i have had numerous conversations with thirdwitness.
it seems that one of his goals in life is to protect the world from me and my "captives of a concept.".
someone by the name "settingtherecordstraight" has posted many of thirdwitness comments on several webpages, including: .
Don he will only bring attention to your very insightful book. Then those who do a study of watchtower history can only come to the conclusion that jw's are all captives of a concept, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
ThirdWitness can only bring more attention to your book and thereby others will see the truth about this captivity.
Your book will continue on long after ThirdWitness has moved on.
Thanks for this one.
Blueblades/Mall Cop
i don't vote, i'll never vote.
some of that may be due to a jw upbringing, but i'm convinced a lot more its my upbringing in the city.
i hate politicians with a passion.
FOLKS, He is being charged not found guilty of anything. Let's wait for it to play itself out.
I understand that there is a long list of those that did steroids etc. that has not been released yet, why is that.?
provenance: the history of ownership of a work of art; the copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element.
a chain of custody, ownership and certificate of authenticity.
there was once a greek fellow we call euclid.
Terry, The fact that you don't get too many responses about this topic is because what you put out there can't be refuted, proved to be false by argument or evidence to the contrary.
This topic is a real yes - yes!
Keep on bothering. You don't know how many believers are getting their doubts about the Bible coming from God confirmed from topics such as this one.
People are reading your post's and some are tonque tied and scrambling to try and come up with a coherent response without having to work at it like you do.
You have many supporters, chin up, keep on doing what you do best.
Blueblades / Mall Cop
the lives of the typical jw include all the elements of a classic mmorpg, like world of warcraft.. there is the constant grind (field service and endless meetings and assemblies, commenting, demonstrations), quests (aka "privileges" of carrying the mics or cleaning the bathroom or mowing the lawn, giving talks), leveling (improving your status from r&f to elite by becoming a ms, elder, pioneer, co, do), buffs (receiving the call of "anointing", your life experience making it into a yearbook), and finally the rewards (anywhere from pats on the back for a job well-done on a part to being voted onto the governing body as the elite).. and just like with any mmo, you never reach the end, you are always grinding away for what amounts to be empty rewards in a fantasy world....
Approaching 140 years or so for the end time , it's near, nearer than you think, knock knock, hi! the end is near! Lets go to the meetings, preach door to door, the end is near, oh, did I tell you that the end is near, how near, soon, sooner than you think, lets go to meetings and door to door . Knock knock Hi! the end is near............................................over 140 years, millions of people, millions of literature, thousands, millions of meetings, Hi! the end is near,
NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!
Blueblades / Mall Cop
why do people become jehovah's witnesses?.
To them it's not the perfect storm, rather, it's the perfect life that they hope to have on a perfect paradise earth forever, releasing them from the perfect storm.
why do people become jehovah's witnesses?.
Mini, It's "THE CONCEPT" as Ray Franz and Don Cameron explained. It's their belief that the Watchtower Society is God's Organization. This belief makes them captives, having a mental image of the organization that seems to take on a personality of its own. This in turn controls them, moves them, or restrains them, by molding their thinking, their attitudes, their judgments...The concept of "the organization becomes in fact, the dominant, controlling force.
From Captives of a Concept..Don Cameron, page 11, 12.
Of cause "The Carrot" the promise of living forever on a paradise earth is another reason why.?
Also, taking a Bible study ( really the society's interpretation of the Bible ) without doing a history study of the Watchtower first, lures one into becoming a Jehovah's Witness.
Blueblades/ Mall Cop
i have been collecting the public talk outlines.
i have almost all of them but there are a few missing.
i have tiles for some but just numbers for others.
I threw my collection of public talk outlines in the garbage, along with the memorial, funeral and marriage outlines.
I threw my large extensive library of awakes from 1950 to current 2002 and watchtower bound volumes, etc. in the garbage. Tearing as much of the books as I could so that they could not be circulated again.
The Watchtower could of used my anger against them in their anger watchtower study this week.
comments you will not hear at the 08-15-10 wt study (june 15, 2010, pages 15-19)(anger).
review comments will be in red or headed by comments.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
Thanks Blondie.
Why does the society spend more and more time on berating the rank and file and then telling them how superior they are?
Double -speak.
We can count on you to put it all into perspective.
This whole lesson is full of pontification for the Governing Body.
i believe that most dubs remain because of the investment they have made to the "truth".
as soon as men become a ms or an elder they have bought in and can no longer express any doubts felt.
then promotion through full time "service" means an increase in authority over those below and control by those above.
I remember Bro.Knorr saying that He was not so sure about 1914 and some others on the Governing Body thought that 1957 or so, when sputnik was launched by the russians that it was the beginning of the end not 1914. However, it took a two-thirds vote to get 1957 as the start of end times, and they did not get it. So, 1914 stuck whether they had doubts or not.
God's organization! Yeah sure they are. They can't even admit that 1914 and any other date is going against Jesus' own words not to try and find out the end times. "It does not belong to you" so, they don't even listen to thier master.
Blind guides is what they are. They don't believe it.
one of my groups on facebook posted this video and i'm posting it here cuz i thought it was sweet and poignant:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7x7szzsxys.
Mrsjones5 and Snowbird, Tears to my eyes and a trembling heart along with goosebumps is what you brought to me this morning. Thank you for that.
