Thanks galaxy 7,
You give the best Watchtower talk I have ever heard
Of course, I don?t have much competition. Those poor brothers aren?t given much room to be creative. They just speak from a "regurgitation" outline. I remember the old days when you could sit anxiously wondering what "bomb" Brother Independent Thinker was going to drop on the audience. But no more, those brothers are dead and gone. Only the company men remain.Thanks, spirit.What can I do to rescue a relative of the claws of the tyrannical sect JW?
Well, they have to see the tyranny themselves. If that happens, then just give support if they decide to unplug themselves. The number of friends and relatives they have to detach from will determine the difficulty. Making new attachments will help. Try and be one. Yes, jgnat, at the old age of 50 I finally realized that the baptism in the name of the Father and the holy spirit only occurred in Matthew 28:19,20 and that all the other references were only to Jesus. That?s what 35 years plus of listening to WTS propaganda can do to your brain.I think every Christian should be ready to share their testimony of what they have seen and heard. Whether they are obligated to hit the dusty trail and preach to the uninterested is another matter entirely.
It is said that it is better to live a sermon than preach one. It makes sense that those closest to you family, friends, neighbors, workmates would be more receptive to the Christian message than complete strangers who see you only once in a unnatural setting.Lonestar, good point,I find it rather interesting that the WTS quotes various 'secular' sources to back their 'reasoning', however individual witnesses are not encouraged to do the same.
I actually brought this one up within the depths of the writing department at Bethel. I was told that the holy spirit guides them to select the quotes that support the Bible and also protects the researcher at Bethel from being influenced by the non-JW material. Right!!!!!Room 215One can only stare in amazement at the calcified mind-set of the JW writer responsible for this piece when he attempts to contrast Christendom's purported dependence on ``biological" and ``transfer" factors for their growth, with the alleged dynamism of JWs. He must have had access to the statistics
But of course, the holy spirit must have told the writer that those statistics were not theocratically correct, lies from Christendom, influenced by Satan himself as "ruler" of this world.Pistoff,JW's have more in common with the jews of old than with christians; we have even more rules than they did and we can't do a thing if the elders don't like it.
Yes, even if the elders? wives don?t like it. As an elder wife, I had many an elder approach me and say that his wife was nagging him about something I was doing she felt was untheocratic, all the while assuring me that he didn't think that way. I told him he was talking to the wrong woman.Thanks everyone for your excellent insight. Blondie