in a recent post about the watchtower’s claim that all animals were created as vegetarians, one commenter said that watchtower could no longer sustain this belief so they simply stopped talking about it.
i began thinking about other wacky doctrines and statements by the borg that have faded away.
i’ll offer two of them below, but the complete list must be longer than your arm.. 7000 year-long creative days: watchtower once taught that each of the creative days was 7,000 years in duration, hence the hype leading up to 1975. they believed that year marked 6,000 years since adam’s creation, and oh how nicely the 1,000-year reign would fit as the last piece of the puzzle, thus completing the final “day”.
How did I EVER think it was perfectly normal to have this situation:
A man is riding a Donkey, all of a sudden it starts talking to him!!!!!
AND... the man doesnt RUN LIKE HELL away, but instead stands there and has an argument with the donkey??????
OMG HOW STUPID WAS I!!!!!!!!
Or, were talking donkeys a thing back then?
in a recent post about the watchtower’s claim that all animals were created as vegetarians, one commenter said that watchtower could no longer sustain this belief so they simply stopped talking about it.
i began thinking about other wacky doctrines and statements by the borg that have faded away.
i’ll offer two of them below, but the complete list must be longer than your arm.. 7000 year-long creative days: watchtower once taught that each of the creative days was 7,000 years in duration, hence the hype leading up to 1975. they believed that year marked 6,000 years since adam’s creation, and oh how nicely the 1,000-year reign would fit as the last piece of the puzzle, thus completing the final “day”.
Even when I was young and a 100% believer, being into science and astronomy, I knew they were 100% wrong with that stuff, and it was just trying to make numbers fit with 144000 and bs like that.
SO much numerology!
But I still took the rest hook line and LIFE SINKER.
what happens when an elder learns the tatt.. https://youtu.be/tkyujamfziq.
Good on him!
i was thinking about how the org is dying, and how the guboobs are trying to give it cpr by transitioning to tvpreach.
now they will construct a media mecca and it looks like they will go full on e digital.
so, i was trying to come up with a name for their new hollywood that would stick.
No its gonna be in Ramapo not far from Warwick
if your stomach can take it look at this video around the 53 min mark.
https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/WebHomeSlider/pub-jwb_202001_1_VIDEO
i could not find mention of this before.
i was reading genesis 8:22 in the niv and was surprised i had never noticed that this verse gives the impression that the earth will not remain forever.
genesis 8:22 stated by god after the flood, when promising to never again destroy all living creatures.. as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.
You are parsing the bible as if any of it makes sense, or is true?
What's the point, its a bad fiction book.
every once in a while you hear people say they actually “miss” their old witness friends and or family.
some would have even stayed in the organization if they became a bit more liberal and open minded.
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minimus - absolutely :)
every once in a while you hear people say they actually “miss” their old witness friends and or family.
some would have even stayed in the organization if they became a bit more liberal and open minded.
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No.
It is a CULT that wasted 48 years of my life.
Cost me a possible career I may have cherished, a normal family, a GOOD SEX LIFE, a stable financial future, a lot of friends (who i lost cuz i dont go to meetings), and even a stable emotional base.
I'd sooner dance the tarantella nude in an ice storm in Time Square.
Does that answer your question?
the watchtower—study edition | march 2020. .
4 jesus taught us the importance of making peace with a brother who has something against us.
(read matthew 5:23, 24.
It is funny.
I was stabbed in the back by a number of elders (cuz they did not get the privileges I did - didnt matter that they could not put a coherent thought together).
I used it as a great way to fade - but the elders SHOULD have reacted as if I was STUMBLED, and tried to make amends.
Well - that didnt happen, THANKFULLY!
The CULT does not practice what it it preaches.
i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.
you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .
which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!
Happy Birthday! Hope there are many more for you!!!
i have just got of the phone with a relative complaining about the convention venue.
as far as my relative is concerned wt can do no wrong, so for him to say what he did it must of been bad.
the venue where the convention was held was described to me as a “tin shed with no air conditioning”.
To bad he didnt complain about the CONTENT of the convention.
