today i was doing some research for a new article, and i came across the following quote which succeeded in raising my eyebrows.... "the obligation to hate lawlessness also applies to all activity by apostates.
our attitude toward apostates should be that of david, who declared: 'do i not hate those who are intensely hating you, o jehovah, and do i not feel a loathing for those revolting against you?
with a complete hatred i do hate them.
Well, we are mentally diseased, after all. An illness is a disease.
By that benchmark should they hate schizophrenics? What about the passive-agressives? The clinically depressed? Lord knows, the WTS is teeming with people who are mentally ill to some degree.
i wanted to find out where carl sagan got this info from.. i know they, the wtbts thought that the end would be in 1914, then 1915 but do not remember reading where they made the statement that it did end.. .
thanks, njy.
here is his quote:.
That's very interesting. Didn't the Society quote Sagan frequently in the literature?
japan had a handful of witnesses after ww 2....this number skyrocketed to 222,912 by 1998!
then something happened.
publisher figures didn't stop, they dropped by thousands over the next decade!.
As BluesBrothers mentioned, I remember back in the '80s almost hating the Japanese brothers. They were getting more press than that fictional pioneer sister with an unbelieving mate, 5 children under the age of 10, a full-time job, and a wooden leg.
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unlike god's word, that jws believe to be absolute truth, any one of their directives given at the 2013 district convention could be subject to misinterpretation.. .
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Wow! We get our own talk! They are so freakin' threatened.
i was the store manager of a large furniture store - part of a national chain.
we had large sales once month, and giganic four day sale every quarter with a large amount of print and tv advertising.
for these quarterly sales we would have conference calls every morning with our directors to report our numbers, contests for the salespeople, and target goals for each salesperson, individual store, and the national district.
That's an interesting analogy!
You can see the GB consolidating their power and withdrawing into their ivory towers, throwing the elders to the wolves, and squeezing the R&F for every penny they have. It's pathetic. They don't have an impetus like 1975 at their disposal. That was the ultimate fire sale. I don't know how they're going to keep enthusiasm up or hold onto the minds of the R&F now that they have the Internet to contend with.
that's right, a knife and a baby in close proximity.... .
http://www.jw.org/assets/m/ijw13fr/502013178/ijw13fr_id-502013178_e/502013178_e_cnt_1.pdf.
anything goes, so long as you're proving how "wise" king solomon was.. .
That would be Amnon raping his sister. Good choice!
the watchtower bases their opposition to birthdays by two scriptures, saying something bad happened and god must have put it in there for a reason.
following their logic are there any other things jws shouldnt do because bad things happened in a couple of scriptures?.
Taking a dump. Didn't some king or other get offed while doing that?
i'm still "in" and i've noticed an odd trend recently.
conversations with jws seem to be more jw-ish than ever!
in normal conversation, i'll hear: "these watchtowers are just wonderful!
If there really is more JW talk going on it's probably because they need constant reassurance that they have the "truth." The more you say it, the more true it is.
i seem to remember some new 'rule' that elders whose children go to college, or perhaps it was out-of-state college, should be carefully examined to see if they still qualify.. does anyone know where that is in the publications?.
Stupid cult. It's kind of shocking to see it in black and white like that. And they deny that they discourage higher ed.
hello all.. my name is dteve and i live in the uk.
i hope i can make genuine friends here and not pretend friends.....like that among jw's.. i left, went back, and have left again, but this time it is for good.
so i tried to work things out, but she carried on.
Welcome Steve!
