the great crowd of other sheep witnesses allegedly first began forming early on in the 20th century.
rutherford was totally unaware of this crowds existence until 1935. it was revealed to him in 1932 that the great crowd members were heaven-bound.
then light flashed from heaven in 1935 showing that this group was an earthly class.
It raises an interesting question:
Since it is the alleged proximity of the end that makes the identification of the great crowd possible, then why were they identified in 1935?
A JW can't simply say it was, "Jehovah's due time" or something to that effect, as that would mean that Jehovah himself doesn't know when the end is.
so here it is on bitchute.. tear away.. https://www.bitchute.com/video/pyd8crtke8xy/.
NPR, which is far more mainstream than either Kasprak or Willis recently fact checked the Plandemic video and found it misleading in some respects and downright false in others.
The article can be found here:
In the same vein, the original 2011 Chicago Tribune article detailing Dr Mikovits arrest can be found here:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-xpm-2011-11-22-ct-nw-chronic-fatigue-scientist-arrest-20111122-story.html
More details emerged in scientific journals here:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/11/details-emerge-criminal-charges-against-embattled-cfs-researcher
And here:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/754423
Wired did a piece on the incident here:
https://www.wired.com/2011/11/xmrv-lawsuit-arrest/
Other fact checks of the video can be found here:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/fact-checking-judy-mikovits-controversial-virologist-attacking-anthony-fauci-viral
And here:
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/the-falsehoods-of-the-plandemic-video/
And here:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/08/fact-checking-plandemic-documentary-full-false-con/
And here:
https://www.wthr.com/article/verify-plandemic-documentary-full-misinformation
posting for brother x. petra!.
if you were a child during the years of 1960 to 1970, the question isn't; do you remember these conventions?
the question is; how could you forget?
Maryland is hot and muggy in the summer...
Oh yes.....Washington DC was a malarial swamp long before it was a city
Whatever became of the Crownsville assembly hall? Did the JW's hold on to it or sell it off?
so here it is on bitchute.. tear away.. https://www.bitchute.com/video/pyd8crtke8xy/.
The video reminds me vaguely of the movie A Beautiful Mind.
Not only is Dr. Mikovits brilliant; she's held up in the textbooks as shining example of how science self corrects its mistakes.
When her lab was unable to find any evidence of retrovirus in CFS patients in a blind study, she openly admitted, "It's just not there."
But that particular idea just doesn't die. It just gets more and more convoluted, complicated and unlikely.
so here it is on bitchute.. tear away.. https://www.bitchute.com/video/pyd8crtke8xy/.
There's a saying, "Listen to the science, not the scientist" which is meant to highlight the importance of peer review, but is apropos in other ways as well.
i was just watching this on you tube, about the growth of the lds church.
i think these numbers may support a number of theories that have been discussed on here.
(1) the jws are bigger as a religious organisation.. (2) jw membership is more engaged, as well as, more ethnically diverse.. (3) wt is been honest with its counting.
The LDS general conference, which is comparable to the JW memorial...
In what way are they comparable?
nice to be here.
still a pimo and struggling through my fade.
i still have several jw friends on social media.
The point I feel is, that the Witnesses are supposed to be Polically Neutral.
That's the claim, but they've really lived up to it. The JW parent organization has stumped for the U.N. and taken sides on gun control, environmental and social issues.
Why would the rank and file behave any differently?
how many of you remember these?
(since these are old i don't think the tower will get a hernia.).
a stroll down memory lane!https://docdro.id/ylyfur6peace among men of good will.
I don't recall circuit assemblies at Laurel...
You're right. I misspoke. These were district conventions.
ever since i came out of the witnesses, i've become very political.. i've heard lots of arguments back and forth for many things.. in the u.s. there is the argument that it is "racist" to want to deny entry to muslims.
while there is freedom of religion, there is also the very valid concern of maintaining democracy and a justice system that is based on modern values.we as exjw's constantly quote the pew center for statistics on jw's such as: they are last place in the us for members of a religion that go to university, and second-last for poverty levels of members of a religion.
we accept those statistics and mention them as proof of how damaging the jw's are.now, let's use the same center for some very scary statistics on islam:http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/22/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/.
Anna,
As a Jewish person, I find Spinoza far more palatable than Voltaire, Kant or Hume.
ever since i came out of the witnesses, i've become very political.. i've heard lots of arguments back and forth for many things.. in the u.s. there is the argument that it is "racist" to want to deny entry to muslims.
while there is freedom of religion, there is also the very valid concern of maintaining democracy and a justice system that is based on modern values.we as exjw's constantly quote the pew center for statistics on jw's such as: they are last place in the us for members of a religion that go to university, and second-last for poverty levels of members of a religion.
we accept those statistics and mention them as proof of how damaging the jw's are.now, let's use the same center for some very scary statistics on islam:http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/22/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/.
So if you want to investigate further, its up to you
I have to admit I'm perplexed by the fixation on philosophy at the expense of the scientific innovation of people like Newton and Galileo and more specifically, the fixation on Voltaire at the expense of people like Spinoza and Kant, but we all have our own areas of interest.
