It might not last that long because he’s not a well man and recent developments will impact his health further. But I wish him well. If he would give an outside interview or write a book it would be very interesting indeed but I doubt that will happen.
slimboyfat
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Anthony Morris the III has been FOUND
by Terry innote: photos can be found on the blue envelope channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nakezkhqbmtony and susan morris are living in lumberton, north carolina.
a real estate document on the robeson county website is filed:.
the religious order of jehovah's witnesses has provided a "life estate" for them.they can live in this townhouse until they are deceased or choose to move away and in either case the ownership becomes entirely the property of jehovah's witnesses.
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Anthony Morris the III has been FOUND
by Terry innote: photos can be found on the blue envelope channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nakezkhqbmtony and susan morris are living in lumberton, north carolina.
a real estate document on the robeson county website is filed:.
the religious order of jehovah's witnesses has provided a "life estate" for them.they can live in this townhouse until they are deceased or choose to move away and in either case the ownership becomes entirely the property of jehovah's witnesses.
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slimboyfat
And what fo all the other fulltime servants get for devoting most of their lives to the watchtower ?
It seems quite arbitrary what people get. I know a widow of a CO who was taken care of for life by being given accommodation and made an honorary special pioneer. I know others who seemingly had to fend for themselves including a former district overseer.
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acts 13:12 "Jehovah" or the "Lord"
by enoughisenough inacts 13:12 nwt......at the teaching of "jehovah"....i was reading in acts and the apostles were teaching about jesus, and so when i saw the word "jehovah", it seemed out of context with the other context in acts.
( i think there may be some instances where the name jehovah may fit into acts--but the jury isn't in on that ) i went into bible gateway which lists how the verse is translated in other versions and the several others i read all translated "the lord" ( not all capitols so meaning jesus) which i think is more fitting with the context.
i really need to get another bible besides the nwt...i keep thinking i may end up with my dad's large print bible.
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slimboyfat
So Jesus being called ‘Lord’ means that he’s God, except in Psalm 110 where it means he’s a man?
Maybe it simply means what the Bible says: that Jesus is God’s Son, the firstborn of all creation, who God has appointed ruler over everything.
What about ‘Lord’ in Phil 2:11 where everyone bows their knee to Jesus as Lord? Is that verse referring to his ‘humanity’ or his ‘divinity’? Either way it doesn’t work because Jesus is called Lord “to the glory of God the Father”. The Bible wasn’t written to be read as Trinitarians insist it must be read to fit the dogma. It took centuries for Trinitarian dogma to even formulate such strained readings.
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acts 13:12 "Jehovah" or the "Lord"
by enoughisenough inacts 13:12 nwt......at the teaching of "jehovah"....i was reading in acts and the apostles were teaching about jesus, and so when i saw the word "jehovah", it seemed out of context with the other context in acts.
( i think there may be some instances where the name jehovah may fit into acts--but the jury isn't in on that ) i went into bible gateway which lists how the verse is translated in other versions and the several others i read all translated "the lord" ( not all capitols so meaning jesus) which i think is more fitting with the context.
i really need to get another bible besides the nwt...i keep thinking i may end up with my dad's large print bible.
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slimboyfat
Talking about "Jesus and Jehovah" is a Watchtowerite, JW theological jargon, and of course can only be interpreted in this context.
It’s what Psalm 110:1 says: “Jehovah declared to my Lord: sit at my right hand until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet”.
The Lord Jesus is distinct from and subordinate to Jehovah God in scripture.
What two names do you suppose are written on the foreheads of believers in Revelation 14:1?
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Anthony Morris the III has been FOUND
by Terry innote: photos can be found on the blue envelope channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nakezkhqbmtony and susan morris are living in lumberton, north carolina.
a real estate document on the robeson county website is filed:.
the religious order of jehovah's witnesses has provided a "life estate" for them.they can live in this townhouse until they are deceased or choose to move away and in either case the ownership becomes entirely the property of jehovah's witnesses.
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slimboyfat
I think he has an alcohol problem and it simply got out of hand. He probably had offers of help and warnings over and extended period of time. Perhaps a drunken incident early this year was the last straw and the GB finally decided that keeping him on the GB was causing more problems than biting the bullet and telling him he had to go. But he’s still a believer and his family are too, and the GB feel sorry and disappointed as well as annoyed with him, so this was the solution they came up with. The house nearby is for family to come in and check on them and help them if need be.
To me the type of house seems well judged for the situation of someone who served the organisation for decades but who had to be removed because they were causing problems. It’s about as cheap as it could be without seeming like a slap in the face. Some Catholic bishops and cardinals guilty of greater offences than alcoholism have been quietly retired to much more comfortable accommodations.
