Jofi_Wofo
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Theory on the GB "new light" pushing back the final judgment.
by Jofi_Wofo ini know there are several threads already on this "new light", but i didn't see one that covered this particular angle.. since the gb seem to have an ulterior motive for everything they do, well beyond their publicly stated reasons, i began to wonder why they would be concerned with pushing back the closing of the window of jesus' judgement.
this is especially puzzling because the doctrine of the start of great tribulation being the final cutoff was one that the gb seemed to especially revel in for so long.
they could hang it over everyone's heads as a looming threat.
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Fear > Facts (WT Study Article 12/6/2020
by Jofi_Wofo ina doozy in today's study article brought me to post here for the first time in a while.
once again, watchtower leadership is doing its level best to make their adherents as fearful of inconvenient facts as they, themselves, are.. "like timothy, we must also discern the danger of false information spread by apostates.
(1 tim.
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Splitting furs
by Jofi_Wofo ini'm half listening in on my wife's zoom meeting.
in my decade+ in the org, i don't remember ever getting into such minutia about jw hunting rules.. apparently, it's ok to kill an animal to use its skin as a clothing accessory, but it's not ok to kill an animal to use its antlers as a wall decoration.. not mentioned in the talk: whether or not its ok to kill an animal to wear its antlers as a hat.. .
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The rapture isn't what it is.
by Jofi_Wofo ini mentioned in my other thread that my mind wandered during the zoom meeting today.
this was my second observation.
note this exerpt on the rapture, from the july 15, 2015 wt and let's see what's wrong with it:.
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Interesting WT Deluge Contradiction I just noticed.
by Jofi_Wofo ini was reviewing some of the evidence the wt proposes for their claim of the bible's scientific accuracy, when i came across this interesting assertion.. the mountains rise and fall, and today’s mountains were once under the ocean.
(psalm 104:6, 8) in contrast, several myths say that the mountains were created in their current form by the gods.. https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/science-and-the-bible/.
interesting.
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Reproof announcement wording.
by Jofi_Wofo inhey, all.
i had an old memory pop into my head today about an oddly worded announcement made by an elder at a meeting back when i was a bible study.
i couldn't find anything in the wol nor on google about it, so i wondered if this was just some rogue one-off, or if this is the way things used to be announced.
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That escalated quickly... (Quote from today's Zoom public talk)
by Jofi_Wofo inthe speaker at my wife's meeting: "a discouraging word can lead to inactivity, apostasy and death.".
i mean, what the...??????
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Publication 'Simple Swaps'
by Jofi_Wofo inthere are a number of wtb&ts publications that are quite useful in doing research, but would be significantly better if they weren't theologically and self-servingly biased.
i'd like to find more reliable substitutions, especially from scholarly/secular sources, to help me, and others, get a look at the bible from a fresh perspective.
here's a short list of "cool" books i'd like for which id like to find corresponding replacements.. new world translation of the holy scriptures w/references = ?
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Challenging the teacher.
by Jofi_Wofo inimagine the case where a student disagrees with his teacher's method, and believes that he knows a better way.
the teacher realizes that if he kicks the student out of the classroom, the other students may begin to wonder if the teacher was hiding something.
to settle the matter once and for all, the teacher gives the student a chance to prove himself.. wisely, the teacher takes a moment to lay down the parameters for the challenge.
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Observations loosely based on this week's WT.
by Jofi_Wofo ini struggled mightily to stay awake for today's zoom meeting.
at least we have it on saturday morning, so i don't have to dread it for the rest of my lovely weekend.. i suppose you could summarize today's lesson as such- "the annointed are annointed because they say they are annointed, and the annointed are special because god says they are special, and we know that god says what we say god says because we say god says that what we say god says is what god says.".
lord helmet: everybody got that?!.