Some of the ones already mentioned, so I'll include:
Firefox
The Enemy Below
Signs
goodfellas.
one flew over the cuckoos nest.
casino.
Some of the ones already mentioned, so I'll include:
Firefox
The Enemy Below
Signs
if you haven’t watched the joe rogan podcast dealing with this virus, you should.. i’m wondering if the deluded gb will continue to schedule meetings of large groups of dubs.
they shouldn’t and neither should any other churches.. i can only cringe as i imagine groups of people coming together at mega-churches and conventions and conferences ( if you’re pentecostal ) and infecting each other while believing they are safe.. be smart everyone.
be informed.. dd.
The one thing the letter said was that none of these cancellations applies to the regional conventions. The WT has too much money to gain by keeping them. Too bad for the people that 'have' to attend.
It lays bare any claim to want to protect the sheep. Everybody is supposed to have self-sacrificing love, except the leaders. They do what's best for themselves.
Fortunately, the world will probably come to the JWs rescue and cancel them anyways.
I also have a problem with 150 people sharing/handling 3 or 4 wine cups. On the good side, I think wine is somewhat of a disinfectant. But the glass of the cup isn't.
what is the benefit of god's kingdom?.
the watchtower said when it started out in 1879 that god's kingdom had already arrived in heaven in 1874 and that its work would be complete by 1914. .
with heroic slogans of "destroying the kings of the earth" and "all enemies of christ the king" etc by 1914, "god fearing" humankind was to have been restored to prelapsarian innocence and the earth to a global edenic paradise.
i ask you all would anyone of you throw a party and have everyone atttending just to look at the refreshments?
would you invite people to a meal only to not be allowed to eat?.
absurd you say!.
this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
there are a number of wtb&ts publications that are quite useful in doing research, but would be significantly better if they weren't theologically and self-servingly biased.
i'd like to find more reliable substitutions, especially from scholarly/secular sources, to help me, and others, get a look at the bible from a fresh perspective.
here's a short list of "cool" books i'd like for which id like to find corresponding replacements.. new world translation of the holy scriptures w/references = ?
Marked
if this has been posted before, then my apologies..... article in april ‘20 wt changes the view of the locust swarm prophecy...formerly believed to describe the worldwide preaching by anointed.
”simply put, these verses refer, not to our zealous preaching work, but to the activity of the babylonian army that invaded jerusalem in 607 b.c.e.”.
they also tie in the giving of holy spirit to the congregation at pentecost and thereafter.. the article is available to read in full on our least favourite website.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-april-2020/an-attack-coming-from-the-north/.
adam was told not to eat from the tree of knowledge for upon the very day of eating from it, he would die.
i had someone say that god lied because, adam didn't die that day but, the scriptures say to god a day is as a thousand years so, since adam lived 900+ years after eating , he indeed died within god's view of a day.
methuselah the oldest to ever live 969 years still within god's set time of a day.
please share this question.
why is he spiritual israel not innumerable?.
the literal seed of abraham was innumerable (heb 11:12; gen 22:17; 1ki 4:20).
Salomo, you might find this thread interesting.
i believe when we were in the jw cult, our brains and thoughts were hijacked by the governing body.
i truly believe the gb thinks all members are stupid and they laugh at them in their wednesday morning secret meetings.. one such teaching that i never heard anyone bring out or question yet the absurdity and contradiction is blatantly obvious is: revelation chapter 20 says that christ will reign for 1000 years.
it doesn't say he will reign more than a thousand yrs but only 1000 yrs.
Hi KrisMalone,
Actually, the brainwashing is even deeper than you think. Rev 20:4 does not say that Christ will reign for a thousand years. It says that, 'those beheaded . . . those who had not worshipped the beast or it image . . . and those who did not receive the mark . . . these came to life and ruled with the Christ for a thousand years.
Regarding the Christ, Heb 10:12-13 says that, 'after his sacrifice he went his way to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God until his enemies should be made as his footstool.' The writer is quoting/alluding to Ps 110:1.
1Co 15:25 also alludes to Ps 110:1, but Paul (the writer of 1Co) says 'he (Jesus) must rule until all enemies have been put under his feet.' In other words, Jesus' sitting at God's right hand is referring to his 'reigning.'
Heb 2:5-9 also has Jesus already "crowned" but with 'all his enemies not yet under his under his control.'
The upshot is that, according to these verses, Jesus started ruling after he returned to heaven. It is his faithful followers that 'rule with him for a thousand years.'
The WT has hidden nearly 1900 years of Jesus' rulership. And they have done it so well that one can read Rev 20:4 and still not see thru the WT subterfuge.