Presumably there are conventions in Zagreb every year. A special convention is just a convention with the word special in front of it. There will be a few extra people from elsewhere. I don’t know if that necessarily includes a GB member these days. Plus it will be in Croatian and LE apparently doesn’t speak Croatian.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)
by Simon inuh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
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Lost aoul
by LostSoulUK inhi everyone, i just joined and i have been lost a long time, growing up i was a witness with my mum.
i walked away when i was older, did drugs, sex, travelling all my life never stopping anywhere more than 3 months my entire life, relationship after relationship, pain and hurt after pain and hurt.
i always felt like there was something missing, and tried to find what it was.
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2025 Convention Theme leak
by ukpimo inaccording to the next boe letter to be read at next week's midweek meetings in the united states,.
the theme of the convention for next year is.
pure worship.
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slimboyfat
The number of leaks is a pure riddy man
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2025 Convention Theme leak
by ukpimo inaccording to the next boe letter to be read at next week's midweek meetings in the united states,.
the theme of the convention for next year is.
pure worship.
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slimboyfat
The best convention ever! 😀
I actually think the convention this year was the best ever in terms of substance and presentation. They did a good job.
Maybe not as good as some of the historic conventions such as 1950 or 1958, in terms of pure spectacle or history, that would have been something.
I’ve heard it suggested that 1958 Polo/Yankee stadiums convention was the largest Christian meeting in history at around quarter of a million. Is that right?
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2025 Convention Theme leak
by ukpimo inaccording to the next boe letter to be read at next week's midweek meetings in the united states,.
the theme of the convention for next year is.
pure worship.
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slimboyfat
This is the name of the book about Ezekiel released a few years ago. Why are they going back to that? You’d think it would be a continuation of the gospel theme from this year as more episodes of the drama are released.
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Do JWs believe Jesus is an angel?
by slimboyfat ini would suggest:.
the short answer is yes.. the longer answer is a qualified yes, with some caveats.
the short answer is yes because jehovah’s witnesses teach that jesus is michael the archangel, their leader, eldest and most powerful, and have taught this since the very beginning of the religion.
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slimboyfat
Everything in Revelation is symbolic, and the reference to writing the divine name on the forehead is a symbolic reference to Tetragrammaton on the headband of the high priest. I don’t know what you’re intending to dispute here, that the high priest wore a headband with the divine name, or that the author had this in mind, or that we should notice the connection?
In terms of the use of the divine name in the book of Revelation check out the work of Gerard Mussies and Sean McDonough, in particular: Sean McDonough (1999). YHWH at Patmos: Rev. 1: 4 in Its Hellenistic and Early Jewish Setting. Mohr Siebeck.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/YHWH-Patmos-Hellenistic-Jewish-Setting/dp/1610971558
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Odd bit of Watch Tower history
by vienne inhttps://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2024/08/1912-world-missionary-tour.html.
from russell's 1912 world tour.
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slimboyfat
That’s our theocratic heritage you’re denigratin’ 😮
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Do JWs believe Jesus is an angel?
by slimboyfat ini would suggest:.
the short answer is yes.. the longer answer is a qualified yes, with some caveats.
the short answer is yes because jehovah’s witnesses teach that jesus is michael the archangel, their leader, eldest and most powerful, and have taught this since the very beginning of the religion.
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slimboyfat
By the way, the phrase "name of the Father"does not need to be associated with the Tetragrammaton
In the context of being written on forehead as with the high priest it most probably does refer to the divine name. But in view of the references to the trigram Yaho in the first chapter of Revelation, perhaps in the form Yaho rather than YHWH.
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Do JWs believe Jesus is an angel?
by slimboyfat ini would suggest:.
the short answer is yes.. the longer answer is a qualified yes, with some caveats.
the short answer is yes because jehovah’s witnesses teach that jesus is michael the archangel, their leader, eldest and most powerful, and have taught this since the very beginning of the religion.
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slimboyfat
There are scholars who argue that the idea of a pre-existent angelic Messiah was already present in texts such as Micah 5 and Isaiah 9 and that Christians picked up on an idea that the Jews had already explored. See William Horbury’s Jewish Messianism and the Cult of Christ (1998):
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Lost aoul
by LostSoulUK inhi everyone, i just joined and i have been lost a long time, growing up i was a witness with my mum.
i walked away when i was older, did drugs, sex, travelling all my life never stopping anywhere more than 3 months my entire life, relationship after relationship, pain and hurt after pain and hurt.
i always felt like there was something missing, and tried to find what it was.
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slimboyfat
Watchtower recently relaxed their rules on shunning, and have instructed JWs to be slightly more approachable and friendly to people who have left, though the details remain sketchy. But it perhaps means that you will be able to have more contact with your mother and brother than in the past without going through the whole process of returning to the Kingdom Hall.
Going to Ukraine is a story in itself, it doesn’t need embellished. Search for meaning is a powerful impulse, as you have demonstrated more dramatically than most. I tend to just read books. 📖 I wish you well on your journey.