Topics Started by cathyk

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Do all people go to heaven - my wife has started her "Bible Study"
by insearchoftruth in
1. watchtower
2. bible
ok, just got off the phone with my wife and she has started a new bible study with still another new sister.

she likes this woman, unfortunately.

well my wife's original intention was to learn how to study the bible, well it seems that the sister twisted this to ask her to provide a topic she wants to know more about and then she will show my wife what the bible says about this.
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Marley Cole's "Jehovah's Witnesses - The New World Society"
by witnessgirl in
1. watchtower
2. bible
well, i just finished reading marley cole's "jehovah's witnesses - the new world society" book from 1955. i'll provide a few quotes to introduce it in case you aren't familiar with the book.

ray franz in crisis of conscience, p74, 2004 hc edition: cole wrote the book as if he were a non-witness writing an objective account.

the idea was that by having the book published by an outside publishing firm it might reach persons who normally would not take society literature.
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For Harry Potter fans
by free2beme in
1. social
2. entertainment
thought you might like to see the new trailer they released.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtq5kgmzs8e.
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Anybody here a Jane Austen fan?
by Bonnie_Clyde in
1. jw
2. friends
never thought i would be, but now i've watched 3 versions of sense and sensibility, 2 versions of pride and prejudice, 2 of persuasion, and 2 of emma.

also saw one of mansfield park, but i didn't like it that much.

there's only one left that i haven't seen--northanger abbey.. .
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Urgent health alert.
by IP_SEC in
1. jw
2. friends
dangerous chemical dihydrogen monoxide now found in every river, lake, and ocean on the planet.

it was only a matter of time.. http://www.dhmo.org/.
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Divine Plan As Seen in the Great Pyramid: Now on Google Books
by cabasilas in
1. watchtower
2. bible
google books now has up russell's book: the divine plan of the ages and the corroborative testimony of the great pyramid.

it's a special edition that combines volume 1 of studies in the scriptures with the chapter from volume 3 on the great pyramid.

i believe this edition dates from about 1912 or so.
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Steven T. Byington / Bible in Living English
by cathyk in
1. watchtower
2. bible
there's an article posted by william dalton at the andover townsman on steven t. byington, translator of the bible in living english.

there are some interesting tidbits about the man which i didn't know, including the fact that he was an anarchist!.

you might want to head over to the comboxes, because there's only me (with a neutral post) and a couple of rah-rah jw posts.
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Some questions about WT sources
by witnessgirl in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
something has been bugging me for years and years, and always bugged me when i was an active witness.

i've never mentioned it before and i've never seen it discussed.

like with a lot of other matters, i just assumed that this meant that i was missing something that everyone else understood.
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How Alexander Hislop's crackpot pseudo-history influenced JW's
by Terry in
1. jw
2. experiences
the founder of (what is today called) jehovah's witnesses was a self-styled "pastor" charles taze russell.. his family was scottish presbyterian.

his mother must have inculcated all the fearsome lore of hell into her son at a very early age.

he often chalked on sidewalks warnings of hellfire for passers by as a child.. somewhere along the line he tangled with an atheist in a debate and was left torn to shreds by the beating he took.
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Went to Catholic funeral yesterday- "The Invisible Kingdom"
by Thechickennest in
1. jw
2. experiences
yesterday, i went to a funeral of a long time friend of my extended family.

it was a nice service that lasted about 45 minutes.

there was the usual catholic rituals and communion.