flipping through the wt and other artices it strikes me how angry the governing body is becoming and how they are using insulting words to describe anyone who "rocks the boat".. words such as diseased and vindictive are common place now and so petty.. it seems to me that these men may be allowing personal feelings to overcome their spiritual role that they are supposed to live by.. i have been out of the truth for 17 years and it is clear to me that they have lost the plot.. look at the generation flip flop.
why not just say, "brothers, we have no clue and therfore no clue about anything that has been taught".
assuming the role of jesus on earth is something no one should do as one look at corinthians clearly states that "gifts of prophesying would be done away with" in other words god said i will tell you not you me.. anyone else feel that the gb is angry?.
Just for fun, ask someone to name the theme of the last 4 Sunday talks given. Or ask them to summarize the previous chapter in the Congregation "Bible Study". Easily 98% will not be able to do it - yet the meetings are supposed to be so utterly "vital".
In my congregation, they won't even know the theme of any of the last 4 Sunday talks -- and that's two hours after the meeting. And I mean that!
"young people ask" book admits 97% of youths masturbate...to put it into perspective, it's like saying 97% of the worlds population own a phone or a t.v!!
so is it realistic to believe these witnesses going thru puberty and teenage years won't on penalty of death?.
i always thought, if nearly 100% of teens do it isn't it normal?.
I sure hope to high hell they don't 'consider' this new YPA book at the Theocratic Misery School. Because the last time they did that back in the early 90's, we had to sit through four separate masturbation student talks on four separate weeks.
At least I didn't get that talk assigned to me. The ones who did get that 'privilege' wisely didn't show for their talk, leaving some schlub to be duped into volunteering for it. They got to choke their way (no pun intended) through five minutes of talking about the evils of masturbation.
i remember the fear i had, i thought i was going to die because the big a started.
all it was a little shaking of the plates and glasses in the cabinets.
it was 1967 or 1968 late fall on a saturday morning.
True, but none of these three earthquakes in Illinois ('68, '87, and '08) were on the New Madrid fault. These were actually in the Wabash Valley fault zone, which is well to the north.
i remember the fear i had, i thought i was going to die because the big a started.
all it was a little shaking of the plates and glasses in the cabinets.
it was 1967 or 1968 late fall on a saturday morning.
I don't remember it, but my parents do. I think that was the one centered around McLeansboro. More recently, I actually DO remember the ones in 1987 and 2008. Very minor earthquakes, really, but when you live in Illinois/Indiana, you aren't really used to those things. And the elders used the earthquake ad nauseum in talk illustrations for about two weeks following the event.
hey i was wondering if anyone has the answers for this weeks km part do you know your options.
questions are-.
what is the main reason why jehovah witnesses refuse blood tranfusions .
Oh no - not again.
This is the exact same article - word for word - that was in the January 2009 KM and the January 2007 KM. These fools don't even have the ambition to change the words around when they reprint the same article every 24 months for the sheep to lick up.
I wonder if any of the rank-and-file even noticed.
i personally would lose the overlapping terminology and just say that the generation refers to the entire jehovah's witness movement.
jesus is basically saying that the movement would not be gone when end comes to fruition.
this will give us hope during the great tribulation because there will be times when our extermination seems imminent.. what about you?.
I would adopt Bert Schroeder's proposal that THIS GENERATION began in 1957 with the launch of the Russian Sputnik satellite - i.e. heavenly signs & celestial phenomena. That should buy them an extra 43 years.
It's no sillier than the current teaching.
is your favorite kingdom melody still in the new songbook?
red - gone.
blue - changes to music or lyrics.
My favorite is the new song 92, "Flip the Bird".
the topic is- "young people: serve jehovah wholeheartedly".. i'd appreciate various points that would make this talk appealing to my cong.
youths, but please keep it within jw boundaries because i don't want to give my elders any hint of me being an apostate yet.. i have to say that i am still enjoying my newly given "priviledges'', and am still so surprised that holy spirit has'nt pointed me out yet.. agbm.
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AGBM:
Based on your icon, could your real name possibly be: Samuel Francisco Herd?
If you're really giving a public talk, just read the outline word-for-word and look up about 10 random scriptures from the outline. That's what all the other hacks do.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ghnjmmoymjw/dctalk48.pdf.
just uploaded page 2...not 1 or 3 as they are of no interest.. this talk is only given by gb members or branch committee members.
enjoy.
Interesting how they try to explain this.... again.
Of interest is the new DVD that will evidently be coming out "Jehovahs Witnesses, Faith in Action - Out of Darkness"
They mention how Fred Franz was a 'contemporary' of many of the younger anointed. Of course, although even that is a stretch, the Bible never uses the word 'contemporary' in that specific context. The word is 'generation'. Who really believes that Freddie Franz, a man who grew up literally in horse-and-buggy days, is of the same generation as the 35-year-old elder who started partaking 6 weeks ago?
I'm assuming this is the concluding talk of the district convention.
i went to meeting today.
during the public talk it was mentioned that as far back as 1942 the society pointed out the dangers of smoking tobacco and that it wasn't appropriate for christains.
as usual there were no references given.
Actually, I found this reference which stated that 1895 was one of the first times Russell spoke against tobacco use.
*** w95 5/15 p. 23 par. 11 Part 2—Flashes of Light—Great and Small ***
As a result of increased light, habits at first merely frowned upon were later handled with appropriate gravity. An example of this was in connection with the use of tobacco. In Zion’s Watch Tower of August 1, 1895, Brother Russell directed attention to 1 Corinthians 10:31 and 2 Corinthians 7:1 and wrote: “I cannot see how it would be to God’s glory, or to his own profit, for any Christian to use tobacco in any form.” Since 1973 it has been clearly understood that no tobacco user can be one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
