The mention of the UN/NGO scandal was a big mistake for the speaker to mention. Now anyone who hasn't heard about it is going to be curious. What an idiot.
daniel-p
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Elders School Notes, Part 7: Trust Us!!!!
by sir82 ini tried to edit part 6, but once again the system ate my notes.
so i will try here.. talk # 22: trust the faithful and discreet slave - brother sico .
synopsis: we can trust the faithful and discreet slave (fds).
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Excerpt from Awake!, January 2006
by daniel-p inlast night i was reading the new awake!
magazine (no, i'm not a glutton for punishment), in bed with my wife sleeping beside me.
on page 5, i read: "of course, some people see no good news on the horizon.
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daniel-p
The last two sentences in the Mold: Friend of Foe! article:
"Of course, we still have much to learn about mold. But knowledge of God's amazing creations can only be to our advantage."
No scriptures in the main article, but there is a little box entitled "Mold in Bible Times?" with Lev. 14:34-48 cited.
Here are the subjects in the new Awake! in order of apearance:
1. Cover article; "What Will The Future Bring?"
2. Article on cutting.
3. Mold article
4. Canadian Geese article
5. The Bible's Viewpoint: Why Look to the Bible for Guidance? (because the Bible says we should)
6. Article on Michael Agricola and the Finnish Bible
7. One page article on how "marvelous" your red blood cells are
8. Real-life experience article of a young man who has Lou Gehrig's disease
9. From Our Readers (nothing but praise from people all over the world)
10. How Would You Answer (here's the cereal box part) -
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Elders School Notes, Part 7: Trust Us!!!!
by sir82 ini tried to edit part 6, but once again the system ate my notes.
so i will try here.. talk # 22: trust the faithful and discreet slave - brother sico .
synopsis: we can trust the faithful and discreet slave (fds).
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daniel-p
Thanks, Blondie. I still have no idea what "heart harmony" is supposed to mean. Would not all "good" people on earth be in "heart harmony" with what Jesus taught, and therefore be spared at Armageddon?
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Monthly issue of Awake increases circulation
by truthseeker inif you have the december 22, 2005 awake!
you will notice that the circulation is 22,842,000.. i received the january monthly issue of the awake!
yesterday, and noticed that the circulation jumped to 32,412,000. .
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daniel-p
I think it is more something like 75 cents per mag. You have to count labor; of course Bethelites don't get paid but they do get room and board, which amounts to more than what the Society would be paying workers, especially for overseas printeries. There are so many services provided at Bethel, they have numbers for how much it costs them for each Bethelite, and how much it costs them to print one mag. I heard the figures when I was at Bethel, but I forgot since then....
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Elders School Notes, Part 7: Trust Us!!!!
by sir82 ini tried to edit part 6, but once again the system ate my notes.
so i will try here.. talk # 22: trust the faithful and discreet slave - brother sico .
synopsis: we can trust the faithful and discreet slave (fds).
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daniel-p
"Heart harmony" is one of the most eyebrow-rasing phrases I've heard in a while.
They brought that out at my KM School as well, saying "heart harmony, not intelectual harmony."
Sooo... it does not have to make sense, and it's supposed to move me emotionally?? Is that what they are saying? -
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Excerpt from Awake!, January 2006
by daniel-p inlast night i was reading the new awake!
magazine (no, i'm not a glutton for punishment), in bed with my wife sleeping beside me.
on page 5, i read: "of course, some people see no good news on the horizon.
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daniel-p
Any mention of Armageddon in the publications is just some little blurb about how "soon now, Armageddon will end all this suffering, pain, etc., and Jehovah will usher in a new paradise!"
There is no mention of what Armageddon will likely involve.
It's just "Armageddon is God's War to end all wars."
No mention of who the survivors will be, other than "worshipers of Jehovah," or those "fearing his name." -
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Excerpt from Awake!, January 2006
by daniel-p inlast night i was reading the new awake!
magazine (no, i'm not a glutton for punishment), in bed with my wife sleeping beside me.
on page 5, i read: "of course, some people see no good news on the horizon.
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daniel-p
Last night I was reading the new Awake! magazine (no, I'm not a glutton for punishment), in bed with my wife sleeping beside me.
On page 5, I read: "Of course, some people see no good news on the horizon. Among them are prophets of doom who seem to take delight IN HERALDING AN APOCALYPTIC ANNIHILATION OF PLANET EARTH. Their view of the future has room for few, if any, survivors."
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Has this writer even read the old literature? Has he (presumably he) even seen the pulp illustrations in EVERY SINGLE OLDER BOOK published by the WTS? Like how everyone is screaming, running around, clutching their babies as fire and hailstone rain down upon their heads? And how in the 'new system' someone is driving a bulldozer, scraping up all the residue of the past world in a huge heap....
When I read that, I let out a loud laugh and woke my wife up. She saw I was reading the new Awake, said something uninteligible, and turned away.
So on page 8 they have some pictures of walking soldiers, a woman crying, and a thin, boney arm holding a bowl with a few oats. On the facing page, they have an obviously middle-class woman holding out her Bible for a more "ethnic" woman to read. The caption reads "Jehovah's Witnesses are known for preaching the good news."
The logic, people, the logic of these writers defies imagination!
Oh and I LOVE this part: on page 10 they have an article about cutters ("self-injurers") and then on page 13 they have an article called "MOLD Friend or Foe!"
I do have a hunch, though, that they took on some new writers for the revamped Awake!. The prose, although watered-down and generic as ever, has the hint of newer blood.
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Monthly issue of Awake increases circulation
by truthseeker inif you have the december 22, 2005 awake!
you will notice that the circulation is 22,842,000.. i received the january monthly issue of the awake!
yesterday, and noticed that the circulation jumped to 32,412,000. .
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daniel-p
"I think they lack competent writers. With channeling Bethelites into law and engineering and the death and descent into senility of the others, I guess they forgot someone had to have half a brain to write the articles."
You might be surprised by the many brothers at Bethel who would love to get into the Writing Dept. Some of them well-qualified, in fact, OVER-qualified. I think you know what I mean.... -
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USE EDUCATION TO PRAISE JEHOVAH outline
by ackack inuse education to praise jehovah no 146 (11/00)
note to the speaker:.
present this material in an appealing and reasonable way.
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daniel-p
"Like the claim that the organization is teach us valuable things. Yet if we gave that some thought as to just what those valuable things are."
Oh come now, tortillas are a fascinating subject! If only people knew more about tortillas this world would be a better place! -
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JESUS AND JEHOVAH ARE ONE
by Jesus Witness inhow many true gods are there.
did not like hell or jesus being god and i'm sure quite a few other things too.
after all jesus did say:
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daniel-p
Thanks for enlightening me with that... now I know what's wrong with the JW's! We don't believe in the Trinity! Holy shit, if only we knew the folly of our ways!
All we need to do is to adopt the Trinity and everything will be cool again....