Posts by Jeffro

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philipines disaster news up on jw.org

by Captain Blithering in

jw
friends

http://www.jw.org/en/news/

wouldn't it be nice if they said 'you know what, we've made millions in property sales recently, lets donate a couple million to a philipines relief fund..'

ten vans full, probably just for jw's.

Jeffro

emeth:

If a person is Df'd normal family affections and dealings continue.

No, emeth. You know, or reasonably should know, that that 'rule' only applies for disfellowshipped family members, such as a child, parent or spouse, still living in the family home. As indicated in this deplorable 'advice' to JWs:

*** w88 4/15 p. 28 pars. 13-14 Discipline That Can Yield Peaceable Fruit ***
13 Cutting off from the Christian congregation does not involve immediate death, so family ties continue. Thus, a man who is disfellowshipped or who disassociates himself may still live at home with his Christian wife and faithful children. Respect for God’s judgments and the congregation’s action will move the wife and children to recognize that by his course, he altered the spiritual bond that existed between them. Yet, since his being disfellowshipped does not end their blood ties or marriage relationship, normal family affections and dealings can continue.
14 The situation is different if the disfellowshipped or disassociated one is a relative living outside the immediate family circle and home. It might be possible to have almost no contact at all with the relative.

We all know that 'normal family affections and dealings' do not 'continue' toward former-JW relatives and family members outside the home. So answer the question honestly.

(But thanks for demonstrating the typical JW 'group-think' by using the exact same buzzwords - "normal family affections and dealings continue" - that the JW literature uses.)

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philipines disaster news up on jw.org

by Captain Blithering in

jw
friends

http://www.jw.org/en/news/

wouldn't it be nice if they said 'you know what, we've made millions in property sales recently, lets donate a couple million to a philipines relief fund..'

ten vans full, probably just for jw's.

Jeffro

emeth:

suppose that along the road i notice two people bloody and battered crying out for help,.. one i do recognise as my relative and one as someone i do not know. Its only logical and natural that i would rush to my relative first and do all i can to help her before i look at the other person.

I notice you ignored my question on an earlier thread though...

emeth, who would you look after first: a disfellowshipped blood relative, or a JW?

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philipines disaster news up on jw.org

by Captain Blithering in

jw
friends

http://www.jw.org/en/news/

wouldn't it be nice if they said 'you know what, we've made millions in property sales recently, lets donate a couple million to a philipines relief fund..'

ten vans full, probably just for jw's.

Jeffro

emeth:

@Jeffro that does not change the fact that a medical team is on location

There is no way of confirming the anonymous unofficial report at all, and it was not confirmed by CNN. The anonymous claim that the photo depicts doctors, or that they are 'Watchtower doctors', or that the photo actually relates to relief efforts, is not a 'fact'.

It seems more likely that it was an effort by an over-zealous JW in response to the legitimate aid agencies confirmed by CNNN indicated in the links I added in my previous post.

Even if they're actually doctors, there's still no indication at all that they are officially representing Watchtower.

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philipines disaster news up on jw.org

by Captain Blithering in

jw
friends

http://www.jw.org/en/news/

wouldn't it be nice if they said 'you know what, we've made millions in property sales recently, lets donate a couple million to a philipines relief fund..'

ten vans full, probably just for jw's.

Jeffro

emeth:

a team of doctors, medicines and nurses is also there since last tuesday, and some trucks with relief goods are also on their way.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1060363

iReport is a self-reporting media resource hosted by CNN.

The 'article' linked above is written by "unclaimed" and is "NOT VETTED BY CNN". As such, it's essentially an anonymous blog post.

Unlike the anonymous JW report that was not approved by CNN, the following were not posted anonymously, were posted earlier (except for 1), and were confirmed as legitimate by CNN:

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1059780

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1060022

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1060687

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1058936

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1059062

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1059575

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How men become homosexuals...

by Calebs Airplane in

finally, i've found the reason why some men become homosexuals.. the 1976 book "your youth: getting the best of it" explains it here in great detail.... .

Jeffro

fulltimestudent:

Jonathon strips naked, (underwear wasn't invented yet)

loincloths go back for thousands of years, and linen undergarments go back about 1500 years.

Even still, the supposed 'covenant' between David and Jonathan seems to be fairly 'intimate' (though it isn't mentioned at all in the Septuagint).

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Suggested Contribution Rate 1 Cor 16:2

by jonahstourguide in

in case you were in doubt, the suggested weekly rate is.

au$50.

page 8 nov 15 2013 study edition .

Jeffro

jonahstourguide:

However, the lowest denomination note with a yellow tinge in Ewe speaking countries is 500 francs.

So? Are you suggesting that there is some worldwide trend for notes of 'high' value to be remotely similar in colour to Australia's $50??

The fact that I arbitrarily chose Ewe for a language edition that uses black people instead of white people in images has absolutely nothing to do with any coincidences regarding the colour of the bank notes in Togo.

In any case, 500 CFA francs equals about US$1.03, and is about 1.4% of the minimum monthly wage in Togo.

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How men become homosexuals...

by Calebs Airplane in

finally, i've found the reason why some men become homosexuals.. the 1976 book "your youth: getting the best of it" explains it here in great detail.... .

Jeffro

Most kissing mentioned in the Bible is between people of the same sex.

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Suggested Contribution Rate 1 Cor 16:2

by jonahstourguide in

in case you were in doubt, the suggested weekly rate is.

au$50.

page 8 nov 15 2013 study edition .

Jeffro

Julia Orwell:

I've seen that $50 in a number of Watchtowers these last few years. I assumed the Australian wt would have our $50, the American ones would have their $50. the Japanese their equivalent of $50 and so on and so forth so it was an amount all JWs could identify the large amount.

There is only one English version of the Watch Tower. There isn't a separate image for Australia. Whilst it's true that images in JW magazines are sometimes different for different languages (e.g. certain language editions depict people primarily of the target ethnicity rather than white people*), there is no country-specific targeting in editions of the same language. (And they always use so-called 'US English' instead of proper English.)
*Compare the English and Ewe covers of the January 2014 Watchtower:

Phizzy:

That picture will have the subliminal effect of making JW's feel guilty if they put in a smaller bill, or just a widows "coin of small value".

Only for readers who recognise it as AU$50 at all. There's no instrinsic meaning that will subliminally 'instruct' readers unfamilar with the currency to donate any particular amount, other than possibly that notes are preferred to coins. But that's kind of obvious anyway.

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