on a recent thread about the fleecing of the sheeples, one poster said their congo was down to 85 publishers from 102.. the last hall i attended had 80-odd publishers 20 years ago, now only 30.. how much of a decline at your kh?.
It's funny the KH gets 50 mainstreamers every sunday and maybe 100 on Co visits etc.
We used to have 3 congregatrions here in english... now it merged to two. A third was added but is is korean and to top it off the sign on our hall was changed to Korean sign. Now only Korean people know this is a 'Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses' LOL
i have scanned daniel chapter 9 as it is rendered in english by the hebrew tanakh (masoretic text - mt) and by the greek septuagint (lxx).. http://www.jwstudies.com/daniel_9_in_mt_and_in_lxx.pdf.
read verses 24 to 27 carefully.. doug.
Ezekiel is very very debated... Some say Ezekiel lived in the 6th centuery in Babylon.. ( I do to BUT...) Many wil note for every comment he makes is 3 or 4 commentaries... some might even relate to the Hellenists. Thus the COMPLETION of Ezekiel I place in the 200s
my dad came into the jw's because someone studied the "creation" book with him.
it pains me deeply that he sent me an e-mail recently saying that to keep the peace with my mom, he will stop communicating with me as much as possible.
i should communicate with him only if i have an emergency.. it upsets me to no end, but i cannot do anything or much about it.
The lastest brochure on 'Origins of Life' uses very careful but bogus questions. Showing how complex the DNA is.... Could it happen by chance? No you %^** it couldnt! Obviously it took over a billions year to go from reproducing monomers to DNA... F***ing idiots!
the gang in brooklyn must be very busy.
the wt ranks # 29 of all pages on wiki for editing.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-100-most-edited-wikipedia-articles/.
Alot of witnesses distrust wikepedia... I mean look up 'Genesis' and see what you read. I shows Genesis is mostly 500-300BCE Jewish literture.
The WT can't have it and a normal JW mind willl put up a wall.
But the clue is that for every quote is a source which by clicking on the number reveals the quote... often by secualr sources of importance...
they key to free yourself from the organization is having mental clarity of what is happening in relation to the watchtower, inside and out.
their basic concept is that they are god's sole organization on earth.
there really is no basis for anyone to make that statement.
For me the orginization was never something to fight with.
To break free only took knowledge of evolution and archeology. Education. Real educastion is something JW kids lack.
my dad came into the jw's because someone studied the "creation" book with him.
it pains me deeply that he sent me an e-mail recently saying that to keep the peace with my mom, he will stop communicating with me as much as possible.
i should communicate with him only if i have an emergency.. it upsets me to no end, but i cannot do anything or much about it.
To clarify I have heard the same exact arguments fro the creation book in Kent Hovind's videos (which are comedy lol)
This means they used the same creationist source. The WT was using creationist propoganda when they made the creation book.
To top it off the editor who inserted comments (Franz?) was extremly uneducated because he felt natural selction = chance. Dawkins debunks this publication in his book "The God Delution"
i have scanned daniel chapter 9 as it is rendered in english by the hebrew tanakh (masoretic text - mt) and by the greek septuagint (lxx).. http://www.jwstudies.com/daniel_9_in_mt_and_in_lxx.pdf.
read verses 24 to 27 carefully.. doug.
This of course is refering to a time around 160s BCE ... important to know
just saying , my 2 cents worth .
if they have an agenda it will be revealed in a short time , let them play it out .. however , some genuine first posters can be put off by somebody jumping the gun and attacking them .. please give the first posters time to get to know this site.. smiddy.
Some here might get the idea that i'm promoting my channel on youtube or my book im writing. Not true. I post here because from observation most people here are decent and have been wronged by LIARS. We can mostly agree the WT are liars even if you still belive in God.
I post more bible stuff because not many others do if any... I want people to think...
i think we are already living in the age where there can be no new religions.
we have access to information like never before and anyone claiming revelations of something new and starting a whole new religion can easily be discredited.. christianity and islam may continue to subdivide but i think we've pretty much seen the end of anything new in terms of a new belief system.. .
what are your thoughts on this?.
Prince Phillip is worshipped by a cargo cult... cargo cults will dissapear!
i think we are already living in the age where there can be no new religions.
we have access to information like never before and anyone claiming revelations of something new and starting a whole new religion can easily be discredited.. christianity and islam may continue to subdivide but i think we've pretty much seen the end of anything new in terms of a new belief system.. .
what are your thoughts on this?.
Hell no.
Kopimism is a very new religion for instance
There are many MANY new religons however they end to be either:
Gnostic
Spritual
Pagan revised
Universalism
Christianity is on the way down because not as many new age christian based religions have started in the last ten years.
