i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.
the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .
i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.
Does it matter if no one knows his original name?
It's not as if he doesn't have a name, its just not his original one.
People change their names all the time if they don't like what they were given, maybe Satan did the same.
At the end of the day, Satan has a name - Satan.
If we're going to get picky we could also say that God has hidden his own name, since no one knows how to pronounce it. It doesn't matter though because He's been given a name.
What's the big deal?
i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.
the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .
i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.
For such a leaky belief system they need constant reassurance, not another hole to patch up.
When it's impossible to 'give an answer', the only course left is to pretend you were never asked a question in the first place.
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i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!
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Village Idiot The thing I don't understand about the "overlapping generation" teaching is why there can't be more than just two "generations".
Actually, by their own specific definition, there could be three overlapping generations.
The first group saw 1914, but those who overlap constitute the other group.
The WT do not define that the overlap is later than the 1914 generation, since there was also a generation who overlapped before 1914 and include CTR, George Storrs and Henry Grew.
For legalistic wordsmiths like the WT, I would expect better.
"don't you believe that this is god's spirit-directed organization?".
"do you believe that god is teaching us through the faithful & discreet slave?
"who else has the truth?
How about a slight change to Searchers killer question to "Do you believe that everything the faithful slave has said in the past was correct?"
If they say "yes" then ask why they have changed stuff.
If they say "no" then say "so they CAN be wrong!"
If they say "it was right at the time", then add "but it was wrong later?"
i knew the watchtower didn't like me, but i didn't know they wanted to physically kill me (if they were allowed)from the 15 november 1952 watchtower magazine under questions from readers:.
in the case of where a father or mother or son or daughter is disfellowshiped, how should such person be treated by members of the family in their family relationship?.
we are not living today among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be exterminated for apostasy from god and his theocratic organization, as was possible and was ordered in the nation of israel in the wilderness of sinai and in the land of palestine... (and a bit later)..being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of god through jesus christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws.. so let me get this straight: if our secular pesky laws were not an obstacle and jesus was not in the way we'd be hunted and exterminated?.
would it really affect them?
how would it affect volunteers at any construction project since that work would now be taxable.
any materials they buy would be taxable.
what we can read in the wt 10/15/2015... they have really no shame!.
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Shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.
This directive will be forgotten 5 minutes after it has been read out.
i have just lost hours collating, editing hundreds of images on this useless s*** program.
its called olympus viewer 3 and it decided to shut down and wiped out my work.
this was part of a business i was creating.. back ups i never stood a chance no more olympus cameras for me.
Image editing takes loads of memory.
If your PC struggles, you're more likely to have these sort of program crashes.
It sounds cruel to say it, but there's no substitute for saving often and having backups.
Sorry to hear your frustrations.
am i the only one who has single, desperate sisters in the congregation?
they tend to be holier-than-thou, frumpty, but in private talk about getting married.
but they don't understand why no brother will look at them.
To be fair, there are few 'ugly' men and women. 80% are just normal with a few who are extra good looking and a few who are less than good looking.
Plus, looks fade. I'd rather be married to a plain but interesting and attentive mate, than a beautiful airhead.
greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.
and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.
but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.
Why does the last creative day have to be such a rounded number?
Why can't it be 7092 years long? 7601 years long? 19283 years long?
WT look for number patterns that land in the current timeframe and try to make them fit a baseless interpretation. WT decide on a date and then try to justify it.
None of this has any credence beyond a weak "but it would make sense if...".
Bottom line is, no matter how convinced you are, there's simply no evidence for a creative day being one duration rather than any other duration.
