@Wasanelderonce,
I think of elders as company men who believe whatever the GB tells them.
Did you have these doubts all along?
Posts by Ding
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40Resurrection, Reconstruction? What is it? It never made sense to me. Your opinion.
by Wasanelder Once ini never had much faith in whatever resurrection was.
what appealed to me about jw doctrines was the rejection of the "it's a mystery" defense of the indefensible.
when i would ask how going into non existence could be reversed when all the atomic parts of who we are had been scattered for thousands of years, the answer was "jehovah can do anything".
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Resurrection, Reconstruction? What is it? It never made sense to me. Your opinion.
by Wasanelder Once ini never had much faith in whatever resurrection was.
what appealed to me about jw doctrines was the rejection of the "it's a mystery" defense of the indefensible.
when i would ask how going into non existence could be reversed when all the atomic parts of who we are had been scattered for thousands of years, the answer was "jehovah can do anything".
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Ding
The WT concept of "resurrection" is really re-creation.
I was going to say "cloning," except that nothing from your original body is used.
In WT teaching, using material unrelated to the body that died, Jehovah gives you a perfect body that looks like the best version of your old body.
That's the hardware.
Because the WT believes there is no separate immaterial soul that survives physical death, Jehovah uses his perfect memory of you to program the re-created body using your memories and personality which he remembers perfectly.
That's the software.
It's not really you.
It's a copy of you.
Not only that, but the WT teaches (see Life Everlasting In Freedom of the Sons of God) that the great crowd will be resurrected with the same sinful thought patterns and tendencies they had when they died, so Jehovah would really be programming sin and rebellion back into you.
When you think about it, under the Watchtower's view, he could make as many such copies of you as he wanted with as many personality alterations as he desired.
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My Mom died last week.
by Still Totally ADD inlast wednesday my elder brother called me to let me know mom had died.
she was 97 years old and was in a nursing home for the last 7 years.
her mind had left her many years ago to the point she didn't recognize any of us.
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Ding
Very sorry for your loss...
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Ding
Can the "other sheep" partake of the food and beverages?
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What Did You Choose Jehovah Over?
by minimus insome jws believe they have the truth.
they alone understand god, jehovah.
they are very happy being jehovah’s witnesses.👍👌..... many others realize what they have given up for jehovah, to belong to the jehovah’s witness religion.
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Ding
Perhaps a more appropriate question JWs should ask themselves is, "What did I choose over Jehovah?"
The most appropriate answer would probably be, "The Watchtower organization," but that wouldn't make sense to them because they equate the two.
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Reel to reel tapes and old Watchtower literature
by lastmanstanding init's been an emotional few weeks going through old watchtower literature, i mean old.
i have saved many things, some you have never seen.
particularly related to 1975, i have wts literature, even a big newspaper article about the 1975 prediction.. today, i started going through the reel to reel tapes.
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Ding
It never ceases to amaze me how JWs who were born after 1975 can tell those of us who lived through the 1975 hype that the WT didn't say what it said.
The fact that we saw and heard it firsthand doesn't faze them.
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JW Memorial Gallery
by neat blue dog injwdotorg released a picture gallery with dozens of images from around the world of jws celebrating ('commemorating') via zoom, organized by continent:.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/2020-memorial-commemoration-international-photo-gallery/.
the vast majority of photos show the people's faces, but this european 'brother' is a rare exception.
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Ding
Note the glass of wine of which neither will be partaking.
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July 2020 Watchtower - A little observation
by Listener inthis is a comment made in the latest study watchtower under the main discussion of humility.
11 jehovah values humility more than ability and unity more than efficiency.
therefore, do your best to serve jehovah with humility.
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Ding
“Your attitude toward the wheatlike anointed ‘brothers’ of Christ and the treatment you accord them will be the determining factor as to whether you go into ‘everlasting cutting-off’ or receive ‘everlasting life.’” (WT, 8/1/81, p. 26)
Given that the GB approved this for publication, they are saying that the way you treat THEM determines your everlasting destiny.
So much for humility!
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My sister just sent me this text.
by Brainfloss inmy sister sent me this text a few minutes ago.
what does she know about my relationship with jehovah?
it was followed up by a bunch of links to jw org problem is dialog is not possible her side is the only one to be heard.
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Ding
Sadly, she believes she is showing the ultimate love by trying to save your life even when you don't appreciate it.
She can't fathom why you don't trust her organizational savior and she won't listen when you try to tell her.
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My sister just sent me this text.
by Brainfloss inmy sister sent me this text a few minutes ago.
what does she know about my relationship with jehovah?
it was followed up by a bunch of links to jw org problem is dialog is not possible her side is the only one to be heard.
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Ding
Depends on what you want to convey to her and on whether you want to stop hearing from her.
Your options would seem to be to keep hearing from her by following cyberjesus' advice (a friendly family letter that stresses the here and now and doesn't mention religion at all)...
... or to stop the communication by telling her what you've told us, that you are annoyed because she feels free to comment on your relationship with Jehovah any time she sees fit but won't even listen if you try to point out inconsistencies from the Watchtower's own publications.
If you do want to cut off communications you might also ask her if she wrote that letter on her own initiative or on organizational instructions. For example, how much time is she reporting for having written it?