this week's installment in the science quotes of "celebrated jw scholars" concerns one of their perennial claims.
based on a literal reading of genesis 1:30, jehovah's witnesses believe and teach that all animals were orginally designed to be vegetarians and that the restoration prophecies of isaiah foretell a return to this state.
this has been stated many times in jw literature:.. .
The 2022 convention makes it worthwhile to revisit this excellent thread, what with exhorting members to 'just imagine' many aspects of the paradise to come.
We surely need the writing dept to come up with some speculation, of the 'evidently' and 'likely' variety, of just how the carnivores will be reverted to their presumed previous forms, and whether, in the new system, a tiger might look like a striped cow or something. It only sounds ridiculous to those who are not rightly disposed!
The beginning of this article unnacountably made me think of the final scene in Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'.
I think it's very true that the rank and file will just let the details (difficult to rationalise as they are) wash over them, and just be reminded that (1) they're all slaves (2) it's the real life last days.
Nobody will be thinking 'Oh come on, King of the North! Make your mind up which superpower you want to be, you're holding up the Lord's day, and tell Gog he better settle on an identity too!'
original reddit post (removed).
I'm just watching LE's latest video (151st Gilead review) and my goodness, for some reason his delivery is very noticeably different from his norm. Looks like a touch of the 'Tony's', not to be judgmental or anything.
as a jw would you have allowed your pet to have a blood transfusion to save it's life?
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what is the society's stand on this today?.
if you permit your dog to be given a blood transfusion--it will probably be disfellowshipped
No, it will look at you with those big sad eyes and you can judge it to be repentant.
i'm so happy about this.this will have major implications for states such as california and their laws not only new york.let freedom ring!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv70otfd8ck.
Great news! Maybe now all schools can finally arm their students and put a stop to school shootings.
for argument sake let’s assume that this verse should apply to 1914. what are your thoughts on generation?.
There is an argument that the Greek translated as 'this generation' should not, in context, be understood in its modern sense of 'contemporaries alive now' but rather as 'this race, this people' or something similar; what the KJV translators would have had in mind.
I tend to agree with this. So I propose the following as a way of keeping the verse relevant to 1914:
'Our revised understanding is that 'this generation' means the new 'Spiritual Israel' which began to arise (or 'be generated') after CT Russell began to restore True Worship around the turn of the 20th Century. This group of Anointed Christians are the ones who 'shall endure till the end' (Mt 24:13)'
the court of appeal of belgium acquits the watchtower for its shunning policy, ex-jw patrick haeck previously won.
he will see with his lawyers what to do next.
june 7, 2022..
Could we see some links to further details please?
i just saw got a message from cappytan that he is going live on the 19th june est (uk 8 pm) with mark o'donnell & jake alt worldly to discuss the recent scotus ruling in favour of watchtower re: the stratton v. watchtower case.
so the stratton mayor required anyone canvasing door to door to fill out a form prior to visiting residents homes.
watchtower claimed the form, which required you to reveal your name, was unconstitutional and interfered with their first amendment, free speech rights.. my step father in the uk was responsible for our restriction on 'cold calling" law, enacted to protect the vulnerable from illegitimate businessmen, criminals and others intent on taking advantage of the vulnerable at home or otherwise doing them harm.
Just to point out that the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling is not recent; it's the 20th anniversary of the ruling that watchtower wants to celebrate, because (as is discussed in Cappytan's video) more recent legal cases are nothing they'd like to boast about.
Just make sure nobody wishes the Stratton ruling a happy birthday, eh.
Although that might be OK given that the JWs were apparently presenting alongside a Mormon ie engaging in 'interfaith'.
fyi:.
the 16-18 of june 2022 in quebec city, laval university, canada, there will be a conference organized by cult apologists cesnur (european) and info-cult/info-sectes (canadian).
some famous cult apologists (massimo introvigne) will be there and some jw mid range leader from ontario david docksteader too.
Nothing wrong with 'Apologia' if it's honest and in good faith.
Of course 'Dracula boy' tends to have a perspective based on who is funding him.
And the JW representatives at the conference will probably speak out of both sides of their mouths.
Info-cult is not a pro-cult movement though. I expect they will keep the actual cultists in line. The Q&A sessions might be interesting, if they have any.
But hang on, I thought JWs didn't engage in 'interfaith' activities which surely this is?
in 6-1 judgment, the ecthr found that the forced dissolution of jehovah’s witnesses religious organisations in russia, the banning of their religious literature and international website on charges of extremism, the revocation of the permit to distribute religious magazines, the criminal prosecution of individual jehovah’s witnesses, and the confiscation of their property unlawfully interfered with their human rights.
the only dissenting judge is apparently mikhail lobov, who was nominated by the russian government.. .
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The Russian authorities have some valid concerns about the JWs.
But their police state methods are possibly what made the Court rule as it did.
But then there's this: (source Russia ceases to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022 - Newsroom (coe.int) )
Following its expulsion from the Council of Europe on 16 March 2022, the Russian Federation will cease to be a High Contracting Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.
