the purpose of this thread is to share some history with the community.
i am an active jw.
the reason i picked this forum is due to the openness and ease with which information can be accessed.
The arms of the galaxy are in turn moving around as well. Its like a beautifully orchestrated ballet.
HS, I know you do not like the negatives, but the arms of the galaxies are almost stationary, standing waves. it is the material that is orbiting the center, and moving through them.
Fits your analogy though, certain features of history remain, different entities, empires move through the same stages, pressures, creations, etc. interesting.
another agm thought.
in tight pants tony's part, he mentioned several times that jehovah draws those he chooses and only those rightly disposed would come in.
and individuals that liked the literature but made no progress towards becoming jw were a "waste of time".. was he setting the stage for them introducing the thought of predestination?
Every result is preceded by a cause, so in a short time span, pre-destination may be true.
I do not think D.S. relishes having to front for wt doctrines. One can develop a serious case of Foot in Mouth disease from that. He looked so uncomfortable in front of the generation chart that illustrated the absurd overlap, but in the process showed the blunder of contradicting Math 24: 34, showing the predestined demise of the partakers, before the generation goes off the chart, as it is supposed to.
Videos like that are a permanent record of your personal failings. you make them at your peril. no more anonymity for wt contributors.
another agm thought.
in tight pants tony's part, he mentioned several times that jehovah draws those he chooses and only those rightly disposed would come in.
and individuals that liked the literature but made no progress towards becoming jw were a "waste of time".. was he setting the stage for them introducing the thought of predestination?
JWs report free slave time because that is the only charitable works the society can show .
People with a certain rior mindset would be receptive to become witnesses, it is not predestined. H2H work on saturday, Sundays anois people enogh, and stresses the preachers to weed out weaklings.
The cliques in the congregations really despise the "other" ones that "Jehovah" is supposed to have chosen.
(the Lot's Wife horror scene being played to children's at conventions comes to mind), and
yeah, wait until they play the whole story to the end, 3 some incest and all. I am glad to have walked out of "dramas " with silly arm waving for years
combine the Gervais principle with the one of Lawrence Peter, and everything becomes possible at the top, and that is only the tip of the iceberg.
The anscious expression of David Splane is caused by his fear that you might discover the real reason for the overlapping scenario, the elephant in the background chart.
The sham of the sheep generations.
Jesus said the generation would not die or pass away before, or until all has occurred. so:
If it is the "anointed" sheep generation, they must die before the end, not after.
If it is the "other" sheep, are they not supposed to pass away too, after all occurred; as prophesied?*
D.S lied. if he knew that, hence is ansciety ---., if not , "god" help them all.
* last verse says the sheep ''go off into everlasting life, but it also says the generation will pass away,. everlasting life only in the afterlife?
The tip is showing.
the cover page shows a photo jws loading a small plane with watchtower literature to take to a remote area in bolivia.the first study article introduces the 2018 year text isa.
40:31 "those hoping in jehovah will regain power".
according to them, you may leave home to do field service or attend a meeting feeling exhausted but you return home refreshed and 'jesus' yoke is kindly indeed!
The Yeartext is actually a fulfilled bible prophecy, namely motorless human flight, rising to ~16 km. higher than a passenger jet.
Fulfilled by those that hope, are confident that they have figured out, applied the creator's laws, use of his energy.
so i've been a protestant for most of my life, it's how i was raised, but recently i started questioning my faith more and more and now i feel like my beliefs resemble that of a jehovas witness rather than a protestant.
i don't know any jehovas witnesses, so i was just wondering how a lot of you found the religion and adapted to it?.
I was a protestant and accepted wt beliefs because my grandparents were true believers, with an ancient Lutheran Leather bound bible***, (I never read) that contained the wt answers to wt questions That I never had never a reply too, war, lefe.
Now I realize, that the bible , really ancient is as wrong as the concept the writers had at that distant past.
Before going into more bible details, using wt hype, study the fables, scientific untruih that this un-inspired book contains.
*** their most costly posession by far.
ive asked my jw friends that 3 times and never got an answer.. and can someone explain the jw class system?
and or point me to info on it..
Jesus asked the same question.
i think the watchtower is the only organization that can promise a product (everlasting life) and never deliver it.. what fools we've been to believe this nonsense..
Peddlers of the 'original lie'.
"You positively will not die" - Gen 3:4
the lie of the wiggling schtick aka snake, faked by Moses and competitors in Kairo, kairos. ca, 1500 bc.
