my avatar is a pic of a cool car, obviously.
.
Taken from the Greatest Man Who Ever Lived book Chapter 82 in reference to Luke 13:24 "Exert yourself vigorously to get in through the narrow door".
I came to the realization that the "narrow door" leads INTO freedom and OUT of the WTS.
Alligator Wisdom
the following comment was posted in the "mill hill disfellowshipping" thread:.
all 4 were disfellowshipped for believing that the entirety of the ransom, including the new covenant, and the mediatorship and everything else in the bible, applied to everyone.. if that is the case, why do all of the jw prayers, public and private, end with "we pray this through your son, jesus christ, amen"?.
ending prayers like this implies that the payer is going through jesus, hence jesus is the mediator for all prayers made by jws!.
Interestingly Sir82, is that the scripture you quoted (John 14:14) makes a very significant point in the footnote of the NWT reference Bible.
It basically quotes Jesus as saying, "If you ASK ME anything in my name..."
Does it sound like praying to Jesus?
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously by WTS standards)
so it appears that jws are letting their freaky side come out on fb for everyone to see.. there was talk on the ca yesterday strongly warning all true lovers of jehovah to delete their fb accounts.
the talk was solely about fb.
the speaker mentioned that jws are associating with people that would not associate with in real life, often using the excuse that the person is a relative.
I just had two JWs on my friends list delete their FB account last week. Coincidence?
Let's see how many more will during the upcoming weeks.
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously by WTS standards)
wt 11/1/1995 says:.
"this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
" (matthew 24:14) no human can say when that end will be, but we know that the end of "this generation" of wicked people will come once the witness has been given to gods satisfaction "to the most distant part of the earth.
Perry, I like your response and solid reasoning that you expressed to the elders.
I appreciate the "heads-up" alert and will implement the spirit behind the scriptures that you posted earlier.
Guess who will start partaking at this Memorial on March 30th?
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously according to the WTS)
watchtower study article jun 15th 2080 (direct retina scanned edition).
14...the watchtower of nov 15th 2037 brought out the increased light that the 144,000 of revelation should not be understood as a figurative number , but that the heavenly hope is open to all who wish to partake.
we rejoice that the number who profess such a hope has risen to over one million now , together with the over 35 million of the great crowd class.
Nice article Jeff.
I notice the pounding in and referencing of Matthew 24:45-47 all over.
That is the WTS "ace" card.
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
watchtower study article jun 15th 2080 (direct retina scanned edition).
14...the watchtower of nov 15th 2037 brought out the increased light that the 144,000 of revelation should not be understood as a figurative number , but that the heavenly hope is open to all who wish to partake.
we rejoice that the number who profess such a hope has risen to over one million now , together with the over 35 million of the great crowd class.
Paragraph 17 is the clincher and convincer for all mindless JWs.
Actually, you can have this very same paragraph in any article that highlights a new change of understanding....in any year.
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
wt 11/1/1995 says:.
"this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
" (matthew 24:14) no human can say when that end will be, but we know that the end of "this generation" of wicked people will come once the witness has been given to gods satisfaction "to the most distant part of the earth.
I like this. Bookmarked and saved to note down later. I will use this method. Thanks Perry!
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
a few months ago there was a thread about a couple of elders at the mill hill bethel being disfellowshipped because they disagreed with some wt doctrine (i can't recall exactly what it was) and that several other betheliteswere under 'investigation'.
i haven't heard anything since, does anyone know anything more about this?.
borghater xx.
Welcome to the forum Le Chat Noir
As by your detailed post, you certainly are knowledgeable about the English/British hierarchy.
Thanks for the info and we hope to hear more from you soon!
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
just looked through some of the largest populations in the world and ten of them add up to 3,500,000,000. how many witnesses serve these 10 countries.
no more than 60,000. the largest are china and india which together have around 2.5 billion people.
so is the jw good news being spread earthwide.
I made a somewhat similiar point to an elder in my congregation last summer.
He then had the "deer in the headlights" look on his face. That was then followed by a nervous smile and he said, "That's why we need to go out and preach urgently."
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
twenty+ year veteran japanese bethelites sent to the field as special pioneers.
i don't have the exact number laid off.
however, there are a total of 550+ members at the ebina branch, so if the trend reflects the same as in the u.s. and europe branches, then we can assume at least between 10% - 20%.. in order to counterbalance the need for a work force but without having to incur expenses by housing and feeding them, japan bethel is considering opening the door to "commuting bethelites".
JWoods said : Did I read the first post correctly - they had 550+ members at the Japan Branch? What in the world would they need this many for?
The Japan branch at Ebina covers most of Southeast Asia in terms of printing and translating. They also cover this specific zone in the service department in the sense that that often send brothers and sisters from local Japanese congregations or from Bethel itself to these lands (i.e. Malaysia, Nepal, Indonesia) under missionary status.
As you can guess, I live in Japan. I've been to Ebina several times and know dozens of Japanese Bethelites. Over the years I can see how they are now "worker" heavy in terms of liability and expense.
bohmsaid : I once read that laying off people in japan was a big problem - there is (was?) a cultural thing where people assume (or assumed?) that once you were employed at a company, and you did not screw up, you could not get fired.
So true. Lifetime employment had always been part of the cultural norm in this country. Not any longer.......even if you are volunteering.
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
