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  remember when the "truth" was simple?

  by nowwhat? in

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  we had a saying, "the truth is simple but it is not easy".. everything is now so convoluted and nebulous!.

  the 1914 overlapping generations.

  blood fractions.

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  When I was teenager going DtoD I would defend JW doctrine to vicars and other Ministers of religion, not brilliantly I bet, but to the point where we agreed to differ.

  I doubt many adult JW's could defend present doctine in that way, if they even know what it is.

  It was a simpler and more genuine faith that was encouraged when I was baptised as a pre-teen (by a few months), I was baptised vowing that I would serve god as he explained he wanted me to through Jesus and the Bible, we did not defend an Organization, but our own faith that we had proved to ourselves from the Bible, albeit that our understanding of the Bible was warped by the WT's input.

  In those early days I don't remember any saying that a teaching was "too deep" to understand, such expressions came later when things got more and more convoluted.

  I can completely relate to that. Many young people my age couldn't defend their faith.

  Alec
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  new light on FDS and 1914

  by inbetween in

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  the society claims now, that before 1914/1919 there was no fds, this means also, russel was not part of it, he was not the channel from god.. then the calculation for 1914, which russel made popular and promoted, was done in a time, when god revealed actually nothing, does this prepare the way to finally dump 1914 chronology ?

  approaching the 100 year anniversary for christs supposed rulership, it becomes anyway more and more ridicolous.. i know, some argue 1914 is essential for their being chosen 1919, but now they say, they are somehow not appointed over the belongings yet, so also this aspect looses significance.

  and the inspection of the temple can begin anytime anyway, it was convinient to link it to 1914 but i think its not really necessary.

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  I too wonder whether they'd totally get rid of 1914, undermining their claim for authority.

  I think the "fade" idea makes sense.

  They'd release a new book to use in bible studies, since the Bible Teach book preaches that Bible Students foretold 1914, and henceforth start using less overt language about it...

  I wonder what will be released this year...

  Alec
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  July 15th Study Edition Is Up..

  by confusedteenager in

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  2. friends

  not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but yeah.

  they just posted up the new watchtower...with the confusing new information.. time for me to go dive into this "new light" and try to see what sense it makes.

  of course cedars already nicely did a run down for us.. .

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  Seems those four directors voted to give Rutherford full control as President. Then, once they saw he was going to be a tyrant, they wanted to repeal the bylaws and restore the sharing of authority amongst the members of the board. They didn't even want him to stop being President of the Society, they just wanted to go back to what the gameplan was based on C.T. Russell's will, which was for the 7-member board of directors to make decisions together. Rutherford used his legal knowledge to have it declared that they weren't legally members of the board of directors at all, then gave them the boot and put his own people on the board so he'd have no one who would challenge him on anything.

  Aha, thanks sd-7, full control. That is what I've been thinking since last October. Rutherford had full control of what went in the publications. He had full control when in 1919 Jesus supposedly appointed the FDS.

  So that nonsense that "there have always been anointed brothers at world headquarters" and "when these work together to provide spiritual food they become the FDS", which is on the annual meeting report on jw.org, is nothing more than a smokescreen to cover up the fact that as you elegantly put it Rutherford was the one who had FULL CONTROL of the publications. There was no governing body. Rutherford was the one "on hand" back then, so basically he was the first "faithful and discreet slave".

  And then as Cedars expertly pointed out the apostolic succession principle ensures that once he had that office, all his heirs and successors inherited it too. It just took them 93/4 years to figure that out.

  Alec.
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  GB needs a new name

  by Roberta804 in

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  well since the gb has announced itself as the fds, we have got to come up with a new name for the gb because they are the fds and a bag of chips now.

  how about flower delivery service?

  freekin damn servent?

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  Flaming Demented Schizophrenics

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  No more big District Conventions?

  by serenitynow! in

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  so i went to the hall today for a funeral and took a look at the bulletin board.

  i was surprised to see a letter stating the dc for michigan would be held at the local assembly hall instead of the big convention center in ohio where it had been held the past few years.

  have you all heard about this?.

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  LOL amazing Moshe, just in case someone missed it I think Cedars posted this one...

  

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  2013 June Our Kingdom Ministry!

  by Atlantis in

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  Thanks a bunch!

  Alec
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  Christopher Hitchens has a message for Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Finkelstein in

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  well perhaps not directly to jws but the speech within this video could very well... one thing about hitchens he had the veracity to cut open religious theocracy with .

  a sharp knife and expose it like no one else.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj2lehsa1dk.

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  Excellent.

  Marked.

  Alec
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  Woops, forgot about the "Special Talk"

  by watson in

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  actually forgot about it.

  could someone post a link to the thread with the outline?

  just in case my mother asks...

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  LOL nanotechonology which the outline gives a 1999 Watchtower magazine reference for.

  Very up-to-date with modern science.

  

  Alec
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  Will AAWA Become another cult?

  by His Excellency in

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  please sorry for english, i have only been learning for 18 months.

  everyone please think about it, and beware of any initiative designed to solve "a community problem".

  becasue russel also started his own cult on a similar premise like this , claiming to have all the answers to issues whose solutions seems obscured to the majority in his days, and here we are today, constantly bashing our fingers on the keyboard in a bid to finding comfort from the mess he had put all of us into.

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  Breakfast of Champions, might I remind that you may be making a huge mistake in leaving AAWA, I mean, at least before 2014 when all the AAWA'ers are taken by the Lord to a new spiritual estate in Cedar Point, Ohio, to be with him?

  Alec
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  We warmly invite you to attend this year's three-day CONVENTION presented by Jehovah's Witnesses/ 'God's Word Is Truth'

  by suavojr in

  1. watchtower
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  we warmly invite you to attend this year's three-day convention presented by jehovah's witnesses/ 'god's word is truth'.

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  alecholmesthedetective

  LOL

  It's presented by Jehovah's Witnesses who are parroting what the GB wants them to say, not expressing their own thoughts.

  The existence of a monotheistic Judaeo-Christian/Muslim god is as improbable and impossible to prove as the existence of Zeus or Thor.

  Do they know the TTATT?

  Alec