most of the sermon on the mount, matthew 5-7 - is bizarre, vague or barbaric.
it actually smacks stupidity and not wisdom..
if you lust after a woman, you’ve committed adultery (thought crime) .
like the song said:" just one look, that's all it took." even the 10 commandments stipulates " not even to desire your neighbor's wife.
and "Jesus" hammered that home when he revealed, that even the offending eye would have you end up in gehenna.
I would be nice to know that the hidden rocks in the congregation would keep their adulterous eyes off your trophy wife, or worse, your young daughter.
the watchtower said that reading their stuff would get you a college education.
can anyone recall that gem?
my parents sure bought into that crap.
yeah, that would be the "University of Hard Knocks", learning the hard way that you have been had.
so, the famous 607 calculation to 1914 involves the above prophecy.
the common explanation is that time is one unit, times is an unsubstantiated number of units.. to prove you can make it say any date, we must write it as a formula:.
date = t + nt + 0.5t where n >= 2. so simplified:.
Stay alive till 2075! Sounds like history repeating itself.
2 centenarians overlapping by 20 years each*, reads
2x 100 = 200 - (2x20) = 160 + 1914 = 2074
+1 Year to sort out Armageddon = 2075. which is
the anniversary, sorry I misspoke, it is the centenary, or 100st anniversary, lest we forget, of 1975.
so, the famous 607 calculation to 1914 involves the above prophecy.
the common explanation is that time is one unit, times is an unsubstantiated number of units.. to prove you can make it say any date, we must write it as a formula:.
date = t + nt + 0.5t where n >= 2. so simplified:.
The overlapping generation is easy:
2 centenarians overlapping by 20 years each*, reads
2x 100 = 200 - (2x20) = 160 + 1914 = 2074
+1 Year to sort out Armageddon = 2075. wich is
the anniversary for another of wt's already proven false prophecies
because it can not possibly be the partakers, overlapping or not.
* assuming that the under lapper was 20 year old in 1914.
i've discussed this before but not in this context alone.. i remember being about 14 years old, 1994 and starting a study in the uk with a charming muslim from the congo.
he was a very pleasant middle aged guy with a big family, two wives, always the most hospitable.
at the time the watchtower had a book on many religions, a thick red book called 'mankind's search for god' so i would read and discuss the section on islam with him.. interestingly, but not surprising, many details they had were wrong about islam and he would explain how and correct me.
Just replace the Elder's titles with "Mullah," give them the power to execute rather than just shun,
take "ALL", and add the 2 last letters of the jw's god name,
Make "Jesus" a minor prophet like na-hum. declare the Koran to be the "new scrolls"
Really apply the bible's dress code to "sisters" Give the ladies their own, larger, room in the KD Hall ,
take out the chairs,
mandate beards, ---Voila,
Many jw males would live with that. rather than have their throats cut. and their widows, orphan daughters join the harens of the survivors.
as spock would say " fascinating".. with 2020 being such a terrible year.
are people of the christian faith going to look at this as a sign of god, to give them hope and renew their faith?
coincidence?
For a specific locale, now astro event can pinpoint the site from all directions for long, a walking traveler.
The only analogy would be the "Christmas tree" markers release by the pathfinder "Mosquito" aircraft to start their night time bombing runs at that point. Even then, the marking lights lasted only minutes.
May be an early version of the fire in a tethered montgolfiere?
"Bethlehem" is a story only, face it.
let's see, wt is "banned" in china.
the wt preaches that reaching everyone on the planet is so important, yet they barely have a footprint in china.
if saving lives was so important, why do they not aggressively proselytize in china?
The phillipines years ago was noted for the beheading of pioneers --- men and women.
tl 123, That was far from the Philippines official stand. You could not find a more tolerant country folks, except in the radicalized south. but
wait until China extends the red nine dot line another 500 km, 1/3 out.
PS: or were thinking of Magellan? the martyr, who started to make the country Catholic, without which wt inc. would never have prospered there.
let's see, wt is "banned" in china.
the wt preaches that reaching everyone on the planet is so important, yet they barely have a footprint in china.
if saving lives was so important, why do they not aggressively proselytize in china?
, silence Russia, Russia not China?
because wt inc. has no real kingdom estate interests in China.
No open presence in, - silence on - Islamic countries roo. in both cases , imprisoned Witnesses would be slave labour, slaving for the prison authorities, not wt inc anymore.
Even GB members do not want to stick their necks out. of course
"Jesus" said: "if they persecute in one city, go to another".
"Sad-u-see" morning smile, clever!
this week's midweek meeting has an item on this theme.
as usual there is a video to show:-.
https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodbibleprinciples/pub-jwbai_201611_1_video.
It is wt inc. , the elders they appointed who have to return.
as spock would say " fascinating".. with 2020 being such a terrible year.
are people of the christian faith going to look at this as a sign of god, to give them hope and renew their faith?
coincidence?
every 800 years? no wonder the ancients turned to t stargazing to try to predict the future, because astronomy has a good record on that., now reaching back and forwaed in time and place thousands of years, to the second the kilometer.
wt predictions. 14, 25, 75, 75 are a complete failure by comparison.
