TrueTomHarley

Alan (either one, either spelling) wrote a book?

If it is Rutherford’s coup and much too expensive are you sure it is not really Perrson’s coup?

Answering critics, some apologist said that to make up a character as complex as Jesus would be more miraculous than simply accepting there was such a man. In a perverse and opposite kind of way….

I’m told if your home is mobile but the 6 vehicles on your lawn are not, you just might be from Missouri.

Ah….it happens every time, so predictable. But I don’t hear a word of it, unless I peak and I rarely do. Love that block setting!

“If you kids don’t stop whining back there I’m going to stop this car and give you something to whine about!” my dad would holler on long trips. At the time I thought he was mean. But as time goes by I’ve come to appreciate that sometimes that’s exactly the right answer to give.

Yeah, like that pinko David foisting his ‘share equally’ plan upon the ‘bad and worthless’ men: However, every bad and worthless man among those who had gone with David said: “Since they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we recovered except that each one may take his wife and his sons and go away.” 23 But David said: “You must not do this, my brothers, with what Jehovah has given us. He protected us and gave into our hand the marauder band that came against us. 24 Who would agree with you on this? The share of the one who went down into the battle will be the same as the share of the one who sat by the baggage. All will have a share. 1 Samuel 30:22-24. Sometimes you have to reign in your bad and worthless men. Often I would say of the LDC bro in our congregation, “yeah—don’t kid yourselves. Pete’s gonna make us all live in dormitories.”

“I alone can fix this?” No, I guess not.

Actually, if you listen to the words of ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ they are not objectionable at all. They are an exposure of the Devil’s M. O, the great wickedness people are capable of. But I had to draw the line somewhere. I couldn’t very well gush on about ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ as though I were a fan. Nor did I listen to the words for many decades, so it took me forever to realize just what the theme was.

We went through all the Glenn Doman’s number cards with our babies, I am convinced to good effect—and even in the event it was not it was fun and took almost no time. At one point, following a Doman cue, we asked our infant to pick up 57, as opposed to 56 and 58, dots all mixed up with no underlying pattern—the number written on the back so you would know. Instantly he did. But Doman said you can’t do it twice; infants get bored and they will not do it for show. Sure enough, when we tried, he would not. Coincidence? Dunno. It was a one out of three chance, after all, so coincidence is certainly possible. But he reached for it instantly, with no hesitation at all. The point was, in building your baby’s ‘better’ brain (Yikes!—Building Back Better) that if you see 3 or 4 cows in the field you instantly read them for their true number, but at some point you must start counting, 1…2…3…4…5…. The idea with the flash cards for an infant’s rapidly expanding brain was that you could push way up that point at which you had to start counting; that it could take in 56 at a glance. Doman’s flash cards went up to 100.

Poor boy. Here’s a bone for you. I wasn’t sure this pic had a use but it seems it might work here: Sheesh! What a bunch of nut cakes! As goofy as any nasty here Never have I seen Jehovah’s Witnesses listed directly below Gangsta Rappers.

It was my undoing. I struck oil on my property around that time and consequentially found I owed millions of dollars.

“And gas prices rose. David was very distressed because the worldmedianewsforum perennial gripers were talking of stoning him, for all the men had become very bitter over their KH sold to build 50 in developing lands, making them drive further, and they wanted to stone him for a million other reasons too. But David strengthened himself by Jehovah his God. (1 Samuel 30: 5-6) #freewheelingversion.

If they sell it, it’s because the sale of one underperforming Hall in the West can fund the building of 50 in developing lands where they are clamoring for them. So someone has a longer drive twice a week so that 50X friends overseas have a place to meet? Who would object to that? Notice how the “bad and worthless” men objected when David proposed a similar equalizing scheme: “However, every bad and worthless man among those who had gone with David said: “Since they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we recovered except that each one may take his wife and his sons and go away.” But David said: “You must not do this, my brothers, with what Jehovah has given us. He protected us and gave into our hand the marauder band that came against us. “ Why would you promote being bad and worthless?

It’s the 42 anointed who met together after they were ordered not to in order to baptize without asking each other a ton of questions.

