Not a "her". Betty is a male. Same with Jody (mentioned right above).
Posts by Magnum
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34Betty Georges - The Female Helper to the Governing Body
by MillennialDawn inbetty georges is listed as a helper to the governing body service committee, according to this page on the website: https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body-jw-helpers/.
anybody know anything about her?.
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If you have a question maybe I can help doctor of theology and one of Jehovah's witnesses
by Jehovahisgod inmy name is ari matthew davies.
i am a life experience consultant counselor i have a doctor's degree theology psychology clinical addictions and computer sciences.
i am also baptized as well as jehovah's witnesses.. if you have a question i've got a lot of experience and a lot of real life training.
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I also can help you if you have a chemical addiction problem
I can help you if you have a mental addiction to a religious cult, the members of which are delusional.
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I'm really not trying to be mean, but I just can't help but notice that your writing is indicative of one who has very little education and/or intelligence. If English is not your first language, then I certainly understand; however, if English is your first language, then you should not have graduated from the 6th grade.
You write that you have "a doctor's degree theology psychology clinical addictions and computer sciences." Do you mean you have one degree with concentrations in all those areas? That would be odd, but that's what your wording indicates. Or, do you mean that you have several degrees, each with a concentration in a different area?
Again, I'm not trying to be mean - just honest. It seems to me to be presumptuous for you to come on here and think you are going to instruct us. One of my favorite quotes is "An educated man is one who is aware of what he does not know." I don't think you are aware of how much you don't know and how much we do know.
From where did you get your degree(s)?
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Reading the Watchtower and Awake! is like getting a college education!
by kairos inanybody remember hearing this?.
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is that comment in print anywhere?.
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punkofnice:
Knowing things doesn't equate to intelligence.
I have said that often, and that's something a lot of people don't understand. I liken the situation to two different computers. One has vast "intelligence" - that is, massive processing power, but it has very little "knowledge" - that is, its database is almost empty. Another has puny processing capability, but lots of "knowledge" - files and files of info.
Also, consider the fascinating case of Kim Peek. His mind was filled with vast, inconceivable amounts of knowledge, but his dad had to help him dress - not because he was physically not capable of dressing, but because he lacked the intelligence to dress himself. A psychologist who was interested in him knew he could easily absorb and remember simple facts (names, dates, etc.), but wanted to know to what extent he could understood more abstract or figurative type language. He asked Kim "What does it mean to get a hold of yourself?" Kim laughed at him as if it was obvious what it meant and then Kim proceeded to literally try to hold himself: he wrapped his arms around himself.
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The term "college education" is virtually meaningless. One's having a college education in no way indicates he's intelligent. I know people with college educations who, and I mean this literally, should not have been let out of the seventh grade. I know college graduates who can't do simple arithmetic; they can't figure out what 1/2 of 1/3 is. They can't reason. They're illogical. They don't know simple grammar; they don't know the difference between adjectives and adverbs or transitive and intransitive verbs. They don't know what a gerund is or what the difference between the objective and nominative cases is. That's all seventh grade (or earlier grade) stuff.
If one has a degree in math or the hard sciences or engineering, then he has to have some kind of good intelligence, but, not necessarily overall, well-rounded intelligence. One summer years ago, I took two semesters of organic chemistry in a period of four weeks. It was all day classes with labs later in the day. We had two different instructors because it would have been too much for one. Both of them knew organic chemistry well, but I found that neither was what I really view as being intelligent. They both had bad grammar and just weren't that smart in an overall way.
I think that one's having a philosophy degree would indicate intelligence. I think that people like Christopher Hitchens are brilliant - much more intelligent than, for example, the two with organic chemistry PhD's who taught me that summer.
Anyway, sorry for the ramble.... it's just something I'm really interested in. My main point is that JWs' saying that reading their mags is like getting a college degree is totally meaningless.
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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body
by WingCommander inthis has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
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ExBethelitenowPIMA:
"Is it even possible to come off being gb and still be an anointed JW?
Is it possible to come off being anointed and be other sheep and still be an Bethel elder?"
When I was in, this was the org's teaching on that:
One cannot be "demoted" from anointed to other sheep. Decisions that men in the org make (such as disfellowshipping, removal from GB, etc.) have no bearing on one's being or not being anointed. The anointing is from Jah, and men cannot remove it.
In the first century, all Christians were anointed. When one was disfellowshipped at that time, he was still anointed unless Jah had completely written him off and deemed him doomed to everlasting destruction. The disfellowhipping removed him from the congregation, but not necessarily from Jah's favor. If he was reinstated, he was still anointed.
So, today, Tony's removal from the GB or even disfellowshipping would not indicate he's no longer anointed. If Jah removes the anointing from a person, that person is doomed to eternal destruction; he or she does not have the option being part of the other sheep. Once anointed, always anointed unless determined to be worthy of Gehenna.
P.S. St George of England, as you can see, I agree with you.
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Response to RWC's Atheist Questions
by Liberty inhi rwc,.
i'm sure you're a very nice person and i don't want to get into an argument but rather a civil debate.
i just wanted to point out that as ex-jws many of us are a little obsessed with truth (not to be confused with "the truth" tm) and that after being burned by the watchtower society and hating ourselves for being so stupid to have fallen for its bs we have now become highly skeptical of the bible as well.
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Just skimmed. Very interesting. Saving to read in detail later.
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Scriptures That Bothered You as a JW Kid.
by Sea Breeze inmy big one was: .
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20: 5 "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
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Passages such as 1Sa 15:3. We were told as JWs to try to picture Bible events in our minds. Picturing this would be worse than watching any R-rated horror movie I'm aware of.
Killing of infants & children? How did they kill the infants? Did they hack them with a sword? Stab them?
Slaughtering of innocent animals? As one who is concerned about animal welfare, I just can't see why a just God would have the animals slaughtered.
Try to picture this event and hear the screams and feel the pain.
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COVID 19 - DISSOCIATION LETTER
by gavindlt indear friends,.
i think you all know me as a person who has always strived, despite my imperfections to only ever wanting to be and remain in the “truth”.
it is in fact what i so desperately want for my son ashton and my baby girl honey bee, to be lovers of truth and grow up to be a loyal servants of jehovah god and his son, jesus christ.
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I'm not so sure it is too long. They need to have it detailed and spelled out to them. Even if they don't read it, it could be said they were served. If there did turn out to be some kind of higher being who administers justice, they won't be able to claim ignorance.
I was told I was supposed to read all their overly long shit for decades; hell, they can read this.
There's some good info in this letter; I'm saving it for my personal records.
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ExBethelitenowPIMA,
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THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS AT BETHEL
by JT infyi--.
& other personnel.
writing correspondence personnel, patterson, ny (incomplete).
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What happened to J.R. Brown. I remember his being a JW rockstar a few decades ago. Now, I hear zero about him. Is he dead?
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I might be totally wrong, but that old group seemed to be really true believers. They also seemed to be more serious and scholarly. The new group is just a bunch of buffoons.
Maybe I feel that way about the old group because they were more hidden and mysterious. They received the Carl Olof Jonsson correspondence and research materials and, to me, didn't handle it as would a group who really loved truth. Their actions seemed to indicate that they were more interested in preserving the org and its status quo than they were finding real truth. Oh well, that's characteristic of the new group. Maybe they were no better.