The rank and file get what they want....teachers who will tickle their ears.
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The Governing Body said it ... are you ready !!!!!!!!!!!!
by run dont walk ini was at a funeral this weekend, the first time i'd been in a kingdom hall in 13 years, the talk was short about a half hour, and all jw stuff as expected, but the one part of the talk made me laugh, the speaker said :.
"we (a group of elders), had the oppourtunity to speak with a member of the governing body at the assembly, and he said : "we the governing body are confident that armageddon is close, and are ready for jehovah's day, are you ready ???"".
i couldn't believe my ears, they will never learn.
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"Evidence God's Kingdom is Near" - Dec 06 Awake
by yaddayadda inthe society's completely nonsensical and contradictory stance on when god's kingdom comes is really brought home in this awake!
the dec 06 awake ("jesus - who was he") has as it's second article "the life he makes possible" (referring to jesus).
in that article is the subheading "evidence god's kingdom is near" which reads as follows:
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yaddayadda
Good points Terry. Much thanks for the re-formatting Jeff. I use Mozilla Firefox and have attempted a couple of tricks to try and get around this problem but nothing works.
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JESUS CAN NOT BE JEHOVAH GOD IN THE FLESH
by juni injehovah the god of the hebrew scriptures treatment of his creation is questionable.. jesus (his son) of the greek scriptures only on one occasion lost his temper - in the temple w/the money changers.
otherwise he was kind and patient and compassionate for people.. how can this be?
why such a difference in personality if they are the same "person"?
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yaddayadda
As far as I understand the orthodox trinity belief, the Father and the Son are recognised as entirely separate individuals (but equally 'God'), and Jehovah is recognised as the Father. So I don't think most trinitarians even hold to the belief that Jesus is literally Jehovah incarnate, although I know some more extreme trinitarians teach that.
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What proof is there that the JWs were chosen by Jehovah to be His people?
by VM44 inwhat proof is there that the jws were chosen by jehovah to be a "people for his name"?
growth in numbers is not proof, other religions also have displayed such growth over the last 100 years.. material prosperity is not proof as other religions also have considerable wealth, both in cash, property and real estate.. printing the watchtower and awake!
magazines certainly is not proof!.
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yaddayadda
If I was an apologist I would say, in all seriousness, because they alone are by FAR the largest global religion that holds to 6 fundamental scriptural truths: The truth about who God is (ie, not a trinity, etc), the truth about the soul and the condition of the dead, the truth about what God's kingdom is, they are neutral in politics and war, and they recognise and use God's name Jehovah (transliterated). Other groups may hold to some of these beliefs, in varying combinations, but none hold to all 6 of these prime truths, and they are all much smaller than the JW's and so it is not logical that Jehovah has used them.
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News - Neanderthal DNA 99.5% Like Ours
by Satanus injust recently, some scientists managed to sequence neanderthal dna.
while this discovery is not totally explored at this point, the following data are quite solid.. using different techniques, two teams of scientists separately sequenced large chunks of dna extracted from the femur of a 38,000-year-old neanderthal specimen found in a cave [image] 26 years ago in croatia.
one team sequenced more than one million base pairs and the other 65,000 pairs of the genome.. .
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yaddayadda
LOL, that would be amazing news if Neanderthals ever actually existed, which they never did. Hey, why don't they do a DNA sequence on Bigfoot.
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Jews for Jesus VS. JWs - Which one is closer to the 'truth'?
by Santisimo inhere's my question, which organization do you think follows the teachings of christ more accurately, jews for jesus or the jws?.
after all, jesus did live and die as a jew not a christian.
james, the brother of jesus carried the congregation immediately after his brother's death and he too, lived and died as a jew (even though he was killed by other jews who considered him a blasphemer).
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yaddayadda
Don't know enough about the 'Jews for Jesus' movement to say. You'll have to tell us more. I don't think it's a question of who is following James, or who is following Paul, etc. It seems absurd to try and carve up the new testament like that. You either accept the entire NT canon or none of it. It's a question of who today is following Jesus' own sayings and teachings correctly as recorded in the gospels.
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UK taking action against missing paedophiles
by fullofdoubtnow inhttp://uk.news.yahoo.com/17112006/325/web-site-missing-paedophiles-launched.html.
this is on yahoo news, it's been launched today.
web site of missing paedophiles launchedfriday november 17, 07:40 am.
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yaddayadda
There was an advert on Sky Television the other day (National Geographic Channel) about child pornography. It said it is getting worse. It said there are 100,000 child porn websites. Now this is what really infuriates me. Why the hell isn't something being done to shut all these websites down? Why aren't the governments, the UN, whatever, getting together, tracing these sites to the host servers, and telling the owners of the servers that they will be shut down unless they remove the sites immediately, no questions asked!? If child pornography was sold at your local 7-eleven or even adult shop, there would be a public outrage, if it was shown on television, there would be a public outrage, if it was shown at your local cinema, there would be a public outrage, but the world wide web is littered with thousands of these sick websites that are fueling paedophilia like wildfire, and evidently the authorities just shrug their shoulders and say "nothing we can do to stop it on the web". Well I don't buy it! It is rotten, really rotten. There is something very sinister going on in the background about this I feel.
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The Iraq Study Group...what's going to happen in Iraq?
by My MILs worst nightmare, a nonJW ini think that what will happen eventually, is that the us will strike a temporary deal with syria and iran.
we will then move 50-75,000 troops in iran up north to protect the oil fields since its in our best interests, and we will charge them in oil for doing so.
then we will leave the rest of the country to themselves.
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yaddayadda
Eventually they will just totally withdraw all the troops at once, cold turkey, just like Vietnam. It is the only way. A slow, drawn-out withdrawal just won't work.
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2007 District Convention "Follow the Christ!"
by TheListener inhaven't seen this yet so if anyone posted this already i apologize.. .
the theme for the 2007 district conventions is "follow the christ!
" i'm sure more information on the program will follow..
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yaddayadda
Double WOW. I can see something potentially very disturbing looming on the horizon with this. Prima facie it appears the Society may be humbling themselves and trying to put more emphasis on Jesus Christ, which would be fantastic, but it seems more likely that the Convention is going to be one huge propaganda exercise designed to elevate the Society and Governing Body on an even greater level, right up there with Jesus himself, the likes of which we havn't seen before. I can easily see that this may turn out to be a message that we must submissively follow the Watchtower Society, GB, FDS. etc, to an even more obsequious degree, because that is the SAME as following Christ!!
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What name would like to see for the "2007 District Convention"?
by new boy inthere many to choose from --------------how about .
" millions now living will soon be dead" (with no hope of a resurrection)--------------that means your unbaptized freinds and family members.
"how we have created god in our image" (jealous, hatedful, petty).
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yaddayadda
"I have hated, I have rejected your festivals, and I shall not enjoy the smell of your solemn assemblies." - Amos 5:21