Posts by FFGhost

So, if I understand this correctly, your position is that God created the stars and galaxies in "24 hours"....billions of years before the earth was created and the time measured for it to complete one rotation was determined to be "24 hours"?

Wow, that's a real head-scratcher.

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Terminal Lucidity & the Nature of Consciousness

by Sea Breeze in

no, this isn't about suddenly becoming aware of how much you hate airports.

it is about people with profound brain impairments like mental retardation, alzheimer's, stroke and dementia (often in a coma) suddenly becoming normal and lucid shortly before passing away.

this is important because the wt teaches that consciousness is a function of the physical brain.

FFGhost

Cool anecdote.

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Annual meeting 2021 - food right on time

by closed in

my apologies if it was covered.

mark sanderson was stressing several times how timely the watchtower teachings are.

my thoughts on his example : the article on neutrality from november 1939. .

FFGhost

Never let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good story!

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SETTING LIMITS ON HOW TO LOVE by the the Guardians of Our Doctrines (G. O. D)

by Longlivetherenegades in

a balanced view of jesus’ role.

like those in christendom, the early bible students mistakenly allowed their love for jesus to overshadow their relationship with jehovah.

beginning in 1919, however, they came to see that jehovah and their relationship with him should be the focus of their worship.

FFGhost

In WT-world, it's all about qualifications.

Do you qualify for privileges of service?

Do you qualify for baptism?

Do you qualify to survive Armageddon?

Do you qualify for eternal life?

So, "do you qualify to love and be loved?" fits right in.

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Tony Morris hijacking GB

by asp59 in

has the gb been hijacked by tony morris?

hes the host many times on jw videos.

saying gb members wanting him too host.

FFGhost

Remember that intelligence does not equal knowledge.

Not to worry - both are in short supply at the Warwick compound.

Speaking of which, someone on the JW Blabber site posted that the US Bethel compounds are on a semi-strict lockdown - folks can leave, but must go into quarantine when they return.

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Tony Morris hijacking GB

by asp59 in

has the gb been hijacked by tony morris?

hes the host many times on jw videos.

saying gb members wanting him too host.

FFGhost

Morris strikes me as very likely the least intelligent (yeah, that's a low bar) guy on the GB. He doesn't seem very charismatic either, so it seems unlikely he is "taking over".

Splane always presents himself with an "I'm the guy in charge" air, and Sanderson does seem to be getting more prominent roles in explaining their "deep" things. If I had to guess, I'd say those two are the most influential.

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More cracks in the dam - WTS pleading for elders "in their early 20s"

by FFGhost in

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i have another post here about how the wts is reeling from covid, as reflected in their abysmally catastrophic service report:.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6315842470936576/annual-service-report-yet-another-analysis-big-trouble-wts.

here's another rupture showing.. in the latest "announcements and reminders" to elders, there is a paragraph with these sentences:.

FFGhost

Calling the service report abysmally catastrophic is a bit of a stretch.

OK, OK, it was a bit hyperbolic. How about merely "catastrophic"?

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More cracks in the dam - WTS pleading for elders "in their early 20s"

by FFGhost in

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i have another post here about how the wts is reeling from covid, as reflected in their abysmally catastrophic service report:.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6315842470936576/annual-service-report-yet-another-analysis-big-trouble-wts.

here's another rupture showing.. in the latest "announcements and reminders" to elders, there is a paragraph with these sentences:.

FFGhost

I have another post here about how the WTS is reeling from COVID, as reflected in their abysmally catastrophic service report:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6315842470936576/annual-service-report-yet-another-analysis-big-trouble-wts

Here's another rupture showing.

In the latest "announcements and reminders" to elders, there is a paragraph with these sentences:

It has been observed that in some congregations, few baptized brothers in their late teens and early 20’s are reaching out to serve as pioneers or ministerial servants. In some lands, relatively few young brothers are applying to attend the School for Kingdom Evangelizers, to serve at Bethel, or to assist in Kingdom Hall construction and maintenance. On the other hand, qualified younger brothers in some congregations have been held back simply because of their age.

Therefore, the Governing Body requests that all bodies of elders worldwide give priority to helping younger brothers grow in their relationship with Jehovah and qualify for congregation responsibilities.

Although relatively young in years, exceptional ministerial servants may already be viewed as spiritually older men and qualify as elders in their mid-, or even early, 20’s.

LOL^1000!

Coming soon: You too can get marital advice, counsel on raising children, and direction concerning your lack of appreciation for spiritual matters from Joe Elderson, who has never kissed a girl, who was homeschooled since the age of 6, who is still living with his parents in the same house, heck, same bedroom he's always had, who still has acne breakouts and who was not yet born during the Clinton presidency.

But hey! he's "exceptional", so it's all good.

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From MacHislopp--Grand Total Questions!

by Atlantis in

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i was asked post this for machislopp.

cookie thief!.

machislopp writes:.

FFGhost

Are you factoring in deaths of JWs? There would close to or even over 100,000 JWs deaths per year in a population of 8 million plus, given that "true believers" tend to skew older.

Add in 10's of thousands of disfellowshippings per year and folks becoming "inactive" and there doesn't seem to be too much mystery.