Posts by Ucantnome

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Why Me?

by John Aquila in

do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?

i wonder many times why me.

i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.

Ucantnome

i really enjoyed watching Dexter and Breaking Bad

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have you been moved by something you have read.

by Sabin in

i found this book by carmel reilly, it`s called dear god.

childrens letters to god from around the world.

i promise you that if you are having a bad day this book what ever your believes will lift your spirits.

Why Me?

by John Aquila in

do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?

i wonder many times why me.

i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.

have you been moved by something you have read.

by Sabin in

i found this book by carmel reilly, it`s called dear god.

childrens letters to god from around the world.

i promise you that if you are having a bad day this book what ever your believes will lift your spirits.

Ucantnome

Sorry it was Snow White, Pinocchio scared me.

when i saw Snow white i knew what i wanted to do in life.

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have you been moved by something you have read.

by Sabin in

i found this book by carmel reilly, it`s called dear god.

childrens letters to god from around the world.

i promise you that if you are having a bad day this book what ever your believes will lift your spirits.

Ucantnome

not really. I have things that influenced me like Disney's Pinocchio

69

Why Me?

by John Aquila in

do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?

i wonder many times why me.

i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.

Ucantnome

Jehovah knows how to deliver righteous people”

Was this a reference to 2 Peter

69

Why Me?

by John Aquila in

do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?

i wonder many times why me.

i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.

Ucantnome

Some people are happy being witnesses and being elders etc.

I always felt i would never have been a witness if my parents had not. The meeting attendance and reaching out for this and that was not me. I remained a witness because i believed the teachings up until i could no longer preach/witness with a clear conscience due to my understanding. I have to be happy with what i do and that is the same for everyone else.

I also even after 20 years of being away from the witnesses still question why I left and what I believe. We are always learning. Discussing a Marlowe play i learnt something about hell recently.

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The BEST day of your life-------and the WORST day of your life?

by eyeuse2badub in

this topic may have been an op previously but i didn't get an opportunity to comment so here goes;.

mine are pretty simple;.

it was the day i married my beautiful wife of 49 years.

Ucantnome

best day was probably when i was 12 and the pretty girl who i liked took my hand and told me how much she liked me.

the rest of it was pretty mediocre

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Do you believe Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body is the "faithful slave"?

by Marvin Shilmer in

this question is known to be posed by jws to other jws as an acid test of loyalty.

i'm not the first to notice what i'm about to point out and comment accordingly, but today i felt compelled to add a short article on my blog highlighting the new language that governing body member geoffrey jackson supplies as a response.

a person who honestly hesitates to respond with a robust "yes!

Ucantnome

in my last post i quoted from the July 15th Watchtower 2013 but failed to put the word Watchtower. Just to add this to my last post.

A couple of years earlier from the book God's Kingdom Of a Thousand Years Has Approached the book The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah-How? was published

The question was asked on page 58/59

'Who, then, are the group of persons who, toward the beginning of this "time of the end," were commissioned to serve as the mouthpiece and active agent of Jehovah?'

and on page 61,

'Whom could the real "chariot" of Jehovah's organization roll up to and confront that He might bestow upon this qualified one the commission to speak as a prophet in the name of Jehovah?'

and on page 66

'It is manifest that in the year 1919 the invisible heavenly organization of Jehovah, like the celestial chariot seen in Ezekiel's vision, rolled up and stopped, not before Christendom's advocates of the League of Nations, but before the anointed proclaimers of the heavenly kingdom of God in the hands of Jesus Christ. From atop this celestial chariotlike organization Jehovah commissioned this dedicated, baptized, anointed class of servants to speak to all the nations in His name.'

I think that i'm right in saying that 'this dedicated, baptized, anointed class of servants' were the same ones mentioned in the God's Kingdom Of a Thousand Years Has Approached page 355

'On inspecting the remnant of his anointed disciples in the year 1919 C.E., the reigning King Jesus Christ did find the appointed "slave" faithful and discreet in the feeding of his "domestics." Accordingly, he appointed this "slave" class over all his belongings.'

I found interesting a couple of pages before the question asked in The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah-How? on page 58/59 on page 56/57 another question is asked after citing Ezekiel 24:24

'Since Ezekiel himself was a "portent" or "sign" (AV) of someone to come, and since he was not a type or prophetic figure of Jesus Christ, whom did the prophet Ezekiel typify in carrying out his divine commission?'

The answer appears to be the one I quoted on page 66. so it would seem Ezekiel prefigured them.

I understand that the view of the faithful slave may have changed in the last few years.

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Do you believe Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body is the "faithful slave"?

by Marvin Shilmer in

this question is known to be posed by jws to other jws as an acid test of loyalty.

i'm not the first to notice what i'm about to point out and comment accordingly, but today i felt compelled to add a short article on my blog highlighting the new language that governing body member geoffrey jackson supplies as a response.

a person who honestly hesitates to respond with a robust "yes!

Ucantnome

God's Kingdom Of a Thousand Years Has Approached WT1973 on page 355 says

"All his belongings" over which the "faithful and discreet slave" class is appointed must refer to all the spiritual things that belong to him on earth in connection with his established heavenly kingdom."

On inspecting the remnant of his anointed disciples in the year 1919 C.E., the reigning King Jesus Christ did find the appointed "slave" faithful and discreet in the feeding of his "domestics." Accordingly, he appointed this "slave" class over all his belongings."

From the July 15 2013

'Finally, we examined why Jesus’ arrival to appoint the faithful slave over all his belongings did not occur in 1919 but will take place during the great tribulation.'

This is from the transcript

Q. And do you see yourselves as Jehovah God's

36 spokespeople on earth?

37 A. That I think would seem to be quite presumptuous to

38 say that we are the only spokesperson that God is using.

Would I be wrong to conclude that prior to 2013 they were presumptuous, in claiming that Jesus did appoint the faithful slave over all his belongings in 1919 surely there could not be any other spokespeople on earth for Jehovah God or am I wrong?