Among masons when you become a member of a lodge yu ...not necessarily...but often become a member of a Chapter. It is at the Chapter meeting that yu are made aware of the name JEHOVAH. As God's holy name.
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many sites claim that c.t.
russell was a mason.barbara anderson and james penton, respected wt historians, claim that he was not.according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_freemasonsthroughout history some members of the fraternity have made no secret of their involvement, while others have not made their membership public.
in some cases, membership can only be proven by searching through the fraternity's records.
Among masons when you become a member of a lodge yu ...not necessarily...but often become a member of a Chapter. It is at the Chapter meeting that yu are made aware of the name JEHOVAH. As God's holy name.
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so a young baptized brother gets to run the microphones.
so he eagerly runs up and down the isle passing the microphone.
he's so happy because "he's being used by jehovah".
WASTE YOUR LIFE DOING MEANINGLESS TASKS.
DON'T GET AN EDUCATION.
DON'T GIVE TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
DON'T FRATERNIZE WITH WORLDLY PERSONS
BELIEVE ONLY WHAT WE TELL YOU TO BELIEVE
GIVE FREELY TO ALL APPOINTEES TO THE CONGO. OF TIME ,MONEY GROCERIES
DONATE GENEROUSLY INTO THE COLLECTION BOXES
DON'T GET MARRIED
DON'T HAVE CHILDREN
RAT ON ALL WHO DO NOT OBEY ...
LIVE IN MISERY TILL DEATH DO YU PART
ASPIRE AFTER USELESS POSITIONS WITHIN THE ORG.
KISS ASS TO GET THOSE POSITIONS
DON'T RAT ON PEDOPHILES IN THE CONGO.
DON'T QUESTION WHAT YOY ARE TOLD TO BELIEVE
DO NOT THINK...THINKING IS THE GREATEST SIN!!!!
IF YU DO THESE THINGS YU WILL ATTAIN TO EVERLASTING LIFE. AFTER ARMSTICE. AFTER ARMAGEDDON.
AFTER ATTTAINING TO THE LEVEL OF A MORON!!!
steve2: is there some way this can be presented so that it is crystal clear what was actually in the demonstrations and what was added?
i guess some will think it should be obvious - but this is where misunderstandings arise because we end up wrongly attributing something to jw organization that was never said.. circuit assembly theme: maintain love for jehovah!.
note to speaker: warmly encourage young ones to prove their friendship with jehovah by observing his commandments and defending his standards.
"It's my view...but it's based on the bible..."
So when does basing ones view on any book become independent or correct thinking
I believe in magic...it's my view but based on HarryPotter!!!!
i understand people love their family but i also don't understand why you end up caring in the end.
i'm ready to leave and i 100% don't expecting my family to have any contact with me nor do i want them to contact me.
if they are going to chose a man made religion over me, that's their choice and i will sleep easy at night.
It depends how close one is to their family members. This cult can turn family members against each other no matter how close. The shunned still has the love for his family that they shared earlier. The ones shunning have a cultic plate placed over their feelings . Selfish feelings really. That they will be saved while the shunned family member will be destroyed for leaving their Hobo god. Also the fear of being disfellowshipped if caught hob nobbling with a disfellowshipped family member.
as some have recently posted here, there does seem to be a shift going on in their self-interpretation(s) of what happened in 1918 and 1919. if we can look past all the details that emphasize the poor thinking and poor wording (or contradictions/just plain craziness/insignificance) of their message, something bigger seems to be afoot.
they appear to be attempting to redefine the meanings for some "prophetic" scriptures in light of themselves.
1. they are trying to somehow fill the void they have themselves created from their rejecting freddie franz's (ff) type–anti-type postulations.
JW'S HAVE BEN TAUGHT TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE THE CHOSEN ONES." "You cannot come to Hobo until he calls you. He chose fishermen who understood his son's teachings but the educated Jew's and Romans could not.
Things of God can only be understood with those whose hearts are open to THE TRUTH TRANSLATED =Hoboisms."
THIS IS THE SPIEL THAT MAKES JW'S FEEL THEY ARE UNIQUE AND ONLY THEY ARE PRIVILEGED TO UNDERSTAND THE THINGS OF GOD . AND ONLY THEY ARE CHOSEN TO SEARCH AND CONJOIN OTHERS TI THEIR TRIBE _WHOSE HEARTS ARE PURE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORDS OF THEIR HOBO GOD.
EFFING NARCISSISTS AND SELF AGRANDIZING DOLTS.
meant to hopefully get your mind off the craziness which we sadly refer to as the news these days,.
we'll call this one .
fun for seculars.
If there are super intelligent entities that live in a timeless world and have computer generated us into believing we are alive ....well
Oh what the heck! Put me down as 7:11
And a shot of Rye!!!
lucius annaeus seneca, roman statesman, 4bc - 65ad: "religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.".
this comes to mind as trump has been throwing the word "god" around.
there are a lot of outwardly religious people in this government.. benjamin franklin: "the way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason.".
Religion is the by product of FEAR.
Of DEATH.
i copied the following two items from jw dot orgs site entitled “dates of prophetic significance” at site below:.
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200271564.
once held to be year when ‘true lord and messenger of the covenant’ came to spiritual temple (mal 3:1): w10 3/15 23; w07 4/1 22; w07 12/15 27-28; jd 179-182; re 31-32, 55-56; w92 12/1 13; w89 4/15 7; w89 7/1 30; w87 6/15 14-15. .
7 "Shortly after he was installed as King, Jesus took steps to prepare his followers for the vast work to be done. As we saw in Chapter 2, he did an inspection and a cleansing work from 1914 to early 1919. (Mal. 3:1-4) Then, in 1919, he appointed the faithful slave to take the lead among his followers. (Matt. 24:45) Especially from that time onward, that slave began dispensing spiritual food—by means of convention discourses and printed "
HELLO WBTS!!
DO YU HAVE ANY REAL EVIDENCE THAT THESE THINGS HAPPENED OTHER THAN YOUR" SAY SO_ SEA_SAW_ Haw Haw donkey braying foul smelling emissions from your lying mouths?
AND DON'T CITE THE SCRIPTURES CAUSE THEY ARE THE SEED FROM WHICH ALL your LIES EMANATE.
someone decided to make their avatar almost identical to my old one so i changed mine to avoid any confusion.. <- so lookout for this anytime you want to read some "amazing words of wisdom" from now on :d.
Now is that one hellova suntan? Or just a frostbite?
Man,Tonto sure would like to team up with ya!!!
O.k Yu got Barron beat. At least we could see his hands while he played peek_a_boo!
http://starconnectmedia.com/2017/01/19/russia-gets-go-ahead-to-liquidate-jehovahs-witnesses-organisation/.
" ...denounce all sorts of religious extremism..."
Are these guys for real. Effing deluded bastards practice a religion that gets most of its fanaticism from desert dwellers who perished more than 4000 years ago, predict fantasies that never materialize, deal in lies ,half truths and fabricated interpretations of a book that is full of contradictions, practice negative reinforcement to keep their slaves in line and have the kahunas to claim they don't practice religious extremism.
Effing disease_brained idiots !