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Audio watertowers / Awakes to go online (MP3)

by dozy in

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bethel confirmation that from 2008 anyone can download the jw & public editions of the wt online in audio from the jw website.

lots of jws already get the tapes or cds from the cong - now the encouragement is that they will download them from the net.

mp3 & other formats will be available.

Neo

Bethel confirmation that from 2008 anyone can download the JW & public editions of the WT online in audio from the JW website.
Lots of JWs already get the tapes or CDs from the cong - now the encouragement is that they will download them from the Net. MP3 & other formats will be available. Could this be another step towards the printed editions being published online

This is BIG NEWS. When I first heard of this audio edition download, I thought it would be limited-access only. But now anyone will be able to listen to the "JW" Watchtower.

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Confirmed! Watchtower Feb 15 08 brings the "generation" change

by observador in

friends,.

i just confirmed the "generation" change from another forum in portuguese.

the following is the text in portuguese:.

Neo

Ha! The excuse they make up to support a different meaning of "this generation" in the Olivet Discourse is that he was speaking to only four people, his disciples, "privately. (Mat 24:3)"

They also look for a way to connect it to the context:

(Matthew 24:32-34) 32 “Now learn from the fig tree as an illustration this point: Just as soon as its young branch grows tender and it puts forth leaves, YOU know that summer is near. 33 Likewise also YOU, when YOU see all these things, know that he is near at the doors. 34 Truly I say to YOU that this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur.

They try to establish a parallel between 'You/all these things' in verse 33 and 'this generation/all these things' in verse 34. Thus, "this generation" in the context of Matthew 24 would have a different meaning from all the other "generation" verses that speak otherwise. "This generation" in the Olivet Discourse would be his 'annointed disciples', who can discern his "presence."

Neo

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Exciting announcements at service meeting

by truthseeker in

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we've already had a post on this, but there were other interesting comments.. the brother giving the announcements said that there would be a new understanding of jesus' reference to the generation as discussed at the annual meeting.. an elder giving a service meeting part review of different watchtower articles from the current year brought out the new light concerning 1935.. he asks: "when is the sealing of the anounted ones?".

elder answers: "there is no specific date".

later after the meeting, i asked an elder if the new understanding of the remnant now meant that younger people could go to heaven.. he answered with an affirmative "yes" and that we would be getting the new understanding of the generation jesus spoke of in a future 2008 watchtower.. .

Neo

Can anyone post the original thread about the new "generation = the annointed" teaching mentioned in the last annual meeting?

Thanks!

Neo

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OKM 09/07 (english)- Just another brick in the wall...

by metaspy in

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ok guys and gals, i (being the assistant to the magazine counter) have acquired the newest okm.. i have uploaded it to imagevenue.com: here.

hopefully that works!.

by the way drew, your translation was very close.

Neo

Another fairly recent change just came to mind to add to the list I made before of all the puzzling recent changes, and that is that you no longer need to write a letter to disassociate yourself, just by not being irregular at meetings or service they have the right to call you disassociated.

Lady Liberty,

Do have any hard proof of that? It is the first time I hear anything about that. Did they send a letter or something?

Neo

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If All Goes Well, I'll Be A Grandfather Today!

by minimus in

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and to think, it'll be the day after my birthday!

my daughter is being induced as we speak.

wish her luck!

Neo

Congratulations, Pappinimus!!

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JWs, Higher Education and Misrepresentation by Barb Anderson

by Dogpatch in

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jehovahs witnesses, higher education and misrepresentation.

footnotes and appendices and full article at:.

http://www.freeminds.org/doctrine/education_anderson.htm.

Neo

Great essay!

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Report on Todays special talk

by stillajwexelder in

ok - so special talk today - you can feel safe in a troubled world.

15 minutes devoted to to how bad things are.

iraq and usa were headlined and 1914 was mentioned > 20 times.

Neo

The WT can't even manage its own body of doctrine. They forget what they have published. The author of the talk outline and those who revised it simply forgot the 2002 change! The "increase in number of earthquakes" teaching was so harped during many decades that in the Writing Dep some people just can't remember that slight change a couple of years ago. It was included in the outline and nobody noticed. (Another explanation may be that the writer of the outline just disagrees with the new light.)

It's such a silly and ridiculous religion.

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WT NEW LIGHT

by logic in

new light hidden under basket?

put new light in questions from readers...... watchtower may 1, 07.....questions from readers... when does the calling of christians to heavenly hope cease?.....this article does with away with the harvesting of the 144,ooo ending in 1935 that the society has more than insinuated for years.

now they have left it open ended, same as a generation.

Neo

Did the heavenly calling cease in 1935? Not anymore!

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Winnipeg Free Press, article by Kerry Louderback-Wood (scan) Mar. 1/07

by kwintestal in

for a print quality scan of the article, please go to: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/412824234_0a78354c22_b.jpg.

otherwise, a web quality scan is below.. .

Neo

Some didn't catch that was an ironic tongue-in-cheek comment. In fact, I was one of the very first to applaud Kerry Louderback-Wood for her Journal of Church and Estate article. (Journal of Church and State: WT NO-BLOOD EXPOSE' ) The above post just illustrates how the JW mind works: they find a little, irrelevant excuse to reject the whole thrust of the argument.

My words unwittingly sparked one of the greatest sum-ups I've ever seen of the blood fraud - thank you very much for your post, hawkaw. Sorry for the misunderstanding. And, thank you once again for one great article, L-W! Your points are the ones I always raise when I discuss the blood issue. They are the weakest and most ridiculous elements of this horrendous doctrine.

bttt

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Winnipeg Free Press, article by Kerry Louderback-Wood (scan) Mar. 1/07

by kwintestal in

for a print quality scan of the article, please go to: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/412824234_0a78354c22_b.jpg.

otherwise, a web quality scan is below.. .

Neo

How can this apostate say anything against Jehovah's organization and the Bible? See, how ignorant she is! She doesn't even know that the Bible doesn't specify the forbidden fruit! How can we be sure of anything she writes? Apostate lies!!