In its earliest form, Judaism evolved out of Canaanite religion, with an early conflation of El and Yahweh from the Canaanite pantheon. It is absolutely the case that the earliest foundation included the idea that God controls the weather, but that view diverged into the ideas described by KOW.
Posts by Jeffro
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25Jesus the Maintenance Man
by peacefulpete ini posted on another thread what i thought was an interesting angle, seldom discussed regarding the role of god/logos in holding creation together and its maintenance.
most moderns think of the universe as a self-perpetuating machine, but ancients looked to the god/s to ensure order continued and fertility returned year after year.
we read, throughout the ot, of jews performing prescribed ritual and festivals to ensure god's blessing and providence.
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Do JW's believe that TWO nations were created?
by BoogerMan inone at pentecost 33 c.e.
or were they "overlapping nations?".
w02 8/1 p. 12 par.
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Jeffro
In 2013 they quietly translated away their awkward rendering of “the kingdom of the son of his love” as a separate kingdom that started at Pentecost. They still technically believe that that refers to a kingdom that the anointed were under starting from then.
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Are JW's brainwashed?
by snare&racket ini know as a jw i concluded several times that i was not brainwashed as i was not some unautonimous zombie and had not experienced anything akin to.... .
but in reality, brainwashing is a control of thought and ideas over a person and changing the way they think.
in normal life such sentences are not used, in fact they are highly discouraged... .
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Jeffro
There seems to be a perception that ‘brainwashing’ involves a moustachioed villain twirling a black and white spiral in front of someone tied to a chair and so ‘of course JWs aren’t brainwashed’. Back in reality, coercion and undue influence is much more subtle, and definitely in the JW toolbox.
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Annual Report
by St George of England inthe latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.
george.
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Jeffro
Some years ago, the WT stated some 1 per cent were df'ed in a given year, and 1 per cent left for other reasons. And in any given population, 1 per cent die within a year. That sums up to 3 per cent. So from 2023 to 2024, there was a loss of - to be utterly exact - 258,751.
There’s a few layers of compounded error in arriving at this purportedly ‘exact’ figure. The percentages given were only ever round figures and are not by any means recent.
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Annual Report
by St George of England inthe latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.
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Jeffro
Beth Sarim:
Actually I think it could be called....""massaging the numbers"".
Indeed. It seems they don’t understand that presenting a growth rate where there is no previous value would actually be an invalid division by zero and so growth should be left blank or otherwise similarly noted for new entries. (And Monaco apparently wasn’t counted as one of the 33 ‘other countries’ before, which hasn’t changed.)
Their growth rate percentages are usually accurate, and demonstrably based on the average publisher figures and not the peak (which is less reliable and can count some members twice). But in their public FAQ page about how many JWs there are, they promote the peak figure instead.
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Annual Report
by St George of England inthe latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.
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Jeffro
I noticed that they have started reporting activity for Monaco, and they call it a 100% increase over the previous year. That isn’t how math works.
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by St George of England inthe latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.
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Jeffro
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9142413/#:~:text=Research%20from%20the%202014%20Religious,JWs%20converted%20into%20the%20faith.
Too busy at the moment for this nonsense.
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by St George of England inthe latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.
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Jeffro
I can’t dumb it down any more than I already have.
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by St George of England inthe latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.
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Jeffro
I’m just trying to work out why you think this is a reason to discount JW growth compared with other groups.
🤦♂️ Do you need everything explained to you?
If I have 5 apples and I eat four, then I buy 2 apples, I have 3 apples.
If Jane has 5 apples and eats only 1 apple, then buys 2 apples, she has 6 apples.
Jane has a higher apple retention rate regardless of separate factors related to growth.
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Jesus Christ Will Arrive Within The Next Four Minutes! (parody)
by Nathan Natas inyes, you read that correctly!.
jesus h. christ will arrive within the next four minutes!
in fact, by the time you read this, he may have alreadt arrrived!.
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Jeffro
joey jojo:
I just know what you say is true because you have used the internet to confirm that you arent a crackpot.
Yeah, it’s always best to “do your own research” by checking obscure YouTube channels and Reddit threads for this type of stuff. Don’t concern yourself with pesky ‘facts’ from reliable sources—they’re probably put there by demonses anyway.