what are your favorite urban legends that you heard as a jw?.
here's mine:.
a brother, through his work, was asked to give a speech to the united nations.
now you say it was Chris de Burgh, I think I got this legend wrong about it being John Denver at all, yes, I think it was Chris de Burgh
Hmm .. no, I've heard it about John Denver before, too. Likely someone who didn't know John Denver replaced him with Chris de Burgh at some point.
Where in Germany are you from Processor?
Northern Bavaria (near Bamberg and Würzburg), quite far from Düsseldorf.
what are your favorite urban legends that you heard as a jw?.
here's mine:.
a brother, through his work, was asked to give a speech to the united nations.
The John Denver urban legend we used to get was that he asked Witnesses to leave because his trick of his guitar playing itself wouldnt workith Witnesses in the audience, demons would play it see!
I heard EXACTLY the same story of Chris de Burgh.
But it seems that it was about John Denver originally, and as he wasn't really known in Germany, German JWs replaced him with Chris de Burgh.
Anyway, the real story was likely that he said something like "Now I will play a nationalistic song; if Jehovah's Witnesses are here it would be a good time for them to go to the restroom or get something to drink". See http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/ordered.asp
the purpose of the flood, because man grieved him to.
his heart, so he started over.
did his plan work?
Let's assume for a moment that the Bible (and the flood account) would be true, would be God's word and 100 % accurate, and even that JW's were right in their interpretation.
What happened after the flood?
Shortly "After the flood of Noah’s day, his great-grandson Nimrod became a tyrant, 'in opposition to Jehovah'" (Good News to Make You Happy, page 91)
352 years after the flood Abraham was born, and in his day the world was already "steeped in Babylonish idolatry" (Insight, vol 1, p. 29)
1000 years after Armageddon the number of godless people will be "as the sand of the sea" (Revelatoin 20:8).
Even after that, "anyone that carries on a disgusting thing and a lie" will not be allowed to enter the New Jerusalem, so it seems that such people will exist (Revelation 21:27).
So, according to the Bible and JW doctrine, God killed almost all humans in the the flood so that only righteous ones remained, but few years later the world was filled with unrighteous people. He will kill almost all humans soon in Armageddon, so that only righteous ones will remain, but at least 1000 years later the world will be filled with unrighteous people. He will kill these again, but even after that there will be unrighteous people.
So, if God exists and the Bible is true, he did not accomplish anything with the flood.
from one of the friends here:.
nevada do you still have those messengers with rutherfords pictures?.
tx.
The conventioners should have followed the advice from March 2007 Awake! "What if I’m Invited to 'Hook Up'?"...
we need not conclude that our loving creator was the first one to make what we know as swords.
adam and eve saw turning in front of the angels something that was blazing.
by the time moses wrote the book of genesis, swords were well-known and used in warfare.
Exodus 15:3: "Jehovah is a manly person of war"
1 Samuel 2:6: "Jehovah is a Killer"
Why should he not have invented swords?
i found this quote from the 12/15/12 p.29 study edition of the watchtower to be hilarious:.
"a college graduate in the united states.
says: i spent 18 years speaking and writing.
The German edition uses a different wording and calls it "an abstract, academic way of speaking".
as has already been mentioned, the december 15th watchtower (study edition) is now online and available for download on this link.. i couldn't help but smile at the concluding comments of the final study article on page 28 where it had this to say:.
"the very concept of foreigner has already lost much of its meaning among jehovahs witnesses, who pay little attention to the nationality of those in their midst.
recently, for example, several of their smaller branch offices were merged to simplify the work of oversight and to improve efficiency in accomplishing the preaching of the good news of the kingdom.
Recently, for example, all branch offices of Jehovah's Witnesses were closed to simplify the work of exterminating all false religion and to improve efficienty in accomplishing the destruction of all Watchtower publications.
i've always questioned the appropriateness of the title "faithful and discreet slave" that the governing body so proudly assigns itself.
but i've spent most of my time demonstrating how they've been neither faithful nor discreet.
recently it dawned on my that i'm even more angry at the fact that they call themselves a "slave"!
BTW, "a slave does not know what his master does" (John 15:15), which surely does apply to the "faithful and discreet slave."
a while back, whatistruth posted the question: how many bible events can we site that no human has ever witnessed.
i was surprised that no one cited isaiah 43:10: .
you are my witnesses, is the utterance of jehovah, even my servant whom i have chosen, in order that you may know and have faith in me, and that you may understand that i am the same one.
No one came up with "Jehovah's Witlesses"?
