AnnOMaly
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"Accept Your Girly-ness...Know How to Shut Up"
by cofty ina faith-based motivational speaker by the name of justin lookadoo (yes really) has been upsetting pupils, parents and staff at a texas high school.. some pupils walked out of the lecture while others began tweeting with the hashtag #lookadouche.
his website aimed at to promote "godly" dating includes the following gems of advice.. accept your girly-ness.
youre a girl.
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Sept 15 Study Watchtower page 19 par 10
by jonahstourguide inconversation with elder.. m why do fds feel the need to quote a plymouth brethren elder, and add to his quote to support a teaching point?.
e what are you talking about.
m vine,,, you know vines dictionary quote paragraph 10 for this weeks consideration,,, i'll show you .
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AnnOMaly
Anony Mous - Vine's PB connection isn't threatening to the JW mindset, tho' - there's no need to ignore it. Besides, the WTS has always been "sucking at the tits of Babylon the Great."*
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* Quote attributed to GB member Karl Klein. CoC (4th ed.), p. 23.
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Sept 15 Study Watchtower page 19 par 10
by jonahstourguide inconversation with elder.. m why do fds feel the need to quote a plymouth brethren elder, and add to his quote to support a teaching point?.
e what are you talking about.
m vine,,, you know vines dictionary quote paragraph 10 for this weeks consideration,,, i'll show you .
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AnnOMaly
E Who told you that he was a P B E
M I researched it ...
E I wouldn't believe everything you read out there
Vine's religious affiliation is common knowledge for Pete's sake! What a doofus.
The Org. likes Vine's Dictionary because of its dispensationalist views about Christ's Second Coming; like JWs, the PB believe in a 'two-stage' coming and this influences Vine's comments about the Parousia. His religious affiliation also explains his Dictionary's entry on 'Stauros' - the PB avoid using, displaying or wearing religious symbols like the Cross.
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Feb 15 study W/T up on jw.org
by konceptual99 inlatest wt is up.. reinforces jesus becoming king in 1914 (no let up on that date).
marriage of the lamb to the 144,000. yawn.... yawn..... celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the photo drama of creation.
it seems to me that every 100 year anniversary shall be celebrated just to try and take the wind from the sails of apostates.. .
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AnnOMaly
I've now had chance to look a little more at the WTS's past comments on the '70 weeks' and the 1st c. Jews' expectations of the Messiah.
Doug already mentioned the July 2012 Awake! which connected the Jews' expectations with their understanding of Daniel 9's '69 weeks,' and erroneously or misleadingly used Hillel Silver's work to support that idea (Silver actually argued that the Jews' expectations about the Messiah had to do with other prophecies - not Dan. 9).
It looks like the only clear basis for the WTS's previous assumption the 1st c. Jews were using Dan. 9 comes from Matthew Henry's Commentary, dated to c. 1710, and a French one from 1888.
w98 9/15 pp. 13-14 pars. 16-17 'Times and Seasons in Jehovah’s Hands':
By means of his prophet Daniel—a man of unwavering faith—Jehovah had given a prophecy involving “seventy weeks.” That prophecy would enable first-century Jews to know that the appearance of the promised Messiah was approaching. ...
... Whether first-century Jews knew precisely when the 483 years began is open to question. But when John the Baptizer began his ministry, “the people were in expectation and all were reasoning in their hearts about John: ‘May he perhaps be the Christ?’” (Luke 3:15) Some Bible scholars link this expectation to Daniel’s prophecy. In commenting on this verse, Matthew Henry wrote [re: Luke 3:15-20]: “We are here told . . . how the people took occasion, from the ministry and baptism of John, to think of the Messiah, and to think of him as at the door. . . . Daniel’s seventy weeks were now expiring.” The French Manuel Biblique [p. 191], by Vigouroux, Bacuez, and Brassac states: “People knew that the seventy weeks of years fixed by Daniel were drawing to a close; nobody was surprised to hear John the Baptist announce that the kingdom of God had drawn near.” Jewish scholar Abba Hillel Silver wrote [pp. 5, 7 of Messianic Speculation in Israel] that according to “the popular chronology” of the day, “the Messiah was expected around the second quarter of the first century C.E.”
