Millie: The material doesnt have a fresh feel to it at all.
Nope. It's worse than day old bread. It's stale, bland and tasteless, lacking in all nutritional value.
GB Not Providing Food-Helpers Write Articles
by TakeOffTheCrown 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Oubliette
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hoser
Can you imagine Lett and Morris writing articles. They can't even form a coherent sentence. -
The Searcher
So the Holy Spirit channels its communication via non-anointed helpers on the Writing Committee!!
Second-hand food!
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galaxie
Haven't you heard about ...proxy anointing... they have been touched by the holy of assholies !!! -
punkofnice
It's not a genuine religion, it's a greedy pyramid business posing as religion to obtain money and power.
The GB are just front men with the real puppet masters behind the scenes. The GB are too insane to run this big business properly.
The bigoted filth that the likes of his holiness pope tomo3 spews forth sounds more like a drunken rant that the word of god. I wonder what a publication written by his holiness the glorious bigot would be like?
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freemindfade
Other idiots bake the cake and the gb just puts the crazy frosting on top. That's about it. -
TakeOffTheCrown
Brothers we don't need no stinking GB to write those articles it's in good hands: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/89486/franz-knorr-state-court-that-jehovah-editor-watchtower?page=1&size=10
in a 1943 court case, then Watchtower Vice-President Frederick Franz was asked the following:
Q: At any rate, Jehovah God is now the editor of the paper [Watchtower magazine], is that right?
Franz: He is today the editor of the paper.
Q: How long has He been editor of the paper?
Franz: Since its inception He has been guiding it.
Later, in the same court case, then Watchtower President Nathan Knorr was asked about the importance of the Watchtower magazine:
Q: In fact, it [Watchtower magazine] is set forth as God’s word, isn’t it?
Knorr: Yes, as His word.
Q: Without any qualification whatsoever?
Knorr: That is right.
Very interesting. Thanks for the link.
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compound complex
Ray Franz stated [IN SEARCH OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM] that the GB's review of material written by the other sheep gave it the "anointed touch."
Edited to add: Some 45 years ago, an anointed sister who was friends with Rutherford's secretary, Anton Koerber, related to me that JWs, largely of the remnant at that time, were encouraged to send their thoughts to the Society. She was discouraged that she received no reply, but Br. Koerber told her to be patient. Her thoughts -- perhaps developed independently of what others had surmised -- eventually appeared in the WT two years later. Her concern had been over the correct identity of "Spiritual Israel."
Her tales of early life in the org were fascinating.
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compound complex
Who Actually Supplies the "Food"?
There were, of course, articles that did come through from "anointed" brothers in different countries. [footnote #37: In almost all cases the article came because President Knorr had sent an assignment to the person to write it.] These, however, were subject to review, revision and even total rewriting according to the discretion of the Writing Department overseer, Karl Adams. Yet Karl himself was not of the "anointed." He felt no hesitance in turning over an article written by one of the "anointed" to one of the "other sheep" for reworking or rewriting, and frequently did so. No one of his superiors had any objection to his doing so.
The sole exception to this rule were the writings prepared by the vice president, Fred Franz. As Karl stated to me, Knorr had made clear that the vice president's writings were to be altered only with the vice president's permission.
In one Governing Body meeting when this subject of preparation of "spiritual food" came up, President Knorr spontaneously acknowledged that the great bulk of the writing was done by those of the "other sheep" class. To any one writing in the Writing Department this was obvious. Though the Writing Department has since been greatly expanded, the situation remains essentially the same. [footnote # 38: The writing staff in recent years numbers 20 or more persons in all, the great majority professing to be of the "other sheep."]
The reason generally given to explain away this anomaly is that, even though the non-anointed members do the thinking, development and writing of the material, it is always read and approved by persons of the "anointed" before printing. Evidently this somehow adds an anointed touch or quality to the material. [footnote # 39: Compare Haggai 2:11, 12.] The very fact that such reasoning must be resorted to of itself shows the strained nature of the claim made as to the application of the food-supplying aspect of Jesus' parable.
IN SEARCH OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM, pages 154, 155.
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Xanthippe
If they are the Faithful and Discreet Slave, and they have been anointed to speak for Jehovah himself, they are the ones who should be doing the writing; not the helpers. The helpers, for the the most part, are not anointed. How would they know what information Jehovah may want to convey to be the truth?
Agreed, they supposedly have a hotline to God so they should be writing down His thoughts as he dictates to them. Over and over again we try and point this out to lurkers that the GB are claiming to be the spokesmen of God so everything they say should be accurate and unchanging.
If they are the channel then they alone know God's thoughts. On the other hand if they are just a publishing and real estate corporation then anyone can write the articles as long as they keep to the party line.