Pretended to be a Mormon for a day so as to visit their holy site Hill Cumorah.
Photos of some signage and monument of angel Moroni giving a revelation to Joseph Smith:
dropoffyourkeylee
JoinedPosts by dropoffyourkeylee
-
5
Dropoff joins the Mormons for a day!
by dropoffyourkeylee inpretended to be a mormon for a day so as to visit their holy site hill cumorah.
.
photos of some signage and monument of angel moroni giving a revelation to joseph smith:.
-
-
-
-
-
dropoffyourkeylee
The sign, which I did not get a photo of, was for New York State Department of Childrens Services. However, the building has the appearance of not being used. Yesterday was a weekday, gates were closed, not a car or person in sight. So I’m not sure.
-
-
-
dropoffyourkeylee
The photo didn’t come out very clear, but the word ‘Gilead’ is still readable over the entrance. I don’t know when it was sold, but the last Gilead graduation there was 1960. The Mountain Farm property across Rt 34 was still in JW hands until about 2015
-
-
-
dropoffyourkeylee
Recent photo:Near Ithaca NY
-
48
No more public WT & Awake?
by mikeflood inhave you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.
-
-
dropoffyourkeylee
I think the record keeping aspect, invented in the ‘20s, was primarily to have a documented way to define a practicing member of the faith. This was to protect Rutherford et al from further imprisonment under the Espionage Act
-
48
No more public WT & Awake?
by mikeflood inhave you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.
-
-
dropoffyourkeylee
I submit that neither the public WT nor the public Awake qualify as 'magazines'. A magazine has a regular scheduled publication; ie monthly, weekly, bi-monthly, etc. Deciding to publish once a year, then arbitrarily changing it to 6 times a year, then changing again, demotes the public WT and Awake to simply a tract or brochure. The study WT is still a magazine in that it is still published on a regular schedule.
-
32
Secret Elders Book? Bwahahaha!
by NotFormer ini remember a couple of decades ago when the internet was relatively young and the wt was at war with it, that they were battling to keep the pay attention book secret, commencing legal action against anyone who published it online (and of course, trying to out anyone who leaked it).
i think it was a norwegian skeptics organisation who had it available for download and dared the wt lawyers to come after them.. so i guess the new shepherd the flock book came out to try and put the genie back in the bottle and reassert some air of mystery and secrecy back into the equation.. so i typed jehovah's witnesses secret elder book into google.
colour me gobsmacked!
-
-
dropoffyourkeylee
It is depressing a book to look through. The majority of it, probably 80-90%, is about procedural matters of how to disfellowship people, how to remove elders. All negative. The parts that might be positive and actually do some good, like counselling the depressed or actually helping people, is shockingly short. It should be the other way around. 90% counselling and 10% procedure.
-
38
Were Bible writers flat earthers?
by ExBethelitenowPIMA injob 26:7 he stretches out the northern sky over empty space, well should it be the southern that has empty space under it?.
the north pole has the earth under it?.
the south pole has empty space under it?.
-
-
dropoffyourkeylee
The Bible writers were not mathematicians by any means. I've always believed that the verse that refers to the earth as a circle (Is 40:22) just describes what they saw. Get in a boat and go out of sight of land and what do you see? It is a circle, seemingly flat, with nothing holding it up. They just wrote about what they could see
-
17
May 23 Watchtower
by Listener instudy article 22 is headed.
"keep traveling on the "way of holiness".
this article states that since 1919, having left babylon the great in that year, jws today are traveling on 'the way of holiness" (a figurative highway) as it takes them through the spiritual paradise and leads them through to future kingdom blessings.. they say that 'preparatory work' of that highway began centuries earlier.
-
-
dropoffyourkeylee
Oddly enough there was quite a bit of discussion of the 'Highway of Holiness' in the Studies in the Scriptures. I forget which volume of the Studies it was, but if I remember correctly it was an entire chapter. I don't have the patience anymore to go look for it, but I am a bit curious to know what old Chucky had to say about it.
-
19
Jehovah's witness cannot perform marriages in Norway
by blondie inhttps://cne.news/article/3409-norwegian-court-maintains-jehovah-s-witnesses-ban-on-sealing-marriage .
-
-
dropoffyourkeylee
Performing marriages (from a US perspective for me) is more of a legal function rather than a religious one. For this reason I would say that JWs should be able to perform a marriage, despite being deregistered as a religion per the Norway laws.