big news - i met with the elders last night.
they were not arrogant and they were not mean spirited, but of course we all know they also would not budge from the jw brainwashed beliefs they are sworn to uphold.
i let my light shine, and within two minutes of sitting down with them was no longer nervous.. .
no doubt about it.... your gonna be DF'd.
The only reason I can imagine they didn't DF you on the spot is your JC has probably never had a person like you and they have no idea what to think or say.
They will review this with bethel and you're outta there. However, they may want to pick your brains a bit further to see if you have infected anyone else
september 1st, 2012, can be marked down in the theocratic calendar as the day the watchtower bible and tract society marched shamelessly into the 21st century.
on that day, jw.org, official website of jehovah's witnesses, went live, and with one strike the organisation put a match to its past.. .
seek out the society's online library, its searchable database of publications, and you will soon see that it has only made available literature published since the year 2000. inclusion of the generic work, insight on the scriptures, is of no consequence.
I've noticed that the Daniel and Revelation books are missing...of course, they are published before 2000.
AND they are both out of date with "old light", or er... "former truth", or uhm.... "prior understanding" yeah that's it, prior understanding
i keep hearing rumors elders are going to be getting permanent badge cards to wear to every meeting.
one excited brother told me, "it would be nice if new ones to the kingdom hall could see who their shepherds are.
there is a great surge in activity, new bible students will be able to locate the proper elder in charge of bible studies!
"Oooooh hey nice badge! How do I get one of those?"
"well let me show you brother....."
i never was a jehovahs witness.
its been stated.
so if i went up to a local congregation and knocked on the door how would i get to talk to an elder about my mother in law.... i have no interest in being a witness.
a complete waste of time.
this has nothing to do with them or the congregation.
my apologies of this topic has been covered already - please redirect me if it has:.
current belief is:.
watchtower (study edition), april 15th, 2010 issue, pages 27-29:.
Where the hell does Jesus say the lives of these certain ones would overlap one another ?
I'm I missing something here ?
What I read out of Jesus's words that once the signs of the end times began the generation that witnessed those apparent signs would not
pass away. Anointed or not anointed ! Where they pulled this overlapping generation(s) is made up wholly by themselves.
it seems to me that this "overlapping generation" is less of a lame WTS exegesis as it just a building on top of other generation teachings.
To JW's this would be easily absorbed because they already accept that the generation is 'anointed' so no problems there, and they already accept that the signs began in 1914 so no problem there either.
And how many times have we heard the word "contemporanious" used with the generation? This goes all the way back to Russel and right up to the 'contemporanious wicked' generation.
so the generation is not "generations" but rather one "contemporanious generation".
"This all sounds so familiar, this really isn't all that different is it?" To the longtime JW this is not all that much of stretch, but of course to us and anyone with an objective viewpoint we are dumbfounded that anyone could possibly believe such insane rhetoric.
I have always wondered why the reasoning book never update the generation from that of 1914. Well, (as I have said before) I suppose now they don't really need to. The generation today IS STILL the generation of 1914. That is exactly the same.The change is the definition what a generation is.
For all intents and purposes, the reasoning book is now correct again. They need only ad a footnote clarifying that 'generation' is a 'contemporanious generation' and it is this "contemporanious generation" that saw 1914 that will by no means pass away, 'just like we always said.'
if you look up the tetragrammaton in strong's concordance you will see that they use the phonetic spelling of "yeh-ho-vaw" but if you scroll down to the bottom of that link you will see this:.
jehovah, the lord.
from hayah; (the) self-existent or eternal; jehovah, jewish national name of god -- jehovah, the lord.
For exactly the same reason that you pronounce other names in English with a J that start with a Y sound in Hebrew. There is nothing magical or special about this name in particular. If you don't like it, don't say it. There's plenty of other fictional characters to admire.
if you look up the tetragrammaton in strong's concordance you will see that they use the phonetic spelling of "yeh-ho-vaw" but if you scroll down to the bottom of that link you will see this:.
jehovah, the lord.
from hayah; (the) self-existent or eternal; jehovah, jewish national name of god -- jehovah, the lord.
I (pronounced Y ) was the first letter. V was pronounced as U so IEHOVAH in latin was originally pronounced
this was proven by Indiana Jones himself and is therefore an irrefutable fact
i cannot fathom how the vast majority of my 7.5 million brothers and sisters, (especially all who are members of the worldwide order of special full-time servants of jehovahs witnesses) can believe for one second, the "given" explanation of romans 6:7. this is what taught; .
insight book - 2p.138judgmentday - "those resurrected will not be judged on the basis of the works done in their former life, because the rule at romans 6:7 says: he who has died has been acquitted from his sin.".
therefore, the following 6 scriptures can be ripped out of our bibles, because jesus does not have the god-given right to judge any dead people - because our own death has washed our sins away!!!
I always understood that Hiltler "worked against the holy spirit" which (according to the WTS) is the unforgiveable sin. Thus no resurrection.
this weekend was the convention for the southern san francisco bay area.
it was held at the santa clara convention center in the silicon valley http://www.santaclara.org/conventioncenter/ which is an improvement over the old s.f.
cow palace which is still used..just not as much.
To not use them would indicate acceptance of guilt IMHO.
i don't think I agree with this statement. To not use them would just be good PR. any corprotation dealing with a subject as sensetive as this would keep the accused under the rug.
To use them is just burying their heads in the sand, just do nothing until this "all goes away"
does that name produce in you any feelings?.
when you see that word, "jehovah", does it make you think of god?.
do you ever use that name- jehovah- in your life at this point?
ive said it so many times in my life it's meaningless now.
Allah is the god of the muslims. Jehovah is the god of the Jews. Neither means anymore to me than the other
