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Posts by Terry
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61THE IMPONDERABLES TOPIC (Enter at your own risk)
by Terry ini suggest taking this slowly .
.. consider the difference between taking a poll about an upcoming election and the actual vote itself on the day of the election.. the information gathered about what the vote will be is provisional.
the vote on the day of the election is actual and official.. it is the one that counts.. now, carefully ask yourself what the specific difference--if any--there is between the poll information and the election result as an identical knowledge of.
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Teaching Anthony Morris III names of common things.
by LogCon in"...what it is is this spanx, this skin-tight stuff they wear.
now, are you sisters wearing this in the ministry?
i can't say that i've ever seen that.
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Terry
kurtbethel: Dude apparently has a butt fetish.
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You know how it is--his head wants to remain close to home!
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I have a TASK for you to perform. Come on--it will be FUN!
by Terry inlook up in the right-hand corner of this page.. find where it says welcome (name).. did you locate that?.
now click on your name and observe the new page loading takes you to a top blue bar with a menu.. it should read:.
active topics search members topics started .
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Does anybody see any pattern?
I think an "active" response is like the weather. If a certain number of folks happen to be in just the right mood at the same
time there will be a chain-reaction (many micro-causes and micro effects) multiplying into a storm.
I've posted topics I worked a long time getting just right only to have no interest shown at all.
I think it is timing. At least I hope it isn't me--but--I won't rule that one out!
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GETTING THINGS STRAIGHT. Who invented the "FDS" as a prophetic identification of the GB? WHEN?
by Terry in15 july 1906 issue of the watch tower russell stated maria russell was the first who in 1894 "called attention to matt.
24:44-45, applying it to me at a meeting at allegheny and in another meeting with the new york church.
i demurred that i had not thought of the passage thus, and declined to make any personal application of it, although i could not deny the force of the argument....i urged great moderation in the making of any personal application" (p. r3811).
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KEYPOINT:
If you asked an Elder WHERE the proper understanding of Matthew 24 came from (re: GB/Organization) they COULD NOT
tell you it was from Pastor Russell's WIFE!
They DON'T know.
They would NOT believe you even if you read it out of the Watchtower magazine!
It is UNTHINKABLE!
I think our job is to publicize this one fact until they HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING.
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JW.org Kiosks whats up with these? Where did this idea come?
by Crazyguy inhas anyone seen these in their area.
they are kiosks, small buildings either inside an area of a larger building like a mall or outside by themselves maybe on a major street.
not sure whats all in them but from what i can gather there a bigger fancier version of the book shelf on wheels that is so popular now.
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GETTING THINGS STRAIGHT. Who invented the "FDS" as a prophetic identification of the GB? WHEN?
by Terry in15 july 1906 issue of the watch tower russell stated maria russell was the first who in 1894 "called attention to matt.
24:44-45, applying it to me at a meeting at allegheny and in another meeting with the new york church.
i demurred that i had not thought of the passage thus, and declined to make any personal application of it, although i could not deny the force of the argument....i urged great moderation in the making of any personal application" (p. r3811).
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w73 7/1 p. 402 Praise Jehovah with His People
Consider, too, the fact that Jehovah?s organization alone, in all the earth, is directed by God?s holy spirit or active force. (Zech. 4:6) Only this organization functions for Jehovah's purpose and to his praise. To it alone God's Sacred Word, the Bible, is not a sealed book.
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What is being said here?
Are they cutting themselves a special exemption from the warning in Revelation about, ". . .adding to" the words
in the Bible?
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GETTING THINGS STRAIGHT. Who invented the "FDS" as a prophetic identification of the GB? WHEN?
by Terry in15 july 1906 issue of the watch tower russell stated maria russell was the first who in 1894 "called attention to matt.
24:44-45, applying it to me at a meeting at allegheny and in another meeting with the new york church.
i demurred that i had not thought of the passage thus, and declined to make any personal application of it, although i could not deny the force of the argument....i urged great moderation in the making of any personal application" (p. r3811).
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Terry
The Governing Body, FDS, "that slave". . . claims AN INSIDE INTIMACY with Almighty God for ADDITIONAL (extra-Biblical) refinements of teaching!
For the JW's, the Bible is only a warm-up.
In the same manner as the Mormon Church uses their APOSTLES and Pearl of Great Price/ Doctrines and Covenants to FINE-TUNE daily life,
the Governing Body, FDS, "that slave" have taken the steering wheel on behalf of Christians everywhere.
THE ORGANIZATION is the MEDIATOR between Jehovah and the OTHER SHEEP--not Jesus Christ.
This is the justification for being Baptized into ORGANIZATION.
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JWs say, "They don't judge"
by skeeter1 inwhat is up with jws?
lately, i've heard this line, "we don't judge .
but, doesn't everyone judge?
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Can you say: JUDICIAL committee?
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Greek Mythology influence on New Testament
by Magnum ina few days ago, i was in a book store, and i picked up a book providing a brief overview of classical mythology.
as i examined the opening pages, i read about tartaurus (place of punishment) and hades (god of the underworld).. it seems so odd that tartarus and hades would be mentioned in the new testament, and yet they were part of greek mythology which predated the new testament.
why would bible writers have used such terms?
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Terry
I have a lot of reading, researching, and thinking to do. I want to make a definite decision as to whether to believe the Bible. Again, thanks to all ( fulltimestudent , _Morpheus , Terry , Phizzy ). And Snare , it does seem that I'm at the beginning of the end of my belief in the Bible. Right now, that's depressing to me. I loved having a hope for the future, but now that hope is fading fast.
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Every intellectually honest investigator of Christianity has to go through the same stages of grief.
My big shock was in discovering there were NO ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS in the whole wide world!
Watchtower materials I had used for research had NOT prepared me for that.
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Early Christians are used as a buffet of cherry-picked quotes to jam sideways Watchtower viewpoints. No study is ever devoted
to the controversy, disagreement, opinionating, violence, and dissonances between Christian congregations and leaders.
The total isolation of Paul's Christian teaching from the fictional and mythic Jerusalem "governing body"is a scandal.
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Teaching Anthony Morris III names of common things.
by LogCon in"...what it is is this spanx, this skin-tight stuff they wear.
now, are you sisters wearing this in the ministry?
i can't say that i've ever seen that.
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