just looking at the pictures in tomorrow's wt study makes me think of the nightmares i used to have as a child.
and nowadays the pictures are sometimes more realistic, so for any who are truly mentally in, this has a terrible effect on them and even their life choices.
looking in as a pimo or pomo it seems almost comical that adults would believe in this sci-fi bible fan-fiction, but it's not funny when we remember that all ages of the r&f are being manipulated by the gb by these cheap and evil means.. .
You'd think PIMI JWs would be confident.
After all, they are supposed to be part of a relatively small group of earth's population who understands and pleases Jehovah.
Yet how many of them are deeply fearful they won't prove worthy and so will be wiped out at Armageddon?
The WT gets them believing both things at the same time.
i drove through a nearby seaside town today.
it was starting to rain.
it was cold.
If you try to engage them in conversation, they quickly refer you to the website.
i ask the question on the title because there a quite a number of statements the apostle paul made about the coming of jesus and resurrection of the holy ones that never fulfilled.
1 corinthians 15: 51, 52 (nwt) : .
i tell you a sacred secret: we will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet.
I don't see Paul as setting a time frame here.
"We" can refer simply to "believers in Christ."
I don't know if he expected all of this to occur within his lifetime, but his words don't guarantee it.
Contrast this with the specific dates set by the WT (1874, 1914, 1925, for example).
this is the first of many posts from me.
i'm pimo, an overseer, somewhere in africa.
i'll hold of giving further details until i've executed my plan to leave the organization.
Welcome!
Yes, many of us have grown old in this system of things, something the WT assured us would never happen.
omg, is this the apotheosis of bat-shit craziness or not?
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i found this question box in the july 1969 km.
question box (july 1969, p. 4).
• is it all right to buy a church building for use as a kingdom hall or, when a new kingdom hall is built, to sell the former hall for use as a church?
This from an organization which teaches that if you do something as innocuous as lighting candles and putting them on a birthday cake you are engaging in false worship because of what such activities meant to pagans in ancient times (Reasoning book, p. 69).
But selling a building you built and dedicated to worship and service of Jehovah for use in worship by a religious organization you condemn as pagan and satanic? Not a problem!
"There does not appear to be any direct Scriptural objection to doing so. It is not a matter of cooperating in a religious way with representatives of false religion, but is simply a business transaction. It is a one-time real estate deal."
Kind of like the Watchtower becoming a UN NGO so they can get a library card, I guess.
What's the big deal?
this week's study ( no.
88) on the illustration of abraham and the begging lazarus and the rich man, all dying, in heaven and hell fire.
the bible stories, convoluted as they are, even more pretzelled by wt.
The WT interpretation of the rich man and Lazarus account is ludicrous.
It's not even internally consistent.
For example, "death" means a reversal of circumstances in this life... until the very end, where coming back from the dead means... coming back from the dead.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefreethinker/2019/10/op-ed-intruders/.
here are some excerpts of a man who was called on by 2 young female jws, received a not-at-home letter as well, and what he thought about them.
i encourage you to read the whole thing, it is worth the laugh.. "it wasn’t pompeo knocking but he would have beamed approval on the two young women on the doorstep.
I don't think most people are offended by JWs except when they encounter JWs who won't take no for an answer.
our goal is to help our bible student to grow spiritually.. .
as his love for jehovah grows, however, he will likely begin to think about how he can help others, including those who are already part of the congregation.
(matt.
Reasoning book, p. 201: "No collections are ever taken at their meetings; they do not beg for money from the public."
Oh, right. They don't beg.
They just "mention the privilege of supporting the Kingdom work financially."
every single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..
When you think about it, the whole thing is absurd -- measuring someone's spirituality by the number of hours they put down on a report card.
All the more so when you consider that even with honest reporting, the vast majority of reported time is spent walking, waiting, and not talking with anyone about anything...
