what are your understandings or knowledge about this?
are the jw's the only ones that were given "insight" as to who the saints are?.
for a jw info board it is interesting that there is so very little on this subject of the anointed here.
I seem to recall hearing back-shadows whispers indicating that others had an anointed class, but I couldn't put it down to anything more than, perhaps, wishful thinking?
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did you ever use this response, or know of someone who did?
it's in page 16 of the "reasoning from the scriptures" book.
the "conversation stopper" being addressed is, i'm not interested .. the 7th and final suggested answer for a jw publisher is as follows: is that your usual reply when jehovah's witnesses call?....have you ever wondered why we keep calling or what we have to say?....briefly, the reason is that i know something that you should know too .
okay, I admit it. I used that one.
It worked, too.
The woman I was talking to looked at me furiously, but never went inside the house.
I was so startled by her remaining outside that I forgot what to say next.
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what you got to say, in a nutshell?.
peace.
celtic
You may be wearing a tie, but it doesn't stop you from going bald...
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i was at bethel with my now ex-husband in early 1982. at that time, they did a tb test as part of the physical when you started.
mine came out positive for exposure (though i did not and have never had tb), probably because i had worked as a receptionist in a hospital x-ray department.. the weird bit is that the bethel doctor insisted on giving me a gynacological exam.
as i was only 22 at the time, and butt-stupid, i went ahead and let him.
Without meaning to be insensitive, doesn't it seem like the general opinion is starting to sway towards the "Bethel is full of young, single, horny men" opinion?
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"He's a real shit brickhouse" - if you know the original, you'll know why...
in the organization, we had [have] limited choices of who can be our friends.
oftentimes, we had [have] to deal with many people we did [do] not like and pretend to be their friends.
of course, we also had [have] to deal with people who carry a lot of baggage and it was difficult.
It's nice to be reminded of this, especially with the new year, and therefore symbolic new beginnings, coming up for us all.
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what is evil?.
who defines what is truly evil?.
if someone lived a trillion x longer than you, and had a billion x more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?.
"With regards to your little strawman about me being off topic when I was talking about right and wrong and you were talking about evil, I will just ask you this question: If God defines evil, is it logical to conclude that he then does NOT also define right and wrong? If not, why not?"
It was me who originally brought this up.
Now, it's ten to eight, so I might not be functioning correctly. Mytypos are far more vast, and the delete key is being used liberally to correct this. But I'll try to explain it, anyway.
According to the dictionary, RIGHT means, in part: "2 : being in accordance with what is just, good, or proper <right conduct>
3 a : agreeable to a standard" and GOOD means, in part,: " a (1) : VIRTUOUS, RIGHT, COMMENDABLE <a good person>", so we can see the distinction here between right and good, namely that right UPHOLDS to a standard, and good IS that standard.
So, the attempt herein is either to define GOOD and therefore negatively define EVIL (because that is, after all, the point of this thread), or to define EVIL, and come to a conclusion.
Describing RIGHT actions can help us come to a conclusion about some of the features that GOOD entails, but it can never tell us what GOOD actually IS. IT's like showing people a beautiful flower, a beautiful woman, a beautiful painting, and a beautiful scene, and telling them you have defined beauty. You haven't, you've simply shown some aspects of it.
Thus, in claiming that through defining right as actions performed by God, you're telling us that we can see things upholding to the standard of GOOD. However, for the purposes of the negative definition of EVIL it becomes necessary to cut to the chase, so to speak, and say that if the actions of God are RIGHT then the definition that we are after, ie GOOD, is...and then state whatever the logical conclusion is (which is, I believe, in this case, whatever moral code God adheres to).
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the elusive brother some and the watchtower society.. in brooklyn , they have for years been bothered by a shady and very mystical brother.
they usually call him some.
we receive constant reassurances from the watchtower that what is printed in the literature is the truth.
Norm, congratulations, that's probably the finest post I've read here.
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what is evil?.
who defines what is truly evil?.
if someone lived a trillion x longer than you, and had a billion x more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?.
Not necessarily off topic, but certainly starting to sway a little...
hello everyone...hope all are having a great holiday season.. ***warning--kind of long***.
i am 31 and have been "out" for an undetermined # of years...probably starting as soon as i moved out of the house at age 23. i just "drifted away".. i was born into the jw faith.
my parents remain devout and "zealous" to this day.
Regarding the higher education, my school was pressing for me to apply to Oxford and Cambridge, but I never did because of my parents.
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