i don't know where to ask, but this section is probably better than both the medical section and the entertainment section.
:) .
does anyone know what eventually happened to the standfasters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHhhotG9Ipw&feature=youtu.be
This video was interesting. But something stood out, a point he makes a little after the 40 minute mark.
In 1919, why didn't Jesus select the Elijah voice society (Standfathers) as the Faithful Slave? After all, Rutherford encouraged the Bible Students to sell war bonds, but the Standfathers were against this. And they taught all the same stuff (no Trinity, no immorality of the soul), ect..
this info is from the article "who is leading god's people today" feb 17 study edition.. to help them disseminate bible truth in various languages, zion’s watch tower tract society was legally incorporated in 1884, with brother russell as president.
* he was an outstanding student of the bible, and he fearlessly exposed as false such doctrines as the trinity and the immortality of the soul.
he discerned that christ would return invisibly and that “the appointed times of the nations” would end in 1914.. pretty sickening article overall about how badass the gb is, though this little gem is printed as well, paragraph 12. the governing body is neither inspired nor infallible.
The wordplay is interesting: He discerned that Christ would return invisibly and that “the appointed times of the nations” would end in 1914.
In a certain way, the sentence is technically true. Russell taught Christ had returned invisibly in 1874 and he believed the Gentile times would end in 1914. Of course, it is highly misleading...the rank and file would read this as Russell teaching the invisible presence would begin in 1914.
But then again, they just said they could err. They just demonstrated it.
so as i have been waking up more and more over the past 3 years...i keep telling myself i'm fully awake and then i wake up more, but that's a different thread.
but anyway, i've noticed a lot lately that the wt does not mention jesus or christ very much in their literature and neither to jw's in their conversations.
they mainly talk about jehovah.
In Watchtower theology, Jesus is the most outstanding member of God's organization, but still a member. The organization is still greater in this mindset.
with their luxurious lakeside condos.
takes all the congregations funds promising new kingdom halls.
but instead starts selling off kingdom halls ..then makes faithful old brothers and sisters drive 20-30 miles to another one, and .kicks out half the bethelites for only only tech savy college educated ones.can barely afford to send out printed publications anymore.
with their luxurious lakeside condos.
takes all the congregations funds promising new kingdom halls.
but instead starts selling off kingdom halls ..then makes faithful old brothers and sisters drive 20-30 miles to another one, and .kicks out half the bethelites for only only tech savy college educated ones.can barely afford to send out printed publications anymore.
Now as they were going along the road, someone said to him: “I will follow you wherever you go.” But Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay down his head.”--Luke 9:57-58
The Governing Body is willing to follow Jesus...as long as he leads them to a swanky new quarters in upstate New York and they are given comfy pillows to lay their heads. Clear to the buffet they follow! Such models of self-sacrifice and martyrdom!
a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).
i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.
herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.
Amazing work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2640059937&feature=iv&src_vid=hv9weqlebuo&v=5gqhtlbp6iy.
Very interesting.
in the article on the guardian ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/jehovahs-witnesses-evangelism-church-god-armageddon ) mentioned in another thread, there's this quote of mark omalley, who is assigned to the public information desk at the jehovahs witness uk centre in north london.
we now have more than 165,000 [literature] carts on the streets in over 50 countries.
it gives us visibility and availability.
For some reason, I got an email solicitation for one of these signs that go with the cart. I was curious and asked how much. Evidently it is $20-25 for a sign.
most witnesses i knew were exteeemly reluctant to go out in the ministry.
but when they did, they were simply scraping by, eager to avoid conflict and just do their hour or so speaking to lonely old ladies or widowed old men.
placing magazines in a car group, doing route calls, plodding along in the utter boredom of their responsibility to get some time on a report by the last day of the month.. this was never a warning work.
Very good OP.
If only JWs actually went around warning people, the public would instantly recognize that they are an apocalyptic cult.
The message is moderated and watered down to be appealing. But even so, actions speak louder than words. JWs have made wasting time a science.
conventions always just seemed like more of a vacation to me than anything else, especially if you had to travel out of town for it, but definitely were exhausting especially toward the end of each day.
for some reason i didn't mind the special and circuit assemblies too much, probably because they seemed like more of a social event than anything else and only 1-2 days.
the memorial always was kind of boring to me.
