As in this case, and that of Swaggart, the change in baptismal vows and in the donation for literature, self-interest and money invariably shapes WTBTS policy. Follow the money!
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The WatchTower and the UN?
by Nicolas ini read and interesting article here: http://watchtower.observer.org/apps/pbcs.dll/article?date=20010827&category=news&artno=10827003&ref=ar.
this is very strange that the wbts associate with the un because they always said that the un was bad.
i think that they really need money.
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JW's- Have they lost their ability to think?
by Vitameatavegamin ini seriously ask this question in light of some ridiculous experiences i have had in recent times.
a while back,a freind of mine purchased a new home.
a housewarming party was planned for her.
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Excuse me, but especially since you're a MS, it's myopic in the extreme to say that hanging with ``worldlings'' is no big deal. The social presssure exerted on JWs to stay to themselves is beyond debate.
Except for their being a sounding board for their spiel, the vast majority of JWs hold ``worldlings'' in contempt, tar them all with the same brush (Mothern Teresa or Hitler, all the same to them), covet the homes they live in and consider them Armageddeon fodder. -
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"Waiting on Jehovah"
by jst2laws inmy friends,.
i just finished a holiday week-end with old friends in the organization.
all they knew when they came was that i had recently resigned as a elder.
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Hello Just Two...
It's more than probable that you may have frightened your two old friends. It's been my experience that many loyal JWs harbor misgivings that are vaguely unsettling in their subconscious that they're unable or unwilling to articulate until someone articulates them for them. What you've done, perhaps, is crack open a door that they would prefer to remain shut, and invited to take a hard look inside.
It amuses me whenever I hear another JW mindlessly chant ``wait on Jehovah'' as a justification for doing nothing. There are tons of examples where WT propaganda deplores passivity while applauding ``decisive action in support of pure worship.'' -
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Jesus' illustration of the Wheat & Weeds Ma...
by wokeup inthis question is addressed to those who still esteem and value gods' word.
those of us who were raised in the "trooth" we were taught that the "sons of the kingdom" pertained only to the "faithful slave".
in jesus' illustration of the end time harvest period, the angels separate the wheat from the weeds , distinguishing two distinct parties.
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The answer, my friend is simple: the ``Great Crowd'' teaching is an invention of Rutherford, an ad-hoc response to the burgeoning number of Memorial partakers, which in the thirties gave all appearances of throwing the teaching of a literal 44,000 figure heaven-bound Christians out of whack.
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Food at Proper Time:Insider's Insight from Barbara
by Maximus inbarbara anderson's attention was called to the thread about the differences in policy of great britain and the us regarding child abuse; as you know she has championed a change in that policy.
another post caught her eye, and she expressed the desire to share some thoughts with you.
i'm delighted to share her first post, which i know you will find riveting.
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Barb and Max,
One last post, I promise: the self-important `gentleman'' on the writing staff sounds more than a little like Gene Smalley. Certainly not Ciro Aulicino, who I had pegged as a ``closet liberal.'' -
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Food at Proper Time:Insider's Insight from Barbara
by Maximus inbarbara anderson's attention was called to the thread about the differences in policy of great britain and the us regarding child abuse; as you know she has championed a change in that policy.
another post caught her eye, and she expressed the desire to share some thoughts with you.
i'm delighted to share her first post, which i know you will find riveting.
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Barb, Max, fellow posters...
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Food at Proper Time:Insider's Insight from Barbara
by Maximus inbarbara anderson's attention was called to the thread about the differences in policy of great britain and the us regarding child abuse; as you know she has championed a change in that policy.
another post caught her eye, and she expressed the desire to share some thoughts with you.
i'm delighted to share her first post, which i know you will find riveting.
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Bravissimi Massimo and Barb!
Words fail me in my attempt to express my gratitude and admiration for all you've done and are about to do. It's one thing to have been advantaged with access to the inner workings of the Society at the policy --making and creative level (having once had full run of the Bethel Home in the course of mny daily duties, I had an ant's eye view of much of this); quite another to be able to recount all you saw and heard so articulately without recourse to hyperbole.
