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  ...'special'.. televised talk today.

  by zeb in

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  29th april.. anyone have a lead on the ..'special'.. talk that my wife et al has to travel miles to hear/see?

  just so i can be advised.. thanks..

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  Are these "special" talks or events EVER really special? It seems that the R&F never stop getting excited over the abuse of this term...
  
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  JDub with pink hair at a cart - Video from SW England

  by Wakanda in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maenrmttb-u&list=plj1cxa6hnc11blsv8iz9lzlux_zz6onyd&index=109.

  go to minute nine for the third clip.

  what is up with that hair???

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  Phizz,

  The old boy saying he had studied since he was 5, and is now 71, why then could he not defend his " faith" ?? Why did the old bugger have to run off ?
  

  Because he's been told not to dialogue with anyone asking embarrassing questions or opposing in any way. Just shut down the display and move off. The GB realizes that someone dialoguing like you (and I) used to may indeed look into things and wind up leaving! We both spoke to such ones, and look what happened—we left!
  

  Your days, Phizzy, are long gone.
  
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  Searching for this Site

  by Phizzy in

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  2. tech-support

  i tried searching for this site by entering "jehovahs-witness.com" and this site did not come up on the first page !

  it was jw dot org etc all the way down !.

  how can we change this ?.

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  Do you think that the 'puter geeks at org HQ have put together some sort of computer program that automatically "searches" for "Jehovah's Witnesses" and its cognates all the time, perhaps from roving IP addresses, so that the "competition" like this site and other anti-JW ones are driven off the first page on a G search because such hits appear in the order of popular searches? In other words, their goal is to have only JWdotORG addys come up on page one of the G search results. I wouldn't put it past them...
  
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  Wealth, Poverty, and Morality

  by SecondRateMind in

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  2. friends

  i am interested in the approach this forum takes to money.

  apart from sex, (which i am quite relaxed about) it seems to me that wealth is the surest divider between those who are moral, and those who are not.. it seems jesus thought so, also.

  luke 16:19-31 kjv describes well enough his dusty attitude to the rich who do not succour the poor.. and this world has many poor: so many, it might seem that we can do nothing about it, and twist his words; 'the poor ye shall have always with you, but me, ye shall not have always.

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  Let us take all the world's wealth, and divide it equitably amongst all the world's people… And let us do this voluntarily, because we think it good and right and just.
  

  Two thoughts:

  1. Your post could not help but bring to mind the observation of Notre Dame scholar David Bentley Hart whose recent translation of the New Testament (NT) has caused quite a stir in many circles. Both in its introduction and in an article he published about doing the translation, he spoke about the earliest Christians who would have been by modern standards "fairly obnoxious: civically reprobate, ideologically unsound, economically destructive, politically irresponsible, socially discreditable." He especially dotes on the NT condemnation of "the idolatry of riches, wealth misused, wealth immorally gained" ( Intro. p. xxv). Maybe he feels a tad bit guilty about making so much money from his scholarship and his academic success (a rare phenomenon)? It seems to me that, given the gap he puts between himself as a modern and the earliest Christians, he would not go along with your proposal, even though he recognizes the condemnation of wealth in the NT.
  

  2. Beside Hart, how do you propose bringing Trump, Putin, and all their ilk on board?

  How do you feel about reality?
  
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  What are the "inner rooms" of Isaiah 26:20? The answer may surprise you !!!

  by jwdoctrine in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "go, my people, enter your inner rooms, and shut your doors behind you.hide yourself for a brief moment until the wrath has passed by.

  "(isaiah 26:20).

  one of the questions that seem to trouble the governing body of the jehovah's witnesses in recent year is this: what will jehovah's witnesses be doing during the destruction of babylon the great?

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  It's the rNWT in its study version. Last I heard (maybe 2 years ago?) they were still working on the gospels and it was only available online. It will likely not be printed. As somebody pointed out on another thread here, they can't even afford to give the Spanish-speaking Witnesses the regular rNWT, so they could not afford to print an English edition of the rNWT Study Bible.
  
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  JDub with pink hair at a cart - Video from SW England

  by Wakanda in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maenrmttb-u&list=plj1cxa6hnc11blsv8iz9lzlux_zz6onyd&index=109.

  go to minute nine for the third clip.

  what is up with that hair???

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  Maybe she's got a letter from her doctor saying it's OK? You know, like some brothers get such notes for permission to grow a beard. Or maybe she once sang with Prince and got permission that way? Maybe her BOE are all color blind? Maybe I should go and have another drink of Spatlese...
  
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  Older Watchtowers and Awakes added on jw.org Online library

  by AuntBee in

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  2. bible

  wt back to 1950, aw back to 1970, like the cd rom library... .

  why?

  lol.

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  Maybe it took them some time to go back and edit out certain embarrassing things? They ARE into rewriting history, even if, like sparky notes, they have left some blunders in.
  
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  Major Article in Today's Philadelphia Inquirer on JW Child Abuse

  by Room 215 in

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  2. scandals

  http://www.philly.com/philly/news/jehovahs-witnesses-sexual-abuse-children-beliefs-rules.html.

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  The best overall introduction to the issue yet. Thanks for the post. It's difficult to choose the best line, but this one will do:

  "the religion's leaders do everything in their power to avoid having to offer a full and public accounting of the depth of the problems that are festering below the surface. Hints of their scope only emerge in court battles and secret files that are leaked online."

  There's nothing like getting to the heart of the matter.
  
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  New World Translation REVISED Editions

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have noticed some posters (with frustration) asking for information regarding the nwt in various language editions.

  here is a list of some of the nwt revised language editions published so far:.

  albanian; arabic; armenian; chinese traditional 2017; danish 2017; dutch-netherlands 2017; estonian; haitian creole; italian 2017; korean 2014; modern greek 2017; norwegian 2017; portuguese 2015; romanian; russian; swahili 2017; swedish 2017; ukrainian; vietnamese.. not yet published: .

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  Great post and comments—thanks. There is much to consider here.
  
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  Do any of the JWs go out door to door with a territory any more?

  by Spiral in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i actually had a neighbor ask me that the other day (she knows i'm an "ex" jw) and i didn't really know the answer.

  i know there's a bit of cart witnessing going on (small town) and a lot of driving around to return visits.. but are they actually doing territory, not-at-homes, all of that?

  the neighbor said that eight years ago, when she bought her house, the jws were by "all the time".

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  I recently moved to a secure building, so they do not come by, but before that I lived outside a small town and we were visited D2D 2-3 times a year. The last time was a middle-aged sister alone (so I figure a pioneer) who gave me a tract, invited me to the KH, did not have a Bible out, and held a tablet in her hand the whole time. Clearly she was not trying to get into a conversation.