check out the watchtower's erroneous definitions/descriptions of evolution and creationism in paragraphs 2 and 3 respectively on page 7 of the october 15, 2013 watchtower:.
"in its basic form, the teaching of evolution asserts that all life came into existence spontaneously.
"on the other hand, fundamentalists of christendom teach that the universe, including our earth and all life on it, is only a few thousand years old.
Does anyone REALLY know how life started? NO, so just accept what you have and do the best with it. Love life, drink wine with friends, tell your wife and children that you love them often, do things that make you happy and feel alive! Don't get cheated in this life because it may be all we have. Just saying!
eyeuse2badub
i haven't seen the 2014 yearbook on the jw site yet.
i'm looking to see if the number of partakers has increased again (as it has for many years now).
anyone have a scan of it yet?.
Rattigan 350;
Good point about partakers vs. "anointed". Yes it would not surprise any if the GB started using the term 'partakers' when publishing the numbers for the Memorial. By using the term 'partakers' instead of "anointed", it allows the GB quite a bit of wiggle room for the increasing numbers dilema.
****2014 YB page 144,000****
"Dear Brothers, last year's Memorial's attendance was a whoping 19 million. 14,000 partook but we cannot be certain that all who partook are truly "anointed" brothers of Christ. We are currently waiting on 'nu-lite' to be revealed. We will have the answer soooon".
Your Brothers,
THE Governing Body
the 'dubs' came by today just as the wife and i were on the way out.
we chatted a few moments and the two guys wanted to know if i had any questions about the bible.
so i asked them to drop by in a day or two and they left me with two thin magazines and a book they jokingly referred to as "the gold nugget.".
A lot of crap happens "invisibly" in JWism. When I was an 'elder', I saw FS reports for many JW's that must have "invisibly" gone out in FS. I even did some of that "invisible" FS for a while. I went to meeting for several years 'invisibly' also. Invisible is a good word. I like it.
eyeuse2badub
the jehovah's witnesses are a strange cultural phenomenon and one that has always puzzled me.
members call it "the truth" and, more boldly, "jehovah's organization.
" but many of those on the outside remain dumbfounded.
BackseatDevil---You are so right about the conditions during the last half of the 19th century. Especially in the USA were "perfect storm" conditions for the appearance of 'savior'. 4 or 5 USA based religious organizations got their start during the time. God did bless America! Just saying.
As Marx said it best; "Religion is the opiate of the masses".
eyeuse2badub
acts 20:28 nwt.
pay attention to yourselves+ and to all the flock, among which the holy spirit has appointed you overseers,+ to shepherd the congregation of god,+ which he purchased with the blood of his own son.
king james and other translations.
Inserting words and/or deleting words from the Holy Bible is what happens when "a committee of dedicated men" (tm) and not linguistic experts or educated scholars are used to translate the God's word. Just saying!
eyeuse2badub
1959 jehovah's witnesses in the divine purpose pg.
252. for many years it had been the view of the watchtower that the faithful men of old who served god faithfully before jesus' time would be raised from the dead even before armageddon to join in organizing jehovah's modern-day people and to share in shouldering the remnant'sresponsibility of representing the lord jesus christ in the capacity of overseers of the flock of god on earth.
these men were variously referred to as "ancient worthies," "faithful men of old," and "the princes" in the light of psalm 45:16. .
marked
as i responded to an earlier post it occured to me that those of us who have been in the religion for any length of time are like harry houdini, the illusionist.. we willingly (for those that chose to really believe the lies) bound ourselves in chains.. we always had the opportunity to releaase ourselves...it was all an illusion...an illusion that we played along with.
but the option to end the mental confinement was always within our power.. going door to door we must have looked like a freak show to others.
we put ourselves in a glass cage in chains, as a "spectacle",...in which we were unwittingly frauds, because the whole time we could have gotton free.. that's all for now... .
As I look back now, the most regrettable and frightening part of fostering the illusion is that as a parent of 4 terriffic children, who are now parents themselves, I was responsible for them being JW's today. I indoctrinated them well as did my mother for her children. I offered them NO option--the JW way or the highway. In other words, I was a 'good' spiritual head in JWism. I'm serving up tidbits of ttatt to them now and hope they wil break the chains many decades before I saw the light!
eyeuse2badub
special pleading is a form of fallacious argumentation and faulty logical reasoning.
it occurs when someone is exposed as wrong but rather than admit they were wrong they dream up some rather pathetic and weak excuse for why they are still correct.
one's pride is just too hurt to admit one is wrong.
They really screwed up with holding on to the "blood doctrine". It was concocted in the whacky minds of Rutherford and Franz. They can't abandon it now because of liability. So, now JW's can 'accept' blood fractions!
BUT, the WTBTS still needs to reconcile:
How can a JW accept blood fractions when only those who violate Jehovah's law regarding the sancitity of blood will donate the blood from which the fractions are derived?
in mexico there was a jw family of 8 killed with machetes it's very heartbreaking!
the problem i have is why does the wbats not make a mention of things like this in the yearbook!!!
they will tell you about how a brothers chickens didn't die and how jehovah must have blessed him... but if a whole family is killed where is the mention of jehovah now??????????????????????????????????????
I read of this gruesome event when it first broke a couple of weeks ago. At that time, I told my wife (a devout dubby) that something didn't smell right about this story. Stabbing people to death is personal. This was either a case of 'mistaken' identity, they were mixed up in some drug cartel, or they knew something about druggers. They were not murdered over a gambling debt of some dog breeding fee. Just saying.
And yea, where was Jehovah's merciful, saving hand? Was he too busy providing extra cash so poor pioneers could get to aconvention? Just saying!
eyeuse2badub
i saw this on some exjw website where allegedly in regards to gj jwfacts said "he made the first dictionary for the language of tuvalu where he was a special pioneer and became favoured by the king of tuvalu who he would have meals with, so he does not seem to have an issue with mixing with politics... ".
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/175970/1/do-you-happen-to-know-any-of-the-7-newer-gb-members-what-are-they-like-any-hope-for-positive-changes.
this however doesn't make a lot of sense since tuvalu doesn't have a king, their monarch is elizabeth ii.
I wouldn't doubt that the WTBTS takes credit for 'dictionary' first. Didn't CT Russell invent motion pictures?
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