Topics Started by AnnOMaly

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PART DEUX: AN ALTERNATIVE CONVERSATION WITH A NEIGHBOR - Watchtower, November 2014
by AnnOMaly in
1. social
2. humour
the second contrived and unrealistic conversation that one of jehovahs witnesses imagined having with a neighbor in the november 2014 watchtower will not be reproduced here.

instead let us imagine the other witness named andre (sorry, i meant) cameron has returned to the home of the other man also named jon.. nebuchadnezzars dream a tortuous recapcameron: hi there, neighbor!.

jon: whoa!
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AN ALTERNATIVE CONVERSATION WITH A NEIGHBOR - Watchtower, October 2014
by AnnOMaly in
1. social
2. humour
the contrived and unrealistic conversation that one of jehovahs witnesses imagined having with a neighbor in the october 2014 watchtower will not be reproduced here.

instead let us imagine another conversation another witness named andre (ahem, sorry) cameron has at the home of another man who is also named jon.keep searching for a suckercameron: jon, ive really enjoyed the regular discussions weve been having about the bible.

* the last time we spoke, you raised a question about gods kingdom.
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IC 2014 talk: "A Century of Kingdom Rule Contrasted With a Century of Satans Rule"
by AnnOMaly in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a discussion of this talk on friday morning deserves its own thread.

as i said elsewhere, it was a remarkable one.

the speaker was manfred vencebi (google him - he's a bethel bigwig) and some of his remarks are real gems.
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Memorial 2014: Wrong date?
by AnnOMaly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this was meant to have nice inserted pictures and tidy hyperlinks but the forum's being glitchy today.

so unfortunately it's going to be a messy post where you're going to have to exercise your tapping fingers and click on the links to the pics to see what i'm referring to.

sorry about that.. in the article recently studied "do this in remembrance of me" (w13 12/15), there is a box on p. 23 giving the date of this year's memorial and how that date is arrived at.. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013926.
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WT 2013, July 15: Random thoughts and background info FWIW
by AnnOMaly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
will occur when the united nations (the.

tribulation.. chart, p. 4 - united nations (disgusting thing) will attack.

well, they believe in some kind of rapture now.. par.
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New book - "Journey to Gods House" by Brock Talon
by AnnOMaly in
1. jw
2. experiences
this thread's in tandem with clarity's started here in the members only section.. remember the jwn poster livingthedream from 2 years ago?

his threads often had me in stitches and he had a real knack of hooking you into the story so that you kept reading.

who of us could forget the account of the booming voice of 'god' ordering a double chocolate chip ice cream?
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New Sparlock (TM) action figure collectibles? Ideas.
by AnnOMaly in
1. jw
2. friends
sparlocktm can't be on his own.

he needs some wizardy comrades, right?

sherlock - the logical one with an inbuilt bs meter;.
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New DVD 2012 - Walk By Faith, Not By Sight
by AnnOMaly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it only takes a couple of minutes to download.

the video quality isn't that great at times, but let see how this goes .... http://www.sendspace.com/file/gk744d.

it will suffice until someone puts up a better one.. .
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Ephraim Stern in the previous edition. Now Abba Hillel Silver - July 2012 Awake!
by AnnOMaly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
p.24.. prophecy 3: "from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild jerusalem until messiah the leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks.

"-daniel 9:25.. fulfillment: the period of time specified in daniel's prophecy amounts to 69 units of 7 years each, or 483 years.

the rebuilding of jerusalem began in 455 b.c.e.
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VAT 4956 - Comparison Of The Lunar Three Time Intervals For Years 568/7 BCE and 588/7 BCE
by AnnOMaly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
vat 4956 - comparison of the lunar three time intervals for years 568/7 b.c.e.

the online sky view cafe (svc) and the cartes du ciel* (cdc) astronomy programs have been used for these results.. observer's location: babylon, 32 33' n / 44 24' e.. sr = sunrise; ss = sunset; mr = moonrise; ms = moonset.. .

svc's range of difference between its results and that of the text, when a time interval could be taken, is 1.75 to 6.5. average difference 3.5.. cdc's range of difference between its results and that of the text, when a time interval could be taken, is 0.75 to 8.5. average difference 4. .