growing up in scotland in the 1970s in scotland the anointed were few and far between, but we had one old dude in our cong who claimed to be one of the anointed.
in the days when it was taken seriously.. i'd be curious how you viewed them.
thing is, he wasn't an elder, or even a ministerial servant, just a plain old publisher.. but he was revered like he had a hotline to jesus.. the other week i was talking to a friend of similar age to me but who hung around the wt a lot longer than i did, and he just commented "oh him... he was a doddery old fool who used to just sit and piss himself.
Having been raised as a jw since age 4 and now 73 you come across many so-called "anointed". They majority of them had very strange, quirky personalities. Several I knew were left overs from Rutherford's reign and were "bull dog" type witnesses that really believed they were brothers to christ! Of course back in the 20's and 30's if you were a jw, you were basically a 'born-in' anointed. lol
just saying!
i was reading today that the last star wars movie will be playing next week.
doing a little searching, i found that there have been 12 movies in the saga total, ( box office, total (12 films): $9.323 billion.)..
it got me thinking about when the empire strikes back came out, it was the second movie ( 1980).
The really STRANGE thing is that all of us once believed this sh*t!
just saying!
omg!
this has to be more of "keeping the flock busy and excited" so as not to notice whats going on.. how did i miss this?????
the jehovah's witnesses announced plans to build a 1.5 million-square-foot audio-visual production center in upstate new york, two miles away from the witnesses' headquarters in warwick.
Sounds like wt is going into the video/cd production business. Biblical themed videos for sale and Christian (aka jehovah) music videos and cd's for sale.
just saying!
this is an hypothetical question...i am doing well.
but i was thinking about how my jw family, grandchildren and all will feel when their inactive grandfather dies with no hope of being reunited in paradise.
of course there would be immediate rejoicing if i came back to the "truth" and a surge of conditional love from the "friends".
Is this a rhetorical question? Being a jw IS a terminal illness! The brain dies first followed eventually by remaining parts of the mortal body!
just saying!
among the reasons the watchtower society gives in appendix c of the new world translation for inserting the name jehovah in the new testament is the following:.
· " in greek, is the definite article missing from before kyʹri·os (lord), where it would normally be expected grammatically, thus indicating that a proper name may originally have appeared in the greek text?
d. does anyone know if this is a valid argument?
Too bad for jw's that they weren't around when the bible was first being assembled. Every other word could have been jehovah! But since they weren't around, I wonder why jehovah himself couldn't see to it that his name was preserved and included in the bible!
just saying!
wonder if the wt is doing the same!!!!.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/18/us/latter-day-saints-charity-funds-complaint/index.html.
just part of the article.. (cnn)the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, commonly referred to as the mormon church, responded tuesday to a recently-filed whistleblower complaint that accuses the church of stockpiling $100 billion in accounts intended for charitable works, misleading members and avoiding paying taxes.. .
All religious organizations are the 'pot of gold at the end of the rainbow'. Tell the faithful that god needs their money and they close their logical brains and open their wallets.
It will be a great day when religion starts paying taxes.
just saying!
the watchtower—study edition | november 2019. lessons we can learn from the book of leviticus.
16 satan and his world have done much to make the work of that faithful slave challenging, even impossible, to carry out from a human standpoint.
despite two world wars, relentless persecution, global economic crises, and unjust treatment, the faithful and discreet slave has continued to provide spiritual food for christ’s followers on earth.
One of my favorite quotes!
“Isn’t it a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents? And it always just happens to be the right religion.”
just saying!
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They have always proclaimed both sides of something to cover their asses.
I agree with OTWO! Same CYA in the bible (aka jewish mythology) First the bible says that only a few will find their way onto the narrow, cramped road leading to life but later the bible also says that a "great crowd" will survive. lol
just saying!
2020 the society will continue to have financial problems with massive pay outs because of their lack of protecting their young people from a religion that harbors thousands of pedophiles.
thus this and other religions that has an 1800's mentality will continue to lose their young people.
with the religion's lies easily found on the internet the smart ones will continue to leave in droves.
What the hell? Don't you folks believe the GB? Armageddon is so close we will never see 2020! Dammit----------- start listening to the warning! Can't yous see how close it is?
just saying!
this article has all the trappings of wts apocalyptic theology, doom and destruction for "the world" salvation into paradise for the faithful .a schedule of future events is described thus :.
1) a worldwide proclamation of peace and security.
2) the destruction of "babylon the great"......it confidently names the characters from this visionary biblical reference, without any supporting reasons.. 3)the nations will then , as gog of magog , attack the wts and the members .
Again trying to scare the hell out of the faithful with their wacky interpretations of 'babylon the great',the '10 horns', and of course the ever popular "wild beast". I really liked the part of how the current 'governing body' will be "called" to heaven leaving the lesser earthly guys to get the jw's organized during the scary "great tribulation".
You gotta love the recalling of the RC's and how they prepared jw's for the future scary sh*t that's going to happen sooooooooooooooooooooooooon!
just saying!
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