so a quick little note about a few things that i recently learned.
if you ever had the yellow book of bible stories, there was the story of enoch, also repeated in other watchtower publications, about the angels fathering giants and being a menace on earth.
now if you look at the nicean bible, which is the wtbts selection of the bible, it mentions enoch twice and only has a very brief passage about nephilim and ben elohim.
Maccabees was one of several books Martin Luther wanted removed from the Bible. All the books that were removed, and those that were not, upset Luther. These books had content that went against his Five Solas.
I believe Maccabees contain a passage where Jews were praying for the dead. Luther did not like this.
a 95million year old fossil of a new species of crocodile found with a dinosaur in it.s stomach found story here,,,.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-12/broken-dinosaur-killer-croc-ate-dinosaur-for-last-meal/100823384?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link.
well the wts has been lying to the world .because they say no aniimal ate meat before the fairy story flood ,.
Reformation/Protestant/Evangelicals: "Martin Luther said Solo Scriptura. So its six literal 24 hour days for creation.
Jewish Rabbis of the religion that actually gave us Genesis: "Genesis is allegorical."
some jw's used geehovah like a worn out sunday dish rag.
and so as those with a trade or talent.
in my hall my family owned an auto repair shop.
There are 2 street signs in the world of JWs who abuse "brotherly love" for self gain -
I always find it amazing how there are people who have no shame in taking from the goodwill and charity of others, but downright refuse to help anyone who needs it. As if it is someone else's responsibility to help.
No. Revelation was about cryptic references to events that affected early Christians under the Roman empire during the first and early second centuries. Relevance to anything now, or to the future, is exactly zero.
This person gets it.
this was before my time, but there was this post that had 308 comments testifying that the best thing of being a jehovah witness back in the day was the convention's meals.
is this true?.
one quote out of 308;.
The breakfast sandwich was an egg McMuffin called muffin n egg, it to this day was the best egg McMuffin I've ever eaten.
That's the dang truth!
I also liked the ham and cheese sandwich. I ate at one Saturday afternoon session.
The Shasta soda was nasty. Imagine gargling with salt water and then swallowing instead of spitting it out.
i hope other countries follow suit.. https://youtu.be/pfw9xzugcms.
Something tells me that the Watchtower will suddenly get new light on disfellowshipping before this spreads.
Hopefully it includes a policy change that states if a person is legally considered a minor they are not eligible to be baptized. That would prevent minors from being disfellowshipped.
i have been thinking that it would be very nice if the us government would be willing to fund ex jw counseling services all over the united states.
i understand that many counselors do not really understand ex jw issues but we can educate them if we have additional funds, etc…if someone here is willing to write a letter to their local representative about it, that would be great!
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I do not think government funding is required to accomplish the same thing. I have seen users on this site state that their therapist/counsellor was no familiar with JW practices/doctrine. I experienced the same thing when I saw a counsellor.
Perhaps a licensed counsellor/therapist could work with the eJW community in preparing a course of a book for counsellors to refer to when helping exJWs.
did anybody else catch it?.
he said that people who come back in the earthly resurrection would be given a body "reasonably similar" to the one they had prior to death.. what the almighty hootch?.
"similar"?.
This is a great example of a Watchtower doctrine that has absolutely no scriptural backing. Not to mention the whole concept of Watchtower resurrection doctrine makes no sense.
The Watchtower teaches that when any human dies they cease to exist. The Watchtower teaches those Jehovah plans on resurrecting "live in His memory". Memory is memory; a token of the real thing. Ceasing to exist means you are not in any form or fashion. Therefor any person "resurrected" is a facsimile of the original person, regardless of what the body's appearance is, and is not the actual person.
In order for a person to be resurrected their essence or soul would have to be eternal and put into a new body. That sounds more like Hindu reincarnation than it does Christian resurrection. Especially if the body your essence is put into doesn't even look like you.
So the countless millions who are to be resurrected are more like a Watchtower version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It looks like you. It sounds like you. It has your memories. It's not you!
i was wondering if anyone is aware of the jw’s in general being involved financially and/or as volunteers in charity organizations?
i was a born in jw for 56 years and left in 2016. as far as i remember there was never any encouragement to help in the community in any way.
including soup kitchens, tutoring at schools, united way, etc.
I was born-in as a Witness. I grew up in the 80s. I always heard from the platform that donating to charitable organizations was showing a lack of faith in Jehovah's kingdom to help mankind. The only donations we were to make with our money was to the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society.
am iiii off topic remarks at the anual meeting, are online at broadcasting.. he says in the early 70s he did not believe the end was near, and told his sons not to believe jw's who stating the end is near because the system could go on to 2020.. g..
The cognitive dissonance makes my head spin.
Watchtower - "This world is going to end. It could end any minute. If you do not get out you will perish forever!"
Also Watchtower -"The end may not come in your naturally lifetime, but do not do anything to care for your material needs past today. That shows a lack of faith."
Talk about wanting to eat your cake and have it too.
