Posts by alecholmesthedetective

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You-are-too-dumb: Proper handling of nested magazines (BOE Letter)

by pixel in

to all bodies of elders.

re: proper handling of nested magazines.

dear brothers:.

alecholmesthedetective

OMG I'm dying here...I just can't even with this thread

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i'm a new member & i'd like to say hi to everyone, intoducing myself.. i am a 3rd generation born-in at mid 50's & an active elder.. english is not my mother language, so pls ignore any grammatical errors.

i live in a small country in europe.. i'd like to thank you for all information posted.

some of them have rally helped me to understand and examine again my beliefs.. last new light concerning f&ds=gb has verified the idea that they are popes in the position op pope.. i still believe in god & in his son jesus christ but not in the gb..

alecholmesthedetective

Thank you Found Sheep

Incidentally, anyone who can confirm whether to start a thread one needs 'permission' would be most welcome....

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New Member-Active Elder

by Promitheas in

jw
friends

i'm a new member & i'd like to say hi to everyone, intoducing myself.. i am a 3rd generation born-in at mid 50's & an active elder.. english is not my mother language, so pls ignore any grammatical errors.

i live in a small country in europe.. i'd like to thank you for all information posted.

some of them have rally helped me to understand and examine again my beliefs.. last new light concerning f&ds=gb has verified the idea that they are popes in the position op pope.. i still believe in god & in his son jesus christ but not in the gb..

alecholmesthedetective

Thank you LoisLane, I might as well start a thread...

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The GB are god's mouthpiece. Rebuttal to elders?

by punkofnice in

i've read how many have been asked the question if they belive thae gb/f&d$ are jehovah's(tm) channel for communication.

this question to finally find out if they should be df or not (terms and conditions apply and are subject to favouritism or who your family are).. we all know too well that the gb arrogantly do claim to be god's channel in their pope like status.. however, when they are made to look like arses they suddenly become 'just imperfect men doing their best...where else will you go?'(r).

so when the elders come to hound individuals and ask the ultimate question of loyalty to the holy paedo ring known as the gb..... what answers have you heard given that was totally brilliant?.

alecholmesthedetective

LOL yeah Punkofnince...what is $0.15 for four months...well, well...

I've heard of people in banks arrested for stealing less from millions of individual bank accounts...

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The GB are god's mouthpiece. Rebuttal to elders?

by punkofnice in

i've read how many have been asked the question if they belive thae gb/f&d$ are jehovah's(tm) channel for communication.

this question to finally find out if they should be df or not (terms and conditions apply and are subject to favouritism or who your family are).. we all know too well that the gb arrogantly do claim to be god's channel in their pope like status.. however, when they are made to look like arses they suddenly become 'just imperfect men doing their best...where else will you go?'(r).

so when the elders come to hound individuals and ask the ultimate question of loyalty to the holy paedo ring known as the gb..... what answers have you heard given that was totally brilliant?.

alecholmesthedetective

LOL yeah Punkofnice

The Watchtower reserves the right to alter, change, or reverse any doctrine, rule, or regulation due to time and unforeseen occurrence, which befall us all, government deals (see Bulgaria), excessive passage of time (see 1914), too many deaths or imprisonment (blood fractions, alternative service) or any other thing that might make us look like fools stuck in the 1960's. We also reserve the right to ask for $0.15 from each publisher despite preaching that giving should be completely voluntary under no compulsion whatsoever.

Your brothers standing over you in the faith,

WT

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Review of Memorial Talk

by pixel in

this is my personal review of the memorial talk for this year.

take into account that this is a new "outline".

i put "outline" in quotes because.

alecholmesthedetective

It's funny how the word 'mediator' doesn't even appear in the Bible Teach book. I, for one, wasn't told that when I was baptized. I would like to have known. Also funny is how that is not even explained in the Memorial, the night every year when they talk about the New Covenant and they do not want you drinking from the wine and eating from the bread. Hmm

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The GB are god's mouthpiece. Rebuttal to elders?

by punkofnice in

i've read how many have been asked the question if they belive thae gb/f&d$ are jehovah's(tm) channel for communication.

this question to finally find out if they should be df or not (terms and conditions apply and are subject to favouritism or who your family are).. we all know too well that the gb arrogantly do claim to be god's channel in their pope like status.. however, when they are made to look like arses they suddenly become 'just imperfect men doing their best...where else will you go?'(r).

so when the elders come to hound individuals and ask the ultimate question of loyalty to the holy paedo ring known as the gb..... what answers have you heard given that was totally brilliant?.

alecholmesthedetective

They are God's channel of communication on earth, and we must never doubt them even in our thoughts, because they are relaying Jehovah's thoughts. Except when the light gets brighter and what was once thought to be Jehovah's thought is actually shown to not have been.

