Getting a sexually transmitted disease from a toilet seat.
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by jdubsnub 36 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Apognophos
Okay, I just want to issue a correction to what I said above. I never knew exactly what the facts were about the Society's ban on oral/anal sex, so I finally decided to just look it up on the CD-ROM. There was in fact a "new light" article, the Questions from Readers in the 2/15/78 WT, which stated that specific sex practices between a husband and wife are not condemned in the Bible, therefore it's a conscience matter.
So in fact, they had already reversed their prior statements before the end of the '70s. This was apparently the tail end of the fiasco that was started by the letter from Terry's wife Jo Ann, as he has written about on this forum before. I see a QfR from 12/1/72 where the same question is asked and the Society condemns these forms of sex as unnatural, so that must be the one that she wrote (Terry said that they used her initials and home town, but the copy on the CD-ROM just says "--U.S.A."; a redaction?).
In any case, it doesn't change my point that this is something that Society meddled in for a period of several years, and then dropped like a hot potato.
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compound complex
G. K. Chesterton said too few poems were written on the subject of cheese . . .
Awake! [?!??!?]
Actually, "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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steve2
When I was a kid, in my door to door work, and magazine route, I featured an Awake! article on different types of shoe polish and ways to polish shoes.
I have never subsequently seen an article on that topic ever again.
But even my little mind wondered about what shoe polish had to do with the Kingdom good news.
I have a memory of adult householders humoring me by listening and even buying a magazine (back in the days when they had the price on the inside front page).
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snare&racket
The publications in the 80's like the live forever book, was full of the old, weird doctrines.
The weirdest one I remember was thr metallic bands around the trunk of a fallen tree and its relation to David and the end of times.
Its understandable too, in 2014, just hearing myself say the above sentence is enough to make me cringe!
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NewYork44M
The scripture in Matt 24:15 where it says:
...when you catch sight of the disgusting thing that causes desolation, as spoken about by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place (let the reader use discernment
Growing up in the 60s and 70s this scripture had fulfillment to a specific event when religion gave their allegiance to the UN. Then the events of Matt 24 were altered, this is one that was never addressed again.
What is the latest new light on this scripture?
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NewYork44M
The rule that I always heard was that the truth does not change unless specifically stated. We were also told that the 7th day started with the creation of Eve and that 6000 years of human existence ended in 1975. So we were waiting for Adam to name the animals and figure out he needed a mate. I guess Adam was a slow learner. I never heard a refinement to this "truth."
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Perry
I haven't heard much about the anti-typical wide-mouth cooking pot lately or the secretary with the writer's inkhorn.
Funny how when Franz got too old and died, much of the prophetic craziness left with him.
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millie210
How about having a vasectomy being "wrong" and also certain types of birth control such as IUD's?
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JustVisting
They have backed off the UN being the scarlet-colored wild
beast of Revelation, disgusting thing causing desolation mentioned in Daniel. I suppose you can't do that when you have been an UN NGO.