Posts by berrygerry

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I've been invited to go on a habitat for humanity build

by hoser in

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i've been invited to go to central america for a week on a global village project.

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are there any possible issues that the congregation might have with me doing this?.

WTS Sales Force

by berrygerry in

interesting letter from the boe collection recently posted.. i had never seen the blatantness of it being a book-selling business as in this letter.. http://imgur.com/kpc2hys.

berrygerry

Interesting letter from the BOE collection recently posted.

I had never seen the blatantness of it being a book-selling business as in this letter.

http://imgur.com/kpC2HYs

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Jw Business Cards??? Really???

by Nosferatu in

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i got one from my mother.

when the hell did they start doing this???.

i'm guessing this is the way they're going to do it eventually.

berrygerry

I'm thinking of getting some made with a jwfacts qr code and replacing the ones behind the literature counter.

You mean something like this (never thought of putting a QR code on. Will do with the next batch)

http://www.vistaprint.ca/lp/business-cards-next-gen-no-nav-3.aspx?couponAutoload=1&GP=2%2f27%2f2015+7%3a46%3a40+PM&GPS=3443893309&GNF=1

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JWs and the making of many books

by Magnum in

ecc 12:12 - "to the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion [to them] is wearisome to the flesh.".

i just never could keep up with all the jw reading material.

as a zealous jw, it was my desire to read every word published by the org, but i just couldn't do it.

berrygerry

Then the final insult was the absolute dumbing down of all material that followed. The Watchtower now is an absolute joke. What isnt written at the level of a small child is just copy/paste from other literature with a "the" taken out or a "as we see" inserted.

If you analyze the growth in the past, it came from people that were familiar with the Bible.

All of the new growth is from lands extremely unfamiliar with the Bible, and with economic uncertainty or stress - hence, the simple desire to see everything end, and the new world to begin.

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"To Verdener" (World's Apart) with English subtitles ---- download

by inkling in

as far as i know, the excellent danish film "to verdener" .

("worlds apart") is still not available for purchase on.

dvd in the us.. (anyone know otherwise?).

berrygerry

Borrowed this DVD from the local library.

VERY well done.

Anyone who has been DF'd or has a DF'd relative will be moved by this movie, as will normal humans.

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Wife is FOR SURE waking up

by cappytan in

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well, this is a new development.

she broached the subject of ttatt tonight.

said i was right about the flood.

The new doomsday mag

by Jonathan Drake in

so i just took a look at this and here is the dilemma:.

where does the bible say that the world will be so literally destroyed like that?.

1. i believe one may think of the verse in zechariah or zephaniah about the dead to your right and left- however was regarding jerusalem.. 2. peter speaks of a new heavens and earth where the elements being intensely hot will melt.

berrygerry

Contrast picture on page 3 with heading on page 4 -

"3. THE END IS NOT TRIGGERED BY HUMANS OR
BY DEBRIS HURTLING THROUGH SPACE."

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Do you feel bad throwing away literature?

by stuckinarut2 in

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so do you feel bad throwing away your old literature?.

what about your old song book or bible from your early days in the org?.

if so, is it because of sentimentality, monetary cost or because it might be 'sacred' ?.

berrygerry

I always kept placement magazines - at one point had probably 5 feet of them. It was always hard to know what to do with them

Some were simply unplaceable, even when mix and matching a placeable Awake with an unplaceable WT, etc.

Eventually, they all went to recycling.

My only regret is that I distinctly remember having a number ( 5 - 7 ) of the Jan. 1, 1989 WT's.

Would love to have kept those babies.

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Has Anyone Read This Book?

by berrygerry in

stumbled upon this book on ebay.

anyone read it?.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/jehovahs-witnesses-and-the-united-nations-how-the-watchtower-society-fooled-mi-/381046838260?pt=lh_defaultdomain_71&hash=item58b82953f4.

berrygerry

Sept 8, 1991

(Contrast those articles with Revelation Climax page 248:

"8 The UN does not have the answers. And why? Because the Giver of life to all mankind is not the UN’s life-giver. Its life span will be short, for according to God’s decree, “it is to go off into destruction.” The UN’s founders and admirers do not have their names recorded in God’s scroll of life. How could sinful, mortal men, many of whom mock God’s name, achieve through the UN what Jehovah God has declared he is about to accomplish, not by human means, but through the Kingdom of his Christ?—Daniel 7:27; Revelation 11:15.
9 The UN is actually a blasphemous counterfeit of God’s Messianic Kingdom by his Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ—to whose princely rule there will be no end. (Isaiah 9:6, 7) Even if the UN were to patch up some temporary peace, wars would soon erupt again. This is in the nature of sinful men. “Their names have not been written upon the scroll of life from the founding of the world.” Jehovah’s Kingdom by Christ will not only establish eternal peace on earth but, on the basis of Jesus’ ransom sacrifice, raise the dead, the righteous and the unrighteous who are in God’s memory. (John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15) This includes everyone who has remained steadfast despite the attacks of Satan and his seed, and others who have yet to show themselves obedient. Obviously, God’s scroll of life will never contain the names of die-hard adherents of Babylon the Great or of any who continued to worship the wild beast.—Exodus 32:33; Psalm 86:8-10; John 17:3; Revelation 16:2; 17:5." )

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Has Anyone Read This Book?

by berrygerry in

stumbled upon this book on ebay.

anyone read it?.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/jehovahs-witnesses-and-the-united-nations-how-the-watchtower-society-fooled-mi-/381046838260?pt=lh_defaultdomain_71&hash=item58b82953f4.

berrygerry

Not sure if this has been pointed out before, but just skimmed through the ambiguous article in the 1991 Awake that WTS used to ensure its admittance as an NGO.

I cannot recall any other time when a series of 3 articles did not contain ONE SINGLE scripture.