We have Freddie Franz to thank for all the 6000 year hoopla nonsense that never amounted to anything real.
Happy mid-centennial anniversary!
remember 1975?
maybe when you were a kid - like i was?
i will celebrate 01.10.2025 the 50th anniversary of the "end of 6000 years of human history and the immediate end of the world".
We have Freddie Franz to thank for all the 6000 year hoopla nonsense that never amounted to anything real.
Happy mid-centennial anniversary!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouye3e0fypc&t=183s&pp=yguzd2h5igkgzglzbglrzsblc2noyxrvbg9neq%3d%3d.
please take the time to watch.
i am not good with words but i have heard someone so eloquently explain how i feel about something.
Heiser is an excellent presenter, very clear and easy to follow, I find.
May he rest in peace!
We miss you Mike!!!
https://youtu.be/6ga9v7ffrwk?si=0lor5qquapmq8ck4.
what you are about to watch is another leaked instalment from the recent annual meeting delivered by kenneth cook with the theme "help to tear down and build up" and highlights tge new take o disfellowshipping that will from now concentrate on major wrongdoing whereas minor wrongdoing will be dealt with kind and love.so the watchtower's at it again, rewriting the narrative like an old tv show that conveniently forgets a character's past.
for decades, the organization has been the ultimate gatekeeper, quick to kick out members for even minor missteps—let's not forget how jehovah's witnesses have had to grovel and practically beg to be reinstated.
What are they up to?
Well, they are up to their necks in law suits and governmental scrutiny, which leaks what they are most fond of... filthy lucre!
They are having to tweak and adjust their policies so they don't continue to pay out money out their corporate wazoo.
They hate losing money and that is what drives their decisions.
he will not pressure her to engage in sexual acts that make her feel uncomfortable, that are demeaning, or that bother her conscience..... the bible does not provide details as to what sexual practices between a husband and a wife should be considered clean or unclean.
a christian couple must make decisions that reflect their resolve to honor jehovah, to please each other, and to maintain a clean conscience.
generally speaking, a couple would not discuss with others this intimate aspect of their marriage..
Sooo, if she finds any type of sexual intimacy with her husband to be sexual acts that make her feel uncomfortable, that are demeaning, or that bother her conscience, then tough luck dude welcome to a life of celibacy, at least with your wife, and well isn't that how CT Russell and Joe Rutherford's marriages were?
w52 2/1 p. 78 par.
7 jehovah’s theocratic organization today "when christ came for judgment in 1918 (1) he found some associated with this group that thought the lord had delayed his coming and they were oppressing their fellow slaves in christ.
these were cast off as the “evil slave” class.
Even in 1952 they couldn't accept the fact that some Bible Students saw Rutherford's power grab and left the WT, and branded these dissidents the Evil Slave when in fact the Evil one was Joe Rutherford and his conspiratorial cronies.
Now they try to hide the fact saying the Evil Slave is just a literary construct and not part of a prophecy. It was never a prophecy, it was a parable, an illustration.
The WT can't have it both ways, either the Evil Slave is a real thing or It's not. Frankly, the WT hierarchy acts like the Evil Slave in the parable, plain and simple.
a&r means announcements and reminders.. 2024**s*147. here:.
https://pdfhost.io/v/diikuykdl_untitled_1 .
petra!
What I also found surprising is that by attending a kingdom school for a couple of months one could become a missionary or a circuit overseer at 21 y.o.a.
can i call you friends, i think so after 23 years posting here.
i am dismayed how jwn is being "dominated" or taken over by a few posters, peppering the comments.
in the past, the admin did not approve of this and did remove some posters from jwn.
I remember the old posts that Leolalia used to make. They were long but they were her own research and her own words. They were definitely worth reading.
However, these long quoted from someone else's work are best shared through a link, frankly, I Don't read the whole post if It's more than a few paragraphs if it seems people are just throwing information out.
To me such long quote posting smacks of someone who lacks reasoning skills and who doesn't want to spend the time discussing anything.
october 6th 1974 debbie and i tied the knot.
the elder that performed the ceremony managed to personalize it a bit for us.
seems like something worked.
Congratulations!🖒💖
the jw idea that believers are destined either for heavenly life or for endless life on earth comes in for significant criticism by critics of various kinds.
even some groups, such as the christadelphians, who share belief in a future paradise earth, don’t share the view that some christians are destined for life in heaven.
yet there is surprisingly quite a lot of evidence in the bible for the existence of two distinct groups of believers.
Moses was talking to Jehovah face-to-face. Just like He did in the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.
@ FreeTheMasons, the Jehovah talking with Moses or with Abraham at the trees of Mamre was the Word, the Angel of Jehovah. Go read "Two Powers in Heaven" by Alan Segal, you can find it in Amazon.com and it has excellent points explaining this.
for jws who believe that jehovah had a hand in reviving the truth in the nineteenth century this is enough explanation for how jws managed to achieve a closer approximation to early christian beliefs and practices than other groups.
but is there an explanation for this phenomenon that doesn’t rely on supernatural intervention?
new testament scholar james dunn explains the difficulty of interpreting the biblical texts in this way:.