at last year's local memorial service, purported to honor jesus' sacrificial death and its signficance to the eternal prospects of humanity, the visiting speaker from bethel quite remarkably managed to talk for almost an hour without one recourse to the word "resurrection".. a remarkable achievement, given its centrality in the belief system of nominal christianity.
nor were the stirring moments of high drama in the bible's depicting of jesus last hours on earth-- his last supper and his prayer for the well-being of his disciples, the betrayal of judas, the agony of the garden; his disciples' succumbing to sleep; his betrayal and arrest in the garden of gethesemane; the scattering of his fear-gripped disciples; peter's denial, and the climactic soul-stirring awareness of the signficance of the empty tomb and its guardian's chilling pronouncement to mary magdalene and the women "why are you searching for the living among the dead?"...
and so on, to his post-resurrection appearance at emmaus, etc.. all of this was swept aside in favor of convincing those in attendance that they had no business in partaking of the emblematic bread and wine.
... Not too mention the abominable opening song, "A Special Possession," praising.. who else: Jesus? , Jehovah? -- Oh no, the so-called "anointed"
Whatever happened to the song that began:" Jehovah or Father in Heaven, O this is a most holy night.. 'Twas Nisan 14 when your glory was seen... etc. etc."
here's the cruel, uncomfortable and dehumanizing description of transport for disfellowshipped ones:.
in cases of real need, the elders can determine wheth-er some assistance may be provided.
such assistance would be viewed as similar to public transportation in that there should be no conversing with the disfellowshipped or disassociated person.
Nauseating..
for the life of me i can not come to terms with old timers in the "truth" who could swallow this interpretation of scripture about an overlapping generation .. when jesus spoke about "this generation" .
are their any real bible students among younger ones any more ?.
here are 3 bible scriptures that confirm a generation is approximately 40- 50 years long give or take a few years .. 1. matt:1 :17 abraham born 2016-18 bc jesus born 2 bc approx.
This convoluted, indigestible mess has all the fingerprints of the insufferable David Splane all over it. It seems he's arrogated to himself the moth-bitten mantle of Fred Franz as WT oracle..
more than half the country approve of the president.
( just thought you might wanna know)🤓.
Chill out Min... your incessant cheerleading for that lard-ass is getting tiresome. Can't you comed up with a JW-related thread?
i think i’m going insane.... i’m 17 years old and being raised in a jw household.
i really want friends and a boyfriend but i can’t have that because my parents are jw and i’m also homeschooled.
they are those jw parents that refuse to let me go to public school because of bad influences.
Welcone to the forum. I'm deeply sympathetic to your plight. Unfortunately your home schooling has impeded you from developing friendships outside the constricted realm of the JWs. You need to bide your time until you are legally independent of your parents and use the intervening time to explore the options available to you. Don't despair, there are many here who are willing to help.
i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).
you can't write this stuff.
right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..
You mean, as in they "only suggested the possibility" of 1975 ushering in the millenium?
the scope of my writings now extends beyond the myopic borders of the wts's focus.
at the same time, however, i know that most here have a broader interest, so i am making my latest study available.. i have rewritten my study on matthew 4:1-11, which is often called: "the wilderness temptations of jesus".
the study led me to similar conclusions, and along the way i located further resources and i restructured the document.. https://jwstudies.com/matthew_s_messages_through_jesus__inaugural_tests.pdf .
Thanks, Doug; your essays are always welcome.
what would you be hearing about topshelf tony's liquor run?.
It will be interesting to see whether they circle the wagons, trim him back, or purge him... My guess is that they will opt for the first.
i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).
you can't write this stuff.
right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..
It's been mentioned, without confirmation, that he's from a wealtjy family, from somewhere around Cranston Rhode Island..
i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).
you can't write this stuff.
right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..
The drinking culture is entrenched in Bethel. When I was there in the mid sixties, there were at least five cases of alcoholism serious enough to warrant rehabilitation. Two of them were women, wives of Bethel "heavies."
