i have often wondered why the bible students did not pursue a lawsuit against j.f.
davies, auerbach & cornell.
davies, auerbach and cornell.
My question, RR - "so what?"
Constantly pointing to something that took place a century ago, why?
And what are your reflections on the size of the WT as compared to the Bible Students, I mean who grew and who did not?
Please do not take offence at my questions, they are not intended to hurt you or mock in any sense, just pin-pointed worded.
Greetings,
TOH
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ok so i'm watching the aussie open and serena williams is playing.. i'm thinking, i'm gonna go to the open this year, and yell out to serena, come on serena you can do it, jehovah is on your side he wants you to win.. except i know he prefers golf.. wonder how everyone would react if i did it a few times?
Serena was given a warning for swearing loudly!
obviously the witnesses are going door to door, but is it as effective as could be?
in all my years as an adult, only once has any witness come to the door preaching "the good news.
" this is once in over 15 years.
While subscribing wholeheartedly to what was being said as to the elders' running away to studies or sheperding or other business, leaving the flock to do the work, I still think the experiences you give are way too geographically limited to be extended to be given a nationwide importance. It is more like this news report I juststumbled across, I guess:
Being unemployed takes work to master
Katherine Bolt - For the Journal-Constitution
Thursday, January 9, 2003
My name is Katherine. I am an unemployed telecommunications worker. I have been unemployed for several months.
I thought that the newly unemployed and the soon-to-be unemployed would appreciate some tips. You should know how to act when you're unemployed.
> When the phone rings, it's not the company that you e-mailed your resume to five minutes ago.
> When someone comes to your door, it is not a representative of a firm who just couldn't wait to meet you in person after receiving your resume. It is more likely the local Jehovah's Witness, an elementary school child selling band gift wrap, or someone wanting to clean your gutters because there is a tree growing out of them.
..........
I think we're pretty well known all around.
yesterday's wt study's specious attempt to forge a link to literacy/reading comprehension/ study of the bible got me to wondering about the historic levels of world literacy.
i. it would seem that the people of biblical times had neither public schooling nor any widespread access to copies of the scriptures.
hand-copied scrolls from the sacred writings were in the possession of the elite ruling and clerical classes; hence the custom of public readings of scriptures at the synagogues on the sabbath, ostensibly to the masses who had neither the ability to read or access to these writings.
So the Bible isn't that necessary, jgnat?
has anyone heard about a tape all jws were given recently that puports to show what they will all soon be suffering in the "war?
" someone posted about it on another site but had fairly limited information... i would be very interested in this tape as i am sure my ex will show this horror (assuming it exists) to my kids... i hear it is a terribly upsetting tape leving kids crying and upset for days.
my oldest has been acting out quite a bit and i wonder if maybe he's seen it... i can't ask him till he gets home from school.. thanks.
Witch Childe, that is but a faked story. Nothing like that exists.
heres a passage frtom a wt.
that of august 1, 1993. .
article : "jehovah, my confidence from youth on" .
But he could we sort of joining together the two statements, could he not? Jesus had been present since since 1874, but they also believed 1914 would mean the end of the gentile times and the overthrow of Satan's rulership. So he had been present also from 1914, in order to bring forth the final judgment. That he "came" at the end of the 40 years that had begun in 1974.
The set of beliefs referring to 1914 seems to be very open to differing views when it comes to what was believed between 1914 and the year his presence was stated as having begun in 1914.
the watchtower society teaches that jesus christ is the mediator only for the "anointed" jw's and that the "anointed" jw's are the "mediators" for all of the "other sheep".. the bible says jesus is the one mediator for all men:.
1st timothy 2:5: for there is one god, and one mediator between god and men, the man christ jesus
Considering the letters of St. Paul, St. Peter, St. John and St. Jude, and the contents of the Book of Revelation, it seems apostacy was widespread towards the end of the 1st century, and so there should not be any problem in stating that the ones using the catacombs in fact were apostates. OK, they did not use the Cross, but they had sets of beliefs which included the reverence towards bishops, the belief in the soul etc.
This, however, gives birth to what in my eyes is another, deeper, problem, which is scarcely debated at all: How did the congregations and groups react to the letters of the said writers? Given there was this great apostacy around the end of the 1st century, obviously the letters and admonitions had no impact at all - the ones written to did not care, but kept on in their apostacy.
Leading to the final question, how come that the teachings of Jesus Christ, that Christianity, was such a weak religion? Why was it that it only had a true impact on people for a handfull of decades, but then fell victim of an apostacy, which has blurred it ever since?
IF that is what happened?
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in the sixties ted jaracz was a do in california.
one of the witnesses there said he had been in the australian branch before that, top dog i think.. did ozzie or any of the other australian posters know him or hear about what he was like then.
The yearbook dealing with Australia tells about Jaracz.
if you've read the latest yearbook and magazines, you'll see.
that the watchtower is at it again - nazis, nazis, nazis!.
if you awoke from a half century coma and read this self serving.
Interestingly enough - the WTBTS seldom mentions these other groups - or the *normal* pecking order within the camps.
When reading "Jewish" literature on the concentration camps, does it not focus on fate of the Jews?
When reading stories seem from a Sinti and Roma viewpoint, does it not focus on their fate?
When reading literature from gay groups on WWII, does it not focus on their fate?
Do not the Polish people held that ythey suffered the most, and even deny they helped lokal Nazis exterminate Jews?
Do not the Russian people claim the same?
Is it so strange that Watchtower literature focus on the fate of the Witnesses?
the watchtower society teaches that jesus christ is the mediator only for the "anointed" jw's and that the "anointed" jw's are the "mediators" for all of the "other sheep".. the bible says jesus is the one mediator for all men:.
1st timothy 2:5: for there is one god, and one mediator between god and men, the man christ jesus
I'm one of the other sheep, one of the great crowd - and Jesus is my Mediator. No way it can be any different.
