Esse quam videri

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  Bethel should be considered bad

  by dbq407 in

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  from what i was told, we don't celebrate birthdays because the only two times it is mentioned in the bible, bad things happened.

  so if the wt wants to set standards by the "two bad things" rule, then why do they use the name bethel?

  i've read two instances in the bible where bad things happened there.

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  " Dogs are mentioned 27 times in the Bible..."

  Does the Bible ever mention CATS? If not, WHY NOT? Mmmmm?

  Makes you think.
  
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  Article: "Thousands Stranded In Greek Border Camp Have Nowhere To Go" (Guess who shows up daily at the camp?)

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/greece-refugee-camp-border_56707278e4b0fccee1703e8f.

  this is what it states in the middle of the article:.

  "around the idomeni camp, canteens have mushroomed to sell food to the refugees.

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  Esse quam videri

  " Keep warm and well fed...oh, and here is a magazine to read while you enjoy your travels. Now, off you go."
  
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  "And Your Little Dog Too...." WTS not content with taking kids' ice cream money, now they want them to give up their puppy dogs too.

  by sir82 in

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  2. bible

  don't know if anyone else caught this subtle but malicious photo from the 12/13/15 wt study article.. not sure how to post pictures here, but the photo is on the website's copy of the article, just below paragraph 12:.

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20151015/give-us-more-faith/.

  note the 3 pictures in sequence tell a "story":.

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  The dog does look worried. However he may have been thinking, " Please leave me at the SPCA and don't take me to some rat hole, god forsaken country."
  
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  Should JWs perform immigration screening for jihadiis ?

  by gone for good in

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  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witlesses worship and serve the same desert god as do all the worlds jihadists.

  both these groups experience the same giddy delight contemplating the worldwide annihilation of infidels .

  jihadists and jw's share the same wet dream of theocracy - the idea that public governance is best left to an invisible genocidal, misogynistic homophobic, sadistic, megalomaniacal bully...and his (male) earthly imitators.. jw's and jihadiis both covet their delusion of imagining themselves as the sole survivors of a global bloodbath - think of the stupendous irony there!.

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  Trump would want to kick both of them out.

  How about jihadiis placed at street corners. They could be used to identify JW's calling door-to-door. Supplied with a whistle they could blow a warning and everyone on the street could hide behind curtains and sofas. When they have passed by the block the jihadiis at the other end of the street could blow a whistle indicating 'all clear'.
  
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  Do you know any JW who has ever done this?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  jesus had much to say about the kind of giving his followers should practice.

  for example, the following:matt 6:3 '...but when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing...'.

  matt 10:8 '... freely you have received; freely give...'.

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  Jesus had much to say about the kind of giving his followers should practice.

  For example, the following:
  Matt 6:3 '...But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing...'

  Matt 10:8 '... Freely you have received; freely give...'
  

  However, he gave more specific instructions in Luke 14: 12-14.
  

  Luke 14:12 ... “When you spread a dinner or an evening meal, do not call your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors. Otherwise, they might also invite you in return, and it would become a repayment to you. 13 But when you spread a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;+ 14 and you will be happy, because they have nothing with which to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection+ of the righteous ones.”

  Do you know of any time any JW's have done this or been encouraged to do this? Ever?
  
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  Want to get wealthy?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  line up all the elders in the world.

  as they pass by give each elder who can explain the 'overlapping generations' ten dollars.

  each elder that cannot explain the 'overlapping generations' has to give you one dollar.

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  Esse quam videri

  Okay, obviously this is tongue in cheek.

  However, in answer to your question, I decide. It's my topic.

  Maybe we make it a little tougher and tell them to explain it without using Fred Franz in their answer.
  
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  Want to get wealthy?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  line up all the elders in the world.

  as they pass by give each elder who can explain the 'overlapping generations' ten dollars.

  each elder that cannot explain the 'overlapping generations' has to give you one dollar.

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  Line up all the elders in the world. As they pass by give each elder who can explain the 'overlapping generations' ten dollars. Each elder that cannot explain the 'overlapping generations' has to give you one dollar. When the line is finished you will be wealthy.
  
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  the Remnant

  by Esse quam videri in

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  2. beliefs

  when was the last time anyone recalls hearing the word 'remnant', in meetings or conversation?

  is it something still discussed?

  [i haven't attended in 20 years, so no idea].

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  Esse quam videri

  Thanks blondie.
  
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  the Remnant

  by Esse quam videri in

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  when was the last time anyone recalls hearing the word 'remnant', in meetings or conversation?

  is it something still discussed?

  [i haven't attended in 20 years, so no idea].

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  Esse quam videri

  When was the last time anyone recalls hearing the word 'remnant', in meetings or conversation? Is it something still discussed? [I haven't attended in 20 years, so no idea]
  

  When I was young we had one of the 'remnant' in our congregation in Burnaby, B.C. When I was 15 my mother asked me to temporary pioneer [or was it vacation pioneer?] for a summer, to encourage Br. Harold Franske, one of the 'remnant'. I went in service with him just about everyday. [ The only thing I can remember from that summer was him showing me how a good janitor puts a curve in a broom handle, over time, by bearing down hard. "That's how you really clean a floor. Pushing hard on the handle. That makes the broom head sweep better." He had a janitor business. He showed me the broom handles in his work van. They had curves in the handles.
  

  Anyway, I would come home and think, " Wow! He's one of the 'remnant'. I'm working with one of the 'remnant'."

  I can just imagine Governing Body member Mark Sanderson speaking with awe about the 'remnant' when he was younger. Now he are one. Must take the awe away when you are one yourself. Especially working with the likes of Morris lll and Lett.
  
  
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  Interview by Priest George Maximov with XJW Artem Grigoryan who was a volunteer at the Russian "Bethel" for 4.5 years. Here's what he said:

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  top of formhttp://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/78966.htm.

  jehovahs witnesses do not need a search for the truth.

  artem grigoryan.

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  Esse quam videri

  Is he back to blessing Easter cakes?