Topics Started by Little Bo Peep

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SOON! SOON! How SOON is SOON?
by Little Bo Peep in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in reading over drew sagan's post this am, we were discussing how often the wt says soon.

it is really brought to the fore when you read his post.

it's now been over 92 years since their 1914 date.
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Thanksgiving just around the corner
by Little Bo Peep in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i think most posters here, being exjw's probably celebrate thanksgiving.

even loyal jw's actually do, even though they are careful to tell anyone seeing that big turkey with all the fixins, "we aren't really celebrating thanksgiving, but everyone could get together today".

that is what i remember saying.
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Holiday Pagan Chart of JW's
by Little Bo Peep in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in looking through my files i came across this interesting information.

i may have orginally found this link here, but it was 2 years ago and my mind is a blurr from then.

the chart has a column for pagan custom, wt reason, reality check.
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Post ..... of ..... ??? What's that mean?
by Little Bo Peep in
1. jw
2. friends
maybe someone can answer probably a stupid question.

post 222 of 555, or thereabouts?

why aren't the post numbers the same?
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Hebrews 10:24,25 ???
by Little Bo Peep in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if meeting together is to be taken to mean, five meetings a week that we must never miss, what about the command at rom 16:16, that says to greet one another with a kiss, or mt 6:9, you must pray this way???

jw's don't greet one another with a kiss, nor do they pray the lords prayer.. peep.
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Revelation Climax Bk = Delete Kingdom Come references
by Little Bo Peep in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the changes to the revelation climax book include deleting all references to the kingcom come appendix and instead refers you to the new, 2005 book, what does the bible really teach, pg 215-218. all comments on secular sources are gone.

just the wt reasoning.

found it interesting that they didn't say jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bc, rather it was "conquered" and "fell to the babylonians" at this time.
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Rapture...Help needed to explain.
by Little Bo Peep in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
recently my daughter-in-law asked me about the "rapture".

her employer has scared her with thoughts of driving along the highway and taken to heaven, leaving an empty car...accidents...etc, etc.. i looked up the scriptures referenced in the niv, but don't quite know how to answer her.

i'm pretty sure that explanation is not logical, at least to me.
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New Publications from Older Publications
by Little Bo Peep in
1. watchtower
2. bible
in the past i have seen newer releases, that actually have been taken from older publications.

i have seen these newer releases, with new names, that have identical information with variations of chapter headings, etc.

i know i have some in my library, but can't remember which ones they are.
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The New World Translation and Honesty
by Little Bo Peep in
1. watchtower
2. bible
after having researched my beliefs of 45+ years, finding so much was really different than what the bible context really taught, i decided to "read" the bible for for the first time to see what it really was saying, taking off the "blinders" of the wt.

i began reading the greek scriptures first.

i used the new world translation, knowing if we were to ever reach our grown children, i would need to use that translation to prove anything.
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Daniel's Prophecy, 605 BCE or 624 BCE?
by Little Bo Peep in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hello all, i've been reading your site for a couple of years now, and have found, for the most part, it to be very helpful.

i must say, at first i was very "scared" at what i might find, but contrary to what i grew up learning, there is a "wealth" of information outside of the watchtower organization.

i haven't attended meetings for about two years now, and like many i've read about, have spent many hours researching, telling myself "i'm not wrong for searching", and doing more research.