The fact that Morris doesn’t have the wherewithal to buy their own place indicates the GB do generally adhere to the vow of poverty.
I feel sorry for the man. He appears deeply troubled from his time in Vietnam and has been negatively influenced by some of the darker aspects of the JW worldview in terms of death and destruction of nonbelievers. His life-course doesn’t seem to supply any evidence for the thesis that GB members are generally cynical nonbelievers cashing in. He seems to have believed it all too much.
I guess I kind of assumed that word of the video years ago of him buying tons of whisky would have reached the other GB members pretty sharply and that they either didn’t think it was that big a deal or they reckoned he could be helped to control his addiction. But perhaps the GB weren’t aware of it at the time and it only recently came to their attention. After all I think it’s fair to assume the GB don’t generally spend much time browsing YouTube or forums, and other Bethelites who became aware of it perhaps didn’t feel it was their place to bring it to the attention of the GB. So maybe word only reached the GB slowly about the embarrassing video, combined with their own awareness of his erratic drunken behaviour, and things only came to a head early this year.
The GB are probably also taking into consideration that his wife and the rest of his family are loyal JWs who have a heavy burden of trying to help AMIII deal with alcoholism, war trauma, and probably depression now on top.
I do think the GB could and should have said something about it on their broadcasting channel. Surely, while being sensitive about the personal nature of the situation, they could have found some form of words that acknowledged his service to the organisation over many decades, that there was a difficultly that has been resolved with his removal, and that ordinary JWs deserve some basic acknowledgment that the most colourful character the GB in recent years, a group they are instructed to view exclusively as the “faithful slave”, has permanently disappeared from their programmes.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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His stupid redubbed wildlife videos are struggling to get 2K views. They’ve got to be among the most unpopular videos he’s produced yet. No wonder over 98% of his 109K historic subscribers have tuned out.
I don’t think patrons are donating because they enjoy the videos these days. All the interesting people on the channel are gone. Many patrons are donating because they felt sorry for him in the begging video, or because they forgot to refresh their subscription preferences in the last couple of years.
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Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?
by slimboyfat inhave you seen this video about the covid vaccines?
have you got any views on the information?
i find it worrying at least.
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1 in 35 have heart injury following Moderna mRNA vaccine? Is this true? Will the media report on it? Will governments react to it? Will the company pay or anyone be held accountable for this?
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acts 13:12 "Jehovah" or the "Lord"
by enoughisenough inacts 13:12 nwt......at the teaching of "jehovah"....i was reading in acts and the apostles were teaching about jesus, and so when i saw the word "jehovah", it seemed out of context with the other context in acts.
( i think there may be some instances where the name jehovah may fit into acts--but the jury isn't in on that ) i went into bible gateway which lists how the verse is translated in other versions and the several others i read all translated "the lord" ( not all capitols so meaning jesus) which i think is more fitting with the context.
i really need to get another bible besides the nwt...i keep thinking i may end up with my dad's large print bible.
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slimboyfat
Could be - it looks like a case that could go either way. New Testament scholar James Dunn categorises it as an ambiguous use of kyrios that could apply to either God or Jesus. The NWT study Bible makes a reasonable case for their inclusion of Jehovah in the verse based on the context:
In the preceding two verses, Kyʹri·os occurs twice. In both cases, it refers to God and can be viewed as a substitute for the divine name. (See comments on Acts 13:10, 11) The expression “the teaching of Jehovah” is synonymous with “the word of God,” used at Acts 13:5. That verse says that when Paul and his companions arrived in Cyprus, they “began proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews.” As a result, the proconsul Sergius Paulus was “eager to hear the word of God.” (Acts 13:7) So it is natural to conclude that after witnessing what Paul said and did, Sergius Paulus was astounded at what he had learned about Jehovah God and the teaching originating from Him. Some translations of the Christian Greek Scriptures into Hebrew use the divine name here. So in view of the context and the background of the expression and the ambiguity of the term Kyʹri·os, the divine name is used in the main text.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
Nah I don’t think the thread will be done until his channel is. At current rate of attrition that could take a few years, but he might give up earlier if the relentless decline gets to him. I suppose it depends what we mean by “give up” because I suspect he’ll keep his Patreon page open so he can keep raiding the bank accounts of any who forget to close their Patreon subscription long after he has all but given up and moved on. Maybe we should define “giving up” as below 50 patrons and/or fewer than 1 video a month, or something like that. If we agree a definition of collapse of his channel maybe we could run a prediction pool on that too - say put me down for February 2026.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
Minus -33 down to 474 just to give him a good fright. 🦇 👍