If you can't convince them, confuse them. That's their motto.
Posts by AEnEm
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46New light: the GB are infallible
by AEnEm inamazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.
the gb "never lie or deceive us.
we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.
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New light: the GB are infallible
by AEnEm inamazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.
the gb "never lie or deceive us.
we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.
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AEnEm
Thanks Wannaexit. The phrase infallible isn't used of course, but if someONE, or especially a group of people are fallible and imperfect, surely they are not worthy of absolute trust. Saying they never deceive us basically boils down to being infallible. To "deceive" according to most dictionary definitions does not necessarily involve deliberate intent. If you cause someone to believe a falsehood, you have deceived them. If you "never deceive", you must be infallible.
I know this is just my opinion, and is reading a lot into it!
I'm sure that the official position is still that the GB is not infallible, but they do like to make contradictory confusing statements!
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New light: the GB are infallible
by AEnEm inamazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.
the gb "never lie or deceive us.
we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.
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AEnEm
That's scary. Good point.
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New light: the GB are infallible
by AEnEm inamazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.
the gb "never lie or deceive us.
we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.
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AEnEm
More like completely "piste"! :)
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New light: the GB are infallible
by AEnEm inamazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.
the gb "never lie or deceive us.
we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.
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AEnEm
And he must know that, so it's lying (not just accidental misinformation)
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New light: the GB are infallible
by AEnEm inamazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.
the gb "never lie or deceive us.
we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.
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AEnEm
Boom! Nice one BoogerMan.
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New light: the GB are infallible
by AEnEm inamazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.
the gb "never lie or deceive us.
we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.
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AEnEm
Sorry what do you mean by that Gorb? Is there a specific quote? Thanks
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New light: the GB are infallible
by AEnEm inamazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.
the gb "never lie or deceive us.
we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.
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AEnEm
His video is on jw.borg (scroll to the bottom and click on "videos"). It's the latest one. Look now before they pull it! Hope someone downloads it for youtube. Not even my most PIMI family members would agree to have "absolute trust" in the GB (gangrenous body).
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New light: the GB are infallible
by AEnEm inamazing new light in the latest morning worship by gary breaux.
the gb "never lie or deceive us.
we can have absolute trust in the governing body".. he then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies.
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AEnEm
Amazing new light in the latest morning worship by Gary Breaux. The GB "never lie or deceive us. We can have absolute trust in the Governing Body".
He then makes a very helpful point, so as to avoid being deceived and avoid lies. "Look for the zero, any component in a statement or teaching that cancels out a bible truth".
How about this one:
Psalm 146.3
"Do not put your trust in princes
Nor in a son of man, who cannot bring salvation".
Thanks Gary, you just helped 8 million people see that the GB lie and are not to be trusted. Great talk!
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Inaccuracies regarding pagan origins
by AEnEm ineaster and christmas have pagan origins.
many of us were told that since birth.
the evidence?
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AEnEm
Easter and Christmas have pagan origins. Many of us were told that since birth. The evidence? Snippets of quotes printed in the WT, from the Encyclopeadia Britannica (EB) and other unknown sources.
The front page of the jw website currently quotes from the EB suggesting that the name Easter comes from the goddess Eostre (according to Venerable Bede). It then quotes an unidentified source suggesting an alternative "pagan" origin linked to Astarte.
A quick online search identifies this second source as Alexander Hislop, in his book "The Two Babylons", and that his ideas are not supported by the majority of scholars.
The JW article then goes on to say that customs around Easter are pagan too.
If you take the time to read the EB quote, the article goes on to say that the idea that Easter and Christmas is pagan is a "dubious presumption".
Regarding the name Easter it states:
"There is now widespread consensus that the word derives from the Christian designation of Easter week as in albis, a Latin phrase that was understood as the plural of alba (“dawn”) and became eostarum in Old High German, the precursor of the modern German and English term."
So is Easter pagan? I don't know (some sources do say that), but I do know that to suggest the EB supports that view is wrong and seemingly dishonest.
Note to WT writers: please remove this misquote