Posts by neat blue dog

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Alternate Jobs for the Governing Body..

by DATA-DOG in

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i’m not sure if this is in the right topic area or not, but sometimes i wonder:.

if it were not for “religion”, what would the current gb do for a living??.

my speculations:.

Beards in the WT: Africa too

by neat blue dog in

as many know, african languages have for decades been given their own alternate cover with black people.

their cover for the 2020 wt#3 also includes a bearded man.

this can not be a coincidence.

neat blue dog

That different covers exist, is not common knowledge.

I assumed most knew, because it's been part of the tours at Bethel for decades and I think was also in the organization video.

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Beards in the WT: Africa too

by neat blue dog in

as many know, african languages have for decades been given their own alternate cover with black people.

their cover for the 2020 wt#3 also includes a bearded man.

this can not be a coincidence.

neat blue dog

As many know, African languages have for decades been given their own alternate cover with black people. Their cover for the 2020 WT#3 ALSO includes a bearded man. This can not be a coincidence.

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Breaking: Beards in The Watchtower

by neat blue dog in

the latest issue of the watchtower shows a man with a beard praying.. .

i fully expected to see him 'progress' to clean-shaven in the following pictures, but instead he is still bearded when 'applying bible principles'.. .

i then realized that he was already featured on the cover itself.. .

neat blue dog

we have to stop living in the past . . . the WTS used to have an issue with beards. . . . But things have moved on. . . . Nowadays a neat beard is perfectly acceptable

I don't know about that. JWs with beards exist as a very small percentage, but in most of the world they are viewed as not being in good standing, and even in the rare cases they are you don't see them in the publications . . . At least not yet.

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Breaking: Beards in The Watchtower

by neat blue dog in

the latest issue of the watchtower shows a man with a beard praying.. .

i fully expected to see him 'progress' to clean-shaven in the following pictures, but instead he is still bearded when 'applying bible principles'.. .

i then realized that he was already featured on the cover itself.. .

neat blue dog

By the way GB member Van Ambergh had a beard up until his death about 1947.

He was the last part of the overlapping beard generation, hence the only reason he was tolerated by Rutherford.

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Breaking: Beards in The Watchtower

by neat blue dog in

the latest issue of the watchtower shows a man with a beard praying.. .

i fully expected to see him 'progress' to clean-shaven in the following pictures, but instead he is still bearded when 'applying bible principles'.. .

i then realized that he was already featured on the cover itself.. .

neat blue dog

The latest issue of The Watchtower shows a man with a beard praying.

I fully expected to see him 'progress' to clean-shaven in the following pictures, but instead he is still bearded when 'applying Bible principles'.

I then realized that he was already featured on the cover itself.

Another man with a scruffy beard is shown in another illustration, and not in a negative light.

And then there's the big ones. I believe the following paintings are the first time in Watchtower history that a bearded person who is NOT a Bible character is shown in paradise.

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Anyone know of a safe downloader for movies on youtube?

by Maralee in

save from shut down and youtube to mp3 will not download anything over an hour.

i don't care if it is free or you pay for the downloader.

thanks maralee.

neat blue dog

For Android the TubeMate app is widely used, trusted and regularly updated. No limits on time, resolution or frame rate.

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In Grand Assembly (1988) pro-JW film

by neat blue dog in

has anybody heard of this movie?.

it's so obviously made by a jw under the pretense of being neutral but the gushing is ridiculous.. there's a clip from it here:.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=898735346978554&id=241479099370852&anchor_reactions=true.

neat blue dog

Has anybody heard of this movie?

It's so obviously made by a JW under the pretense of being neutral but the gushing is ridiculous.

There's a clip from it here:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=898735346978554&id=241479099370852&anchor_reactions=true

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Looking for suggestions, I'm being called on by a JW

by Tameria2001 in

just before the pandemic affected my area, a couple of jws came to my door.

this was the first time i didn't tell them to hit the road but instead had a pleasant conversation with them.

i never revealed that i am a former jw, nor do i ever want the jws in my area to know that i was ever one.

neat blue dog

I was thinking about mentioning the pandemic of the early 1900s (Spanish Flu). The total slaughter of people during the 1930s and 1940s; Germany and the Jews and others they consider undesirables, Japan and the Chinese people, Russia and their own citizens, just to name a few.

Trust me this isn't a good idea. All that will do is confirm in her mind that we're living in the last days, because that's when they all took place.

P.S.

Even if you personally don't believe in the Bible, jumping all the way to skepticism probably won't be good as that would just raise their defenses to everything you say.

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Craziest thing you ever saw in a KH?

by dubstepped in

i did this in my facebook group for my podcast and it was fun.. so what's the craziest thing you ever saw?.

for me it was watching a brother have a heart attack during the meeting in the auditorium.

i was a kid and noticed him shaking and acting strange.

neat blue dog

A father pulling down his son's pants to spank his bare bottom in the back of the Hall, in front of others.