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Where is Tony?

by Athanasius in

jw
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on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

FreeTheMasons

Tony may not even be there.

With all the money Watchtower has hidden away everywhere, there's a good chance he's not even in North Carolina - they just have his name on a residence so people think he's there, and Salena showing up caused others to think he was there.

The tax bill amount indicates that someone is getting homestead exemption. To get that, the residence has to be the primary residence of the person listed on the tax bill.

Why did you bring that up anyway? When you said: "The residence has to be the primary residence of the person listed on the tax bill" what were you implying? That the homestead thing would prove he was actually there?

If you do the math, there is NO HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION on that tax bill anyway.

Why would Watchtower want people to think he's in North Carolina if he's actually somewhere else?

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rant about the stupidty of JW r/f

by enoughisenough in

putting this under beliefs,doctrine and practices because i don't see a better heading.

here is what i have been thinking for years now and the situation with the recent storms and the devastation brings in closer to home in my thinking.

i lived in western nc for 20 years and moved to wv in feb of this year.

FreeTheMasons

and when such JW's who believe every word of the GB wake up, they become even more stupid ex-JW's who believe every word of Reddit

Ex-JW Reddit preaches evolution, abusive lifestyles, and spiritism - so, yeah, stupid.

They teach Satan is the ruler of this world so why do they have a picture of the world and not focus on something more spiritual?
They also put their logo up, just JW. Why? It becomes a symbol when it doesn’t explain anything to the viewer.

JW = Junior Warden

CT Russell, Rutherford, the other WT leaders, the GB today...they are freemasons of the Egyptian esoteric/hermetic/Kabbalistic/Rosicrucian-style occult. It is a form of satanism (a "satan" is someone who opposes or resists truth.)

Hence the same type of shunning doctrines, the same type of twisting truth and false together, the same type of "building" work (empires of religious, physical, or corporate sort), the same type of hierarchy structure and ladder climbing.

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Another way you are being spied upon

by careful in

from jeremy hsu, technology writer for new scientist magazine.. smart tvs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second.

smart tvs from samsung and lg take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console.

read the whole article below.

FreeTheMasons

There are spiritists who are able to "spy" without using the technology.

I agree that it's an invasion of privacy, but people or spirit creatures who don't respect Jehovah's boundaries are less likely to respect the boundaries of anyone else.

Eventually people and spirit creatures that don't respect privacy will be put out of commission. Until then, we just have to deal with it.

If Jehovah wants to blind someone or put up a "firewall", that is within His power to do so.

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Where is Tony?

by Athanasius in

jw
friends

on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

FreeTheMasons

The tax bill amount indicates that someone is getting homestead exemption. To get that, the residence has to be the primary residence of the person listed on the tax bill.

Where do you see anything about homestead exemption on there? There is nothing on that posted bill earlier about homestead exemption.

The online receipt also does not indicate any kind of exemption. The property tax appears to be non-exempt.

https://www.ustaxdata.com/nc/robeson/Trans_bill.cfm?billNo=4009612&TaxYear=2024

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What evidence is there for a biblical jesus?

by Touchofgrey in

is there any independently verified evidence that a miracle worker called jesus existed and did the things that the bible said he did?.

the four gospels were written by unknown authors many decades after the so called events, so can't be considered as eyewitness accounts.

i think that there may have been a apocalyptic preacher who was executed by the romans and the story evolved from their.

FreeTheMasons

@joeyjojo -

Then obvious those you call "fundamental Christians" do not understand the Bible.

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What evidence is there for a biblical jesus?

by Touchofgrey in

is there any independently verified evidence that a miracle worker called jesus existed and did the things that the bible said he did?.

the four gospels were written by unknown authors many decades after the so called events, so can't be considered as eyewitness accounts.

i think that there may have been a apocalyptic preacher who was executed by the romans and the story evolved from their.

FreeTheMasons

The Bible is well written.

Only those who don't understand love cannot understand the Bible.

"God is love."

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how do you feel about the use of the name Jehovah now?

by enoughisenough in

for those who still believe in god and the bible, how do you feel/think about the name jehovah now?

i am one who never wanted to bring reproach on god's name.

i will admit using the word jehovah now makes me feel rather icky...like i am promoting a lie of sorts.

FreeTheMasons

God's name existed before human languages existed.

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and understand all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." (1 Corinthians 13:1,2)

The Bible speaks of "the tongues of angels," meaning heavenly communication.

No human can pronounce God's name here on earth the same way it is pronounced in heaven, but God is reasonable. He doesn't expect humans to pronounce things the way angels would.

God doesn't expect Greeks to pronounce His name the same way Hebrews would, just like God doesn't expect English speakers to pronounce His name the same way Greeks would.

Jehovah is the One who divided up the languages in the first place after the Babel incident. He knows what His name is, and He knows when someone is calling on Him. He's not partial.

The meaning of His name is what is more important: "He Causes To Become."

