Posts by 4thgen

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Disturbing cover picture November 2014 awake!

by stuckinarut2 in

oh wow..... i have just seen the cover picture for the november awake!.

sorry, i don't know how to post a picture here....(perhaps someone else can assist?).

it is just plain creepy.. the article is called "keys to a happy life".... but the looks on the faces say something different!

4thgen

Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy!

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JW TV - One Further Step Towards Making the Organization Soft & Cuddly

by steve2 in

one of the more astonishing developments within the organization in recent years is the muting of the more "out there" behaviors of this once fiercely confrontational and proud end-times religious group.. members were unapologetically no part of the world and couldn't give a rat's ar*e what you thought of them.

whereas the organisation fostered an outlook of warning the "wicked" world of the imminence of its destruction at the hands of the almighty - and spared no effort in doing so - nowadays the organization is sucking in its more "loose cannon" elements.

in the place of these elements is a sparkling, smiling, airbrushed group of worshippers who parade their wholesome settled lifestyle to win converts.

4thgen

HI Steve, Great post. Russel would be spinning in his grave, if he knew (But I suppose it's hard to spin with the weight of a pyramid on top) This is not the organization we grew up in. It makes me sick.....they sold out....

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TV.JW.ORG is Awesome!!!

by Separation of Powers in

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4thgen

Agreed! Great picture!

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The Electric Church Turns On!

by Atlantis in

the electric church turns on.

(awake 1981, march 22, pp.5-8).

.. .. the watchtower society knows very well how much money can be made by television preaching.

4thgen

I know this is a repeat of what I commented on another thread, but I just can't help myself....I love the ccomment they wrote "Does that sound like eternal life can be yours by dialing channel 21?" Page 7. Hypocrites!

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tv.jw.org Female Presenters?

by jw07 in

4thgen

Hey JW007,

I stumbled upon this on youtube. It is a woman named Brooklynn and the show is "On the Scene". She does over an hour interview for the International Convention. I am not sure if this as made by jw.org. It seems to be of the same quality. Let me know what you think...or if anyone else knows more about this, please let me know...4thgen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOych9MadY

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Tv.jw.org - Here we go, "with your support" mentioned in the first 10 minutes of broadcast!

by 4thgen in

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see minute 6:25 "with your support....".

http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodmonthlyprogramming/pub-jwb_e_201410_1_video.

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4thgen

If God was behind this, why do they need "our support"?

*** g81 3/22 pp. 5-8 The Electric Church Turns On ***

The Electric Church Turns On

THE preacher wears no black robes. Instead, he glistens in a three-piece white polyester suit. He presides over no altar, but roams over the multilevel stage of his television “cathedral,” bathed in klieg lights. Polished to a mirror finish, with every step outlined in flashing lights, and numerous backdrops constantly changing the scene, the stage itself seems to be the star of the show.

The need constantly to raise money traps Electric Preachers in a boom-or-bust cycle. Big projects, like “cathedrals” or universities or hospitals, are started, followed by desperate pleas to the faithful for more money to “finish God’s work.” As a local banker said of one Electric Church superstar: “There’s only one problem with a ministry like Jerry’s. He can’t stop raising money; if he does, it all falls apart.”

This aspect of the Electric Church may remind thinking Christians of Jesus’ words found in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus pointedly said, “No one can slave for two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick to the one and despise the other. You cannot slave for God and for Riches.”—Matt. 6:24.

With the preachers of the Electric Church constantly in need of vast contributions from their viewers, is it likely that they will risk offending those viewers? Hardly. The theology of the Electric Church, not surprisingly, is simplistic and self-gratifying. “Ask not what you can do for your religion; ask rather what your religion can do for you,” as Forbes put it.

Even some sympathetic to the Electric Church admit that it has little content. As evangelical theologian Carl F. Henry observes: “Much television religion is too experience-centered, too doctrinally thin, to provide an adequate alternative to modern religious and moral confusion.” In other words, TV religion cannot really help you to solve life’s problems.

Instead, as Harvard divinity professor Harvey Cox notes, the preachers of the Electric Church “are merely perpetuating and deepening the values of a materialistic consumer culture. They are helping people to accept some very shallow values, while promising easy salvation in the most commercial setting.”

How does that message square with Jesus’ warning that the road to life is not easy, but difficult—“narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it”? (Matt. 7:14) Does that sound as though eternal life can be yours merely by dialing Channel 21?

Consider this further admonition from Jesus Christ: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross [torture stake, New World Translation] daily, and follow me.” (Luke 9:23, Authorized Version) Does a person deny himself and take up his “cross” daily propped in front of the TV? Could Jesus Christ really approve of a religion that promises people easy salvation—no torture stake, no self-denial—for just a monthly check to somebody’s “worldwide TV ministry”?

Rather, it looks as if the Electric Church is a 20th-century example of what the apostle Paul warned Timothy about when he said: “For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories.”—2 Tim. 4:3, 4.

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House to House Board Game

by BlackSwan of Memphis in

http://www.ministryideaz.com/house-to-house-board-game-p/h2h.htm.

i thought you guys would like it.

required accessories (not included): new world translation of the holy scriptures, reasoning from the scriptures.

4thgen

OMG

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Jehovah on the TV where's the charisma?

by edmond dantes in

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why was someone chosen who by any stretch of the imagination would be the last person in the world anyone would want to present jehovah's message on this very peculiar tv .borg.

i mean the governing body are not showing much sense unless they want to appear totally unlike the run of the mill television preachers if that's the case they didn't have to go to the opposite extreme.

i try to understand where they are coming from but to chose someone who has the makings of an alien from the planet zod is completely baffling.. how is he giving out credibility to anyone remotely interested in the jws.