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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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  I guess that would include the flightless Dodo bird found only on the island of Mauritius.

  It’s surprising how many examples of flightless birds there are (were, most now extinct) that are found around the world.
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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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  dothemath

  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? Of the kangaroos some how make it to Australia?
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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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  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. (Canada)

  Now I’m told even during the co visit it was somewhat of a colder day, so all the ministry is on zoom!

  Things have sure changed, especially with only 15 hours needed to pioneer.

  I guess that means we must be so close to the end!

  Curious if any others recall “evening witnessing”?
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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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  They emphasize proper pronunciation far more than actually learning anything.
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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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  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. For him, this wording suggested a period of 1,260 days (a number seemingly used elsewhere in the Bible), which he adapted to mean 1,260 years for his purposes. With that decided, he had another pressing question to answer: The world would end 1,260 years from when?

  
  

  Newton wrote (per Ancient Code) that A.D. 800 (the year Charlemagne created the Holy Roman Empire) would be a perfect year to begin counting from. Using 1,260 years gives us an end date of, yes, 2060.

  
  

  So now we know! Interested to hear your thoughts.
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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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  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

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  2. friends

  a thread in honour of our departed friend minimus.

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  He was a remarkable person, with such a variety of interests. Certainly will be missed.
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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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  Some of these court cases have been reported on in very prominent newspapers. I recall some of the verdicts (multi-million dollar lawsuits) being printed in the New York Times.

  I think the Candace Conti case made the news in well-known California newspapers.

  If they were all wrong, the wt would no doubt sue them for huge sums of money.
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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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  • 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)
  • The wife just sat in on the CO visit recently, and he gave the stat about 241992 people baptized in 2020.
  • That equals about 661 people per day on average. (Admittedly that’s a co-vid year, might be an anomaly) (also divided for a leap year)
  • Realistically though, I think it’s going to stay on the downward trend.
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  Sound Familiar (Repression is the same in all cults, I suppose)

  by Terry in

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  2. scandals

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  dothemath

  I watched the Leah Remini specials on scientology, and was surprised at the levels they were willing to go to against any opposition.

  Even worse than witnesses.