Posts by slimboyfat

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

by Simon in

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uh 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.

slimboyfat

Is it a “special” convention or an “international” convention in Zagreb? Because they are classed as two different things, as explained in a recent video.

Special conventions: happen every year in around 15 locations worldwide and have slightly bigger venues than regular conventions, 10-20,000 in attendance, including 2-3000 foreign delegates from around the world

International conventions: happen every 5 years, with 20,000+ (or 30-40,000, visual and scripts differ) in attendance, 5000 delegates from around the world

It’s not explained in the video whether “special” as well as international conventions regularly have GB members in attendance, which is perhaps the most relevant factor for making is a big deal or not.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/SeriesOrgAccomplishments/pub-com-rep23_5_VIDEO

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

by Simon in

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friends

uh 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.

slimboyfat

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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Lost aoul

by LostSoulUK in

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hi 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.

slimboyfat

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2025 Convention Theme leak

by ukpimo in

according 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.

slimboyfat

The number of leaks is a pure riddy man

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2025 Convention Theme leak

by ukpimo in

according 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.

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 in

according 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.

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 in

i 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.

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 in

https://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 in

i 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.

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 in

i 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.

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):