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w99 8/15 p. 21 par. 9 'Jehovah Prepares the Way':
As to the setting in the first century, the prophecy of the 70 weeks of years, found at Daniel 9:24-27, pinpointed the year when the Messiah was to appear—29 C.E. Though first-century Jews did not understand the exact timing of matters, they were in expectation, awaiting the Messiah. (Luke 3:15) The French Manuel Biblique states: “People knew that the seventy weeks of years fixed by Daniel were drawing to a close; nobody was surprised to hear John the Baptist announce that the kingdom of God had drawn near.”
w95 11/1 pp. 10-11 par. 4 'Saved From a “Wicked Generation”':
About the year 539 B.C.E., God’s prophet Daniel was given a vision of events that would occur during the final “week” of a period of “seventy weeks” of years. (Daniel 9:24-27) These “weeks” began in 455 B.C.E. when King Artaxerxes of Persia ordered the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem. The final “week” started with the appearance of Messiah, Jesus Christ, at his baptism and anointing in 29 C.E. God-fearing Jews of the first century C.E. were well aware of this time feature of Daniel’s prophecy. For example, concerning the crowds that flocked to hear the preaching of John the Baptizer in 29 C.E., Luke 3:15 states: “The people were in expectation and all were reasoning in their hearts about John: ‘May he perhaps be the Christ?’”
w86 10/1 pp. 5-6 'Daniel—An Authentic Book of Prophecy':
The Revised Standard Version, Ecumenical Edition, reads: “Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people.” ...
... Because of this reliable prophecy, first-century Jewish people “knew that the seventy weeks of years fixed by Daniel were drawing to a close; nobody was surprised to hear John the Baptist announce that the kingdom of God had drawn near.”—Manuel Biblique, by Bacuez and Vigouroux.
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Feb 15 study W/T up on jw.org
by konceptual99 inlatest wt is up.. reinforces jesus becoming king in 1914 (no let up on that date).
marriage of the lamb to the 144,000. yawn.... yawn..... celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the photo drama of creation.
it seems to me that every 100 year anniversary shall be celebrated just to try and take the wind from the sails of apostates.. .
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AnnOMaly
Wow re the '70 weeks'! Doug Mason's going to have a field day with that LOL!
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How would you explain Adam's Calendar???
by DATA-DOG inregardless of your beliefs in the origins of life on earth, how can you explain this?
http://www.michaeltellinger.com/adams-calendar.php.
a 75,000 year-old stone calendar - in the cradle of humankind.. a new discovery of an ancient circular monolithic stone calendar site in mpumalanga has proven to be at least 75,000 years old, pre-dating any other structure found to date.
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AnnOMaly
Is there a consensus from the scientific community as to the stone circle's age? (Run out of time to browse the interwebs ftm.)
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How would you explain Adam's Calendar???
by DATA-DOG inregardless of your beliefs in the origins of life on earth, how can you explain this?
http://www.michaeltellinger.com/adams-calendar.php.
a 75,000 year-old stone calendar - in the cradle of humankind.. a new discovery of an ancient circular monolithic stone calendar site in mpumalanga has proven to be at least 75,000 years old, pre-dating any other structure found to date.
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AnnOMaly
From http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/txsa_4_adams.htm:
Michael goes further by suggesting that Adam's Calendar was constructed around 200,000 years ago as a centre of operations for the Annunaki, the alien gods of the Sumerians, known also as the Nephilim. They came here from Planet Nibiru and created humanity in order that they might work on their behalf extracting gold from the earth, which was then transported back to their home planet. Adam's Calendar was the creation of the Annunaki, as were various other stone monuments locally, as well as the various ancient stone ruins seen earlier from the air. All of them were employed in the use of gold extraction, which involved a sophisticated form of sound technology and electromagnetic energy delivery, which came from nearby water sources.
Need any more to be said on how seriously to take this?
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KM 2014-01
by WatchTower87 injanuary km 2014. .
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(wait 5 seconds press next and free download ;) ).
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AnnOMaly
Ugh. Very first page, very first paragraph, goes like, 'when will the end come? - prophets like Micah might have asked, but their preaching not in vain' because:
"In 740 B.C.E., during Micah's lifetime, Jehovah's words against Samaria was fulfilled. ... Later, Jerusalem was destroyed in the year 607 B.C.E."
Right. Bend over. Stop. Telling. Porkie. Pies!
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Sisters need a revolution
by Bugbear ini am the father of 4 beautiful girls (and two boys).
when we were in and i was an elder.
some of the toughest discussions i had to take were with my girls on the subject paul s letter to the corinthians, and the content is basically:.
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AnnOMaly
Well, none that they'll admit to
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Sisters need a revolution
by Bugbear ini am the father of 4 beautiful girls (and two boys).
when we were in and i was an elder.
some of the toughest discussions i had to take were with my girls on the subject paul s letter to the corinthians, and the content is basically:.
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AnnOMaly
why do you not take up this subject and ask “the Borg” for some “new light” here.
*Snort* Been there; done that; was fobbed off.
