Posts by cabasilas

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Secret WT document confirms their contempt for doctors

by IT Support in

a new article has been posted on jwtruth.com which traces the contempt the watchtower society has had for the medical profession down the decades.

a secret watchtower document issued to jehovah's witness hospital liaison committees clearly demonstrates they have no more respect for doctors today than in earlier years.

the society is seen to be arrogant, condescending, lacking judgment, acting fraudulently and unprofessionally, being manipulative and cynically irresponsible.

cabasilas

I'm playing devil's advocate here. Can we pin this document to the Society? If so, how?

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Secret WT document confirms their contempt for doctors

by IT Support in

a new article has been posted on jwtruth.com which traces the contempt the watchtower society has had for the medical profession down the decades.

a secret watchtower document issued to jehovah's witness hospital liaison committees clearly demonstrates they have no more respect for doctors today than in earlier years.

the society is seen to be arrogant, condescending, lacking judgment, acting fraudulently and unprofessionally, being manipulative and cynically irresponsible.

cabasilas

A fascinating document. Who exactly wrote this? The Society? Is there a cover letter which identifies the source? I may have missed it but I didn't see who signed the letter.

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The Associated Press Needs Your Help

by Lee Elder in

please distribute the following announcement:.

richard ostling, religion writer with the associated press needs.

to interview a headquarters staffer, and preferably two or three, who.

cabasilas

btt...

It would be very interesting if this could be substantiated.

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To: Barbara Anderson -- Re: First WatchTower President

by West70 in

i am primarily posting this to barbara anderson, but obviously everyone is welcome to correct or comment on my remarks as they see fit.

mrs. anderson, i realize that trying to cover all bases in your pending russell bio would be impossible, but i do hope that you will be able to include a section on the first president of the watch tower society, william h. conley.

i hope that you have had a chance to research conley with some degree of thoroughness, so as to dispel some of the half-truths that some bible students and jws try to promote (such as that conley's age and health caused his inactivity with russell after 1881).

cabasilas

To answer the question about charts. Charts were a common feature in Adventist circles. Russell just adapted that idea for the Divine Plan book.

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Kingdom Melodies Mental Block

by Nosferatu in

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friends

okay, there's what... 225 kingdom melodies (in the 1984 songbook).

when we were in, we sang these 225 songs, some of them many many times over.

yet, i can't remember the words to a complete kingdom melody.. however, i've listened to blue oyster cult's "agents of fortune" album many times, and i can remember pretty much all the lyrics.. perhaps kingdom melodies are the ultimate collection of lullabys.. you make known, that the truth izzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

cabasilas

I always liked song 118 in the 1966 songbook:

What love Jehovah showed

What wisdom from him flowed

When to this earth He sent His Son

Christ Jesus showed the way...

My wife and I actually marched down the aisle to it's tune at our wedding.

The melody has a strange beat and many times I've heard people struggle to sing it correctly. I liked it but I have to admit it was a different beat. But, then, I like songs with varying beats. For those who are familiar with old English hymns a parallel can be found in "And can it be?" (which is still one of my favorite hymns)

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Days of the week

by DannyBloem in

as jw's always believed that the days of the week came from god, this is probably not true.

the week is a pagan symbol.. that a week has seven days can best be explained by astronomy.

there are 7 heavenly bodies: sun, moon, and 5 visible planets.

cabasilas

I believe the JW Yearbook for the next year (1936?) even had the Theocratic Calendar listed in the back for each day's text? Anyone have one to confirm?

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reexamine.org and BitTorrents

by reexaminer in

in an effort to speed up downloads of some of our larger files, we've set up many of these files with bittorrents.

for those who don't know what bittorrents are, you can find out more about them on wikipedia.. because of the set-up, we've had to relocate some of the files to different areas in our servers, so some of the 'read online' options that we used to have won't be working the next few days, we'll get it back to the way it was soon though, but also give a couple extra download options.. the latest release is the video, "young people ask, what will i do with my life?

" for those who are interested the bittorrent file is located here:.

cabasilas

However, I will fix it so it'll be the way it was before, it'll just take a little bit of time.

So, does that mean the old regular PDF files will be back on the site like they used to? If possible, I think that would be preferable for those who are not techno-savvy.

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Is the Watchtower behind this "unbiased" website?

by SeymourButts in

i just happened to stumble across this website while doing some research.

although it claims to not be biased toward any religous denomination, it has a decidedly watchtower slant to all of its bible translations and subject commentaries.

it completely supports 607bc and even claims that only 144,000 will be going to heaven.

cabasilas

I once wrote the webmaster of the http://www.geocities.com/onlinebibletranslations/ who used to carry the 2001 Translation. I asked him about both the 2001 Translation and the New Simplified Bible and got this reply:

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I appreciate your kind email. The New Simplified Bible is the work of James Madsen, who is one of Jehovah's Witnesses. It has, however, no ties with the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, rather it is a completely independent and private project.

The 2001 Translation may or may not have had some Jehovah's Witnesses work on it. Some of the views it expresses in its footnotes are not in harmony with the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Perhaps others have more info.

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"The Successor Problem" - Focused Biography of J. F. Rutherford

by cabasilas in

this may be old news, but i just came across this interesting page.

it's entitled "the successor problem" and focuses on j. f. rutherford.

very interesting reading:.

cabasilas

This may be old news, but I just came across this interesting page. It's entitled "The Successor Problem" and focuses on J. F. Rutherford. Very interesting reading:

http://home.broadpark.no/~jhauglan/rutherford.htm

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JWs and the calendar

by jstalin in

i was in italy over new year's eve week and i visited the vatican.

on the tour, the guide pointed out a monument to pope gregory, who invented the gregorian calendar which we use today.

that made me think: jws are so hell-bent on avoiding anything non-biblical, yet they are ok with using the gregorian calendar, which was invented by, *gasp*, a catholic pope.

cabasilas

Back in the 30s, the Watchtower Society started their own Theocratic Calendar. My recollection was it was published in Golden Age and in the next year's Yearbook. It had months like "Ransom," and different names for the days of the week. It was short-lived as Rutherford soon saw it would make the JWs seem too weird and was discarded after a year or so. Don't know if anyone has ever done a webpage on it.