But as regards the name Jehovah in English, some people complain about "some monk named Martini made up the name in the 1270s so it's not valid..." and yet those same people fail to acknowledge that English in its present form was not even a thing until between the early 14th to the 17th centuries.

https://www.quora.com/Who-is-credited-with-first-using-the-name-Jehovah-as-a-proper-name-for-God/answer/EasyAddendum?ch=10&oid=1477743814152363&share=9e7d5b97&srid=hy1dvD&target_type=answer

Mythbusters Regarding God's Name Jehovah

https://youtu.be/9jk_YmS44Vw

The word Jehovah, used mostly in association with JWs has become besmeared, leaving a bad taste in my mouth so to speak, what with their CSA and stealing KHs and shady business practices. I have also seen videos about esoteric cults using the name in reference to the devil rather than almighty God.

That was the goal of the Devil, to blaspheme Jehovah's name so that people wouldn't use it.

Genesis 4:26 records that people have been calling on Jehovah's name in a blasphemous way for a long time: "At that time people began calling on the name of Jehovah." When those esoteric groups mix Jehovah's name in with their false worship it is for the purpose of poisoning their relationships with Jehovah. The individuals mixed up in those esoteric practices are abusing themselves or abusing others or subjecting themselves to abuse while at the same time using God's name, so they eventually grow to associate Jehovah's name with bad things even though He is not the source of any of the bad things they are doing.

It's the same idea with the Watchtower. The Watchtower teaches lies about Jehovah. The disfellowshipping doctrine is a lie. The 1914 things is a lie. There are a lot of things that Watchtower teaches that are lies all the while they claim to represent Jehovah.

Here's the thing: they don't represent Jehovah. They are liars. Liars gonna lie. Their lies don't negate that God's name in English is Jehovah.

You can call him Yahweh if you want; you can call Him Jehovah if you want. He knows you're talking about Him. What matters is calling on Him in faith - in other words, recognizing the meaning of His name, and that He will respond.

I was chatting with someone the other day on another forum about a similar topic. That person was trying to say that Jesus didn't use God's name Jehovah or that it shouldn't be in the New Testament because it wasn't pronounced in Greek, but it was pronounced in Greek.

The Catholic Church has hidden their copies of many manuscripts that have God's name in Greek. (I'm not talking about just the Hebrew letters of the Tetragrammaton. I'm talking about His name translated into Greek.)

The texts typically used for many English translations today are either the Codex Vaticanus or the Codex Sinaiticus, or the Textus Receptus. The same types of apostates who wove in the hellfire doctrine or the Trinity doctrine are the ones controlling access to those older manuscripts. Those apostates are not to be trusted.

The modern orthodox Judaism tradition also is not to be trusted with giving an accurate account of the history of the use of God's name. The Kabbalistic teachings have been the very doctrines that blaspheme Jehovah's name the most.

There are fragments of transcripts in Greek dating to just prior to the time Jesus was born that have the name Jehovah in Greek. It's not the Hebrew Tetragrammaton; it's a Greek version of God's name. Jesus would have had access to Greek manuscripts with God's name in them. When Jesus taught, he would have used God's name in both Hebrew and in Greek. Thus he showed us by his example that it's okay to use God's name in another language.

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Where is Tony?

by Athanasius in

jw
friends

on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

FreeTheMasons

Whether he is there or not, someone is paying the tax bill on the house...

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What evidence is there for a biblical jesus?

by Touchofgrey in

is there any independently verified evidence that a miracle worker called jesus existed and did the things that the bible said he did?.

the four gospels were written by unknown authors many decades after the so called events, so can't be considered as eyewitness accounts.

i think that there may have been a apocalyptic preacher who was executed by the romans and the story evolved from their.

FreeTheMasons

@JoeyJoJo said: FreetheMasons, I'm not sure if you are new here, or posting with a new account. With respect, you are simply paraphrasing selected bible passages that you believe to have some kind of meaning in 2024.
This board is full of people that lived a majority of their lives as JW's and have heard all of this before. Since leaving the org, a lot of those same people have studied the Bible in great detail - including the inconvenient parts of the bible they don't talk about much at the meetings.
All you seem to be saying is, ' the bible said it- that settles it'. That's not good enough if you want to be taken seriously.
FreeTheMasons
@joeyjojo -
If I cared more about what people think than about what Jehovah thinks, I'd still be in the JWborg now.
You seem to care more about impressing people than truth, which is why you value "being taken seriously" more than I do.
Are you a former JW elder?
@JoeyJoJo said: No. In my 30 - ish years as a born in jw I never 'reached out'. Never an elder or m.s. - I didnt even auxilliary pioneer once.

Then why are you trying to imitate their tactics?

@JoeyJoJo said: Im not a fan of Garth Brooks or country music, so I dont know the song you are referring to, but thanks for dedicating it to me.