Yes, of course. Believing in Jesus whole-heartedly doesn’t mean beans in itself—unless you define “whole-heartedly” as embracing the scriptures you included: Though the crazy faux-anointed person here appends scriptures to her comments for tonnage, she can never find the relevant ones, as you have. When it comes to who will be saved, the Christian organization is not authorized to go beyond what the scripture plainly says: “Baptism, which corresponds to this, is also now saving you…” (1 Peter 3:21) If they have any private thoughts on this, those they must keep to themselves. Of course, baptism assumes doing it the biblical way, not the sprinkled baptism of infants, not the baptism to the hellfire/trinity God. The governing brothers choose not to speculate on this matter. They choose to be bounded by 1 Peter 3:21. We, who do not have a worldwide association of brothers to coach, (though Her Craziness thinks she does) are freer to speculate. When a loved one of mine was asked specifically whether this one or that one will be saved, she replied that she was not Jesus and didn’t know. The organization does the best it can. Not all scriptures dovetail. It remains to be seen how certain things will work out. “You will by no means complete the circuit of the cities of Israel until the Son of man arrives.” (Matt 10:23) throws a monkey wrench into worldwide coverage. This verse has been cited to show not every person will be adequately reached, maybe not at all, so the question arises just what is God going to do about that come Armageddon? From what I can recall, they only gingerly touch that one. (They have said in the past that the mentally incompetent should get a free pass, so maybe we’re all okay here.) At any rate, the Watchtower statement to carry the day is easily found on the website. To the question, “Do Jehovah’s Witnesses feel they are the only ones who will be saved?” included in the answer is: “In any case, it’s not our job to judge who will or won’t be saved. That assignment rests squarely in Jesus’ hands.” If they have seemed to judge in the past, it’s because they don’t feel free to blow away1 Peter 3:21 as though it were nothing. https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/who-saved/ Then, too, from the Insight book (under the topic Destruction) comes this beaut, that indicates we don’t even know ones destroyed by Jehovah suffer eternal destruction: The Bible indicates that not all destruction is eternal. This is demonstrated by the fact that the Hebrew word ʼavad·dohnʹ (destruction) is used twice to parallel “Sheol.” (Job 26:6; Pr 15:11) ….When speaking of the destruction of the rebels Dathan and Abiram, Moses wrote that they went down “alive into Sheol.” (Nu 16:31, 33) Since Sheol in the Bible denotes the common grave of mankind from which there will be a resurrection, it is evident that not all destruction—not even all destruction at the hand of God—is necessarily eternal. So even Patiently Sitting on his Hands, that piece of work, who thinks he will not survive Armageddon and assumes that gives him the stature to advise others….well, maybe he is right and he won’t survive and still I’ll see that dodo on the other side someday, in which case I’ll take back the bad things I’ve said about him and maybe he’ll do the same with me.

From what I hear the local saying is, “Dan has killed his thousands and xero his tens of thousands.”

Ha! Right in the title we see how JWI is playing with us all, up to his old tricks of putting the cart before the horse: How a Christmas song would lead me to beleive that our 1914 teaching must be right after all. Is it “I before E except after L?” I don’t think so.

Sure. I have no idea who will be saved or not. Nor does it make any difference to my personal responsibility to make known the good news.

Tell the dodo it couldn’t have been click bait because there was no place given for anyone to click.

Very clever. Fact-checking Jesus! and pretty much the truth. I mean, no one actually does what he says today. They have fact-checked him away.

Almost as good: https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2007/07/isaac-asimov-an.html

Few realize that the Beatles later built upon his platform of philosophy: ”because I told you before…oh…you kant do that.”

What a weird congregation you have. It’s like when the Regional brother and his wife hit town and it isn’t yet clear just what congregation they will be attending. “Are we in that stage of trying to haul in the big fish?” I ask them, making gestures of reeling in the big one. They reply yes. “Well,” I tell them, “just between us, I’m not sure they even believe in God at those other congregations.”

I’m working up a post with more on that topic of so many going down in the census and subjects related but I’m just not going to do it in front of that moron who ignores the substance of any remark to insert some completely irrelevant insult of those taking the lead in the evangelizing work. In time it will be in the closed forum.