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  Caleb and Sophia with different names

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in one country they're david and sophie.

  in another they're petra and olena.

  i just chanced across this recently.

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  sir82

  Yeah I've heard of it.

  IIRC, I think I heard it had something to do with the name ("Caleb" or "Sophia") meaning something weird or inappropriate in the local language.
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  Motivations for Watchtower leadership

  by GetMeOutofHere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve struggled for some time with this question.

  why would the elders, cos, branch committee, helpers to gb and the gb themselves devote their lives to progressing in the organization, if the whole thing is one big sham?

  i have 3 ideas so far.. 1) money.

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  D.S, would like to have another radical go at it if allowed by the powers to be in the Corporation.

  My impression is that he indeed is full of himself.

  But your post makes it sound like your information is more than just an "impression".

  Do you have a source for Splane's demi-Messianic complex?
  
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  Motivations for Watchtower leadership

  by GetMeOutofHere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve struggled for some time with this question.

  why would the elders, cos, branch committee, helpers to gb and the gb themselves devote their lives to progressing in the organization, if the whole thing is one big sham?

  i have 3 ideas so far.. 1) money.

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  sir82

  No offense intended.

  Let me rephrase:

  ..."they wouldn't qualify to run a lemonade stand at the end of a suburban driveway."

  Please don't tell me your father ran a lemonade stand also!
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  Thoughts on Sundays wt about persecution

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so let me get this straight.

  even though law enforcement has their hands full with illegal drugs and guns on the street, child traffickers, dangerous gangs and such.

  they are going to now pool all their resources to confiscate bibles and religious literature?!

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  Oh, and don't forget the "photo" (from a recent WT article) of future world leaders clustered in a small conference room, with a TV monitor image of Sam Herd in the background.

  Yeah, let's ignore the 800 million Muslims who are rioting because "we banned their religion"! Let's concentrate all our efforts on finding this doddering old man!
  
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  Motivations for Watchtower leadership

  by GetMeOutofHere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve struggled for some time with this question.

  why would the elders, cos, branch committee, helpers to gb and the gb themselves devote their lives to progressing in the organization, if the whole thing is one big sham?

  i have 3 ideas so far.. 1) money.

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  sir82

  It's the power.

  I think they probably hope it's true, but even if it's not, power is more addictive and intoxicating than heroin.

  These guys think their immediate superior, the only person they have to answer to, is Jesus Christ, for...er...Christ's sake.

  They have 8 million+ people revering their every word, no matter how ineptly spoken or nonsensical the thoughts.

  Remove these bozos from the insular WT / Bethel lifestyle and they wouldn't qualify to be a Walmart greeter. The least moronic of them realize that, and so on and on they go.
  
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  DECEMBER 2019 Study Watchtower

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 13, par.

  18 - "yes, we have good reason to rejoice over the good work and spiritual activity that we can expect when believing mankind enjoys life during christ’s millennial reign.".

  hey "faithful slave," aren't you forgetting something?

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  Their clothes are 1960s style. Stepping into their future is like stepping into the past.

  And why not? The 60s were pretty much their high point.

  Double-digit growth year over year. A fixed date for Armageddon, in the not-distant future, to ramp up enthusiasm. No pesky facts available on the internet, no child abuse lawsuits, plenty of income from books & magazines. Apostates were shadowy figures who ranted & raved outside conventions & clearly looked mentally ill.

  They'd love to go back in time 50 years.
  
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  Trump explains this generation

  by eyeslice2 in

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  2. humour

  glad to see the president making good use of visual aids again after his hurricane debacle.. .

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  He's still tweeting about weather maps & Alabama, this morning.

  This marks 5 days in a row.

  He also got a Coast Guard rear admiral to write a letter defending his statements.
  

  I look forward to his comments about the hurricane & Alabama at his next rally, September 9 in North Carolina.

  I also definitely think he should keep tweeting about it, every day, for the next 14 months.
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  Dec 2019 Watchtower - Two Witness Rule

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower has attempted to address their two witness rule and the case of the raped woman in a field found at deuteronomy 22:25-27all the tireless work that so many ex jws and concerned worldly people have done by phone calls, cart crashes, demonstrating at assemblies, questioning jws and so on, is paying off.

  it's not the doting jws that have been questioning the two witness rule, it's apostates.this is a "question from reader" in the december, 2019 watchtower.

  the bible says that at least two witnesses are needed to establish a matter.

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  We can be confident that the judges would “investigate the matter thoroughly” and render a decision in line

  with the standard that God had set out plainly and repeatedly.​

  Any time the WTS says "we can be confident".....that's a pretty good sign they're just pulling $#!+ out of their collective watuzzis.
  
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  Museums growing at the branches especially Warwick

  by benny in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am not sure if this has been discussed but last night mid week meeting about organisational accomplishments really got my goat as the example of the temple was used.

  people contributed to the building of the jewish temple and now the museum and bethel in warwick.

  this supposed .be evidence of god s guidance.

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  I like how the museums are dedicated to displays of Rutherford's & Russell's old books....

  But if any current JW were to actually, you know, read the contents of those books, they would at least be confused, startled, panicked, and quite possibly lose their faith in JWism entirely, considering how absolutely bonkers the "current truth" was in those years.
  
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  GB’s WIGGLE

  by Hairtrigger in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://youtu.be/gpd453rzdzu.

  if this has been posted before i apologize.

  this about sums up what the grovelling body is looking to do!

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  sir82

  I saw the title and thought this thread was about Lett's eyebrows.

  Sorry for the disturbance, carry on.