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  Another Professor Renounces Darwinism

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  david gelernter, a famed yale university professor, has publicly renounced his belief in charles darwin’s theory of evolution, calling it a “beautiful idea” that has been effectively disproven.. article.

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  Alternate headline: A computer science professor expounds on a topic far, far, far away from his area of expertise.
  

  I wonder what Yale's "famed" Professor of English Literature thinks about whether Mochizuki has solved the abc conjecture?
  
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  January 2020 Watchtower - the anointed

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it's very odd that the jan. 2020 watchtower was nearly 3 weeks later than normal.

  another odd thing about this watchtower is that it has two articles (about the anointed) that is very similar to two articles they wrote only four years earlier.the fact that they have even reprinted two articles that are only four years old suggests that they continue to have numerous problems surrounding their teaching's of the anointed and problems with those claiming to be anointed.here are a few of the differences between both the 2016 and 2020 articles -2016 watchtower states.

  anointed christians need to be taught by jehovah just like everyone else.. 2020 watchtower statesof course, anointed christians need to be taught by jehovah through the congregation just like everyone else.. four years ago, they acknowledged that it was only jehovah who were teaching the anointed but the newest watchtower now states that it is through the congregation.watchtower 2016 states there will be 144,000 ruling with jesus in heaven.

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  Good analysis.

  Actually, there are many "study" articles that are completely recycled. Sometimes virtually word-for-word copied and pasted.

  Let's face it, there's only so many ways to present the primary, fundamental doctrines of JWs:

  -- The GB are godlike and to be obeyed unquestioningly

  -- You miserable rank & file JWs aren't doing enough

  -- You miserable rank & file JWs aren't behaving well

  -- We need your money

  -- Bad guys are gonna get ya "very soon now", so shape up

  -- You should treat anyone who disagrees with us as lower than the parasites who feed on pond scum

  How many ways can you dress up those teachings? It's inevitable that things will be repeated.
  
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  Did Jeruselm fall in 587 or 586 BCE?

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i came across this article written in 2004 by an evangelical.. “when did jerusalem fall?”, rodger young, journal of the evangelical society [jets], 47/1 (march 2004), 21-38.. http://www.rcyoung.org/articles/jerusalem.pdf .

  these are the conclusions of the 18-page analysis.

  (1) jerusalem fell in the fourth month (tammuz) of 587 bc.

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  Good lord, are you yahoos still doing this?

  SMDH.
  
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  JW.Org Content on My Amazon Echo (Alexa)

  by BluesBrother in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  but you can now enable a jw.org.

  skill on alexa and you too can hear the daily text, w/tower material, kingdom songs , selections from broadcasts , audio bible dramas ...and more from your echo device.

  what fun!

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  "Alexa, tell me how Lett manages to do all that $#!+ with his face."
  
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  Is this something new?

  by Butyoucanneverleave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just heard from a friend who keeps in touch with the jw's.

  a person who has been studying found out some things on line about the witnesses and decided to not get baptized and stopped attending the meetings.

  she lives with a witness.

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  How can they do this if she is not baptized?

  They can't.

  It's either nitwit elders who don't know their own rules, or they are trying to intimidate her.

  Or a combination thereof.

  If they tried it, the CO would run roughshod over them on his next visit.
  
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  7 New Files Just Arrived!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2019--prison witnessing training seminar.

  2019--10-14--follow up tp prison witnessing training seminar.

  2019--example notice to cease and desist for congregation2019--example notice to cease and desist for watchtower2019--guide to configuring kingdom hall audio and video system computer-s-132-e2019--example midweek meeting schedule-s-140-e2020--example year text-yt20-eall are in this zipped folderhttps://we.tl/t-dheuiguqtf atlantis!

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  When doing prison witnessing the elders have been informed not take drugs or potential weapons in.

  Only in WT-world would "leadership" have to be explicitly told that it would be a bad idea to take along drugs or weapons into a prison.

  "Well, there's no Watchtower article saying that I can't take these razor blades to the inmates, so I guess I will...what's that? There's a letter from the branch saying not to? Oh, OK, the slave knows best!"
  
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  Did Jeruselm fall in 587 or 586 BCE?

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i came across this article written in 2004 by an evangelical.. “when did jerusalem fall?”, rodger young, journal of the evangelical society [jets], 47/1 (march 2004), 21-38.. http://www.rcyoung.org/articles/jerusalem.pdf .

  these are the conclusions of the 18-page analysis.

  (1) jerusalem fell in the fourth month (tammuz) of 587 bc.

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  Y'know, in troubled times such as these, it's reassuring to know there are some things you can count on.

  The sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning.

  The tide will go out, then come in, then go out again.

  And on JWN, in any thread whose subject is Jerusalem's destruction by Babylon, dozens of JWN posters will yet again argue furiously, and to no avail, with the one-note troll known as "Scholar".
  
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  KHConf - I had no idea how big it has become!

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you are a jw in the us or canada, you probably already know about "khconf".

  it is a business that has been set up (presumably by some jws somewhere) that supplies call-in numbers and teleconferencing for shut-ins to listen to kingdom hall meetings.. they have their own website: www.khconf.com.. .

  what i didn't know is how much they've spread!

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  I could give you a better answer if I knew what/who the HU is!

  What the HU are you talking about?
  
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  The reactive mind vs the thoughtful mind...

  by RayoFlight2014 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a thought came to me as i was posting on another topic.

  my reactionary mind, responding to watchtower's cruel and hostile treatment of genuine truthseekers who can no longer reconcile with watchtower's narrative was, " may the collapse begin".. but then my thoughts turned to how that would affect my parents and siblings who are blissfully oblivious with their collective heads in the sand.

  all their hopes and future joy has been postponed for decades awaiting paradise while fighting off the black dog that is depression.

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  The WTS has no monopoly on providing a "crutch" for those who need one.

  If the WTs were to collapse in a flaming fireball, after the initial shock wore off, most JWs would glom onto [some other religion].

  Those who crave strictness and rigidity would pick some other high-control group - there;s plenty to choose from. Those who were in it more for the social aspects would join up with the Unitarians or the Methodists or whatnot.

  I wouldn't worry too much about how JWs would react to the demise of the WTS - they'd get over it pretty quickly.
  
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  I Wonder if Tight Pants Tony Helped to Write this on Sobriety in between sips of malt

  by Slidin Fast in

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  from the official agm report: are you completely sober?.

  brother geoffrey jackson made practical application of texts in the christian greek scriptures that use a term that literally means “sober.” he also stressed the importance of continuing to ‘keep our senses completely’ (literally “being sober perfectly”) during these last days.—1 peter 1:13.. .

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  Isn't the AGM one of the occasions where it's pretty much a nonstop booze-fest at all NY Bethel locations soon as the meetings are over?

  I know that's the case with Gilead graduations.