in 1940, former zone servant harvey h. fink wrote that the wts was "set up by presumptous men whose interest in spite of their pretenses to the contray, is primarily selling books for revenue.." and that the wts demanded that books containing outdated doctrine would still "be sold to the people very definitely, because it wanted to get the revenue out of them in spite of the errors it willing admitted they contained.
strong words, indeed.
is the wts so currupt and greedy that they would knowlingly make their membership buy and sell books that contained admitted false prophecies and outdated doctrines?
Farkel
I think they should have a fire sale when they're overstocked...or maybe just a fire!
The letter I received from bethel about several obvious lies taught while they prepared the Knowledge book for distribution was the textbook answer of...The GB provide the Proper Food at the Proper time.
I remember elders remarking about it being seen as proper food when we went over and over and over the Greatest Man book....although it was much easier to follow than all that other garbage.
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what kind of perfume or cologne do you like wearing?.
i wear vanilla lace by victorias secrets..
When I used to Hunt I always used..Doe In Heat...drove the bucks crazy!
I saw Gumby just splashing water on his face right out of the toilet...couldn't make him understand the whole eau de toilet thing..having that toilet paper stuck to his cheek sure does start alot of conversations though.
Mr Ben....the dog fart ....LOL
now i don't know if there is a "god",,but if there was one,, would he get mad like the jehovah in the bible if you slighted him in some way??.
i know many people are afraid to call down evil on jehovah or jesus,,they feel god might hurt them in some way if they take up his name in a less than respectful way.
i personal would not be inclind to view "god" to be like that at all.. if this god made everything in existance he must have intelligence that is vastly greater than ours,,he certainly wouldn't have the same emotions as us,,like fear,,anxiety,etc...they would only get in the way of good clear judgements,,and screw thing up for him just like they do to us sometimes.. to think that this 'god" would get angry at us for blaming him for something and calling him names is rediculous,,example: would you get mad at an earthworm because it didn't like you,,or because he swore at you when you stepped on his nieghborhood ant hill??
It's all about anthropomorphism, but as long as you're anthropomorphising,
Sixer...I know you learn all these big words in Playboy magazines...they have fine intellectual articles in dem magazines.
NPY...That elder or speaker should have noted that God decided to throw the sheep and the wolves into the same pen when he cast all the demons and Satan to Earth instead of into a Black hole or sumpin.
I think God probably uses the f word...
He said F Adam's offspring, F Abel, F Enoch, F Noah's neighbours, F Lots daughters, F all the nations in the promised land, F they're woman and daughters too, just kill the men and children, F, F ,F...seems to be a common occurance right up till we all got F by the WT organization which claims to be his local F'in reps.
what was the watchtower's view on the dodo bird, the wooly mammoth, and other extinct animals?
were they going to be resurrected, or did the wt think that extinct animals were a myth?
They all died during the flood, along with the Unicorns and the Humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees
The Dodo bird is vehemently denied as ever exisiting due to the similarities bewtween it and J.F Rutherford.
It's a good question Nos...I'd need to dig a little in the cd-rom...I believe the idea is animals will not be brought back...except for T-rex cuz he's so cool!
Weird Book study..
Revelation Climax book....first climax most of it's writers ever had it seems
Daniel book....Open mouth insert foot here instructions on the back cover
Isaiah book..Part 1 The Empire strikes back in 1914 and Part 2 Return of the Jedi in 1918
i remember reading somewhere that the nt shows that there wre over 200,000 christians baptized.
if true, this certainly puts the lie to the "remnant doctrine".. does anyone know of any resarch into how many christians there actually were by the end of the first century?
or, for the last two thousand years for that matter?
Perry...did a little birdie tell you this?
Perhaps that lier on your shoulder, don't believe a damn thing that bird says about me..it was consensual I tell you!
It a while since I read it but You can download the writings of Josephus and they're quite interesting. I believe from what I've read there was practically as many or possibly even more Christians living outside of Jeruselam in 70 ce than were in, well more than 144,000 for sure.
i'll be visiting portland this weekend and have stirred up some interest in dinner/drinks on saturday night.
so far we have 8 people coming, 4 of them not on this list, but exjw's of the coolest variety and very fun!
so, in talking to odrade, we thought we would throw it out there that if anyone else is interested in joining us, we are prolly going to go to portland brewing around 6ish.. i do hope we can get up a party!
Daaayyyuummmm....I have to work!
i'll start this post off by saying i love my wife, she has beautiful qualities and a sweet personality.
however i realize (and i think she does too, though she may not admit it) that since i left the org behind our goals and viewpoints are no longer unified.
as a couple we rarely fight or argue, we still have many of the same values but yet we have some issues that i know will never be fully resolved.
LT...that was the same little leather thing you spanked me with in room 222?
BTW LT its ok for a guy who wears kilts to have knee jerk reactions once in a while...ya fiddle playing fool.
Sorry for the pain your going through bud....I really hoped to connect with you more in Texas...I just couldn't pry you away from Eggs in the morning, Xena in the afternoon and Hagis in the evenings.....sheesh!
Paul...settle down or I'll show everyone the movies we made!.....although I do cry when I watch them...just a little.
i'll start this post off by saying i love my wife, she has beautiful qualities and a sweet personality.
however i realize (and i think she does too, though she may not admit it) that since i left the org behind our goals and viewpoints are no longer unified.
as a couple we rarely fight or argue, we still have many of the same values but yet we have some issues that i know will never be fully resolved.
We may need to start a divorced or soon to be divorced mens section on this forum...There is actually alot us of here with various stories and situations which seem to be pushing us ever closer to something we may have never imagined possible...the Big D.
I spoke with my lawyer today and have an appoinment made which will take me one step closer....every week there seems to be one last straw...Monday night it was BBgun scolding me in front of my wife and a couple relatives because I worship Satan and Jehovah hates me because I don't go to the meetings...my wife clapped her hands and said..From the mouth of babes!
Jumpin Jesus on a pogo stick...I can't live with that treatment for the rest of my life...BBgun will come around once she is not under the constant influence of WT teachings.
Leander....you said
Wow Winston, its like you reached in my head and pulled out the things I was trying to say.
He's a smart little fella for sure, just wait till he reaches in your pants and starts pulling things.
Shotgun
