Hi Atlantis
Please drop me a link. Thanks for all the hard work that you do, it's very much appreciated.
Cheers,
baldeagle
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Hi Atlantis
Please drop me a link. Thanks for all the hard work that you do, it's very much appreciated.
Cheers,
baldeagle
the saddest story ever told.
despite being childhood sweethearts, in the year 1941 they decided to postpone marriage and remain single and childless in this system so as to put the the theocracy first, albeit under the control of the watch tower society.. in the final pages of the children book john and eunice walk silently through the fields and stop by a great tree on the river bank where they had sometime before discussed their future plans.
the young lovers seat themselves down and look over the landscape.
BluesBrother created a post recently on today’s WT study March 1, 2020 taken from the Dec 2019, study edition regarding having and raising children. The title of this article is “Parents Train Your Children To Love Jehovah.” Many have expressed their viewpoints and observations on this WTS teaching of refraining from having children if possible to make more time for the ministry.
I decided to bump up an interesting discussion from five years ago along this similar angle. The WTS really has nothing new to offer. At all cost, regardless of damaging advice and counsel given or false predictions made… “The Organization” is of utmost importance & MUST survive no matter the collateral damage.
This religion
needs its own day of reckoning.
i was informed today by a jw that the watchtower doesn't use images and propaganda to instil fear.
i would really like to see a compilation of all their armageddon illustrations.
maybe a thread or web page already exists that had this content.. the one i am really wanting is the most recent picture of the witnesses in the basement during the tribulation.. this will be a massive help so thank you..
1958 Paradise Lost Pg. 208
i was informed today by a jw that the watchtower doesn't use images and propaganda to instil fear.
i would really like to see a compilation of all their armageddon illustrations.
maybe a thread or web page already exists that had this content.. the one i am really wanting is the most recent picture of the witnesses in the basement during the tribulation.. this will be a massive help so thank you..
1988 Revelation Book, page 233
someone has uploaded both episodes to google drive.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l0ubvtriw6ytinnenmsmxpefotphconi/view.
Thank you Kim and Mike the download worked fine, very much appreciated. Thanks for all your hard work.
Cheers,
baldeagle
imagine boarding a bus with your family for a long anticipated vacation.
the destination is a place that is promised to be beautiful warm and sunny.
as you are boarding the bus you are given a ticket stub with several paragraph's of fine print.
Awesome analogy it’s too bad every new fresh faced batch of converts believe THEY will finally reach their paradise destination. Every newcomer, the majority of which these days are JWs born-in children believe that the one’s that went BEFORE them were simply born at the “wrong time” and died awaiting a resurrection.
The current younger members that are “true believers” feel THEY are the chosen ones that line up perfectly in the WT promises of paradise and eternity. They fail to analyze history and see that all those previous generations felt THEY were in the “sweet spot” of human history and would NEVER die. This is how the religion has survived for so long.
People die… and all the memories of broken promises and predictions fade away into obscurity. Now the new foot soldiers are told THEY will NEVER succumb to death and the cycle just repeats itself. It’s evil and cruel to deliberately deceive many honest hearted people in this way.
i did not have any connection to jw's when they published this, about two weeks before i graduated from high school.
i'm now on medicare and collecting social security.
so much for their ability to see into the future.
As already mentioned, this was all part of their masterplan to bolster and build-up the 1975 teaching. It amazes me that these charlatans would NOT even consider giving themselves any wiggle room in their wording.
“You also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.” Play it safe & avoid embarrassment WT…
“You also need to face the possibility that you might never grow old in this present system of things.”
“Because all the evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years.” Play it safe & avoid embarrassment WT…
“Because all the evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end very soon.”
“Therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.” This could have been written…
“Therefore, as a young person, you might never fulfill any career that this system offers.”
“But where will this system of things be by that time? It will be well on the way towards its finish, if not actually gone!”
“But where will this system of things be by that time? It might be well on the way towards its finish, perhaps even gone!”
It’s obvious that these leaders deliberately chose to use unambiguous statements in order to generate a massive mental, emotional, and physical response from its followers. For the countless dreams and accomplishments that were never attained but rather dashed to pieces, these liars deserve a full retribution.
someone on facebook is claiming to have reliable information that the gb is about to announce new light on the 144,000 -- that it's symbolic, not literal.. one person suggested that they will retain the two-class teaching and just change the meaning of 144,000. his idea was that the change would avoid three problems with the current teaching:.
1. embarrassment over more and more partakers at the memorial when the number should be getting less and less.. 2. embarrassment over 12 symbolic 12,000s somehow equaling a literal 144,000.. 3. solving the problem of running out of "anointed" ones who are old enough to be on the gb.. thoughts?.
Some of us here may already have seen this 26-minute video. It’s from “ExJW Critical Thinker” and here is the video’s description:
“In this video, we use
critical thinking to examine the teaching of Jehovah’s Witnesses where they
state that the Biblical reference of 144,000 people that will go to heaven is a
literal number. According to the Watchtower, there has only been the Heavenly Calling
for anyone who became a Christian from the 1st century up to the 19th century.
We demonstrate that if this teaching is true, it means that Jesus Christ had
less than 144,000 disciples following him from Pentecost of 33 C.E. up to the
19th century. But you have to ask the “critical thinking question” is this
teaching supported by historical records?”
.
any thoughts?.
https://rutube.ru/video/23b6bbf9be28bb182d48259dacaf5401/?pl_type=user&pl_id=689813.
These
leaders have to hire better writers. They have truly run out of any original or
fresh ideas. The doctrinal component of this religion can easily be dismantled
and exposed as being false. All they are left with now is to ramp up the “fear
mongering” along with the strong “emotional rewards” in the future paradise…that
is imminently around the very next corner.
wanted - young, healthy, unmarried brothers that do not look at pornography.
of course they should not masturbate too, though we do not mention this requirement specifically.
and they should be honest about it.
2015 Annual Meeting
Samuel Herd's announcement about finances and Bethel reductions. Now we have in the May 2019 broadcasting an appeal to the worldwide brotherhood to consider a full-time career at Bethel. Seriously, which is it we must conserve and reduce personnel to save money or not? It’s like the old joke.
“How can you tell when the GB is lying?”
“Their lips are moving.”