are the governing body really in charge or are they just a figurehead with the real power being behind the curtain .
DesirousOfChange: "I believe they have plugged the hole in the dike by taking extreme measures if there is even a "hint" of any kind of misconduct involving a child"
Do they now encourage the elders or the parents to call the police, or do they still insist on the two witnesses rule? If not, what's changed?
i would like to know if ex's and formers who are not church christians, believe that many of jws' doctrines and bible interpretations are correct, or do you feel that they aren't?
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Elderberry, JWs aren't the only ones who entertain the possibility that Michael could be Jesus. Here is a SDA article: https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/materials/is-michael-another-name-for-jesus/
I'm pretty sure that I've heard Christadelphians refer to Jesus as Michael, which means that that is probably where Russell got the idea from. I also know of individual writers from mainstream Christianity who entertain the possibility. But it doesn't seem to be a tightly held doctrine in most denominations.
this young jw lady was shunned by her parents since she was 18 or 19 years old.
she was befriended by the older man that you see in the picture.
perhaps you recognize him?
BoogerMan, the initials on the plane are JE, for Epstein himself, but I can certainly see what you're talking about! There's a certain subliminal feel to it, even though it can't in actuality be any more than coincidence.
old habits die hard...and quite often in my comments i will refer to the borg as the 'truth'.
does anyone know of any other churches that refer to their own particular church or religion as the 'truth'??
also, does anyone know how it originated...all my life i have used the term...comments like 'how long have u been in the truth?
slimboyfat (everytime I read your name, I hear "Weapon of Choice going through my head 😸): I thought if anyone could confirm that, it'd be you 👍
Jan, we mainstream Christians tend to refer to Jesus as "the Truth" (John 14:6), not our denominations.
pitchman now federal fugitive: federal authorities are looking for fugitive angel cruz, who led followers to try to 'evict' a palmetto bay bank of america.mon.
november 24, 2008; posted: 01:11 am todays top stocks.
click herenov 24, 2008 (the miami herald - mcclatchy-tribune information services via comtex) -- bac | quote | chart | news | powerrating -- passionately and to help many of his followers, angel cruz championed an unorthodox business network for the downtrodden who he believed were bullied by a corrupt u.s. banking system.
I became aware of Angel Cruz and his "In Jehovah We Trust" scam when I was just looking up private currencies. I looked him up on here, and sure enough, there he is. The article I read didn't actually identify him as a JW, but apparently he was. So BTTT with this post.
BTW, he managed to avoid capture for some time. He wasn't caught until 2020.
forgive the insensitivity of this but does the wt imagine the "resurrected" bodies of the dead will have useless genitalia?
or will the humans 2.0 have the smooth appearance of a ken doll or the nipple-less breasts of a barbie.
any breasts at all?
I'm aware of the discrepancies, Seabreeze. My question is to mainly point out the logical shortcomings of what I understand to be the WT position. Or at least, what I've been told in discussions on my doorstep. 🙋 As someone who was never a JW, I could be wrong as to what they really say about it all. That being said, I feel like the WT has always been deliberately vague about how the new system is supposed to work. 🤔
if not, what's in it for the gb?.
but seriously, how is it supposed to work?
pictures of jws in paradise show them raising crops, wearing clothes and building houses.
If not, what's in it for the GB?
But seriously, how is it supposed to work? Pictures of JWs in paradise show them raising crops, wearing clothes and building houses. They still have to eat. The distribution of labour between various projects, needs and priorities has to be rationed out somehow. That's the role of money in the current system. Something like it would have to take its place. Unless the plan is abject slavery. (It's not like the GB hasn't already been grooming the JWs to think of themselves as slaves)
forgive the insensitivity of this but does the wt imagine the "resurrected" bodies of the dead will have useless genitalia?
or will the humans 2.0 have the smooth appearance of a ken doll or the nipple-less breasts of a barbie.
any breasts at all?
"They will have children.
Must be frutiful and fill the earth."
I was under the impression that those who survive the big A will be spending the Millennium preparing the earth for the resurrection of pretty well everyone who died in Armageddon. 8bn people divided by 1000 years means around 8000000 people per year for whom housing must be provided (remember all those vision of paradise pictures of JWs building houses during the Millennium?) The faithful survivors will be too busy to be having children and raising them. Besides, why do you need to have children when 8bn people are about to arrive on the scene? And why does the earth need to be repopulated when you already have 8bn people?
in the 70's a bethel elder told me that every morning in the 60's the paint and scaffold crew, (which was located on the 5th floor of building 4) would go up to the roof and walk around the perimeter on top of the ledge, which i doubt was more than 12" wide.
then they'd go render sacred service to jehovah..
"Diogenesister, my last contact with Bethelites, they joked that they had a betting pool as to how long a unmarried "sister" at Bethel would last as unmarried, it turned out it was six months."
Wow, Diogenesister, you could have not only had new socks, but a new husband! 🙋🧦
found this on fb from the recent losch talk.
time for a new business model?.
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I thought of a membership fee when I was posting about whether or not the GB will implement tithing. I wasn't sure how they could really impose it, since there are no groups in mainstream Christianity that I know of that do it*.
That that is how modern Judaism works is interesting, but I can't see the WT appealing to their customs to convince the slaves.
*There are high control groups and churches that check people's payslips to ensure that they are tithing the correct amount, but most mainstream groups operate on a free-will offering basis.
