Posts by Crazyguy

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Kingdom Hall sales - A question?

by no-zombie in

a little while ago, comments appeared here about the sale of about 3000 halls and an american boe letter sent discussing a while sweeping congregational reorganization.

does anyone here have a copy of that letter or written proof of plan to downsize, that they are willing to share?.

Crazyguy

I don’t think such a letter exists but I could be wrong. The numbers I always heard from the Borg was how many new building projects that were supposed to be going on and why they need our money. As for hall closer and sales I think they have only stated that these moves were to help with space and better use of it. No numbers being mentioned for they dont want the average JW to start and put two and two together.

There was some accounting videos that mentioned some numbers saying they had a certain vacancy rate etc maybe that’s where any numbers may have been discussed.

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Pure Worship restored only for English-speaking?

by AlexPancho in

gb recent presents new book "based ezekiel" - pure worship restored.this book also provide into jw-borg site and jw-lib too, but only english.as examle, spanish - it`s second largest language into us and america continents, but has no translated into it.do you have any idea why this could happen?

they hide something, or just did not have time to translate (but previously published in all major languages at the same time).

Crazyguy

Did the new silver sword ever get translated into Spanish?

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Blood Transfusion Permitted

by Nevuela in

i just overheard an anointed acquaintance on the phone with a friend of hers who has just had surgery for cervical cancer.

among the snippets of dialogue i heard on my end of the line, these ones stood out:.

"you lost a lot of blood?

Crazyguy

JWs will think differently about non JWs and bible studies. I think in a lot of cases like this one they’ll let things go and even agree until the person is baptized then it’s complete conformity.

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For those who are athest, or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

by Tameria2001 in

i'm not asking this question to cause an argument or accuse, but i am honestly just wondering?

for those of you who are now atheist or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

i hadn't given this much thought until about a year ago.

Crazyguy

Read something about the god of the Canaanites being named EL . I knew that the god of the Bible was also named El or had the title El so I did some research into this Canaanite god.

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Now I am out, some reflections

by menrov in

ok, i have been out (officially inactive) for over 5 years now.

and from being frustrated during my awakening, to becoming a true bible student by analysing all doctrines and viewpoints, to being really happy to be out and at the same time, have developed a sense of disgust for the wt.

my wife is still very much a pimi.

Crazyguy

Great observations, I too believe it’s mostly social followed by the idea that their special because thier part of God’s true organization. I also believe like you that most that leave do so because they either can’t keep up with the lifestyle or have become victims from The policies.

The amount of people waking up and leaving because they figured out it wasn’t really what the Bible teaches and were not victims in some way first must be really low.

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Philo and Paul

by Doug Mason in

in my research into the second temple period, i have collected material on philo from two books.

i am making these scans temporarily available at:.

https://jwstudies.com/this_world__chap_10__philo.pdf.

Crazyguy

I have read that many of Philos opinions mirrored what Paul supposedly taught. But back to your question about Paul miss using scripture. If there was any scriptures it looks ti me they were Gnostics writtings. I don’t think any other scriptures were much around at the time since many scholars believe the gospels came after many of the writings attributed to Paul.

I believe the whole Christians concept was a mix of teachings from the older Osiris cult and other Gnostics ideas thrown in. It’s been written that many of the ideas in the New Testament were only allegory’s that later became taught as real stories and characters to convince the crowds to except Christianity.

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Increase in Second Sealings for the Anointed?

by Nevuela in

the other day i heard my anointed roommate on the phone, discussing something called the "second sealing".

i heard her say that most anointed people only receive it shortly before death, if they receive it at all.

she went on to say that she has been hearing about several other anointed people receiving theirs recently and not dying afterward.

Crazyguy

Hate to burst anyone’s bubble but the only anointed per the New Testament is Jesus. All who believe are part of the body of Christ therefore anointed through him. Nothing in the book of Revelations is about any anointed ones per say. It’s about dead Christians and alive ones that’s the ones talked about in chapter 5 and 7 etc.

Nothings JWs say on the matter is relevant.

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The Public Talks

by Charles Gillette in

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i remember when i use to give a number of public talks.

i had a binder with every public talk listed by number in it.

i don't have it anymore.. when i did the fade in 2002 after 33 years a slave since 1969. i destroyed all my watchtower materials and i had a lot.

Crazyguy

So absolutely true. I often wondered why it took me so long to wake up well it’s the talks and the Watchtowers. They were so boring I would just tune them out and daydream the meetings away.

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Philo and Paul

by Doug Mason in

in my research into the second temple period, i have collected material on philo from two books.

i am making these scans temporarily available at:.

https://jwstudies.com/this_world__chap_10__philo.pdf.

Crazyguy

I think the writtings of Paul come from other sources like Philo and others . Many people say Paul was an imaginary character modeled after people like Saul of Tarsis and again his writtings were from other people. Experts have already deduced that half of the biblical writings attributed to Paul are forgeries.

Its amazing when you study heavily like your doing how most of the stuff in the Bible is not original to the Bible and it’s characters. Even some of the saying attributed to Jesus have been found to have been written many years earlier.

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It feels really odd

by Tameria2001 in

i was searching through the net and i came across something i was not expecting to see.

i just found out that my cousin passed away at the age of 34, in 2014, and no one even bothered to tell me this news.

https://www.ashevillemortuaryservices.com/notices/raymond-pringle.

Crazyguy

Not that there is an excuse but are u dfd?