why is it important to some that god only have one visible organization to represent him on earth?
why is it important to jehovah's witnesses that people recognize their organization as such?
what makes a witness more moral or righteous or save-worthy if they accept that it is his one and only organization?
The WTS changes the hinge point of the bible from the New Testament and the birth ,life and death, resurrection of Christ to 1914 and 1919. The bible then becomes secondary to the literature. It is kind of like all those shitty Star Wars movies when it would have been better to just quit at Return of the Jedi.
Any new twist on an old favourite usually involves making it into some kind of club.
how do you get out of watchtower?
am i supposed to write letter to bethel or local congregation telling them i don't want to be a jw anymore?
how are the steps.
I heard my wife on zoom yesterday because the weather was just awful. The topic was " you to make yourself righteous before Jehovah ".
It is like they have literally never read a bible. It is almost laughable if it wasn't such family destroying nonsense.
admittedly it 90% crap over there but still they are up to 80k in subscribers.
over here it's the same half dozen or so that posts something, including myself.
why is that?.
The forum now consists of anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, Jehovah witnesses apologists, fake religious theologians and general MEGA dipshittory.
That is why the forum doesn't grow. Most people don't escape a cult to want to join another.
3.1415926535807932384626433i used to be able to go to a hundred from memory.
my son and daughter can do so.age 75 has cheated me a bit in this regard.what sort of things have you memorized (whether useful or useless)?i can recite the entire rime of the ancient mariner to this day, btw.there are many so-called tricks for remembering things that can be easily learned and i've read all or most of those books.the amusing thing about such memory is this: nobody cares!
"why do you need to memorize when you can just use your iphone?sigh...i memorized the periodic table of elements one day at work.
As someone who plays guitar and rather poorly, I have no idea how some of these heavy acts can remember there solos and licks. It is crazy to me, especially when the singer gets a teleprompter.
3.1415926535807932384626433i used to be able to go to a hundred from memory.
my son and daughter can do so.age 75 has cheated me a bit in this regard.what sort of things have you memorized (whether useful or useless)?i can recite the entire rime of the ancient mariner to this day, btw.there are many so-called tricks for remembering things that can be easily learned and i've read all or most of those books.the amusing thing about such memory is this: nobody cares!
"why do you need to memorize when you can just use your iphone?sigh...i memorized the periodic table of elements one day at work.
Has anyone ever noticed that the meetings are literally designed to not remember anything that was talked about.
I read somewhere that humans only really learn in a class setting for about 45-60 minutes at time and usually the only things that are really remembered are the first and last five minutes. JW meetings are too long and too disorganized to really have any real academic value. I can't even begin to describe how pointless an assembly is.
I really believe they design the meeting structure to do that.
have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?
have you got any views on the information?
i find it worrying at least.
LoL
The only thing Jehovah Witnesses and ex members are conditioned to do is to believe some kind of special knowledge that been bestowed on them. You have to be a narcissistic half wit to get involved with the religion to begin with.
I didn't realize till the pandemic how widespread this phenomenon was. We literally have people were not even capable of passing high school biology and chemistry going on speaking tours on giving lectures about infectious diseases. It is laughable.
in the us, the 60s and 70s was a great time to be alive except for getting drafted if you wanted to be that age.
they were music years, greatest movies, fun, simpler and enjoyable days—also except for the d&ugs.
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I would have loved living in the 1960s. My grandparents ( RIP) had a stack of National Geographics and Life magazines in the basement and I use to love reading them as a kid. Just like little time machines.
Vietnam War
Hendrix/ The Doors.
Hippies
Muscle Cars.
the cult's dogma claims the exodus foreigners were not participants of the law covenant and use it is an antitype to prove the “other sheep” are not participants of the new covenant - wt 98 2/1 p.19, par.
6. their demonic dogma is then enforced annually via the org's anti-christ ritual - the memorial of christ's death - to compel jw's to reject christ and the new covenant.. deuteronomy 29:10-15 screams “liars” & "offspring of vipers" at the watchtower hierarchy!.
are jw's too blinded to read and understand the bible for themselves????????????.
I always thought the so called memorial is some what of a mockery. I never really could put my finger on it till I learned the doctrine of grace and what the gospel message was.
JW basically take the new testament, apply it to only 8 magical men in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the rest of us suckers are left working for our salvation thought our obedience and works. What a rip.
hello jwners,.
the jw i chatted with recently directed me to matthew 24 with regards to the witnesses and highlighted matthew 24:14. i asked him what "this gospel" is.
the only answer i got was "i'm not sure what you mean".. .
The Gospel message is there is no work that needs to be accomplished or that can be accomplished for salvation. It is finished. Nailed to the cross with Christ. Believe what he did sufficient and live your life not being a jerkface jerk and you will be saved. It is called grace.
Jehovah witnesses are just like every other false religion of the world. If I do this, I will be rewarded with that. That is not how it works according to the bible.
a poster wrote to me privately, and brought to my attention the following comment below i made a while back in regards to the 144,00 number of revelation.
i had casually conjectured that this number was likely symbolic in line with the book of revelation being mostly symbolic in kind.
he brought up this juicy source:.
The way I have had it explained to me was the book of revelation has a pattern.
John would hear something - Old Testament Imagery
John would see something - New Testament Imagery
The premise is Jesus defeated his enemies by dying for them.
John hears the calling of the 144,00- Old Testament military census from the book numbers.
John sees a great crowd no one could number - Gods final convent is open to all those who believe.
It doesn't really matter much to me anyway. Eschatology is the playground of cults and false religions anyway.
