Pete Zahut, can I assume you are a man? Then, I can understand why it doesn't matter to you. Women might not view it the same way. It is a reminder to jw women how low they are in the hierarchy in the WTS. Probably lower than a dog.
Posts by blondie
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17What would happen if Jepthas daughter disobeyed and got married anyway?
by nowawake14 inwould jehovah kill her?
or would she be shunned by her religion as a whole?
say anything you would think of..
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2019 Shepherd The Flock Of God and More!
by Atlantis in2019 information-for-expectant-mothers-s-401-e. 2019-addendum-to-shepherd-book-sfla-e_bi2019-shepherd-the-flock-of-god-october-sfl_e2020-kingdom-ministry-school-program-elders-pgme-20-e. instructions to access my profile.
https://we.tl/t-rex13nnhax atlantis!
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blondie
Thanks, Atlantis. My husband reminded me when he was still an elder, I read on JWN about the non-letter that would be read to the BOE at the next CO visit; about taking a blood transfusion would no longer be a df'ing offense but an act of disassociating themselves from the WTS.
Was he shocked when that is what exactly happened, he came and asked me if I was getting messages from God, tongue in cheek, of course.
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Need help in finding some information regarding the Adam and Eve tale.
by Tameria2001 ini am finally at the point in my life i no longer believe in the tales of the bible.
my husband feels for the most part that it too is stuff made up.
there are just a few things that he wants to get cleared up, and one of those being the story of adam and eve.
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blondie
The WTS says that Adam and Eve at that time did not know where the tree of life, and it just looked like any other tree. Of course, I think this is an allegory because too many questions and points come up showing it does match up with real life.
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1934 Yearbook hard to find
by rickroll ini have been looking for one and they go for a lot when i do find them.
to the tune of 200 bucks.
are they that rare?.
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blondie
When the Finished Mystery book came out in 1918, it had some portions so offensive to the US government, that the WTS actually had to remove those parts from a later printing, but it did not stop the government from taking legal steps. It was that information that eventually led to the WTS Board of Directors being sent to prison.
No time to any links on right now. But I'm sure a search of JWN will come up with some info.
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U.S. Supreme Court Denies Watchtower’s Certiorari Plea
by Jerome56 inhttps://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-40.html.
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blondie
A journey of a 1,000 miles starts with a single step.
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News from the 2019 Annual Meeting
by RubaDub inthe annual meeting (2019) is happening as i am posting this.. any comments yet or information from what is being presented?.
rub a dub.
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blondie
2x for emphasis, eyeuse2badub?
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What would happen if Jepthas daughter disobeyed and got married anyway?
by nowawake14 inwould jehovah kill her?
or would she be shunned by her religion as a whole?
say anything you would think of..
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blondie
I would think no Jewish man would have married her knowing of her father's vow to God.
If she married a non-jew, that would open up another kind of censure.
Some people believe that she was sacrificed in religious fire. But I don't think that was the drift of the account. But then some believe these are only teaching stories, allegories.
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Our Spiritual Heritage of Failed Expectations
by neat blue dog inlast sunday's watchtower tells the story of a man who:.
was baptized in 1908 at the age of 20. he was very confident that he would soon receive his reward.
in fact, when he proposed marriage in 1911, he told his prospective bride, pearl: “you know what is going to happen in 1914. if we are going to get married, we better do it soon!” did this christian couple give up the race for life when they did not receive their heavenly reward in 1914?
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blondie
As to 2 people married to each other both claiming to be anointed; before 1932, most jws (Bible Students) and the WTS felt there was really on one hope for those getting baptized. Today, it is hard to imagine a congregation where every baptized jw had the hope of going to heaven to rule with Jesus. Most of us knew few and they were much older, and some of us didn't know any jws who claimed to be anointed.
53 years ago (around the mid-60's I did meet a couple where she did not consider herself anointed but her husband did. They were in their 80's then and come into the WTS in their 20's. So they were of the pre-1932 but she did not claim to be anointed. So there were a few jws (Bible Students) that did not claim to be anointed but they were looked on with suspicion, thinking these people must have did not understand the holy spirit's choosing them. BTW, Ray Franz claimed to be anointed, but his wife Cynthia did not.
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New Study Bible Photos!
by Atlantis innew study bible photos from reddit if you want them.
these are a bit larger photos.
see first page for info.. .
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blondie
I am not surprised, Atlantis. The WTS has always been afraid to give its members any freedom regarding research unless it is in the WTS publications. And even that is controlled regarding older WTS publications. That is why my motto regarding responding to jws, it so hang the WTS with their own words.
Yes, starting with Russell who said that if someone tried to read the Bible without the WTS publications, they would learn nothing might even end off worse. So the Bible itself is not enough but things have to be written to support it. Sounds like the Talmud with its over 600 additions to the law code.
It is no wonder that the Jesus of the bible said the religious leaders of his day were making the word of God invalid.
(Of course, some will say that Jesus never existed and the bible is only the work of humans, but some humans do put value in it, so if they do the same as the people Jesus condemned, they can consider themselves condemned by their teacher.)
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New topic fixed
by Simon inlooks like the update i pushed yesterday broke the "new topic" link.
if this shows up, then it's fixed :).
there are quite a few other updates, nothing should be visually different but the backend is changing in preparation for more noticeable changes and just to improve performance..
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blondie
New topic works
Sign in works
But can't still send a pm; perhaps it is a problem only for me; is there something that could be causing it on my laptop?