paganism from my view is just a mental fantasy.
it's not real.
so why do jws get mad at it anyway?
Their brand must remain untarnished.
But so long as your actions do not tarnish the brand (you do good cover ups) you can get away with whatever you want to do.
The source of a their false doctrine is pagan. From what I can see, it all goes back to Theosophy, also called Theo Sufism. It is much tied up with seeking to destroy the Christian faith. Also Anarchy, Communism and celebrity (via Lord Byron who influenced the early Decemberists).
something just struck me.. is the wts the only religion that won't kick people out for abusing children, but would kick you out for visiting a website that informs you that the wts won't kick people out for abusing children .... it really shows where their sensibilities lie.
they are more interested in acting as gatekeepers to information, especially information about them, than providing basic levels of protection to the children of their members.. maybe someone with a better turn of phrase can shorten it, it might make a good meme - something short and simple that really makes people think:.
"the wts - tougher on those who read reports of jw child abuse than on jws who conduct child abuse".
Watchtower locks in dogma and kills common sense - dead.
new study bible photos from reddit if you want them.
these are a bit larger photos.
see first page for info.. .
Wow Blondie I didn't realise they frowned on Strong's Concordance. I have had that one for years.
I think I may have taken my Concordance to a Tuesday group. If it wasn't that it was something related. Anyway, the Group Study Conductor was alarmed with me looking at the Bible in such depth.
At London Bethel, when I spoke to one of the WT writers about the Greek and Hebrew words, he immediately asked if I was apostate. I was stunned. He's the one who did the big collection of Bibles at London Bethel. In fairness to him, he did apologise to me afterwards.
new study bible photos from reddit if you want them.
these are a bit larger photos.
see first page for info.. .
Another thought - shorten the Bible by saying it is too expensive to print all of it. The main message are the words of Jesus Christ. Then say the rest is online.
Just like shortening the magazines, you can shorten the Bible.
Then drop the mags, drop the Bible and just transmit your stuff. But make sure people have to log on to view.
Carry on like this and all you are left with is GB smiling next to Caleb and Sophia and you can not only identify who is watching but penalise them if they don't.
you think the new building addition to warwick ,that will house 1000 audiovisual and art production volunteers is a push to go online with the meetings?
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Yes and some COs just luuurrrvvve having their make-up done.
Sitting through boring meetings and obeying orders an ordeal. But if you think it could get you in the WT movies and you want that...
A - "What do you do?"
B "Oh, I'm in Audio Visual."
A - "Oh wow."
B - "What are your goals?"
A - "I am pioneering this month and I want to regular pioneer."
B - "Would you like to help out back-stage at this years convention?"
A - Squeal of delight - "I'd love to!"
the watchtower's many legal problems and the jws' use of carts in their preaching work, reminded me of a scene and dialog from the film patton.. in a scene where patton is viewing a battle site the morning after, he says to an aide about the nazis: “you know how i know that they're finished out there?
in my dreams i saw the carts.
they kept buzzing around in my head and i couldn't figure out why.
They are doing the 'green' message. Climate change, polar bear, bumble bees. They are aiming themselves at university students and the young.
They'll keep going but I suspect they'll have to drop the Bible at some point. Or drop Jesus and Our Father or something.
Maybe they'll change the name of the Awake back to the Golden Age and start speaking highly of the Greek and Roman gods and some special knowledge that was lost when Atlantis sunk. Then they could point out that Vishnu means the man Noah and advocate Transcendentalism.
new study bible photos from reddit if you want them.
these are a bit larger photos.
see first page for info.. .
It's just Matthew to Acts? Well that'd great if you were trying to show someone where the name Jehovah was in the Hebrew scripture.
Maybe they don't like Jehovah.
blondie’s food for thought, 10/06/2019 wt study article, let your love abound (august 2019).
opening comments:.
i have been trying to condense my previous comments/highlights format.
They could have included that it is encouraging to the sheep if the elders do not throw temper tantrums.
I love this bit
I think what it means is bro and sis so-and-so are not going to show up and clean the toilets for Elder Annoying. So it means he actually has to do it himself.The WTS/GB also seems to think that a jw’s love “cool off” because another member does not show up to clean the KH.
watchtower 1953, may 1st, pg.284, par.16.
16 is the watch tower bible and tract society god’s woman or universal organization?
scan: https://docdro.id/qiltnwd: .
Hi Blondie
And Catholic means... Universal :)
I can just picture the elders blustering, "oh, we never said we were Catholics."
yes an elder actually confessed to me that 50% he said from the platform was rubbish.
that was in 2006. now in 2019 i have recently been thrown out of the watchtower organisation.
well here's a video i put together showing early events to do with this.. https://youtu.be/ak5hmazvufg.
Hi Vidiot - yes they are just messing with semantics constantly. So that speach just becomes a babble of nonsense.
At one point when I took on the 5 elders, the Chairman of the "judicial" which I did not attend, literally babbled nonsense for about a minute. He was incapable of stringing two words together and it sounded like "wu uh b wh d bu whu." He went on like that cause i said something like, "so if Jesus stuck to the words of the prophet Daniel (like me), would you say he was apostate?"
His response was, "wu uh b wh d bu whu uu eeh eh bu wuh." (etc) Until eventually he said, "well no that'd be silly."
