A few people here (three?) have claimed that they heard it from a JW who was there. It's very strange to me that we can't get to the bottom of this, and it makes me suspicious that it's just traveling the Witness grapevine as a rumor.
Apognophos
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Is the AGM today?
by hamsterbait inanybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.
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Leaving the JWs, experiencing Christianity and finding freedom! (But it took awhile)
by im_free inthis is my first post here.. i was raised in "the truth", and am an ex-bethelite who worked in brooklyn for several years back in the 90's.
a few years after i left bethel, i started to become disillusioned after doing research about the society and reading crisis of conscience (i know..i wasn't supposed to do that lol).
i eventually stopped attending meetings and going out in service.
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Apognophos
dabster, I admit that I haven't read any books about demon possession. I don't expect to gain anything from them because anecdotes are not convincing to me. They were when I was 12, but eventually I started thinking critically. The point of my question was that "demonized" behavior can be explained without recourse to the supernatural. If you want to share something from a book, some case which you think is more convincing than a mere anecdote, I'll listen, but I'm not going out of my way to read a book that I have such low expectations for.
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Leaving the JWs, experiencing Christianity and finding freedom! (But it took awhile)
by im_free inthis is my first post here.. i was raised in "the truth", and am an ex-bethelite who worked in brooklyn for several years back in the 90's.
a few years after i left bethel, i started to become disillusioned after doing research about the society and reading crisis of conscience (i know..i wasn't supposed to do that lol).
i eventually stopped attending meetings and going out in service.
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All books are not equal, dabster. You can't counter cofty's recommended books about science by telling him to read books full of anecdotes.
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Has anyone else heard this about the GB??
by FeelingFree inok so me and my husband were talking to his mum again about why we are no longer going to meetings and got into another pointless discussion where she feels he needs to talk to an elder about his issue's blah, blah, blah... round and round it went...... the thing i wanted to ask was if anybody had heard that there wont be any gb after these one's die??
this is something she mentioned today and we have never heard of this ever.
so it means no more will be appointed and they will just die off!
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It's exactly as sir82 said, except that they also allowed for there to be GB members who come after the overlapping generation (probably currently referring to Sanderson, the new boy). But it's true that they are saying that the end will come before the GB (besides Sanderson, I guess) have died off.
Actually it's a bit confusing because the anointed are now supposed to be taken up to heaven during the Great Tribulation, right? So technically there is an indefinite time period between the anointed going to heaven, presumably leaving behind no GB, and the coming of Armageddon.
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Leaving the JWs, experiencing Christianity and finding freedom! (But it took awhile)
by im_free inthis is my first post here.. i was raised in "the truth", and am an ex-bethelite who worked in brooklyn for several years back in the 90's.
a few years after i left bethel, i started to become disillusioned after doing research about the society and reading crisis of conscience (i know..i wasn't supposed to do that lol).
i eventually stopped attending meetings and going out in service.
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Apognophos
dabster, maybe you can answer my question from before:
If you saw somebody moaning and drooling with their eyes back in their head, how you would tell if they were (a) demon-possessed, (b) on a drug trip, or (c) having a seizure?
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What I learned from tonights meeting
by Powermetal4ever ini learned the hebrew word for lid.
i felt it was really worth the time to go there (or not) .
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Heh. That's a classic example of how the JWs give an impression of being erudite. "Ooh, look how we know a Hebrew word, that makes us regular scholars!" Some of the Witnesses in the audience probably were thinking about how wonderful it is to have the Society imparting such wisdom to us. "People in the world don't know this stuff, they're ignorant of their Bibles." Meanwhile the entire modern world of Bible scholarship passes them by.
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Someone was saying the other week that most people in the third world at least have cell phones, but I don't know if they're capable of playing video, as from JW TV, or can only read text-oriented mobile sites.
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100 yrs + 1000 yrs = 1100 yrs of Kingdon Rule ?
by Smiles indoes anyone one else have a problem with the celebrating '100 years kingdom rule' (1914-2014).
while at the same time teaching that the kingdom will rule for 1000 years?
(rev 20:6).
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neverendingjourney: Oh, that's interesting, I didn't recall that. Seems that they arbitrarily decided that Noah would have preached for one Biblical generation? Methinks some new light is called for
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Is This ALL the Society Meant By Big Stuff Coming?
by millie210 inok, internet tv, some new songs and updates on a couple obscure prophecies no one cares about.... .
i for one was so disappointed at the smallness of it.
i guess i bought the hype that when they said "big", they meant it.. .
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I think the TVInternet channel is actually a pretty big deal And there's more changes still coming. We brothers just found out that we have to use a "householder" for our #3 parts
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100 yrs + 1000 yrs = 1100 yrs of Kingdon Rule ?
by Smiles indoes anyone one else have a problem with the celebrating '100 years kingdom rule' (1914-2014).
while at the same time teaching that the kingdom will rule for 1000 years?
(rev 20:6).
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neverendingjourney: At the most, the Society could Biblically claim that people in the last days will get 120 years of warning like they did in Noah's day, as a few here have pointed out, taking us to 2034. And this is a stretch because (1) people supposedly lived longer in Noah's day so the ones alive at the start would not all be dead within those 120 years, and (2) it doesn't say Noah warned anyone during that time, though it may be implied in 2 Peter.