this is a very strange thing for me to do.
i have been an active witness for over 25 years.
i currently serve as an elder and i conduct the watchtower study.
The dog..I am sure that 99% of all people will define a generation in that way.
Butm you probably understand that the society hade to change te teaching to "save" the WT chronology and 1914. Remember this is the third change of the generation teaching since 1995. But a lot of JW seem to not have noticed those changes.
this is a very strange thing for me to do.
i have been an active witness for over 25 years.
i currently serve as an elder and i conduct the watchtower study.
Hi Dog!
I think a lot of elders feel the same way as you do with that generation teaching. But if you don't want to get DF'd you have to act carefully. Maybe ju just could prtend to be a tiny bit confused during those paragraphs of the WT-study. I am sure that a lot of people in your congregation are confused....if they notice one elders confusion some of them might begin thinking a bit.
Take care
there is a trend in modern evangelical, charismatic and "non-religious spirituality" that gets dangerously close to erotic love of jesus.. it's something that i first observed during my christian years especially in the lyrics of christian songs and sometimes during open-prayer times.
if you haven't experienced open prayer you are the lucky ones.
everybody adopts the shampoo position - elbows on knees, head in hands - and whoever is "moved by the spirit" speaks up for a while, followed by an awkward silence, followed by two people speaking up at the same time, followed by silence, and so on.. anyway back to the topic, here are a few random examples .... "lord i give you my heart.
It's easy to make jokes om this subject....just think about one certain poster with intense contact with Jesus. No names !
But, nevertheless. I find it very interesting from a psychological and sociogical point of wiev.
I just wonder about this related to straight Jesus-men.....there must be some kind of hidden homoerotc bonding.
there is a trend in modern evangelical, charismatic and "non-religious spirituality" that gets dangerously close to erotic love of jesus.. it's something that i first observed during my christian years especially in the lyrics of christian songs and sometimes during open-prayer times.
if you haven't experienced open prayer you are the lucky ones.
everybody adopts the shampoo position - elbows on knees, head in hands - and whoever is "moved by the spirit" speaks up for a while, followed by an awkward silence, followed by two people speaking up at the same time, followed by silence, and so on.. anyway back to the topic, here are a few random examples .... "lord i give you my heart.
I was thinking about medieval nuns, like Mechtild of Magdeburg...her poems vere erotic in the descriptions of her relationship with God/Jesus.
there is a trend in modern evangelical, charismatic and "non-religious spirituality" that gets dangerously close to erotic love of jesus.. it's something that i first observed during my christian years especially in the lyrics of christian songs and sometimes during open-prayer times.
if you haven't experienced open prayer you are the lucky ones.
everybody adopts the shampoo position - elbows on knees, head in hands - and whoever is "moved by the spirit" speaks up for a while, followed by an awkward silence, followed by two people speaking up at the same time, followed by silence, and so on.. anyway back to the topic, here are a few random examples .... "lord i give you my heart.
I think you are on to something important. I should guess that the main reason of the overrepresentation of women in christian congreagitions (JW as well) is that pseudu-erotic relationship whith tjhe Jesus-persona.
Jesus as ones personal savior and redeemer is certanly something special for heterosexual women. One have not to be Freud to realize that.
a jw friend of mine (who was one of my besties until i told him i didn't believe jw religion anymore) used to live in austria and for a while in the 70's was in the same congregation as losch.
they used to spend some time together in the ministry.
my jw friend tells me that he and losch used to often talk about how they believed the wt was wrong about certain interpretations of the bible, for example, how at the time the wt taught that the mustard tree used by jesus in an illustration represented an evil kingdom, and losch and friend didn't think that was right.
By the way...I think old Gerrit Lösch is the one who has been in the GB the longest time now...probaly he has a lot of power about certain teachings/dogma
a jw friend of mine (who was one of my besties until i told him i didn't believe jw religion anymore) used to live in austria and for a while in the 70's was in the same congregation as losch.
they used to spend some time together in the ministry.
my jw friend tells me that he and losch used to often talk about how they believed the wt was wrong about certain interpretations of the bible, for example, how at the time the wt taught that the mustard tree used by jesus in an illustration represented an evil kingdom, and losch and friend didn't think that was right.
Every "new light" has once been apostate thinking!The present teaching of the "generation" must have been severely apostate before it became official dogma..........the rank and file would not dare speaking of overlain generations before 2010!
one vid with over 100,000 views thanks to jw.org.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jehovah%27s+witnesses+masturbating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5f_yghhiss.
This is the original thread about that video,
one vid with over 100,000 views thanks to jw.org.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jehovah%27s+witnesses+masturbating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5f_yghhiss.
I hope you have seen the Hard rock/Heavy Metal version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXOMTUuGB4Y&feature=player_embedded
i was telling my jw friend about the condi law suit.
the first thing she asked was how did i even hear about it because it was news to her .
( i was 't expecting that reaction.
It's better to "blame" chanse or google than Satan himself! My belief is that google brought you here! :-)
The Org doesn't like freedom of information...the reason is obvious.