Like when they said, I can't remember when, that the FDS was a class of all the anointed still alive on earth. It turns out that wasn't what Jehovah had actually said after all. Come on, we can't expect perfection from imperfect men. Right?

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New Member-Active Elder

by Promitheas in

jw
friends

i'm a new member & i'd like to say hi to everyone, intoducing myself.. i am a 3rd generation born-in at mid 50's & an active elder.. english is not my mother language, so pls ignore any grammatical errors.

i live in a small country in europe.. i'd like to thank you for all information posted.

some of them have rally helped me to understand and examine again my beliefs.. last new light concerning f&ds=gb has verified the idea that they are popes in the position op pope.. i still believe in god & in his son jesus christ but not in the gb..

alecholmesthedetective

Thanks very much Pickler, it's good to know we are not alone.

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New Member-Active Elder

by Promitheas in

jw
friends

i'm a new member & i'd like to say hi to everyone, intoducing myself.. i am a 3rd generation born-in at mid 50's & an active elder.. english is not my mother language, so pls ignore any grammatical errors.

i live in a small country in europe.. i'd like to thank you for all information posted.

some of them have rally helped me to understand and examine again my beliefs.. last new light concerning f&ds=gb has verified the idea that they are popes in the position op pope.. i still believe in god & in his son jesus christ but not in the gb..

alecholmesthedetective

Hi there, I'm a newbie here too...fading publisher, former pioneer and ministerial servant.

Yes, I've had my issues with some elders over the course of years, and of course, you can't challenge them, criticize them (because you are speaking out against those whom the holy spirit has appointed), or for that matter challenge or criticize the Watchtower and its representative GB.

I'm so glad to find so many who have a problem with this 'new light' like myself. For a while I wondered if I was alone. Not anymore. I seriously hope that this giving themselves pope-like status will ring bells in the minds of conscientious witnesses and prompt them to do research. That's what happened to me and it was then that I found out TTATT, and Awoke! after reading The Watchtower. And how glad I was to find this forum!

And 'you shall know the Internet, and the Internet shall set you free'.

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If a non-JW receives a pamphlet from a JW, then tosses it in the trash bin after reading it, he has rejected "The Truth" and will be destroyed at Armageddon.

by Calebs Airplane in

how many here have heard such utter stupidity??.

several years ago, during field circus, i was covering a seldom-worked territory which was a community of mostly busy working class people who usually sprung out of their homes every saturday morning to do grocery shopping, run errands, etc.. only a few would start their saturday morning doing yard work washing their cars, walking their dogs, etc.. but we would frequently catch most of the house-holders on the way out, getting into their cars.. so, needless to say, the use of pamphlets was prevalent in that territory.. on that saturday morning, i mentioned to the elder who had been paired up with me that most of these people are so busy that they probably just toss these pamphlets in the trash without ever reading them.. his response to this was something like: "well i hope they're not doing that.

that would not be a good idea.".

alecholmesthedetective

Hi guys, I'm a newbie fading witness here...anyway

Yes, I did grow up listening to this utter rubbish. It's funny that a CO once pointed out that Jesus often quoted from the scritpures so we could do the same if opening the bible made people log off. Now thinking about that Jesus (1) not only performed miracles but also resurrected the dead, thus giving indisputable proof that he had God's approval, and (2) quoted from the scriptures, individuals including his opponents rejected him on the basis of what they heard since he spent the day teaching in the temple, not because they threw away some leaflet.

The WT likes to reflect the black and white thinking sometimes found in the OT, I thought the stoning had been abolished thousands of years ago. The truth is not black and white.

My fellow brothers and sisters who still try to 'help' me go back to the meetings try to use that kind of thinking, well, "stop judging that you may not be judged" and "Jesus is the judge not us" usually do the trick.