No more cake and cookies and milk and cofffee and tea and juice and "DRINKS" after the book study.
Blueblades
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Meeting schedule rearranged...WHY?
by sir82 inofficial speculation thread.... even if a reason is given for the meeting rearrangement when it is announced on 4/27, we all know how the society spins things (e.g., awake magazine being reduced to one issue per month to "put more emphasis on the bible" real reason.. .
so why is the society doing this?
on the surface, it seems to be a loosening of control.
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Major changes between the years 1968 and 2005
by White Dove inwhat are some major changes during these years that i was completely in the dark about?
these are the years that i was in.
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Blueblades
White and Awakened, just this past sundays Watchtower study made a major change concerning the teaching about "THIS GENERATION". The new understanding, new lightis that the anointed are / is "This generation".
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How did the new light go down in your hall?
by Mickey mouse injust curious.
will share my experience later..
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The new light is that the current day anointed are/is the "This Generation" that Jesus spoke about back in his day. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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What is the new understanding of the 1914 generation?
by isnrblog ini was always taught the following:.
watchtower, 7/1/69 pg395:.
people who were only just old enough to understand what was happening to the world in 1914 are now approaching seventy years of age.
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Blueblades
In a nutshell, the new understanding is that the anointed of today are / is the generation that will not pass away before all these things occur.
How many lights are going to go off before they change this new understanding.
The 1914 date is very hard for them to remove even though it has no foundation in scripture.
Recently they printed that the anointed have no special knowledge, no more than the great crowd has. Now they have new special knowledge, which is it, they do or they don't?
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huge announcement after the Watchtower study on the 27 of April?
by Dogpatch inthere will be a huge announcement after the watchtower study on the 27 of april.. for what it's worth, this was just sent to me anonymously.. randy.
www.freeminds.org.
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Blueblades
They never make HUGE announcements at a public meeting. The elder's wives usually leak it before time. No leak so far. Take the summer off. After the troop withdrawal from Iraq we will building a HUGE Kingdom Hall.
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Let the mystery be.
by Blueblades inwe all start out as children, uninformed and totally impressionable.
our parents get first crack at us and glue down the first layers in our pyramid of thought.
like going to church, accepting jesus as our savior etc.
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I was hoping for more responses from others who have reached the same conclusions as myself. Thanks to those who have already responded, it's much appreciated.
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Let the mystery be.
by Blueblades inwe all start out as children, uninformed and totally impressionable.
our parents get first crack at us and glue down the first layers in our pyramid of thought.
like going to church, accepting jesus as our savior etc.
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Blueblades
We all start out as children, uninformed and totally impressionable. Our parents get first crack at us and glue down the first layers in our pyramid of thought.
Like going to church, accepting Jesus as our savior etc.
So we have a choice forced upon us before we have the acuity in which to make a rational decision for ourselves.
Lke making a rational decision to reject belief systems in the supernatural entities of any kind.
So I break away from the church and make a rational decision to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses for 30 years which turned out not to be so rational afterall.
I then learn the truth about the truth through the internet, books, personal experiences and the many exchanges here on JWD. discussion forum since 2002 and some six years and 3,000 post later.
I do the fade and finally move away from the world headquarters. I read and read and read, many of the books recommended here. Looking at the two camps of scholars for and against whatever topic is being discussed.
My final rational descision is to let the mystery be , until better evidence presents itself. I just want to live each moment as it comes and shut my mind off all of this. I'm brain weary and my mind does get boggled, I can't wrap my mind or brain around all of this anymore. I'll be 63 years old June 02,2008. It's time for me to settle down and just let the mystery be. I wish the best for all of you who are still searching and for those who have found what they are searching for. Thanks for everything all you have done here for me. I'm not going anywhere, I will still be checking in.
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Recently I read a book by Ernest Becker, "The Denial of Death." Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie, man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality.
Then I read a book by Dr. Don Mose, "Searching for Eternity." A scientist's spiritual journey to overcome death anxiety.
Sooner or later, all of us face the stark reality of death. Many people go through life with an increasing awareness and increasing anxiety about their eventual fate.
Is death the finality or does some form of afterlife exist.
It is said the fear comes from not knowing. Both men are well educated and respected, and yet come to two diferent conclusions
Is death to be feared? Is the not knowing to be feared? Can we welcome death? For some a belief system helps them to cope with death. For others resignation takes place accepting that one can do nothing about it, I believe that we all suffer from some sought of death anxiety in our search for the meaning of life.
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Philosophy and the blues.
by Blueblades inwhen one is suffering from "the blues" one is said to be sad and gloomy; depressed or depressing.
can a study of philosophy bring on the blues?
here is what i found.. metaphilosophy: the philosophy of philosophy.
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Blueblades
When one is suffering from "The Blues" one is said to be sad and gloomy; depressed or depressing. Can a study of philosophy bring on the blues? Here is what I found.
Metaphilosophy: The philosophy of philosophy. Not to be confused with the philosophy of the philosophy of philosophy. ( tongue in cheek )
The prefix meta, which basically means "beyond and inclusive of all below," pops up all over the place in philosophical discourses, like in metalanguage, a language that can be used to describe language. Or in metaethics, which investigates where our ethical principles come from, and what they mean. So it was only a meta of time before metaphilosophy appeared on the scene.
Metaphilosophy wrestles with that burning question, "What is philosophy?" You'd think philosophers would have known the answer to that one going in. It makes you wonder how they knew they wanted to become philosophers in the first place. Modern philosophers are continually redefining philosophy. In the twentieh century, Rudolf Carnap and the logical positivists defined away a huge hunk of philosophy when they announced that metaphysics is meaningless. They said the sole task of philosophy is to analyse scientific sentences.
And Carnap's contemporary, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the godfather of ordinary language philosophy, went even further. He thought his first major book had brought the history of philosophy to a close, because he had demomstrated that all philosophical propositions were meaningless, including his own. He was so convinced that he closed the book on philosophy that he settled down to teach elementary school.
A few years later he reopened the book of philosophy with a new conception of its purpose, therapy, of all things. By that, Ludwig meant that if we straighten out confusing language, we will cure ourselves of the blues brought on by nonsensical philosophical questions.
In our own day, "modal logicians" logicians who differentiate between statements that are possibly true and those that are necessarily true, worry about which category their own statements fall under.
My question is, do you think that Ludwig Wittgenstein's new conception that the purpose of philosophy is therapy, to cure ourselves of the blues brought on by nonsensical phlosophical questions.
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Did the Bible really predict or say anything of substance?
by moshe ini often read comments like this about the bible here:.
well, the bible is the only source we have for guidance and direction.
if you read it you will know that such knowledge and wisdom could not have originated with man because more times than none, man acts in opposition to what is written in the bible.. it also foretells the future.
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Blueblades
The Bible has been misquoted, scribes, scholars and translators have written and re-written the thousands of manuscripts.
The King James Bible was based on corrupted and inferior manuscripts that in many cases do not accurately represent the meaning of the original text.
The favorite Bible story of Jesus forgiving the woman caught in adultery ( John 8: 3-11 ) doesn't belong in the Bible.
Scribal errors were so common in antiquity that the author of the Book of Revelation threatened damanation to anyone who "adds to" or "takes away" words from the text.
Did the Bible really predict or say anything of substance. Predict-no. Substance - yes. Love has substance.
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