this was posted on another thread (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6040010839031808/christmas-tree-word-appreciation), but wondered about how others here would see this with one experience i had as an elder now as ex-jws.. when we were jw's we had to be extremely careful with what we said around the brotherhood.
if someone said anything out of the ordinary, relationships among the involved were halted immediately, or were never the same afterwards.
in this place, one can say almost anything without the fear of having a truck run over us.
Absolutely hypocritically amazing how the wtbts brags about their 100's of court case victories regarding 'freedom of religion' and/or 'freedom of speech'. Have you ever tried exercising 'freedom of religion or speech' within the wtbts?
Didn't think so!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
360 days x 2520 years = 907,200 days.
365.25 days x 2520 years = 920,430 days.
920,430 days - 907,200 days = 13,230 days in difference .
Even though the 1914 date is pure bovine crap, very nice analysis nevertheless!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
when i sti'' believed this verse was alwas in my mind: faithis the assured ecpectation of things hoped for... the ebident demonstration of realities not be held.... .
yes it seemed to preach the scientic method..so ai thought.
the point is my faith was never based on 'i belive.....' i thought based on the bluecreation book we had the truth.. latley a witness sakid herewes 11:1 meant that faith is the evidence.... well f***his idea.. if jws start belebong ths nonesese they will never escape.
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.” - Benjamin Franklin
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
doesn't that throw off the date?.
*** w51 6/15 p. 383 questions from readers ***.
in establishing the length of the seven times of the gentiles, a time or year of 360 days is used, to give 2,520 days, which become 2,520 years when ezekiel 4:6 is applied.
"By applying the bible principle of 'math-magic' we can come up with any friggin date we want."
Watchtower 2018 August 15 paragraph 99.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
paragraph 12 recommends that we meditate on the weekly reading for the theocratic ministry school.
ok, i'm splitting hairs here.
but there will be no more tms in a week.. somebody isn't keeping up with jehovah's celestial chariot..
"............do not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing" something like that!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
dear all, need some advice .
in my country one can get dfd for pretty much anything the bullies want to df you for.
but is there any specific guidelines that state one can or cannot be dfd for marrying a non witness.
Another freakin example of the way the borg arbitrarily cherry picks the scriptures and misapplies them. The bible in both 1 and 2 Corinthians provides pretty specific instructions about “marry only in the lord” and “do not become unevenly yoked”. Yet one is seldom if ever df’ed for marrying an unbeliever. Smoke an occasional Cuban, (about which the bible says absolutely nothing) and you’ll be df’ed.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize!”—Voltaire
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
suppose that a popular uprising tries to oust an oppressive regime, one under which gods people have also suffered.
although we would not march with the protesters, might we be with them in spirit?
(eph.
Neutral eh? When selling up in Brooklyn was anywhere else in the world considered for the new HQ other than America?
You're right! JW's is an American religion, born and raised. Recently, in order to be "politically" correct, the borg has brought in or 'promoted' some upper level personnel from other countries. But for the most part, the borg is historically white, american, balding old men.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/12/25/serena-williamss-instagram-makes-it-appear-that-shes-having-a-lonely-christmas/.
by marissa payne december 25 at 3:36 pm .
cheer up, serena.
Gotta love those long legs. Personally, I'm a big fan of the Williams sisters knowing where they came from and where they are today. Hooray for women.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
from a reliable source:.
a young cobe - late thirties, maybe forty - has resigned in december 2015, both as the cobe and as an elder.
word is that he is a man with a young family who is stressed out and has had enough.
That's the route I took. "Stepped down" as an elder (which was, by the way, a huge "step up" in life) and 6 months later pretty much quit the borg altogether.
It's a trend that should start gaining some traction as the 'sheeple' start seeing and feeling the real direction of the borg.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
i think it was gary and heather bottings' book the orwellian world of jehovah's wifnesses that noted the function of the habit of the watchtower organisation of changing organisational terminology periodically.
congregations became companies and then back to congregations again.
circuit overseers became circuit servants and then back again.
It's change for the sake of change IMHO. It's a way of trying to make an archaic religion look like it's doing something, moving forward. It's "New light" from jehober just like j f rutherford received when he changed the name to 'jehober witless'.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
