Posts by tepidpoultry

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Data for Partakers from 1935-2016. Latest number wasn´t this high since 1954!
by ILoveTTATT2 in
1. jw
2. friends
i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.

this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.

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tepidpoultry

Matzah's great with butter and jam, think they'd let me bring my own
If I was nice?
Body of our Lord with butter and jam
Oh probably not
Have to wait till we get home
Like with the wine
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Who is Gog/Magog?
by Cold Steel in
1. watchtower
2. bible
ezekiel spends two chapters (38-39) describing a war that either will never take place, or which has yet to take place.

according to the prophecy, the warlord gog, of magog, will 1) sweep down on israel, covering the land like a cloud.

this will happen in 2) the latter years when israel will 3) be a people “gathered out of many nations” and peoples.
tepidpoultry

My spell checker keeps telling me that what you REALLY
want to know about is
Goggles of Magog
Your choice I suppose,
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Who is Gog/Magog?
by Cold Steel in
1. watchtower
2. bible
ezekiel spends two chapters (38-39) describing a war that either will never take place, or which has yet to take place.

according to the prophecy, the warlord gog, of magog, will 1) sweep down on israel, covering the land like a cloud.

this will happen in 2) the latter years when israel will 3) be a people “gathered out of many nations” and peoples.
tepidpoultry

I would tell you all about "attack of gog of magog" but now that would
just be too painful
:(
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Who is Gog/Magog?
by Cold Steel in
1. watchtower
2. bible
ezekiel spends two chapters (38-39) describing a war that either will never take place, or which has yet to take place.

according to the prophecy, the warlord gog, of magog, will 1) sweep down on israel, covering the land like a cloud.

this will happen in 2) the latter years when israel will 3) be a people “gathered out of many nations” and peoples.
tepidpoultry

Ok I'm going to break with tradition THIS ONE TIME
and pause my trademark snark
Long story short
Satan the Devil
Ref Ezekiel Book "The Nations Shall Know Blah Blah"
(Theyve probably burned them all as per incriminating stupid information
contained therein)
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An Obvious Omission in the J.W.'s Good News!
by The Searcher in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
as baptized or unbaptised witnesses, no one ever discussed or even mentioned (at least in my jw experience) this topic: .

"we are preaching about the good news of the kingdom.

why do we preach about only one hope - living on earth?
tepidpoultry

Um "we are preaching the good news of the kingdom"
Did you actually say this at the door?
I was always trying to figure how Matt 24:14 was going to be preached
When would what we said was anything but lol
Almost always some WT/AW cover article as rehearsed at the service
meeting,
Sigh
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The reality we must face.
by The Rebel in
1. jw
2. friends
my dearest dad is 90 years old today.

we are far away, separated by geography, but never will i allow an organisation that indoctrinated false love separate me from my dear dad.

i love my dad and we had our differences but never will i allow that organisation take away my love for my dad.. happy bithday dad.
tepidpoultry

I hear you Rebel
A principle reason I faded
Which wasn't easy
Was to stay in contact with my 85 yr old mother
Best wishes
Peace
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NWT cross references
by Steel in
1. watchtower
2. bible
lately i have been really interested in the idea of who jesus was in the in old testament.

i have reading an author named michael heiser who generally believes anytime there was a physical manifestion of god in the old testament it was a pre incarnation of jesus christ.. i was reading the first chapter of jeremiah there is a figure called " the word of jehovah appears ".

this actually happens in a number of places in the old testament.
tepidpoultry

There is no academic consensus on the existence of Jesus Christ,
Reference: "On the Historicity of Jesus" -Richard Carrier Phd
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"Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
by pale.emperor in
1. watchtower
2. bible
now that im not longer a jw this verse puzzles me.

being born and raised a witness, this verse confirmed to me that jesus was talking about a paradise on earth.

but now that everything the witnesses taught is 99.99% incorrect can somone explain what he was getting at here?
tepidpoultry
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Reaching the most distant parts - Geoffrey Jackson praising Bible translators and missionaries as "faithful ones" or even "anointed ones"
by TheWonderofYou in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
after we heard some time ago that before the time of russel there was no "faitful slave" or no anointed ones who formed a faitful slave class, now we learn that we dont know if before russel there were not "faitful ones" or "anointed".

indeed jackson says that we know the bible teaches that throughout the history there would be a large number of "sons of the kingdom" ..or anointed ones.. beginning from this month in several projects including a film about christian bible translators who gave an example of "faithfulness" and "discretness" in translating the bible, the christian bibletranslators and missionionaries who used "jehovah" by the way are receiving ultimate praise of the governing body, in the first place at the moment is shown the video about tyndale, wo so is very much supposedly a "faithful one" and perhaps even "anointed" because he loved the bible.. jackson says that those early missionaries of the christendom already "preached the message" before russell.

january broadcast.
tepidpoultry

Is this the man who testified are ARC?
Mr Jackson with all due respect is not playing with a full deck
I could spend my time listening to his broadcasts
Like my elderly shut in mother who needs her daily fix of religion
Or I can actually try to preserve my remaining brain cells
Considering something of consequence,
Some of us are trying to distance ourselves from these quacks
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"Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
by pale.emperor in
1. watchtower
2. bible
now that im not longer a jw this verse puzzles me.

being born and raised a witness, this verse confirmed to me that jesus was talking about a paradise on earth.

but now that everything the witnesses taught is 99.99% incorrect can somone explain what he was getting at here?
tepidpoultry

If you research this you should find this updated (many years ago)
"understanding"
Who was Jesus talking to here?
Those with the "heavenly" Hope
He meant "inherit" in the sense that his listeners would rule over the Earth
Its all interpretation
And can change from one minute to the next,
Fun eh?
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