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  conversation with a JW about the sun

  by neat blue dog in

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  jw: didn't we just hear somebody say that the sun's gonna blow up?.

  me: well, they were saying that it will expand and eventually burn out.. jw: but it can't do that, it just keeps blowing up inside and getting more power.. me: well, they were talking about stars in general, how they have a life span.. jw: but god didn't make it that way, it's firmly established to time indefinite.

  it's not like the sun is a regular star.

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  JW: But God didn't make it that way, it's firmly established to time indefinite. It's not like the sun is a regular star. Who gave them that right to decide?

  Stay in school, kids. Stay. In. School.
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  Watchtower practice of shunning relatives -- when did it begin?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  2. beliefs

  the oldest reference i can find is 2012, as follows:.

  "think of that if you are ever tempted to violate god’s command not to associate with your disfellowshipped relatives.

  " the watchtower 2012, 4/15/ p. 12 par.

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  Technically, while not spelled out as an official doctrine, Charles Taze Russell was the first to start shunning relatives. He was convinced his wife's sisters and friend was poisoning her mind with apostate ideas. He wrote letters to all of them forbidding any of them from speaking to his wife. During their divorce proceedings, it was indicated that Russell had gone around to most everyone and told them not to speak to his wife.

  I am not sure when it became an official practice, but it was way earlier than 2012. I know they emphasized it heavy in the early 80s after "The Great Apostasy" and Ray Franz was df'd.
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  When Rutherford Changed the Name to Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

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  This is from the 1932 Yearbook. Evidently, "Jehovah" renamed them "Jehovah's Witnesses" in 1918, but forgot to tell the Judge until 1931. Don't you hate it when that happens?

  
  
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  When Rutherford Changed the Name to Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

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  Most interesting info you've found

  by Freedom rocks in

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  i was wondering what is the most interesting or the strangest fact you've found out since leaving the jws about:.

  the bible.

  god .

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  Vestigial traits in humans. We have several. Here is a non-scientific article about some of them. The third eyelid is the most interesting to me.
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  When did Watchtower writings start becoming anonymous?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  2. friends

  i think most people know that authorship was credited in the old watchtower literature, but at some point everything became anonymous.

  i still do not know exactly when this started, but i found this in charles taze russell's last will and testament.

  his will was not honored in other respects, so i doubt they would have honored this request.

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  I was asking out of curiosity.

  I don't think the Watchtower articles should be anonymous at all. JWs need to know that Joe Schmo is writing their article and "God's organization".
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  No Bible = No God?

  by menrov in

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  2. bible

  some doubt about the bible completely, some partially.

  what if the bible turns out to be a product of humans, nothing divine.

  would you still believe in a creator?.

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  People believed in gods long before the Bible was every written. I suspect that whether the Bible came into circulation or not, this would still be the case.
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  When did Watchtower writings start becoming anonymous?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think most people know that authorship was credited in the old watchtower literature, but at some point everything became anonymous.

  i still do not know exactly when this started, but i found this in charles taze russell's last will and testament.

  his will was not honored in other respects, so i doubt they would have honored this request.

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  I have never heard of Angels and Women. Was it a significant book in Russell or Rutherford's time?

  Without knowing what the book is about, I will say that I have read about many women writing things and either using a male pseudonym or giving it no authorship at all. That could be a possibility in this case.
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  Calling All Watchtower Historians ... What was the V.F.V.?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  2. friends

  in the may 27, 1942 edition of the consolation, the watchtower society devoted several pages to the controversy surrounding the burial of joseph rutherford.

  in several sections, they write about "the opposition" in vague terms without much specificity as to who these other groups of people were who were supposedly persecuting them.

  one section refers to a group called v.f.v.

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  I was kind of hoping that the VFV was some sort of secret apostate group from the '40s!
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  Calling All Watchtower Historians ... What was the V.F.V.?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  2. friends

  in the may 27, 1942 edition of the consolation, the watchtower society devoted several pages to the controversy surrounding the burial of joseph rutherford.

  in several sections, they write about "the opposition" in vague terms without much specificity as to who these other groups of people were who were supposedly persecuting them.

  one section refers to a group called v.f.v.

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  The typo theory makes sense. Thanks!