someone keeps posting on here from anointedjw.org.. now as many know it is a long time since i left so i am really baffled.. i have picked up that many more are saying they are of the anointed than when i was in even though the number is supposed to be going down!.
so how are these people who suddenly start taking the emblems viewed by the gb?.
are they newly baptised people generally or born-ins?.
Jaime - lol ! I love the memorial video - so funny! What about the six inch nails - no mention of them or exactly how Jesus died in blood - curdling detail - the meetings are no fun any more!
So funny thanks - and the smurfs - love the Washtower
Thirty Years a Washtower Slave - I should write that!
someone keeps posting on here from anointedjw.org.. now as many know it is a long time since i left so i am really baffled.. i have picked up that many more are saying they are of the anointed than when i was in even though the number is supposed to be going down!.
so how are these people who suddenly start taking the emblems viewed by the gb?.
are they newly baptised people generally or born-ins?.
Does anyone know the answer to this please. I am trying to get a picture of what it is like in the congs now. Is it just a matter of people talking anonymously on that website about being of the anointed and nobody in the WTS cares or are people talking about it more openly in the congs?When I was still in it was a rarety to meet someone of the anointed and they were usually very old. I wonder if the new light about the gb becoming the fds has something to do with all these new anointed ones?
someone keeps posting on here from anointedjw.org.. now as many know it is a long time since i left so i am really baffled.. i have picked up that many more are saying they are of the anointed than when i was in even though the number is supposed to be going down!.
so how are these people who suddenly start taking the emblems viewed by the gb?.
are they newly baptised people generally or born-ins?.
Thanks Nambo and Jaime. So are these people on anointedjw.org Jws or exJWs? I can't work it out? They seem to be still in but seem to be telling people to realize that they may be of the anointed? I don't get it how can they remain in and do that?
someone keeps posting on here from anointedjw.org.. now as many know it is a long time since i left so i am really baffled.. i have picked up that many more are saying they are of the anointed than when i was in even though the number is supposed to be going down!.
so how are these people who suddenly start taking the emblems viewed by the gb?.
are they newly baptised people generally or born-ins?.
Someone keeps posting on here from anointedjw.org.
Now as many know it is a long time since I left so I am really baffled.
I have picked up that many more are saying they are of the anointed than when I was in even though the number is supposed to be going down!
So how are these people who suddenly start taking the emblems viewed by the gb?
Are they newly baptised people generally or born-ins?
I remember someone getting baptised and then taking the emblems at the next memoral but it wasn't long before he was d'fed for apostasy.
I can't exactly remember why but I was only a teenager.
What about anointed.org, how is that viewed?
interesting stuff:.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html.
i've had long, personal conversations with two people who've had these experiences.
If I can't find this book yet in my local library I'll make an online suggestion on their website that they buy it. In my experience they usually do. There is no need to pay money for books these days unless you want to.
interesting stuff:.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html.
i've had long, personal conversations with two people who've had these experiences.
Yes Satanus I agree with you, I also believe 'the experience was so great, he had to tell people about it', as you say. I was actually quoting StillThinking who thinks he wrote the book to make money.
I think as a neurosurgeon he has enough money and is risking his career publishing his experience. But I wont know more until I have read the book.
interesting stuff:.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html.
i've had long, personal conversations with two people who've had these experiences.
If you claim to have died and gone to heaven...for what purpose?...other than to write a book about it and make lots of money.
I thougth neurosurgeons made a lot of money already. Also he's risking losing credibility with his peers and endangering his future career I would have thought.
and yes i`m familiar with the scriptures that say women should know their place , cant teach , have a head covering if they, do when no capable male is present etc.etc.. yet they can become immortal and rule with christ as an equal with men for a thousand years ?.
are their inconsistincies here that prevent women from being part of the faithful & discreet slave class ?
maybe the women who claim to be of the annointed need to be more vocal and stand up for their rights.
Women don't have rights in the WTS.
They are second class citizens.
If you try and stand up for yourself they grind you to dust.
If you are a woman with an opinion you are despised by men and other women alike because when people are oppressed they turn on one another.
I think a women of the annointed who stood up for her rights would just be put in her place and told she's not ruling with Christ yet, she's still under the headship of men.
For the last year of my Open University BSc degree I studied philosophy. The titles of the units were:-
Human Nature after Darwin
Humans and other animals
Arguments for freedom
Environments, Ethics and Human Concern
Minds and Bodies
Destiny, Purpose and Faith
I studied human rights, womens rights, animal rights, crime and punishment etc.
I found it very down to earth and not at all esoteric.
For my first year I studied mid-Victorian Britain which included the philosophy of John Stuart Mill, called Utilitarianism. Nothing airy fairy about Mr Mill or utilitarianism. He used his influence in governement to help get the vote for working men and he wanted women to have the vote as well because his wife was a very intelligent feminist, but it wasn't to be in his lifetime.
When I first read Plato I was astonished especially as JWs dismissed him as that guy that talks about the immortality of the soul. There is sooooo much more to Plato than that.
Also worth a read are the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Very down to earth.
with the holidays amongsts us how did you feel the first time you celebrated the holidays?
the first time i felt like i was in north korea trying to slip pass the secret police.
how weird a wonderful family holiday and i was acting like i just stole the mona lisa..
Emma, I love your posts and also the idea that shunning backfires on the Borg. I agree, my late husband and I were totally shunned by my family and all our friends but we got free and were able to do whatever we wanted like celebrate holidays without the stress that someone we knew was going to drop in and see our Xmas tree etc. That helps clear your mind and move on fast I think.
Andys,I love your photo looking forward to the new one this year!
