Posts by EdenOne

Looking for the WT that announced Ray Franz no longer governing body member. I remember reading it, but that was so very long ago. Anyone perhaps have that information?

Awake!, May 22, 1980

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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

this is not a joke.

anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

EdenOne

I think his 1st name was Ewart rather than Edward

Correct, my bad. Ewart C. Chitty is the name.

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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

this is not a joke.

anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

EdenOne

Also, it's worth noting that, since its inception in 1977, only 3 members of the Governing Body were deleted, rather than deceased, and all of them for disciplinary reasons:

Edward Chitty (Resigned from the GB in 1979, Homosexualism)

Leo Greenlees (Resigned from the GB in 1984, Homosexualism and Child Molestation)

Raymond Franz (Resigned in 1979, Apostasy).

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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

this is not a joke.

anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

EdenOne

I wonder, and this is lil ole me speculating ...

If Tony Morris was the main mentor of the disastrous worldwide legal strategy that kept WT in denial of CSA and now it has really blown in their hands with the Pennsylvania investigation ... perhaps the "softliners" in the GB forced him out?

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Are Both The JW And The Ex-JW Community a Cult?

by Vanderhoven7 in

charlie ryde writes:.

let us use the same bite model for determining if something is a cult to both being a jw and being ex-jw.

mind you this is a short summary.. b- behavioral control.

EdenOne

I came to believe in letting people believe in any idiocy they choose just as long as that doesn't disrupt anyone else's life. Saving people from themselves is as meritless as attempting to teach a pig to dance: you won't succeed, and the pig will be annoyed.

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WTBTS investments

by enoughisenough in

i found this article, how be it from about 10 years ago.

https://clarencesisk.com/watchtower-investments/ i didn't even go to the end of the article, but assuming the writer knew of which he wrote, wt had/has?

stock in bot j&j and pfizer.

EdenOne

Disney acquired PornHub back in 2018
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2018/06/disney-executives-pleased-to-announce-acquisition-of-pornhub/

Fake news. That is a satirical website. Be careful with such statements.

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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT

by cofty in

10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.

12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.

15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.

EdenOne

(Glad to see you back again, Cofty, I hope you're well.)

I don't know if this POV has been addressed in this old and long thread, so excuse me if it had been touched before.

It appears to me that the apparent double standard regarding the consumption of unbled meat in the torah may be resolved by evaluating the individual's responsibility on taking a life of an animal.

If an Israelite would take a life, therefore "stealing" life from God, it would be an act of respect towards Yahweh to symbolically return the life to the divinity by wasting the blood to the ground without consuming it.

However, if the (clean) animal was found dead already, the Israelite wouldn't be responsible for taking that life, and therefore, wouldn't have to symbolically return that life back to the ultimate life-giving god. He would not be guilty of capital sin, merely uncleanness.

Therefore, the capital punishment would be deserved, not by the mundane consumption of the fluid in itself, but for the equivalent of the original sin, that is, appropriation of something that belongs exclusively to the divinity (either being the authority to decide what is right or wrong, or life itself). That who would eat unbled meat whose life he hadn't taken, wouldn't be regarded as guilty of the same level of transgression.