Posts by berrygerry

i told her that i refuse to accept the term apostate because its a lazy way for the wts to not deal with dissenters and address why people are leaving this organization in droves.

berrygerry

How about adding: sitive ?

APoSitiveState

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Watchtower circulation jumps up!

by factfinder in

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the jan. 1, 2015 w shows an updated printing of 52,946,000 copies each issue in 228 languages.. this is an increase of 7,002,000 copies per issue over last year, this is the biggest increase i have seen in the printing of the w per issue for any one year.

thus, including the study edition over 70 million copies of the w are now being printed each month.. .

i wonder if awake!

berrygerry

So, an 11.5% increase within a year.

So, logically, there should be a corresponding increase in members, from 8,000,000 to some 8,920,000 within a year.

Guess time will tell.

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Let's All Volunteer for the Warwick Project!!!

by pronomono in

ok, not really.. but the rbc is spamming my email trying to get my volunteer information.

it all seems kind of hokey.

it comes from some unofficial gmail account that i've never seen and telling me to go to a generic form website to enter in my personal information.

berrygerry

This communication could be unique to you.

Unique to your cong.

The elder or MS doing this chore has created that particular gmail - not the branch.

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Did CT Russell use the term "Light" in his ministry?

by FFtruther144 in

i mean it in the sense of: "light" = "truth" = "knowledge".

as the wtbts uses it in "we have received 'new light'...".

if anyone knows of one or two specific instances, and maybe where they can be found, i would appreciate it.. blondie?

berrygerry

If we were following a man undoubtedly it would be

different with us; undoubtedly one human idea

would contradict another and that which was light

one or two or six years ago would be regarded as

darkness now: But with God there is no

variableness, neither shadow of turning, and so it is

with truth; any knowledge or light coming from

God must be like its author. A new view of truth

never can contradict a former truth. "New light"

never extinguishes older "light," but adds to it. If

you were lighting up a building containing seven

gas jets you would not extinguish one every time

you lighted another, but would add one light to

another and they would be in harmony and thus give

increase of light: So is it with the light of truth; the

true increase is by adding to, not by substituting one

for another.

(Zion's Watch Tower February 1881 WTR p. 188)

What a quote.

Thank you.

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Anthony Morris III delivers judgement on Branch at Annual Meeting

by Listener in

this is part of the speech that anthony morris iii gave during his time in the limelight at the 2014 annual meeting.. at 3.16.32 of the recorded meeting.

"what role do those with an earthly hope play?

oh oh ho veeeery important role, very important.