Posts by ThomasCovenant

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JW Careers - Meter Reading??

by rrb2016 in

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i remember in the 70's and 80's the big jw career was pin striping...in addition to the regular careers like janitorial and window washing.

now i hear the big career is meter reading in the pacific northwest.

what are some of the other jw careers that are hot in the 2012 and the "end is closer than ever?

ThomasCovenant

Forgive my ignorance, but what is 'pinstriping'?

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does the watchtower have some sort of dictionary for people to consult for words they use such as publisher, ministry, pioneer.. just wondering as i don't wanna just say what my version of those words mean if they aren't exactly true..

ThomasCovenant

Yes, Farkel's glossary of Watchtower terms

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/6021/1/Dub-Glossary

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The Tower of Babel - Languages: Isn't this story unhinged?

by james_woods in

besides the obvious fact that it is historically ridiculous - can anybody make any sense out of this story?.

god was somehow afraid that man was developing too much technology?

just because they were building a tower?.

ThomasCovenant

And people wonder why I think people who believe the Bible are slightly unhinged.

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Introduction Bio

by JakeM2012 in

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hi everyone, i would like to introduce myself and tell my story.

from the standpoint of being one of jehovahs witnesses, my whole family is deeply involved as i was the 5th generation of witness and any children that my brothers or sister have will be the sixth generation.

as some of my brothers and sisters are grandparents, i guess that makes their grandchildren a potential 7th generation.

ThomasCovenant

Thank you very much for posting that.

As regards

'My question still remains unanswered, "how could we all (my family) have been so stupid" '

I don't know the answer, but you are certainly not the only one.

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Worldwide meeting times and locations now available on ''jw.org''

by ThomasCovenant in

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apologies if this has already been posted, but just noticed on jw.org that as well as a 'convention' search there is now a 'meetings' search.. my hometown congregation is there along with address and times and phone numbers.

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http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=frnspnpbrtzgt .

ThomasCovenant

Apologies if this has already been posted, but just noticed on jw.org that as well as a 'convention' search there is now a 'meetings' search.

My hometown congregation is there along with address and times and phone numbers

http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=FRNsPnPBrTZGT

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The Flood - ? So how did kangaroos get to Australia? How come they are no where else?

by BroMac in

*** w62 1/15 p. 64 questions from readers ***.

questions from readers.

how can we account for animals in isolated lands when the flood is said to have covered all the earth and the only land animals that survived were those in the ark?p.

ThomasCovenant

It is approximately 7,000 miles from Ararat to South America. (via a large wet blue section now known as the Atlantic, ridged or not ridged).

If the two sloths on the Ark (two toed or three toed variety I'm not sure which ones Noah took) travelled a foot a minute for 8 hours a day it would have taken them about 210 years to reach their destination. Average life span is about 20 years.

Sloth arrival was therefore about 2160 BC.

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Which 'THIS' generation will by no means pass away?

by ThomasCovenant in

i know this has been said a thousand times already but oodads posting reminded me of when i got to thinking about the generation teaching at a family get together we had a couple of months ago with some witness relatives and so much wanted to ask this question at the table.

imagine it is the year 1914, and jesus walks into the room and sees these four generations of males.

he says ''this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur''.. which of the four generations is he talking about?.

ThomasCovenant

Oodad, yes it is very stupid reasoning.

At our mealtable great grandfather and grandfather are Witnesses. Father and son are not. It was the grandfather who commented on how nice it was that there were four generations of the same family at the table. I wanted to say 'yes but actually all one generation' but then realized even that wasn't quite correct in WT land.

We needed several more generations to come along over the next 90 years to still be the 'this generation' that Jesus evidently was referring to.

By the way, this is not a picture of my family.

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Which 'THIS' generation will by no means pass away?

by ThomasCovenant in

i know this has been said a thousand times already but oodads posting reminded me of when i got to thinking about the generation teaching at a family get together we had a couple of months ago with some witness relatives and so much wanted to ask this question at the table.

imagine it is the year 1914, and jesus walks into the room and sees these four generations of males.

he says ''this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur''.. which of the four generations is he talking about?.

ThomasCovenant

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Which 'THIS' generation will by no means pass away?

by ThomasCovenant in

i know this has been said a thousand times already but oodads posting reminded me of when i got to thinking about the generation teaching at a family get together we had a couple of months ago with some witness relatives and so much wanted to ask this question at the table.

imagine it is the year 1914, and jesus walks into the room and sees these four generations of males.

he says ''this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur''.. which of the four generations is he talking about?.

ThomasCovenant

I know this has been said a thousand times already but Oodads posting reminded me of when I got to thinking about the generation teaching at a family get together we had a couple of months ago with some Witness relatives and so much wanted to ask this question at the table. But didn't.

Imagine it is the year 1914, and Jesus walks into the room and sees these four generations of males. He says ''this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur''.

Which of the four generations is he talking about?

None of the four in the picture. It is the generation that is going to come along in about 90 years time when the oldest three generations are dead and the baby in the picture is at death's door. That is the generation Jesus was addressing when he walked in to the room and saw the men in the picture.

We had four generations of the same family around the table and one of the Witnesses did comment on it. Not wanting to start an arguement I refrained from pointing out my take on the generation teaching.

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has anyone lied to the two elders

by wasted in

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just a ?

as ive got cobe and my daughters fil coming round nxt wk to grill me, first time 2 of the blighters have turned up together so im expecting the inevitable.

by the way not been to a meeting in 2.5 yrs after 35 yrs in the b/s,and just wondering how much they pressure to get the answers they want.

ThomasCovenant

No. I told them respectfully that after researching the society's own literature and history I no longer believe the Governing body are who they say they are. Nothing happened.

Personally I think they won't believe you anyway if you lie to them otherwise why aren't you at the meetings?

By telling them the truth I feel I have kept my self respect and they will respect me for being honest.