the wt engages in history revisionism when insisting the world changed overnight in 1914. in fact the european power struggles that came to a head were centuries old.
millions of lives had been lost in the wars of the 19th century, with the world a powder keg the years prior to the assassination of franz ferdinand in june 1914 which is often said, albeit rather arbitrarily, as the start of the war that escalated over the next 4 years into the great war.
take a look at these two pages and ask if the wt's interpretation of history seems accurate to you.
G’day,
I’ve come to this thread late, but a post by TD with extract from Watchtower 1933 caught my eye (and ire!):
https://img.jehovahs-witness.com/image/f2a72c1fe120221304aded02cf272606?s=480
No-one seems to have picked up on the sacrilegious statement by “the F&DS”. Upon entering heaven after his resurrection, Christ was “told to wait”, kick his heels, how could christians at the time, and now, not see how sacrilegious, even blasphemous, that teaching is.
Cheers,
Ozzie 🍷
i have been out for a long time now and have kept busy.
but tonight my jw mom asked me what is happening in norway.
so i researched and wow!
I see you joined in a bygone era as did I.
Sorry we’ve not interacted before this that I can recall but glad to read of an old-timer who’s made a successful exit.
The borg lives on but is much changed from when you and I were R&F devotees. The “troof” is no longer what we once knew.
A whole new membership worships at the throne of the F&DS.
Cheers to you,
Ozzie 🍷
‘Getting my hours in’ class
if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.
estephan.
Should we re-name this thread?
Footnote: this is a good example of going off-topic.🫣🥴
OK carry on
Cheers,
Ozzie (of the Tony Morris class) 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
P.S. hi scholar, you’ve done it again! 🙃
original reddit post (removed).
What kind of idiot owns a domain name and has the email be a gmail account and not the domain itself?
Could it be because he’s not willing to pay the G-suite (Workspace) fees if his account is linked?
do jw's still believe that babylon the great is the empire of false religion?
inquiring minds want to know .
estephan.
Fish:
The entire Bible is decoded by JW commentary. What remains is the realization of JW eschatology
Huh? What on earth are you on?
original reddit post (removed).
SBF:
Some of us used to style ourselves as being of a certain “class” the way that Watchtower had “anointed class”, “John class”, “other sheep class”, and so on.
Those were the days ! Many a smile from some of the ‘classes’.
acts 20:28 literally says: “his own blood”.
nwt interprets the verse: “the blood of his own son”.
nwt is an accurate interpretation because the verse is axiomatically referring to the blood of jesus and not the blood of god..
the verse is axiomatically referring to the blood of Jesus and not the blood of God.
Or could it be that the WT interpretation is influenced by their pre-supposition, i.e. that Jesus was not God in human form ?
i was wondering if some who may have been in the judgement seat ( so to speak ) had a wake-up call while judging someone who was defending leaving jw.
( or maybe it was from reading a letter of disassociation.
) .
Oh yes, one particular ‘case’ still haunts me, even though it was around 30 years ago.
Admittedly it was some time before my own exit, but that ‘case’ along with other memories contributed to my own seeing TTaboutTT.
I console myself with the thought that we actually did that guy we DF a favour by getting him away from the borg and all its control.
original reddit post (removed).
With what "faith community" is he allied?
Well, some may not see it this way, but when LE proclaims a particular belief system, he is putting his faith in that, much like any other religious adherent does in what they believe.
to jehovah's witnesses.
we express our position on [jehovah's witnesses] under the [watchew tower bible and booklet association] as follows.. .
1. jehovah's witnesses claimed that jesus christ was brought back in the fall of 1874 rather than 1914 and planned people to come out of the established church, so this organization is regarded as a false prophet.
