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  JW Library, yet another knockoff

  by neat blue dog in

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  here's the mormon's "gospel library", released 3 & 1/2 years earlier:.

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  BluesBrother

  The WTS has looked to the LDS for innovations time and again, The Watchtower Choir , videos and the FamilyStudy Night are examples.
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  Hypocritical Tyndale video

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
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  at a recent midweek meeting, a short documentary about translator william tyndale was shown.

  it begins with this statement about his death:.

  "his crime?

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  BluesBrother

  Good point . Reformers and independent thinkers have always been persecuted by those in authority. Nobody likes those who criticise them and power gives the ability to denounce and sometimes crush them
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  Canadians and Europeans, what do you think of your national health care ?

  by RubaDub in

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  we have been in a battle over health care for so long here in the us regarding public, private, gov't subsidized, obama care, medicare for all, and just about every permutation of the above.. we hear the horror stories here that people wait 20 years for a check-up (ok, bit of an exaggeration), but you get the point.

  one side tells us that canadians flock across the border when they are sick and need to see a doctor.

  the other side says that is simply not the case.. so tell us, if you live under one of the government systems would you replace it?

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  BluesBrother

  As a Brit in the U k, we love to moan about the NHS but we fight like hell to keep it. The idea of a private scheme is intolerable.

  Employees and Self Employed do pay, of course a fixed contribution is stopped from wages . For me though as pensioner I no longer pay, and the older you get the more you need it.
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  Creepy display

  by neat blue dog in

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  i dunno about you, but if i walked up to this display at an expo i'd be a little creeped out..

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  BluesBrother

  Looks way too slick and commercial, like the stand belonged to a bank or something. The message that comes over is " These people want to sell me something"
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  Set ptermber AT study article: "Armaggedon Is Good News!

  by Room 215 in

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  2. beliefs

  omg, is this the apotheosis of bat-shit craziness or not?

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  BluesBrother

  I get it now.... The title of next week's study article - " Armageddon is Good News"

  I am glad I won't be there for that one ! ....butvwe can pull it to bits on here
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  FOOD FOR THOUGHT November 3, 2019 WT Study Article (September 2019) JAH VALUES HUMBLE SERVANTS

  by blondie in

  1. jw
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  blondie’s food for thought, 11/03/2019 wt study article, jah values humble servants, september 2019. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-september-2019/jehovah-values-his-humble-servants/.

  opening comments/food for thought.

  i first asked myself, why does the wts sometimes use the word “servant” then “slave”?

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  BluesBrother

  I think fastJehu has got it about right...

  P 11) Each day, we have countless opportunities to show humility. Consider a few situations. When we receive counsel. We do well to remember that if someone takes the time to offer us correction, we have likely strayed more than we realize. At such times, we may find that our first inclination is to reject the counsel. We might criticize the person who gave it or the way he said it. But if we are humble, we will strive to regain our balance.

  12 A humble person appreciates counsel.

  So if I am given counsel that is inappropriate or wrong, I should just take it .."Thank you Bro"

  Perhaps I could write and offer constructive counsel to the GB ? ( most of them could improve in speaking ability) .....Do you think they would appreciate it? No, neither do I.

  "Moreover, in the past several years, many in the Bethel family have been reassigned to the field. Others have had to discontinue special full-time service because of health problems, family obligations, or other personal circumstances

  16 Such adjustments were not easy for these brothers and sisters to make. ................. In time, though, they were able to adjust. Why? Above all, because of their love for Jehovah. They knew that they were dedicated to God​—not to a work, a title, or an assignment. (Col. 3:23) They are glad to continue serving Jehovah humbly in any capacity. They “throw all [their] anxiety on him,” knowing that he cares for :/ them.​—1 Pet. 5:6, 7."

  Is that humility or a self righteous determination to be obedient no matter what?

  Reminds me of "Animal Farm" when Boxer the cart horse met every setback with his motto " I will work harder"..... They worked him to death in the end..

  Thanks Blondie for the review.
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  Update/Change In OD Coming Soon

  by mr_doubtful in

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  there will be an update/change in the od book coming soon.

  i have it on good word that this change in the od book has already been pushed out & notified to the “higher ups”.

  newwww light!.

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  BluesBrother

  I was surprised that I could read that book on line. In my day it, or the then current equivalent was kept secretly for the use of baptised publishers .... I believe you were presented with your copy after baptism.

  The times they are a changin' .....
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  simple illustration by a carpenter

  by waton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this week's study ( no.

  88) on the illustration of abraham and the begging lazarus and the rich man, all dying, in heaven and hell fire.

  the bible stories, convoluted as they are, even more pretzelled by wt.

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  BluesBrother

  The WT simply applies the illustration to the rich Pharisees of Jesus day and the poor man as the common people and suggested a coming change of circumstances.

  We used to be told that "Churches " used it to support a hell fire doctrine. Logic and reasoning would show such an application to be wrong.

  What was Jesus really saying? ..... search me, I am no scholar and those that are , do not agree.

  do not agree.
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  latest WT, advice for Bible Studies

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
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  our goal is to help our bible student to grow spiritually.. .

  as his love for jehovah grows, however, he will likely begin to think about how he can help others, including those who are already part of the congregation.

  (matt.

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  BluesBrother

  WT Book Ch 18 "Gods Kingdom Rules " 2014

  "7 Brother Russell and his associates refused to imitate the money-raising schemes so common in the churches of Christendom. In the second issue of the Watch Tower, under the heading “Do You Want ‘Zion’s Watch Tower’?” Russell stated: “‘Zion’s Watch Tower’ has, we believe, JEHOVAH for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support. When He who says: ‘All the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,’ fails to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend the publication.” (Hag. 2:7-9) Over 130 years later, The Watchtower and the organization that publishes it are still going strong!

  8 Jehovah’s people do not beg for money. They do not pass collection plates or send out letters of solicitation. Neither do they use bingo, bazaars, or raffles to raise money. They hold to what the Watch Tower long ago said: “We have never considered it proper to solicit money for the Lord’s cause, after the common custom . . . It is our judgment that money raised by the various begging devices in the name of our Lord is offensive, unacceptable to him, and does not bring his blessing either upon the givers or the work accomplished.”*

  
  
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  Did You Think Jehovah’s Witnesses Were Typically “Racists”?

  by minimus in

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  i was a jw from infancy.

  we had a melting pot type of congregation.

  i grew up with all types of witnesses , all with different backgrounds.

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  BluesBrother

  One good thing I have seen is that they are free of racism. The inter congregation rancour that Min described is typical of two congregations sharing. The bodies often fall out . It would be the same if the second one was white.