to the household of god, israel, and all those that go with... may you have peace!.
there are many in the wtbts who partake and profess to be of the anointed, there is, in truth, however, no true anointed in the wtbts.
there cannot be, for the admonition is:.
I'm so glad that my observation that REALLY REALLY STUPID IDEAS are probably not true has saved me from so much research.
Volumes of reading and writiing are replaced with "yep, umm, no probably not", so much more elegant in my opinion, but I do appreciate the work that goes into these things. Nice job proving the obvious.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/157788/1.ashx.
in the above thread, otwo made a comment about how someone might sue the wt based on their shunning policy.
i have not seen the topic discussed here and have been unsuccessful in getting the search function of the site to gather information about it, but i wonder if we as a group could sue the washtowel society.
I swear some on this board need to get over their issues, or strap some explosives on and go to Brooklyn.
I don't have any personal issues that would be served. I'm the kind of person that feels compelled to fight evil when I find it. The good guys should always win. Evil prevails only when good men *wink, for gayboy* do nothing.
i checked many many posts, and at the end of each one,,even if they were not on a 'religious' topic, the bottom of the page has an add for 'scientology'.
every single one i checked,,mighty odd.
orb.
Ooh, yeah, I want to vacation in that little nub on the top of the mostly horizontally-shaped state. I've always wondered what it was like in that nub. Right.
i checked many many posts, and at the end of each one,,even if they were not on a 'religious' topic, the bottom of the page has an add for 'scientology'.
every single one i checked,,mighty odd.
orb.
I don't get it, Kentucky doesn't really "have" a north.
DanielP:
The JWs have never disallowed this is all I'm saying. YOU define it as getting involved in politics, but the WTS has NEVER taken that step.
A local JW couple took the LEAD with a local group in my hometown that opposed a landfill being developed on the road they lived on. He was an engineer and was instrumental in getting the landfill voted down by local zoning. They were filmed speaking at local meetings several times, and it was broadcast on local tv.
This is NOT against any WTS policy or council.
S4
Then why aren't there any JW PTA moms? Agreed that the occasional trip to the city council to solve some land problem might not be an issue. "Getting involved" in any capacity would raise hell.
what would happen if a copy of crisis of conscience and a short well-written covering letter were sent to every single jehovah's witness worldwide?
i realise this is not practical and probably dubious morally, but that is not the point of my question.
call it a thought experiment if you will.
What got me to read Crisis of Conscience was Timothy Campbell's Beyond Jehovah's Witnesses website. It presents the information in a non-threatening manner. In-your-face apostates always scared me when I was a Witness. If you could find a way to get more Witnesses to read the BJW website, then more would decide to read CoC on their own.
Dave
Yeah, I remember seeing apostates at conventions with signs that had the "all seeing eye" pyramid and Russel on them. I figured "Apostate" was another spin of extra-crazy religion from JW's that had some crazy occult ideas. Even when I thought JW's were bunk, I thought these "apostate" people were worse. I seriously think the best way to assault the religion would be for we non-believers to stay in. Its the cleansing action of disfellowshipping and disassociation that causes nobody to notice the white rabbits running down the rabbit hole. If Mr. Rabbit wasn't in such a rush, more people would probably poke their nose in that hole he keeps coming in and out of.
I can say honestly, that is the most pleasure I've ever gotten out of a gay man.
i'm sure this has been touched on before, but i just thought about it tonight.
i was thinking about the appointment of ministerial servants (deacons) and elders (bishops) in the kingdom hall.
the watchtower society runs down the list of requirements in acts, that they must be good examples, pure, etc.
Which scriptures in Acts? (yeah I didn't do my homework like a good boy)
about two or three years ago do you remember (if you were on the body at that time) that the c.o.
told us we are no longer appointed by holy spirit anymore, i was looking for the letter and couldnt find it, i wonder if it was one of those letter read to us as apposed to left with us?
dose anyone remember this?
(Acts 20:27-28) . . .. 28 Pay attention to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the holy spirit has appointed YOU overseers, to shepherd the congregation of God, which he purchased with the blood of his own [Son].. . . I remember having a conversation with our CO. He mentioned some elders are appointed without the holy spirit's directions. When a BOE overlooks flaws and recommends an elder, his appointment may go thru the human channels, but the appointment is never 'sealed' in heaven. In due time, Jehovah makes the adjustment. However, the damage to the congregation can be high. A man can serve for a while w/o spirit, but eventually he will stumble. He mentioned Saul as an example.
Soo..... People believe this shit. Huh.
This is how churches get built. When I was in, everyone seemed to emphasize that JW's are "just devout bible students" this is why we didn't need clergy etc. To find that there's an aweful lot of Churchish claims going around is kinda creepy. I thought these people were just morons, now I see they are crazy morons and thats the most dangerous kind.
i heard last night, when i was watching tv, that some archaeologists in egypt discovered a ancient papyrus, with one on the original copies of revelation written on it, and i think most people have heard of the mark of the wild beast which revelation talks about, and the bible says it is 666, and this is the number which jehovahs witnesses and every other church around the earth has teached for thousands of years, but then the archaeologists translated the papyrus, they found that it said the mark of the wild beast it 616, and not 666.you might think it is not that big of a deal but if you think that jehovahs witnesses say that they are the one true religion and that jehovah talks to the faithful and discrete salve, so you would think that they would have said that it was 616, but it has not come out from them, also they mention a lot of the names in the bible which people say did not exist, and then when archaeologists find items with them on the make a big fuss about it, but i dont think this is something they will make a fuss about, think they will let it pass other them and not mention it.
Just some Apostate literature from Egypt....
