if you were ever brought before a judicial committee, and were about to be interrogated by the elders, just remember...you owe them nothing.
they are mere men and no better than you!
even if it wasn’t a judicial interrogation , you should never feel obligated to them.
They can df you for anything. A friend had a friendship with a female at work while he was going through marital problems. He mentioned this to his elders why I don’t know. They he and his female friend never had sex never even touched one another, yet it was deemed in Christian so he was dfd.
By the way his wife had already left him claiming he wasn’t a good spiritual head and they ofcourse supported her in her divorce of him even with no evidence of foul play on his part.
either here on this site or by a congregation member?
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The moment I mean the very moment I said something like maybe the Borg is wrong on this matter my wife was on the phone to and elder.
the year 1914 would be disappointing.
perhaps even more so than the great disappointment which happened some 70 years earlier at the hands of a a baptist preacher, william miller.
it placed target years of 1843 -- 1844 on the map of popularity.
Not only was it a great disappointment for Russell but one of the greatest lies the WT since told. He wrote that Armageddon was going to come in 1914. The Wt then sometime in the twenties on write that Russell and those back then expect something great to happen, they implied they had an idea Jesus was coming but didn’t realize it was him installing his kingdom and he coming invisibly. They are and still state this crap to this day. Again Russell was confident that Armageddon was coming in 1914, he had already stated when Jesus came invisibly and when his heavenly kingdom was installed.
since today there is a post about jws and science i thought it right to throw them a bone and see if they have anything right:.
1. round earth (lol).
2. old universe (13.7 billion years).
They never agreed to the age of the earth but said to leave it to the scientists to argue about. Fact is in my youth they were still saying Russell’s teaching of an earth about 50,000 years old was right. They also still push the idea that man is only 6000 years old.
Its a good thing your thread is about what they got right because if it was about what they have wrong it would be one damn long post!
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.
im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.
i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
I agree with earthmeasured, the Bible says the earth is flat in over 60 scriptures it even says it’s supported by pillars and has corners. If the Bible said it it must be true! And that’s why they call me crazy.
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.
im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.
i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
There over 60 scriptures that imply the earth is flat and just one where it says it like a circle. It just goes to show that you shouldn’t put your trust in a book written by a bunch of goat herders!
some time ago i stumbled across a book by french author gerard gertoux, about the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton.
the book was also published in english (cf.
the author's site at http://gertoux.online.fr/divinename/) .
Earnest the Greek Septuagint is older then the Dead Sea scrolls. I’ll look into those other inscriptions.
I believe The Tetragrammaton was substituted later to cover up and replace the gods names that were originally in the writings. Old Testament writings in my opinion were old stories gather from around the Levant and didn’t all speak of the same god. That’s why in Jerimiah for example his god never thought of a sacrifice human or animal. Other writings talk about god being from Egypt and there’s even descriptions of Egypts god Ra in one of the minor prophets. There Egyptian influences all over the place in these writings as well as Greek.
the big news at the annual corporate meeting was probably the sudden realization that gog of .
magog was some group of nations.
the news was given by geoffrey jackson.
These guys don’t have two brain cells to rub together, that’s why they just keep bring up old light or hire and out side agency to figure out their next move or new light.
so much for jehovah blessing this new arrangement.
they are barely keeping up with the birthrate!
so basically the org spent millions of dollars on their website and broadcasting so the only growth they are still getting comes from born ins and illiterate and superstitious folks from africa.
Cart witnessing is kicking ass. In the Congo they got them set up near rivers and the people coming from a long day of fishing and running from crocodiles are lining up in droves to speak with ones and take book written in foreign languages.
the watchtower society always attempts to disprove or discredit valid arguments or statements by criticizing the ability of individuals to think, reason, ask tough questions and make their own decisions!
if they can't logically attack the message, they attack the messenger!!
the name calling of apostates or anyone who doesn't agree with all the wtbts flip-flops ( the light gets brighter) never stops!
I was stumbled by a prominent brother , brother Lett when he said that when he was younger at bethel most there believed the end was coming 1975. Opps didn’t they used to say and say again now that the whole 1975 thing was because some brothers out in the field got carried away and said these things? Well according to Lett the ones at Bethel thought the same even accusing him of apostasy for not believing.
Yep you can’t make this shit up!
