Numbers 4 - 8 - 12 - 16- were blank screens ? Anybody else have this problem ?
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Those were ads. If you have an ad blocker on, they appear blank. I turned mine off to verify... yep ads.
tim3l0rd
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OMG They are right here in River City!
by myway2007 injacksonville, fl - the local newspaper had an article on the convention going on for the next two weekends.
while i could not find the article, i was able to find this slide show of this weekend's events.
the newspaper article was interesting as it discussed what a wonderful job they were doing cleaning the arena seats and bathrooms and everyone was enjoying their job.
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The "generation", how long, oh Jeehoober???
by DATA-DOG inhow long till the wtbts gets wise and reverts to boozerford's more plausible explanation of "generation"??
let's "face the facts" ( lol!!!
) and admit that this is the best explanation that the wtbts ever had.
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Watchtower's Works
by Hold Me-Thrill Me inthey take our trust our love our youth our family our friends our life our hopes our happiness our children our parents our vitality our minds our hearts.
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then they kill us.
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tim3l0rd
They take our trust our love our youth our family our friends our life our hopes our happiness our children our parents our vitality our minds our hearts.
Then they Kill Us.
That's what they claim Satan does to those that leave. How funny and sad it is to see it now from the other side...
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The "generation", how long, oh Jeehoober???
by DATA-DOG inhow long till the wtbts gets wise and reverts to boozerford's more plausible explanation of "generation"??
let's "face the facts" ( lol!!!
) and admit that this is the best explanation that the wtbts ever had.
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tim3l0rd
I think the reason for the overlapping generations is to put a new deadline on the generation teaching. Increases have been slowing and non-existent in some lands. If you look at the history of JWs, there is a significant bump in membership whenever there was a looming deadline- 1925, 1975, 1980s, & 1990s.
The 1995 "understanding" of the generation was too broad and basically gave no timeline for the end to come. Combine this with the relaxing of views on higher education and it's easy to see why the increases slowed significantly (the internet helped too, of course). With the new understanding, this GB have put a new deadline on the "generation" (around 120 years from 1914) and have stated that the 2nd group of the "overlapping generation" is advanced in age. Combine this with the increasing restrictions on higher education and it's easy to see that they are ramping up the urgency to push more hours out of JWs and increase membership.
I don't think they will change the generation teaching until the clock runs out or almost runs out on the current teaching (around 2034). The SOP of the last few decades is to only change an "understanding" when it is clear that the current "understanding" is no longer valid. Changing it back to the idea that it is just the anointed would remove the urgency just as the 1995 change did.
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About The GB-7
by coalize injust asking about this "new light" of the 7 member of the governing body (the gb-7) being the fds.
what is the point?.
what biblical "argument" have they given about that ?
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tim3l0rd
The reason they gave for the FDS being the GB only and not all of the anointed is that the GB in the first century represented the FDS and "fed" the other anointed. So the FDS could not be all anointed, however all anointed receive the benefits that the FDS receives when Jesus comes as they are included in the FDS by extension.
Clear as mud, right?
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My proposal for Mankind to end all doubts...
by James Mixon injust watch the movie "contact" and it gave me an idea.. our population on earth today 8-9 billion, a day where all of mankind pray, beseech,.
plead for god to show us a sign that he is still up there.
one day all around the world.
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tim3l0rd
If you're in to AI theories, God hasn't been created yet. Once AI surpasses human intelligence and can grow on its own, the possibilities are limitless. An ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) would be able to grow and evolve to the point that comparing our intelligence to its intelligence would be like comparing an ant's intelligence to our own. This could occur within just a short time span after being invented/created. The ASI would have an understanding of the universe that we could not comprehend and would be able to perform godlike feats.
If you haven't read any of the articles on AI and the potential for disaster, I recommend googling it. It's an interesting topic. Several tech innovators have gone on record about the potential dangers of AI.
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How to Block an Interrogation by J.W's
by The Searcher in"don't you believe that this is god's spirit-directed organization?".
"do you believe that god is teaching us through the faithful & discreet slave?
"who else has the truth?
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tim3l0rd
I think a good catch 22 question to come back with would be something like this: "If someone came to the understanding that the generation could not be a literal 80 years prior to it being published by the faithful and discreet slave, would that person be holding an apostate view until the faithful slave published the change in understanding?" -
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Return to Jehovah -
by coalize injust because i'm an hopeless curious, and it's a bunch of year i didn't open a wtbts book, i downloaded right now the new booklet "return to jehovah" in french (my language).. i read the 3 first lines, and i was already bored.
what is this childish way of speaking ?
it's me, it's just the french translation or it's the case in another language too?.
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They've been patting themselves on the back for a while about simplifying "the truth". The release of the gray Bible, the simplified WT, and the recent articles about no longer using types/anti-types were all announced as wonderful provisions to help more people understand. Meanwhile those with any education see it as insulting that we're being spoken to as children. -
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Governing Body TV
by punkofnice inso, the holy, holy, holy governing body(tm) are on tv and very much to be worshipped (like rock stars).. do you think there will come a time when the jws won't have public talks (as an example), and rely totally on the tele evengelism from the gb?
i say this because a public speaker used to be offered travelling expenses when visiting a different kingdom hell.
either the popes will stop this, it already has been stopped.
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tim3l0rd
I definitely think a monthly broadcasted talk is coming. More and more Service Meeting talks are including videos from jw.borg. In ASL, all of the letters from the branch are now in video format and played for the congregation instead of the local brothers signing the letters.
At the rate of change so far, I'd speculate that it'll be less than a year before the first public talk is broadcast.
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Governing Body TV
by punkofnice inso, the holy, holy, holy governing body(tm) are on tv and very much to be worshipped (like rock stars).. do you think there will come a time when the jws won't have public talks (as an example), and rely totally on the tele evengelism from the gb?
i say this because a public speaker used to be offered travelling expenses when visiting a different kingdom hell.
either the popes will stop this, it already has been stopped.
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tim3l0rd
In ASL and most other foreign language congregations, they still compensate the visiting speaker for traveling. We have a set formula based on distance from his home congregation. If he doesn't accept hospitality, someone usually offers cash as well to pay for a meal.