As a song says, yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, live for today. Does not mean that I am not looking after my retirement!
why144000
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Matt 6:34 - Is it realistic?
by punkofnice intherefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
each day has enough trouble of its own.. .
true or false?.
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JW's and the axe
by why144000 inthe current state of the jws reminds me of the old joke about the father passing on an axe to his son.
he says son, this axe has been used in our family for 5 generations.
we have changed the handle a few times and twice had to put on a new blade but it is still the same axe your great grandfather used.. .
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why144000
The current state of the JW’s reminds me of the old joke about the father passing on an axe to his son. He says” Son, this axe has been used in our family for 5 generations. We have changed the handle a few times and twice had to put on a new blade but it is still the same axe your great grandfather used”.
The number of changes that have occurred in the last 100 years makes todays religion a totally new animal.
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Donation of blood fractions
by why144000 inthis may be the wrong area for this but here goes.. if you went to a bank and told them " i don't have an account with you, i never will have an account with you and i will tell people you are a terrible bank" then ask not for a loan from them, but a gift of a lot of money, how do you think they would respond?.
yet, witnesses now have the the ability to take blood fractions from the blood bank without ever contributing to the blood bank.
there is a process that the blood bank takes just the plasma from a donor to be used for fractions only.
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why144000
This may be the wrong area for this but here goes.
If you went to a bank and told them " I don't have an account with you, I never will have an account with you and I will tell people you are a terrible bank" then ask not for a loan from them, but a gift of a lot of money, how do you think they would respond?
Yet, witnesses now have the the ability to take blood fractions from the blood bank without ever contributing to the blood bank. There is a process that the blood bank takes just the plasma from a donor to be used for fractions only. If it is acceptable to accept fractions from plasma why is it not acceptable to donate your plasma for fractionalisation? Double standards.
Imagine the hospital saying "before we give you a lifesaving fraction you need to prove that you have contributed to the pool". If you are healthy I reccomend people think about donating to this great cause.
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Anonymous Donation - Not!
by why144000 inmy mother in law (in her 80's) just told me that she had the elders around to pick up her 'donation' pledge.
it was 'suggested that $20 a month was the average amount pledged but she could pledge more or less.
so, rather than an anonymous amount they have a signed document stating the amount of her pledge.
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why144000
My mother in law (in her 80's) just told me that she had the elders around to pick up her 'donation' pledge. It was 'suggested that $20 a month was the average amount pledged but she could pledge more or less. So, rather than an anonymous amount they have a signed document stating the amount of her pledge. When I told her that Russell said that money would never be solicited and that if Jehovah did not provide the organisation would close down. She said that she had to put the organisation first. I said she should put God first and the organisation second she fell back to the old line 'Jehovah appointed the organisation so we need to be obedient to it' At that point I stopped banging my head against a brick wall.
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"Who else is preaching in twos? Who else is putting kingdom interests first? Who else rejects the trinity?"
by Island Man inthe next time a jw asks you the questions in the title, just tell them about the "two by twos" and the "cooneyites".. they have some similar beliefs as jws but are even more zealous in putting kingdom interests first, living far simpler and less materialistic lives than even zealous jws.
they reject the triniy as unscriptural.
they preach in twos.
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How about the 'One by One Band' that was active in England in the early 1900's? Thomas Hogben wrote a book called 'My Witnesses" that taught that each person should be a 'Jehovahs Witness' and go door to door to convert people on an individual basis. I always wondered whether Judge Ratherflawed read the book and yars later stole the idea.
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144000 Literal or Figurative?
by why144000 inthe speaker at the memorial tonight stated straight up that the 144,000 is a literal number as we will stop celebrating the memorial when jesus 'arrives' and takes the few remnant with him.
how can the society change the 144,000 to figurative without blowing themselves out of the water?.
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I agree with you Kate however I do feel sorry for the poor saps who have to stand up and espouse the current "truth' then have to stand up next year (or the year after) and sound just as convincing about a backflip.
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144000 Literal or Figurative?
by why144000 inthe speaker at the memorial tonight stated straight up that the 144,000 is a literal number as we will stop celebrating the memorial when jesus 'arrives' and takes the few remnant with him.
how can the society change the 144,000 to figurative without blowing themselves out of the water?.
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The speaker at the Memorial tonight stated straight up that the 144,000 is a literal number as we will stop celebrating the memorial when Jesus 'arrives' and takes the few remnant with him. How can the society change the 144,000 to figurative without blowing themselves out of the water?
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Jeep ad
by why144000 inthere is a new jeep ad here in australia, probably all over the place.
two women are reading their fortune cookies and one reads it is time for her to take control of her life.
she says "glad i got a jeep' funny thing is the registration number for her car in the cut away shot is xjw - ***!
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why144000
There is a new Jeep ad here in Australia, probably all over the place. Two women are reading their fortune cookies and one reads it is time for her to take control of her life. She says "Glad I got a jeep' Funny thing is the registration number for her car in the cut away shot is XJW - ***! Coincidence??
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New light is fast
by why144000 injust noticed on the jw.org website under magazines.
'some updates made to digital publications may not yet appear in the printed editions.'.
talk about new light at the speed of light!.
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Have I got this right?
by why144000 inthere are now 4 classes of annointed.. 1. those alive in jesus day who heard him say "this generation will by no means pass away...".
these are all dead and buried.. 2. this group was on hand in 1914, and they readily discerned the sign of christs presence in that year.
those who made up this group were not merely alive in 1914, but they were spirit-anointed as sons of god in or before that year.
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There are now 4 classes of annointed.
1. Those alive in Jesus day who heard him say "this generation will by no means pass away..."
These are all dead and buried.
2. This group was on hand in 1914, and they readily discerned the sign of Christ’s presence in that year. Those who made up this group were not merely alive in 1914, but they were spirit-anointed as sons of God in or before that year. This group are now all dead and buried.
3. This group included in “this generation” are anointed contemporaries of the first group. They were not simply alive during the lifetime of those in the first group, but they were anointed with holy spirit during the time that those of the first group were still on earth.(WT 1/14). If we take Fred Franz as the last of this group then only people anointed prior to 1992 would be included in this group.
4 This group became anointed after the last of group 2 died and are not included in the 'generation' Jesus spoke about.
So we now have 4 groups of anointed but in reality only 8 men are the faithful and discreet slave (only when they meet together).
Why does this sound batshit crazy to me?