(First Verse)

Blame is all on my roots

I showed up in boots

And ruined your black tie affair, yeah

The last one to know

The last one to show

I was the last one you thought you'd see there

And I saw the surprise

And the fear in his eyes

When I took his glass of champagne

And I toasted you

Said, "Honey, we may be through

But you'll never hear me complain"

(Chorus)

'Cause I've got friends in low places

Where the whiskey drowns

And the beer chases my blues away

And I'll be okay

I'm not big on social graces

Think I'll slip on down to the oasis

Oh, I've got friends

In low places

(Second Verse)

Well I guess I was wrong

I just don't belong

But then, I've been there before

Everything's alright

I'll just say goodnight

And I'll show myself to the door

Hey I didn't mean

To cause a big scene

Just give me an hour and then

Well, I'll be as high as that ivory tower

That you're livin' in

[Chorus]

(Third Verse - not part of the original song but morphed into it over time...)

Hey, I didn't mean

To cause a big scene

Just wait 'til I finish this glass

And sweet little lady

I'll head to the bar

And you can kiss my ass!

[Chorus]

(Outro)

Yeah!

Oh, I've got friends in low places

Where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases

My blues away

And I'll be okay

I'm not big on social graces

Think I'll slip on down to the oasis

Oh, I've got friends in low places

'Cause, Honey, I've got friends

In low places

@JoeyJoJo said: Enjoy your beer- I wish i was drinking one right now.

Thank you. I did enjoy it.🙂 Maybe sometime we'll all have one together - while hanging out with Jesus too.😉

https://www.facebook.com/wesshippmusic/videos/beer-with-jesus-thomas-rhett-cover/3558894677683833/?_rdr

FreeTheMasons: For the same reason Herod saw him in a negative light - they didn't want to lose their power and control over people.
@TonusOH said: Even though they knew he was divine?
I asked the question to point out a flaw in the argument that the apostles would not have died for a fraud. We can point out this flaw in other ways, such as the claim that the Jewish priests --who were waiting on the Messiah-- would reject a man who performed miracles and spoke in a way that left people amazed. If people can act in an irrational manner, why not the apostles who supposedly preferred martyrdom? If their actions only make sense in the context of an actual god in their midst, how does that explain his rejection by the priests? Because they wanted something that they knew they would lose anyway? That doesn't make sense.

That's why the Bible calls it "stupid" or "foolish" in the Proverbs.

It's also why it's referred to as "mentally diseased" or "corrupted thinking" in the New Testament.

To reject God's Son is stupid. It is foolish. The thinking of God's chief enemy is mentally diseased and corrupted. Just as a rusty car or a corroded wire stop functioning properly at a certain point, it's the same with Satan's brain. His thinking is so messed up from being disconnected from God. Satan knows God exists, but in his twisted mind he actually thinks he'll succeed in living even after disconnecting from Him. It's ridiculous.

The wicked priests in the first century knew God existed. They knew it. And they knew who Jesus was. But their thinking ability was so out of whack that they really thought they'd succeed and get away with it.

Jesus gave that illustration about the man with a vineyard who sent his heir to collect the harvest and the workers killed the heir. When we hear that illustration, we're like "what were they thinking?" And that is the point. Their thinking is so messed up - it's not logical at all.

The same thing happens to people today who are following in the ways of the Pharisees.

@TonusOH said: This sort of selective interpretation might be excused if it happens once, or if it can be explained away in a coherent manner. But this is typical of the Bible-- it is interpreted many different ways and inconsistencies and problems like the one described above are ignored or handwaved. After a while, it's not hard to understand what is happening-- we interpret it to suit our beliefs. This, in itself, is a flaw.

It is a flaw. It is a flaw in their thinking. You see it again and again and again in those who are following in the footsteps of the Pharisees.

They reject truth. They refuse to change. They deny God's Son. They are retarded. Seriously - they are mentally retarded - and I don't mean that in an insulting way - "retarded" as in slow.

If they choose to wake up and turn around, that would be nice.

It's too late for the Devil and the demons to turn around, but it's not too late for some of these pharisaical-types. When the Bible says there is no sacrifice left for those who blaspheme, what it means is that there's not going to be another ransom sent. The only ransom is the one Jesus paid with his blood already. So those retards have to look to that ransom. They must bend the knee to God's Son, Jesus, if they want to live forever.

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What evidence is there for a biblical jesus?

by Touchofgrey in

is there any independently verified evidence that a miracle worker called jesus existed and did the things that the bible said he did?.

the four gospels were written by unknown authors many decades after the so called events, so can't be considered as eyewitness accounts.

i think that there may have been a apocalyptic preacher who was executed by the romans and the story evolved from their.

FreeTheMasons

That's not good enough if you want to be taken seriously.

How's the third line of this song go, @joey jojo, do ya know?😜

its 😎🍺
Allll good. Its just people thats all

Amen, @BethSarim! Jesus hung out with people - he didn't care what the freakin Pharisees thought...cheers to you, @BethSarim - having a cold one right now - may you have an awesome evening, my friend🫶😁

https://youtu.be/4w8wcmZQ-pc?si=SOCPx846AI8H6uJQ