i have thought long and hard about this, you know in those midnight hours.. you will probably string me alive in what i say, but here you go-.
i feel that the jw's do have the truth.
i do agree with the doctrines and biblical exgenesis they propound.i do feel that they have the 'truth' i do understand they are imperfect, and i think they have had to 'refine' their teachings as time has gone on-and change accordingly- i see nothing wrong with this.
Rex, I will not be as harsh as cofty was not. There are only a few bible texts that stand the scientific test of time, and even then wt does often totally contradict them, Those texts might have been useful in their time, not now.
Stay away from sneaky snakes and naked ladies away from their husbands.
so i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.
it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.
when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.
So you say the WTS. didn't intentionally hype up dates as a means to further support Christ's return in 1914 ?
I was referring to attempts to crack the time and timing enigma. I actually consider time to be the latter day forbidden fruit that the creator has put in his own jurisdiction.
Wt was late to ride the wave of support, the swell, that the 1975 passage in the book had generated among the jws.
you are not wrong that wt dates served to perk up the circulation.
questions to ask witnesses.
1. does the bible teach when the great crowd of revelation 7 started forming?.
the watchtower had expressed the hope that a convention scheduled for may 30 to june 3, 1935, in washington, d.c., u.s.a., would be “a real comfort and benefit” to those pictured by jehonadab.
Wt is stuck with the description, that the great Crowd, comes out of the Great Tribulation.Io cover, in the 60s they still taught that the G. Tribulation started in 1914, was cut short in 1918, in order for the Great Crowd (of OS) to come out, and will resume at Armageddon.
Wt mag April 15 1995 admits that the Great Crowd of Rev 7 is described to exist only after the GT, ("salvation we owe" etc) therefore, the GC does not exist prior to it, but comes out of the GT whenever that starts. . Since the Great tribulation has not started yet, The Great Crowd does not really exist yet.
The bible stories teach one thing, wt another. current example:
"Jesus" taught that the generation would not pass away before the GT, the judgement, Armageddon happen, wt now teaches that the anointed generation will get raptured before almost all these things.
bold faced contradictors.
just wondering.
when i was a witness, we had presiding overseer, and would say p-o for short.
do they spell it out when they say cobe or do they say it with as a word?
My favoured COBE is Cosmic Background radiation Experiment. one researcher exclaimed " we saw the hand of god"
The hand of god can not be seen in some he domineering types that rise above the ranks. to be the cobe.
so... after seeing men who abuse children in the organization, i am out.
however this shit is in the "world" too.
my fellow alabama voters are still behind roy moore.
Duacti! Monster 620ie is onlt 27" off the ground!
Yeah that is better than the BMWs. when you are old, every moment in time becomes more precious, rarer. harder to balance to. Gave up riding after 68 years.
All these risk takers, thrill seekers ,Clinton, Moore, Rose wished now that they had curbed their instincts earlier too.
so i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.
it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.
when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.
finkelstein, I believe you are wrong to accuse all end time prognosticators of dishonesty incompetence and exploitation.Acts 1:7 states: that is not given to the best even, to understand times and seasons, Newton risked everything in his undercover secret religious writings. It is very hard to labour through the convoluted genealogies of scripture to come to a good result at the right side of the equal (=) sign.
Many sincere students, wt heavies included, remembered the last words in the talking snake stories collection . I am coming quickly (soon) come!
so... after seeing men who abuse children in the organization, i am out.
however this shit is in the "world" too.
my fellow alabama voters are still behind roy moore.
ducatijoe: I am actually not aware of the details of the Moore accusations, just thought it was part of the partiality against the conservative movement.
My active involvement in Judicial elder's bodies never involved cases with minors.
I would however, draw a line in the sand between attraction, even welcoming of female teens (minors defined to be from 13-18) and actual child rape of boys and girls.
the passive pedophile might even deserve credit for suppressing an ancient ingrained human tendency, a battle worth winning. see Song. 8:8. and context.
too old for a ducati.
so i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.
it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.
when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.
Even Isaac Newton tried to calculate that time span. Usher too tried to usher in the millennium.
so i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.
it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.
when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.
hoser: Edmonton? is that not the place, the suburbs, where they drank the tea too?
1975? a moving experience, a dry run for 2075.
can anyone give me a valid reason for it?
growing old is a drag.
the witnesses idea of ever lasting life, that you will come back to your most youthful state is such a bs answer..
time to find the perfect wave and keep it , a standing wave. leave this burned out solar system and find a younger one to copulate and populate.
