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NOTE: This term should be used with discretion, being careful about speaking critically or judgmentally about someone else's spiritual condition. It makes a convenient handle for elders to use when talking about someone who fits the description.
NOTE: Sadly, some have considered the phrase ``matter of conscience'' to be equivalent to ``do what you want''. But the objective is to use research, reasoning, prayer, and whatever other means is available so as to do what Jehovah wants.
[125] Who really knows what he needs to know that he does not know now, or will not need to know in the future, until he has lived forever and realizes that he has never needed to know it?
[126] ``Persons who go to college will die at Armageddon.''
[127] ``I don't know much about ____ but I know what I like!''
[128] ``Lemme see, did Moses live before or after Jesus?''
[129] It interferes with watching Beavis and Butthead.
[130] ``Ha, ha, ha---math was always my worst subject in school!''
NOTE: Jesus' command to be ``no part of the world'' was not a mandate to remain an ignoramus. (Compare Gen 1:28.) A dummy is still a dummy {irregardless} of his religion.[131]
An elder from Portugal wrote to explain that in Portuguese the expression means literally to lose meetings, because the same word means ``to miss'' and ``to lose''. One who misses a meeting is therefore seen as having lost something.
STORY: I once knew an {anointed} sister at Bethel who claimed that she never once missed a single meeting in over sixty years, even for illness. As I write this entry it was just yesterday that the sporting world wildly celebrated baseball player Calvin Ripkin's setting a new record by playing in 2,131 consecutive games over a thirteen-year period without ever missing, a record that had been thought to be unmatchable for over fifty years. This feat pales into insignificance when compared to our sister's demonstration of the value she assigned to congregation meetings.
[134] It is worth noting that the 20-volume Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians does not have an entry under music, suggesting that the word itself is difficult to define. But musicians certainly know it when they hear it, even if others do not.
[135] Attributed to Louis Armstrong.
Satan is well aware of music's power and has used it effectively during the {last days} as a teaching device. The lyrics and spirit of a great deal of American-style popular music is debased in the extreme. Its content is often rebellious, vulgar, profane, immoral, violent, or blasphemous, not to mention downright ugly. But listeners, especially young ones, are easily seduced by the music that accompanies the words, and often catch themselves enthusiastically singing along. Thus there is need for Christians to be careful about what music they approve. (Rom 14:22) Many articles have appeared in the literature warning us of these dangers.
The commercial pulp marketed by the music industry is so pervasive that many Americans believe it is the only music worth listening to except for that favored by people whose tastes are hopelessly old-fashioned or highbrow. On the other hand, I have heard some say <<I like all kinds of music: pop, rock, folk, country, blues and jazz.>> This is similar to saying ``I like all kinds of food: baked, boiled, mashed, French fried, and sometimes au gratin.'' It's still all potatoes. This is sad, because even in this imperfect world there is more genuinely good music being made than a person could ever experience, even if he devoted all day of every day of his life to nothing but listening to new things. In reality there are entire worlds of music that most casual listeners are generally unaware of. And in Jehovah's new world there will be a whole lot more of it.
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