And most of all, the courage to take a deep breath, swallow hard and step forward with the disclosure.
Re the ``Nethinim'' debacle, I always thought the smartest, most pragmatic way out of the dilemma of the transition in management to the `Other Sheep'' would be the simple expedient of throwing open the door to Memorial partaking to all the baptised. It's a ``piece of cake '' to defend scripturally. Simply say, ``we all partake of the Rock Mass, and where we end up in God's universe is up to him -- sort of lke a Missionary assignment.''
A lot of ``Bang for the Buck'' here, since it deals with the dilemma of explaining away why the number of partakers is stuck at 8,000 or so, perserves the teaching that some of the remnant will be around to survive Armageddon, and unifies the organization into a coherent whole. -
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Food at Proper Time:Insider's Insight from Barbara
by Maximus inbarbara anderson's attention was called to the thread about the differences in policy of great britain and the us regarding child abuse; as you know she has championed a change in that policy.
another post caught her eye, and she expressed the desire to share some thoughts with you.
i'm delighted to share her first post, which i know you will find riveting.
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Bravissimi Massimo and Barb!
Words fail me in my attempt to express my gratitude and admiration for all you've done and are about to do. It's one thing to have been advantaged with access to the inner workings of the Society at the policy --making and creative level (having once had full run of the Bethel Home in the course of mny daily duties, I had an ant's eye view of much of this); quite another to be able to recount all you saw and heard so articulately without recourse to hyperbole.
And most of all, the courage to take a deep breath, swallow hard and step forward with the disclosure.
Re the ``Nethinim'' debacle, I always thought the smartest, most pragmatic way out of the dilemma of the transition in management to the `Other Sheep'' would be the simple expedient of throwing open the door to Memorial partaking to all the baptised. It's a ``piece of cake '' to defend scripturally. Simply say, ``we all partake of the Rock Mass, and where we end up in God's universe is up to him -- sort of lke a Missionary assignment.''
A lot of ``Bang for the Buck'' here, since it deals with the dilemma of explaining away why the number of partakers is stuck at 8,000 or so, perserves the teaching that some of the remnant will be around to survive Armageddon, and unifies the organization into a coherent whole. -
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Wow, I didn't know this
by bboyneko infrom ajwrb site:.
this image appeared in the golden age of march 30, 1932, p. 409, and is very typical of similar pictures or watchtower cartoons of the era.
note the dead and pock marked babies below.
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You (don't) Know...
Are you endorsing these health faddist simply beacuse they happen to concur with publish Consolation's notions that can be most charitably described as ``controversial?''
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Matthew 25
by Farkel inwhen did we see you a stranger and receive you hospitably, or naked, and clothe you?
he was talking about food, clothing, shelter and supplication to the least of the brothers.
he could not be talking about anything else and here is why: could any human offer jesus spiritual food?
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Proplog2,
With all due respect, your apologia for the JW insensitivity toward the needy and suffering is lame. The obvious fact that Jehovah's witnesses are not responsible for creating the problems endemic to society does not exempt them from their Christian duty to show compassion for the less fortunate.
Certainly no one who gives a sandwich to a starving person is under any illusion that his personal act is anything but one tiny act and will have not lasting effect on eradicating the root causes of human suffering. The reasoning that says ``we can't do much so let's not do anything'' is worse than specious -- it's a callous conscience-salving copout. It can also be viewd as a lack of faith in God's promise to repay in multiples any losses we may incur in the performance of good works.
The WT argument that goes ``why paint the stern of the sinking ship when there's a huge hole in the bow?'' is nothng more than an insidious appeal to one's innate selfishness.
Far better to light one candle --which as we were warned during wartime, could be seen for miles -- than to curse the darkness, and to make a personal statement that you worship the God that tends to the lilies of the field and the sparrows.