the cable service is showing each saturday old sid and marty kroft childern programs fromt the 1970s.
rember the "land of the lost"?
saw an episode with the green lizard men, the sleestaks!.
The cable service is showing each Saturday old Sid and Marty Kroft childern programs fromt the 1970s
Rember the "Land of the Lost"? from 1974?
saw an episode with the green lizard men, the Sleestaks!
ah, the memories!
I alwas was fascinated with the Pylons, which could control the weather, time and space.
Remember the "civilized" sleestak, Enik?
http://www.70slivekidvid.com/lotl.htm
Isn't there someone here who uses a Sleestak picture for their icon?
--VM44
i have seen many brothers in the jw's including elders & ministerial servants using that silly tower symbol .
in their: bible covers, lapels, tie pins/clips, letterheads (personal) & many many more .
are they not idols?
It is OK
Actually, I have gotten some things just like new from eBay.
eBay is the world's largest garage sale!
--VM44
i have seen many brothers in the jw's including elders & ministerial servants using that silly tower symbol .
in their: bible covers, lapels, tie pins/clips, letterheads (personal) & many many more .
are they not idols?
never know what the previous person did to it (may even wiped their arse with it!)
You have just changed the way I look at eBay!!!!!!
--VM44
i have seen many brothers in the jw's including elders & ministerial servants using that silly tower symbol .
in their: bible covers, lapels, tie pins/clips, letterheads (personal) & many many more .
are they not idols?
do I have to throw it away to keep from passing on the deeminz
Maybe it has a Watchtower Demon by the name Rutherford!
Farkel would probably want it then!
--VM44
the latest "keep on the watch" publication released at the district assembly really looks like a rehash of old material (and even old pictures ... they must be running out of paint or something!)..
one 'gem' caught my eye flicking through it.
how do you reason with people to convince them that the bible account of a global flood is real?.
The WT writers are in trouble with regard to "Flood evidence," and they know it!
The geological evidence does not exist for a global flood, notice how the publications have steered away from talking about geology during the last decade?
They have been using the "global mythology" line of argument for proof. This argument was used by Isaac Newton Vail a hundred years ago (Russell and Rutherford promoted Vail's annular ring theory for the source of the flood waters, Rutherford even went so far in the Creation book to say that God has chosen this time to reveal the facts in the Vailian theory. Nevermind Vail was a crackpot!)
Now they have simplified. The Flood happened because Jesus mentioned it. Are you going to argue with Jesus?
I suppose that takes the burden of proof off the Watchtower.
Isaac Newton Vail is a good example of a person obsessed with a theory of their own creation. People like that think their ideas are so clever, they have to be right. He was an interesting character.
--VM44
i have seen many brothers in the jw's including elders & ministerial servants using that silly tower symbol .
in their: bible covers, lapels, tie pins/clips, letterheads (personal) & many many more .
are they not idols?
km 9/74 p. 8 Question Box
"We have no organizational symbol to identify ourselves "
Oh, Really? It appears that the WT writer is just writing what sounds good at the moment. --VM44
Watchtower and the Watchtower logo are registered trademarks of
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.From: Authorized Site of the Office of Public Information of Jehovah's Witnesseshttp://www.jw-media.org/copyright.htm
Definition of "Logo"
A combination of characters and/or graphics
creating a single design used to identify a company. www.quillandmouse.com/qm_glossary.htm
NEW YORK (Ekstra Bladet) Spread out over the valuable Brooklyn Heights area with a view of Manhattan?s impressive skyline sits more then 30 buildings with the logo Watchtower on the façade. This is Bethel, the house of God. http://watchtower.observer.org/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040624/NEWS1/40624002
"Official web site of Watchtower Society, the legal organizationin use by Jehovah's Witnesses." http://www.watchtower.org
those life stories of bros and sis's in the awakes and wts were always very inspirational and encouraging to me when i was in the borg.
everyone enjoyed reading them.
now i realise that these experiences would have been censored and edited for maximum affect on the readers.
I have heard that Greek teacher, Nicholas Kip, whose story, "How Knowing Greek Led Me to Know God",appeared in the March 22, 1987 Awake!, does not attend meetings anymore.
--VM44
a few years ago i started reading the bible from beginning to end.
i was shocked to read about god striking down 70,000 people with plague when he was mad at king david.
now i cant find where it was in the bible.
"so God got angry with him for counting his fighting men?" Weren't the fighting men paid by King David's government? or fed? or outfitted? The paymasters, quatermasters, or armourers would have to have a pretty good idea of the numbers of men involved. Or didn't they worry about paying, feeding or outfitting the fighting men? --VM44
back in the 1930's, the watchtower had a special task for all the congregations (at that time called companies!
) they were to have people clip box tops from cereal boxes!
these box tops were then gathered and sent off to the society.. i believe that at the time, box tops could be redeamed for cash $$$$.
Here is something about the WT and money. Chapter 4 of Barbara Harrison's "Visions of Glory," "Accumulating Wealth While the World Refuses to Die" She starts right off describing another WT "fund raising" activity, the selling of "Miracle Wheat" for $5 a bushel, 5 times the going market rate. http://www.exjws.net/vg4.htm The Watchtower has stated once that this was an innocent activity, such as a "cake sell" to raise funds. But the "Miracle Wheat" episode still is considered as a questionable activity. It just sounded too much like a scam, whatever the original intentions were of Charles Russell. --VM44
back in the 1930's, the watchtower had a special task for all the congregations (at that time called companies!
) they were to have people clip box tops from cereal boxes!
these box tops were then gathered and sent off to the society.. i believe that at the time, box tops could be redeamed for cash $$$$.
Hi carmel, There is nothing wrong with collecting "box tops" as a fund raising activity. However, collecting box tops is itself not a "theocratic" activity. Perhaps it is if you are doing it for "God's Organization." I thought strange though the Watchtower once organized such a box top "fund raising" activity. Perhaps I view it as too much a commercial activity. The WT thought it efficient to squeeze pennies from each family, the box tops would have been thrown out anyway, and if all the Witnesses contributed, it would add up to a hefty amount. But, and perhaps this is what bothers me, does the Watchtower view its members as a revenue source? or slaves, to do as they are told in a top-down orgainization? Example, would the Watchtower Society rather received a $500 monetary contribution from a person, or a detailed 500 page research report they had done on the years 607BC and 1914? Which one would result in praise and a "thank you," and which would result in condemnation, letters being sent, visits from elders, possible disfellowshipping, etc? --VM44
