this new couple moved in a couple weeks ago.
special/regular pioneers, he's an elder from bethel.
i think he might have been a co at one time.
it could be the CO has, or letter to Service has indicated a conflict of personalities among the inner party members or their wifes, and a cushion is need to keep them apart.
WT knows removing heads is not the answer {think Marie Anotinette, Lavoisir.}
Their intentions may be benign. By WT standards.
i know most jehovah's witnesses believe in the soul sleeping doctrine.
by this, given that neither man nor beast has a spirit, but that they do possess souls (or "intelligences" unique to themselves).
where this intelligence resides between death and resurrection is more than a passing interest, but again, assuming that yehweh can recreate one's distict soul, does the society believe that animals have souls?
cofty:
Einstein, replying, when asked about the immrtal human (never mind animal) soul:
" ach was "
roughly meaning: " come on" a question beyond being recognized as worthy of answering.
i know there have been many comments over the recent past about 2014 being potentially a key point in time for the wts as it's 100 years since 1914 but my view is that it means absolutely nothing.. people are people and history shows the psychological hold that organisations like the wts has just carries on captivating people.
the org survived the 1975 debacle and they will potter on for years to come regardless of things like 100 years since 1914, especially since this is something the wts are simply not talking about.
it means nothing to anyone other than people looking for something to bash the wts with.. it's not mentioned in the literature and is unlikely to be anytime soon - why the heck would the wts want to remind people of the length of time?.
since WT BtS adherents do not celebrate birthdays any more, so why would not celbrating the "birth of the [fictious] kingdom of 1914" be an event??
a kid that knew what happened in 1914 would be 114 years old, still 6 year short of a normal human max. lifespan of 120, but
definitely not generating any more to help in the ongoing overlapping.
The overlapping has lapsed.
i have recently been having a feeling of guilt for having escaped the w.t while so many friends and family remain trapped.. has anyone else ever had similar feelings?.
many hear have exhausted their life getting people into wt/guilt/hope think. that is enough work. I do not want to spend the rest of my life reversing the process for some.
worse, like a drowining person can be a hazard for an untrained rescuer. the backlash at your de-programming attempt may really hurt you. but:
" [be] always ready to make a DEFENSE-- for the [ false] HOPE that is [NOT] in you--" the adapted trueim in 1 Ptr. 3:15
"The best defense is attack"--NO--it is not.-- adapted from Moltke's. military academy classic.
No, I never felt guity because I did not do enough for WT, because I did,
No, I strangely feel no responsability to combat error, delusion - in people-, fight it only on principle.
my mission is to live, my children, LIFE. and her's.
..according to the wt, adam and eve were created to live forever on earth right from the start.
two things i just thought of.. 1) one of the reasons that they were banished from the garden was so that they couldn't eat from 'the tree of life' , which would allow them to live forever.. so doesn't that mean that they were created with bodies that were going to deteriorate and die?
or would the magic fruit make them invulnerable even to gods power to destroy them?
O.Julia I too have been a goner perhaps a total of a day in my life time, widow maker heart attack , heavy concussion from a fall, operations.
The only forgotten traumatic experience was the hard surface fall. I do not know, so I can not remember what happened. although I can examine what lead to the fall.
so I must believe our self is highly dependent on our material state of the brain.
to me our arrival is more of a mystery miracle than our passing on.
since there are no snakes with language skills, the rest is irrelevant, although it is taken so seriously. even doing crossword puzzles is supposed to help your mental accuity.
jesus answered: watch out that no one deceives you.
5 for many will come in my name, claiming, i am the messiah, and will deceive many.
6 you will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.
"those that pick up the sword"
swords are offensive weapons. armies are attack mashing machines.
only few countries like Switzerland have truly defensive armies. shield, helmets, bunkers.
armed forces strike across borders, kill, pillage, rape civilians -with no exceptions-
look at the shifting borderes over the centuries and all the atrocities that accompanied that.
Perhaps the idealized Jesus account favors the idea of his followers staying neutral and depleting the powers of enough canon fodder.
The heroes are those that stay out of this mayhem. at any cost. or is it
the longest Claw, strongest jaw wins?
back in the late 80's and early 90's this term flew around all the time it seemed.. every publication and magazine at the time was always spouting this term to the point that it became annoying.
i would hear this in talks all the time etc.... .
te question i have is, where in scripture is this whole "anti-typical" thing mentione?
Dont count out JW imagination in the future:
There might just be an antitypical/Greater Knorr in the Knew World. silent K
They have the nack for it like in Knackwurst.
and war broke out in heaven: michael and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven.
so down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called devil and satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
- revelation 12:7-9. this took no time at all, for it is written:w97 5/1 p.29remember that according to revelation 12:9, 10, with the establishment of gods heavenly kingdom in 1914, satan was cast down to the vicinity of the earth.but it took jesus three years to figure out who his true followers were on earth.
Heaven, what do you mean not real? remmeber the song:
Puff the magic dragon -- giving away me age -- of unbelief.
watchtower theology is intent on the idea of classes, taking characters from the bible and making a modern day application that is nothing if not a study in narcissism.
there is the elijah class, the elisha class, the jehus and the jehonadabs, they even made a class out of the very obscure nethinim.
i was emailing auntbee and she had the idea of possibly parodying the idea in one of her videos.
1) the NATHAN (the prophet) CLASS.
the group of christians that have the dirt on the MAN or MEN at the top, can speak at any time and know it will be bad news for the followers and
that they, as NATHAN antitype Whistle Blowers are immune from the consequences, unlike Uriah and other happles victims of the "man according to jehovahs heart."
2) The JOSEPH CLASS. as in newly minted spritual tribe of JOSEPH in Rev 7.
made up of those that knew something was fishy, reported it to headquarters, were hated for it, left for dead (spiritually) turned over to the world, dfd? perhaps, - falsely accused of sex or other crimes, ultemately providing real food (spiritual perhaps) to those that need it, wether the brothers liked it or not.
jesus answered: watch out that no one deceives you.
5 for many will come in my name, claiming, i am the messiah, and will deceive many.
6 you will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.
Phizzy: according to WT Bts latest count there only 12 000 "anointed" remnant, and of those only
eight- count them, that have the task of proclaiming the GN . help them, the F&DS.
