watchtowers collective .
today i added a new article to my blog highlighting a fairly recent study of the watchtower organizations treatment of raced people.
what she ends up stating is shocking to read, but its what folks have been saying for years and years.
Nothing really new, Marvin.
After all, hasn't the Watchtower been prepping the Jehovah's Witnesses to be "one nation out of all nations" and earthly subjects of the Kingdom of God, where national boundaries and language barriers won't exist anymore? Aren't the anointed collectively called "a new nation"?
Well spotted, tho. Thank you.
Eden
Yes, I can really detect the FINGER of businessman Bo in the AAWA CORPORATION. How much are they paying to those professional PR agencies that are helping them...?
If their aim is to help people like me to awake and leave, then I can tell you from my advantage point: They're failing miserably.
Really that is too incredibly stupid to be true.
Eden
january 8, 1947 awake!:.
excommunication is "altogether foreign to biblical teachings.".
it's an unbiblical roman catholic teaching by which "you are looked upon with the blackest contempt... being cursed and damned with the devil and his angels.".
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Errrrm ... so, let me see if I get this straight ...
AAWA's BRILLIANT campaign to HELP people to leave the Watchtower is to collect pictures of angry ex-JW's giving the finger at Kingdom Halls? Honestly.... REALLY? I mean.... REALLY??
Eden
still not sure the jw's are wrong on blood?.
still not sure the jw's are wrong on blood?
still not sure the jw's are wrong on blood?
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believers know that everything is in gods hands.
this is one of the pillars of their faith.. .
if believers want anything to happen, they pray to god.. why?.
Perhaps you should spend some time investigating Panantheism and Open Theism.
In these conceptions, God is indeed influenced by prayer and isn't neither omniscient nor omnipotent (at least not in the traditional way we have been taught), and is always learning and adapting.
Eden
me whom they have pierced .
blood flowed from our saviors' side when he was pierced:.
"but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out...for these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled...and again another scripture says, 'they shall look on him whom they pierced.
You find a good explanation here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4HezBaSlSs
The KJV is offering a wrong translation of the hebrew text in order to suit the trinitarian perspective. It should read:
(v10) "They will look on me ABOUT whom they have pierced" That's why the next verse says "They will mourn HIM ..." The object of the piercing isn't Jehovah (the "me", subject), but someone else (the "him" and the "whom", object of the piercing), the "firstborn".
Eden
the watchtower perposely keeps its leaders "cordoned off" for a reason.
the ones really in charge want to be invisible and have been in control since knorr's day, and still think like him.
the gb want like hell to be visible and powerful.
When reading Ray Franz's Crisis of Conscience, I saw no reference to doctrinal matters or other relevant affairs being orchestrated from outside the Governing Body. And he served as a member for at least 8 years. If he had seen such, wouldn't he write about that? I find it odd such claim.
Rather than puppets on a string, the members of the Governing Body strike me as sincere people that got so distanced from the real world, so intoxicated with their own mythology, that they became legends in their own minds, seeing no evil in what they teach and do, persuaded that they are intruments in the hands of God.
But hey ... what do I know. I never lived in Brooklyn.
Eden
this is literally hot off the press as in from about half an hour ago.. we have a friend from nz (who is wavering and knows our situation) and he is on holiday in japan at the moment.
today there was a zone overseer talk that he went to in nagoya (southern japan) and it has just finished up.
straight after the song and still in the stadium he emailed us the info below.
128 pages for the book of Matthew alone? No commentary? Hmmm ....
Eden
the watchtower perposely keeps its leaders "cordoned off" for a reason.
the ones really in charge want to be invisible and have been in control since knorr's day, and still think like him.
the gb want like hell to be visible and powerful.
Randy
Thank you for your hard work. I've read your life story months ago as I was starting to awake, and found it to be a great eye-opener.
However, you make an extraordinary claim: That the members of the Governing Body aren't the real powers within the Organization; That they are mere "puppets". To quote you :
"Don't even think the GB are really running the show! They are merely puppets on a string"
Now, this is an extraordinary claim, and, as often said here, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. But I don't see you offering any evidence to back up this claim. Who is really giving orders to the Governing Body? Who is making decisions on doctrinal matters? Who is defining the theological direction of the Christian Congregation of the Jehovah's Witnesses on the post-Franz, post-Jaracz era? What are their names? Do you have first-hand testimonials? Or is it all hearsay and conspiracy theory?
Eden
