is anointed?

by thinker11 in

i've always wondered about this.

when a person believes they made a spiritual connection with god and proclaims themselves as anointed, how do they determine whether this person is anointed or not.

does a group of elders look at the person's spiritual resume and check off the person's pioneer stats, bible knowledge, attendance, work ethic, personality, etc and then believe in the person if they have a good track record?

Nathan Natas

When that book came out, there was a flurry of excitement about what those "two things" might be.

We never guessed they were his shoe size and his favorite color.

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How do JW's determine a person is anointed?

by thinker11 in

i've always wondered about this.

when a person believes they made a spiritual connection with god and proclaims themselves as anointed, how do they determine whether this person is anointed or not.

does a group of elders look at the person's spiritual resume and check off the person's pioneer stats, bible knowledge, attendance, work ethic, personality, etc and then believe in the person if they have a good track record?

Nathan Natas

Schnell, have you ever seen this 1965 WTB&TS publication?