the person may have prepared himself psychologically for an event that never eventuates, and, worse still, may have even made public his predictions about the event.
what happens when an important prophecy fails and dissonance is aroused between what was predicted and what actually occurred is described in the classic field study carried out by festinger, riecken and schachter (1956).
in the mid-1950s mrs marion keech, a suburban housewife, began to receive messages from outer space.
In 1695 Beverly wrote a book predicting that the world would end in 1697. In 1698 he wrote a second book complaining that the world had ended in 1697 but that nobody had noticed.
That explains it all--we are in an alternate universe. We just commented this morning the world we grew up in has turned into California, and not the admirable part thereof
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53201667.
the simpsons team - because of criticism over white actor hank azaria's voiceover of indian-american character apu - is terminating the caricature.
people claimed that it "reinforced racial stereotypes.".
A bald dimwit, smart wife, smart daughter, goofball son, spoiled baby, super Christian, thug, on and on. We find real life examples right here in my neighborhood. All I have to do is go next door, down the street, 7-11, Walmart and they are all there.
People cant laugh at themselves anymore.
that was this weeks video.
but the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience.
That was this weeks video. But the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience
https://youtu.be/2nacvosx8n0.
good to see the caring brothers help establish depth of guilt..
Final go to reference: Shepherd book, not Bible.
i would like to ask the ex-jws on this site to put their ‘apologists hat’ back on for a moment, so that i can go through the overlapping generation teaching in an attempt to make sense of it.
i apologise if these points have already been addressed on this site.a quick background for the reason for my request… having never confronted a jw apologist on the topic, i recently engaged with a jw regarding the official understanding of a ‘generation’ and unfortunately he didn’t have an answer to the points i was making.
i was left a little confused as to what the official jw response would/should be.so i was hoping that my thoughts below might be considered from an apologist’s perspective.the point in question relates to this section of the watchtower article below from 2008, as well as the jw.org video explanation of the overlapping generation:---:w08 2/15[box on page 25] can we calculate the length of “this generation”?the word “generation” usually refers to people of various ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period or event.
You cannot make sense of gibberish. That is why jws cannot articulate an explanation. Most just reiterate word for word the official dogma.
1.--2020-06-18-- english--instructions for our online meetings.. distractions.
noisepreparations.
personal appearance .
May I please have my dauly entertainment? Thank you
a few years ago at one of the conventions, there was a talk on gods remarkable creation.
one of the slides showed a giant sequoia tree, approximately 5000 years old!.
later another talk was about noah etc.
you don't get it... the tree survived the flood. I know its stupid, but that's what I was told and I believed it for a long time
Yep. Told by the same authorities that claim the weight of the water pushed everest up and carved tg3e grand canyon
what are the craziest books or magazines the tower ever printed?
i know of the millions now living is crazy the finished mystery.
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I dont know about crazy, but they had boring down.
Some of the magazine covers were absolutely embarrassing.
last thursday poyner spruill, a prominent north carolina law firm, announced a victory in a pro bono case involving religious freedom of incarcerated jehovah's witnesses.
the poyner team was appointed by the u.s. district court for the western district of north carolina to represent an inmate challenging the state’s policy governing how and when jehovah’s witnesses can worship in prison.
the state’s policy classified jehovah’s witnesses as a subset of christian protestants and, on that basis, prohibited separate jehovah’s witness meetings—an infringement on religious freedom under the first amendment.
Can the pentecostals have snakes?
so a couple of weeks ago my wife (who is an active jw) got a delivery of apples, oranges, potatoes, carrots and onions.. the story i heard was that the "branch bought a bunch of food that would go to waste and was delivering it".. i am in california and a friend of mine in another cong.
50 or so miles away had the same thing happen.. a few days ago we got another delivery and as a matter of fact my wife was asked if she could "help jehovah with delivering his gifts".
unfortunately she is in poor health and unable to so so.. anyway, the story seems fabricated to me and i am wondering what is really going on.. does anybody have any ideas?
Our circuit thing fell apart. I hear there is a lot of rice and beans left. The little produce was old and sometimes moldy.
The city is running a distribution, no qualifications, just show up
The dishonest part is claiming it is a special provision from Jeh (GB). The catholics, baptists, lutherans, jews, muslims, Hindus, Mormons, all do it, abd usually better ou organized
