Topics Started by dothemath

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Noah + new understanding
by dothemath in
1. watchtower
2. bible
so they mentioned noah couldn’t have preached to all the population back before the flood.

do you think they might start using common sense regarding not being able to get every animal type on the ark from the whole world?.

maybe the poor sloth from south america didn’t have to crawl all the way?
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Hour requirements
by dothemath in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i recall having to go in the ministry, not just saturday but strongly encouraged to go out sunday after the meeting.

then they had the lame idea to organize evening witnessing, or maybe before the midweek book study.

it could be minus 40 and there would still be a group organized.
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Elders are no longer teachers
by eyeslice in
1. jw
2. friends
back in the day when i was a young witness lad, you very much got the impression that at least the training as theocratic teachers was good.. even the bible reading back then had a short introduction and conclusion.

you had to research and prepare your own ministry school talks and then perhaps you would graduate to a half of a 55 minute public talk.

then later if you were a book study conductor, you got to decide which scriptures to read and highlight.
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Newtons prediction for end of the world
by dothemath in
1. watchtower
2. bible
maybe this man (sir isaac newton), has more credibility than fred franz in picking a date for armageddon ?.

interestingly, newton(brilliant mathematician, everyone must know him) was very interested in the bible and revelation .. .

what newton tried to do was determine a particular timescale for the apocalypse.
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Beards- just told by an elder
by dothemath in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i know this subject has been talked about lots over the years, just thought i would share a recent finding from canada.. while visiting with a group of friends, an elder (don’t recall how the subject came up) mentioned the local body had voted to allow brothers with beards be allowed to give talks from the platform.

(it was a very close vote).

the direction given was for each congregation to decide for themselves if that is now acceptable.. so some congregations will be for, and for many it will not.. it’ll probably be a long time before we see any pictures on the watchtower where they’re allowing this though..
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Will there be enough good questions on JWD now that minimus is gone?
by slimboyfat in
1. jw
2. friends
a thread in honour of our departed friend minimus.

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Don’t Trust the Courts! Splane’s Latest Anti-Apostate Talk
by StephaneLaliberte in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
david splane’s talk “put up a hard fight for the faith” was that last talk presented on the saturday of the annual convention.

this talk was to largely address apostates and restated ideas and arguments often presented before.

however, this year, watchtower is spending more time in disqualifying negative findings originating from secular courts and here is the segment of interest here: .
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Statistics not looking good
by dothemath in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
statistics have always been huge for the borg.

a couple of decades ago there were about 1200 people baptized every day as witnesses (on average).. a few years ago the co was glowing about 800 ones baptized per day.

he didn’t mention this was actually a big drop).
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Sound Familiar (Repression is the same in all cults, I suppose)
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
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Are You Satisfied To Let The Government Take Care of You?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
some people want limited government involvement in their lives.

the less government, the happier they are.

others feel there’s not enough government intervention.