‘Look! The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, 'When I will send a famine into the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But for hearing the words of Jehovah. They will stagger from sea to sea And from the north to the east. They will rove about searching for the word of Jehovah, but they will not find it.
slimboyfat
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Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History
by pseudoxristos ini found the following article to be a nice contrast to the jw's gloomy point of view.. why 2017 was the best year in human history.
we all know that the world is going to hell.
given the rising risk of nuclear war with north korea, the paralysis in congress, warfare in yemen and syria, atrocities in myanmar and a president who may be going cuckoo, you might think 2017 was the worst year ever.. but you’d be wrong.
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Leaked 2018 Elders Training Video RE: Elders Reviewing Pionieers
by pale.emperor inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhq5viughny&feature=youtu.be.
quite frankly im disturbed at the lack of love and compassion.
especially for the first sister they talk about!.
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slimboyfat
Lol, true.
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Leaked 2018 Elders Training Video RE: Elders Reviewing Pionieers
by pale.emperor inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhq5viughny&feature=youtu.be.
quite frankly im disturbed at the lack of love and compassion.
especially for the first sister they talk about!.
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slimboyfat
Oh for crying out loud, sponsored by Ford no doubt.
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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution
by dubstepped inso i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
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slimboyfat
I got my copy for free. I like it. I’ve got a collection of religious literature. Somewhere.
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Snow Leopards in China - Some Beautiful images.
by fulltimestudent inthe chinese news agency published these images (and a few more today) they are among the clearest i've seen of these reclusive animals.. the explanatory caption notes: .
photo taken on oct. 22, 2017 shows a snow leopard at three-river-source national park in northwest china's qinghai province.
china is home to between 2,000 and 2,500 snow leopards, which roam across the provincial level regions of xinjiang, tibet, qinghai, gansu, sichuan, yunnan and inner mongolia.
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slimboyfat
I saw them in the highland wildlife park. Beautiful animals. I like all kinds of cats. They've got lynx too and Scottish wildcats.
http://www.highlandwildlifepark.org.uk/animals-attractions/animals/snow-leopard/
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Leaked 2018 Elders Training Video RE: Elders Reviewing Pionieers
by pale.emperor inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhq5viughny&feature=youtu.be.
quite frankly im disturbed at the lack of love and compassion.
especially for the first sister they talk about!.
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slimboyfat
What a stupid video. Is this really a good use of anyone's time and effort? What's the glory in being called a "pioneer" anyway? Surely one of the emptiest titles ever devised. I guess it means a lot to sisters, who can't attain any other sort of title in the organisation.
Isn't it a bit odd that one of the elders is treating the other two elders like his students. "Will you read this paragraph and see the direction?" Like he knows all the answers already and needs to lead the other two in the right direction. What if none of them read the instructions carefully?
Then they agreed they didn't want to upset the old sister by suggesting that she stop pioneering. But "out of respect for the letter" they must offer her this option. But they need to talk to the CO first.
Oh man, what a waste of time. It's excruciating. It seems that some elders think this sort of direction is so loving and wise. But aren't there better things they can do with their time than sit around evaluating hours, regulations, allowances, excuses and titles? It's so empty it's depressing.
Just thinking about the time and effort involved in all this nonsense: making the rules in the first place, making the video to illustrate the rules, gathering the elders to watch the video, elders discussing and applying the rules in their congregations, informing the pioneers of their decisions, pioneers begging not to be deleted, elders thinking again, elders consulting Circuit Overseeers, pioneers getting depressed and talking to others about being deleted, elders discussing bad atitudes toward their decisions and directions. And on and on and on: endless empty nonsense. Get a life.
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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution
by dubstepped inso i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
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slimboyfat
It doesn't seem as if Christadelphians believe all animals were vegetarian before the fall from what I gather.
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References to YHWH in ancient documents
by Doug Mason inpage 15 of awake!
2017 provides an image that shows hebrew writing with the statement: “the personal name of god written in ancient hebrew characters appears abundantly in early manuscripts of the bible”.. alongside that image, the awake!
provides a listing to show “the rendering of ‘god’s name’ in various languages”.. the facts do not support either assertion that the watchtower society makes:.
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slimboyfat
Emanuel Tov is indeed an excellent scholar to read. In particular I liked reading his introduction to the text/textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. He came out supporting Iao as original in the LXX in an essay in this book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bible-Book-Transmission-Greek-Text/dp/0712347275/
I think Frank Shaw's thesis (less expansive than his later book) is available online somewhere, but I can't find it right now!
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Jolene Chu and James Pelechia?
by Gorbatchov in20 years ago there was some change at the jw bastion.
some windows were opened when the internet became availble.
jolene chu and james pelechia did historical research for watchtower and published about it.
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slimboyfat
Carolyn Wah too.
Yeah Wroebel wrote some really interesting stuff on his website and took it down again. I wish I had saved it!
Did you know Pellechia wrote a history of JWs in Ohio? A google search will bring it up.
And JWs have recently collaborated with outside scholars on a multi volume history of JWs in Europe edited by Gerhard Besier.
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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution
by dubstepped inso i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
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slimboyfat
No it’s this one. It’s got good pictures too.
http://www.thechristadelphian.com/cals_evolution_or_design.htm
Still can’t find it. I need to organise my books.
The critique doesn’t mention the black mamba, which actually I find morbidly fascinating.