in the late 80's when i was in my late teens i used to with my then wife to be attend a monday night pre-watchtower study at a local elders house.. this guy was revered as very knowledgable and he was scholarly and interesting to listen to; so at the time it was a genuinely enjoyable monday evening spent with oftentimes discussion would veer far of the subject at hand and lasting to well after 11pm some evenings.. this particular night, the subject up for discussion was "the faithful and discreet slave" and how we should be obeying them without question.
right in the middle of the study this elder said as a question not in the wt article; "how do we really know the current fds as lead by the governing body are the real deal.
i mean what actual proof do we have?".
I find it curiously interesting that 'FDS', now that there are only 8 of them, are directing an organization that no longer claims to be "spirit directed" or at least newly baptized persons are not required to publicly acknowledge that becoming a jw makes them part of a 'spirit directed' organization!
No more "spirit directed" phrase in the baptism questions?---Strange!
just saying!
i am seeing a lot of videos and articles on this issue.
that its a myth the idea of overpopulation.
i was listening to a talk radio speaker ben shapiro i like to as i work through the day.
No worry-- jehober is going to reduce the human population by 99.9% soooooon---very sooon!
just saying!
2020 is days away.
has anything really changed for the witnesses or the religion?
?.
"The time left is reduced" lol--lol
10 years closer to armageddon-----right!
just saying!
last week's study (october wt, page 23), par 10:.
abigail and david.
david and his fellow outlaws protected the nabal family's flocks no doubt with daily support (how else would these fugitives make a living?
The fictitious biblical character David was an a**hole. Funny he he ended up with the "good looking" wife of both Nabal and Uriah. Hey when you're the King, anything goes!
just saying!
a precedent has been established .if it happened once it can happen again..
Jewish mythology and legend---a.k.a 'The Bible'.
just saying!
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!
