00DAD,
You are quite right, of course.
I admit to taking pleasure out of calling he - and the likes of him - F#%kWits Dunderheads to their faces:
- and thus stick pins into their backsides!
Bill.
as i recall in the 1980s talks and watchtower literature, magazines and books were always talking about the "generation" teaching and how it proved armageddon was going to come any day now.. but am i correct in thinking they have only actually mentioned the new "overlapping generations" teaching once or twice in the literature?
why are they so shy about talking about their great new interpretation?
it's almost enough to make you suspect they are a embarrassed about it.. mention it once or twice, don't dwell on it, hope everyone just accepts it, and don't bring it up again.
00DAD,
You are quite right, of course.
I admit to taking pleasure out of calling he - and the likes of him - F#%kWits Dunderheads to their faces:
- and thus stick pins into their backsides!
Bill.
as i recall in the 1980s talks and watchtower literature, magazines and books were always talking about the "generation" teaching and how it proved armageddon was going to come any day now.. but am i correct in thinking they have only actually mentioned the new "overlapping generations" teaching once or twice in the literature?
why are they so shy about talking about their great new interpretation?
it's almost enough to make you suspect they are a embarrassed about it.. mention it once or twice, don't dwell on it, hope everyone just accepts it, and don't bring it up again.
outsmarthesystem,
Well said, but this Damned Fool of a DJ will argue against the obvious;
- I suspect that this may be how he gets his rocks off - i.e. by winding people up.
Next thing the bloody fool will be trying to argue with us that the writing on this page is in fact white, on a black background! He might just as well try and do that, as try to defend the WTS's defense of their "generation" explanations!
(Likewise for his insistence that JWs are "free" to choose what they will do, or what they believe in - he'd have more success trying to insist black is white!).
Bill.
as i recall in the 1980s talks and watchtower literature, magazines and books were always talking about the "generation" teaching and how it proved armageddon was going to come any day now.. but am i correct in thinking they have only actually mentioned the new "overlapping generations" teaching once or twice in the literature?
why are they so shy about talking about their great new interpretation?
it's almost enough to make you suspect they are a embarrassed about it.. mention it once or twice, don't dwell on it, hope everyone just accepts it, and don't bring it up again.
"If you should be one of Jehovahs Witnesses and you, as one of Jehovahs Witnesses, should turn over your brain to someone else to obey whatever that person says, then you are not free, but in slavery."
DjDamnfool,
Thank you, you have just shot your bloody self in the foot with that remark!
Few (if any) of us here are going to swallow that line of yours about JWs being "free" to choose what they do or what they believe:
- too many of us have been there already, and happen to know otherwise.
Bill.
PS: If anybody else on this discussion board thinks JWs do, in fact, have more than just "Hobson's Choice" in these matters, please speak up. (While I brace myself for a loud silence!)
as i recall in the 1980s talks and watchtower literature, magazines and books were always talking about the "generation" teaching and how it proved armageddon was going to come any day now.. but am i correct in thinking they have only actually mentioned the new "overlapping generations" teaching once or twice in the literature?
why are they so shy about talking about their great new interpretation?
it's almost enough to make you suspect they are a embarrassed about it.. mention it once or twice, don't dwell on it, hope everyone just accepts it, and don't bring it up again.
DjDamnFool,
Christians might be free people:
- Jehovahs Witnesses, though, are "free" only to do what they are told!
No amount of baffflegab / circumlocution / verbal diarrhea (or staight out codswhallop) from you or anyone else changes that.
Bill.
as i recall in the 1980s talks and watchtower literature, magazines and books were always talking about the "generation" teaching and how it proved armageddon was going to come any day now.. but am i correct in thinking they have only actually mentioned the new "overlapping generations" teaching once or twice in the literature?
why are they so shy about talking about their great new interpretation?
it's almost enough to make you suspect they are a embarrassed about it.. mention it once or twice, don't dwell on it, hope everyone just accepts it, and don't bring it up again.
Sizemik,
A generation comprised of two groups whose lives overlap with one another, yes, but not two "overlapping generations."
We are dealing here with DJDamnFool, who has taken hold of the old principle "Baffle with Bull$#%t if you can't Blind with Science":
- then raised it to a whole new level.!
(Mind you, he ought to be good - he did after all have excellent tuition in the arts of dupicity and double talk, from no less than the good old WTS!)
Bill.
i am replacing my hvac system, considering 2 options .
1) heat pump coupled with a 80% efficiency furnace for when it drops below 20f .
2) a 95% high efficiency furnace with a traditional 15 seer a/c unit.. anyone here work in this field or replace their system recently?
The heat pump that I have in our central living area consumes 1200 Watts of electricity, yet releases 7200 Watts of heat.
Even though I believe the electricity consumers in this state are being robbed blind, anything that releases six times the energy that it consumes has got to be the way to go!
Bill.
from - the watchtower (simplified) june 15, 2012 pg.
25 par.
15. what goal should a young christian have while he is in school?.
snare&racket,
I can only say "well said."
Bill.
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There were some wild characters about in our remote rural territory 40-odd years ago.
One morning, a pair of them fired a warning shot, followed by a burst of choice shearing-shed language. Unfortunately for them,though, the two brothers misread completely the signal, and thought that somebody else had been shot. Believing this to be so, the matter was promptly reported to the police - and the offenders consequently had their firearms confiscated.
In this particular instance, a pistol in a book bag would have afforded little protection:
- for anybody exposed on a long farm driveway, a .38 revolver against a .270 rifle (with telescopic sights) would have been no contest!
Bill.
the watchtower of january 1st, 2010 p. 22-23 pretends that "all who respond favorably to gods warning and bring their life into harmony with his righteous principles (meaning jehovah's witnesses) will be granted salvation and enjoy everlasting life on a paradise earth.".
but is it true?.
astrophysicists say that like other stars of its type, our sun will become a planet-engulfing red giant.
Ah --- but then it would not be a paradise "Earth", would it? Rather, some other planet in some other solar system.
No, the finite nature of all stars, including the sun, makes mockery of the idea of "Everlasting Life on a Paradise Earth":
- and shows the claim up for what it is, i.e. just a proverbial carrot on the end of a stick to keep a bunch of suckers slaving for a book publishing empire.
Bill.
from - the watchtower (simplified) june 15, 2012 pg.
25 par.
15. what goal should a young christian have while he is in school?.
Oh to be still living in Cloud Cuckoo Land!
Bill.