Posts by wizzstick

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Jehovah is King! New Light or muck up in 15/01/14 WT?

by wizzstick in

so the new jan wt article on "100 years of kingdom rulehow does it affect you?

" is up, which i think has its own thread.

but over on jwr poster cg4205 has noticed something that demands a seperate thread i think.. at the top of the article, in the can you answer box, it says:.

wizzstick

I seem to remember that too - but that point is not discussed in the article. It's Jesus that is referred to as king.

So a (really) embarressing typo I guess.

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Jehovah is King! New Light or muck up in 15/01/14 WT?

by wizzstick in

so the new jan wt article on "100 years of kingdom rulehow does it affect you?

" is up, which i think has its own thread.

but over on jwr poster cg4205 has noticed something that demands a seperate thread i think.. at the top of the article, in the can you answer box, it says:.

So the new Jan WT article on "100 Years of Kingdom Rule—How Does It Affect You?" is up, which I think has its own thread. But over on JWR poster cg4205 has noticed something that demands a seperate thread I think.

At the top of the article, in the Can You Answer box, it says:

How did Jehovah become King in 1914, and what were some of the Kingdom’s early accomplishments? (Bold mine)

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20140115/100-years-kingdom-rule/

What? Surely this is Jesus?

It looks like it is a typo rather than new light as paragraph 3 makes the clear point that it's Jesus. But come on, the typo checking team cocked up with the Numbers numbering in the Silver Sword and now this.

Where is the Holy Spirit these days?!

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Question About 607BCE and How That Date Was Picked - Help JW Scholars

by Comatose in

so i've been sharing some a little at a time with my sister.

she is married and very scared of actually learning too much.

she doesn't want to ruin her marriage.

wizzstick

Thanks Jeffro.

Your help on these queries is always appreciated.

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Question About 607BCE and How That Date Was Picked - Help JW Scholars

by Comatose in

so i've been sharing some a little at a time with my sister.

she is married and very scared of actually learning too much.

she doesn't want to ruin her marriage.

wizzstick

Am I right in thinking that JW's get the 2,520 years in two ways?

A) As above, 7 (years) x 360 (days) equals 2,520 (then day for a year)

B) 3.5 times of 1,260 days doubled to 7 times of 2,520 days (then day for a year)

Or is one way the old way of working it out and the other the new way?

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Hi

by LucidChimp in

jw
friends

i've been lurking here for a year or two now (since i stumbled across ttatt and was stumbled by it), i even started an account some while back and asked a couple of questions.. but i never actually stood up and said hi... so hi, my name's jon and i'm a dubaholic.. .

i was "born in" in the 80s - and grew up on a liquid diet of cheap suits and revelation book pictures (i mean really, group after group just staring at the pictures while not listening, i must have spent more time staring at those pictures than i have any work of art in my life, literally hours at each lurid picture).

i "left" in my teens, but apparently lacking any kind of actual sense, returned to studying with a childhood friend from the congregation in my twenties (although i was never baptised, my entire small family were dubs, so i saw more witnesses than "worldly people" on a regular basis.. they love bombed my arse for years!)..

wizzstick

Welcome from London, UK.

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Celebrate my first post of many :)

by Mellow in

jw
friends

hi everyone, my name is mellow (some names have been changed) lol.

as no doubt many of you were, i was born in.

i am now in my mid 20s living in a jehovah's witness household.

wizzstick

Welcome from London!

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Question About 607BCE and How That Date Was Picked - Help JW Scholars

by Comatose in

so i've been sharing some a little at a time with my sister.

she is married and very scared of actually learning too much.

she doesn't want to ruin her marriage.

wizzstick

So, it all hinges on the fact that to a JW or other fundamentalist, the bible cant be wrong. If Cyrus started ruling in 536 then the end must have happened exactly 70 years later...

Worth baring in mind that JW's are inconsistent with the whole, if the Bible says 70 years then it must be a literal 70 years.

Check out Tyre:

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200275991/23/0

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Stand For Pure Worship, what convinces you that the governing body is being used by Jehovah? Thanks.

by The Quiet One in

i struggled with this question before i got baptised.

what helped you to overcome any doubts?.

wizzstick

Let me see here...

Selective use of quotations in reply.

Using a yellow underliner.

and mentioning someone that no R&F Witness would have a scoobie about...

I thought Rulf Furuli research debunked Carl Jonnson's theories completely, but some have a hard time accepting that for some reason. Another day I'll touch on that.

Ladies and gentleman - Scholar returns!

With that - I leave this thread and any future SFPW threads too. (To think I wasted my 100th reply on Scholar - gah!)

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ex-jw-uk

by bigmac in

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friends

i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.

i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?

i've already found several by reading older posts..

wizzstick

There is a Meet Up group that some in the UK might want to check out:

http://www.meetup.com/ex-jehovahswitness-uk/

They have two Xmas dinners coming up:

Saturday, December 7, 2013

12:00 PM

Portsmouth

Saturday, December 14, 2013

7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Vauxhall, London

Well worth joining up to meet up. It really helps to meet up and discuss experiences with other Ex-JW's and fading JW's.

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Anticipating future changes in the organisation - crystal ball gazing

by yadda yadda 2 in

i posted the comment below on another thread on elders stepping down.

although i left the jw's years ago, i still hold a fascination for the evolution of the religion and am curious on what future trends and developments may occur.

so i thought i would start a thread on what future changes you think will occur in the organisation as the years go by, either doctrinally or organisationally:.

wizzstick

My prediction?

They will dump 1914 at some point. And they'll replace it with a new eschatology.

But to keep the masses happy, they'll place birthdays into a conscience area.