I have searched for it and haven't found it, but in a Watchtower or Awake in the last year or so, there was an article which suggested a more sensible interpretation of a scripture about "stretching out the firmament" - that it was like erecting a tent, suggesting that the sky was a solid surface. It was hinting that the Bible wasn't that scientifically accurate after all.
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WT Easter Eggs: Hidden Messages in WT Publications
by 00DAD inno i'm not talking about the easter eggs jws don't look for in early spring.
i'm talking about the kind of easter eggs that are an intentional hidden message, in-joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page, video game, movie, book, or crossword.
cedars started a recent video on this concept over the recent sparlock/caleb video: .
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Japan Is Vanishing
by metatron inhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/douthat-incredible-shrinking-country.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss.
not a joke.
anybody remember when they were going to economically overtake the us?
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stapler99
The only way Japan will vanish is if they do become more open to immigration, as then they will cease to be racially and culturally Japanese. It is a rich enough country to afford to pay the pensions of old people. There is no way that they will shrink to nothing because trends will certainly change before then.
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2005 - The year the Society began its decline (without anyone noticing)!
by cedars ini've just finished an article for randy over on freeminds.org, which i've submitted to him for review.
hopefully it should be online soon, so please keep checking!.
the article discusses the fact that the watch tower society is already in decline, and suggests the year 2005 as the turning point.
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stapler99
Peversely, the failed 1975 prediction had a positive effect for the religion. It made the less fanatical leave and it retained strong control over the members' beliefs.
We hear a lot about 1975 on this forum and elsewhere, but 1925 was a bigger and more definite failed prediction. There is a chance for 1975 to be forgotten about in the same way.
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2005 - The year the Society began its decline (without anyone noticing)!
by cedars ini've just finished an article for randy over on freeminds.org, which i've submitted to him for review.
hopefully it should be online soon, so please keep checking!.
the article discusses the fact that the watch tower society is already in decline, and suggests the year 2005 as the turning point.
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stapler99
I figure it takes about 20 years for a religion to become moribund. If people have children between the ages of 20 and 40, and no children stay in the religion over 20 years, then at the end of the 20 years everyone in the religion is over 40 and is past the point of no return. If we say that broadband internet really started getting popular round about 2005 (e.g. that was the year that YouTube was launched), then this points to 2025 as a tipping point. (Of course, this is just a rough estimate and not all children leave.) The religion will almost certainly carry on in some form in some countries but will likely be very different.
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Spot the obvious mistake with this JW pamphlet.
by biometrics in.
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that's right it should be "1970s"(without the apostrophe) not "1970's"..
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stapler99
The use of the apostrophe in this way is not a mistake, just a question of taste.
I thought the answer was: it's a public address open to the public, and yet they are giving out badges so they can see who shouldn't be there.
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My cong were all copycats
by usualusername ini am not an expert in control groups but my cong had this odd habit of copying each other in weird ways:.
jobs.
window cleaners.
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"Alternative" health care was quite popular in the congregations I attended (homeopathy etc.).
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Question #9 of this week's "oral review" of DVD "Faith In Action"...
by Alfred inthis week, the service meeting will have an oral review of the dvd faith in action which was distributed in the 2010 district assembly worldwide... as many of you probably know, the intent of this dvd is to present a "white-washed" version of the history of the watchtower by omitting all the scandals and cover-ups.... i no longer go to meetings, but i would have loved to raise my hand and answer question #9 which reads: "what did the bible students expect would happen in 1914?".
my response would have been the following:.
even though the geoffrey jackson admits that the bible students expected a "heavenly reward", the dvd avoids mentioning that russell categorically predicted armageddon would come in october of 1914. what's even worse is the fact that the narrator lied on two occasions by saying that the bible students expected or reasoned that jesus would take the throne in 1914. this is completely false.
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stapler99
Interesting article about Russell, Black Sheep. No doubt if those who had associated with Russell's movement were alive today, they would be telling their stories on forums like these.
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when did you make convention hotel reservations:"during regular business hours or right after the meeting ended?
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Does anybody know the point behind having an approved list of hotels? Do they negotiate a lower price?
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Watchtower asks Congregation money for publications
by The JHWH indoes anyone remember the case where some congregation didn't get enough money to cover the costs of the magazines?.
wtbts sent a letter to the congregation asking for money.
does anyone remeber this case?
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stapler99
This makes me wonder why congregations send money to the Society in the first place, when there is a separate contribution box in the hall for this purpose.
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Question for Dogpatch (Randy): What will it cost to produce the new 16-page Watchtower & Awake?
by Alfred inwhen literature used to be sold d2d, i remember how the society never missed an opportunity to trash other religions for "peddling god's word for profit" while boasting about how the watchtower only charges for the cost of the paper and ink.. in the book "witnesses of jehovah", the author mentioned that randall watters used to be involved in print cost analysis and determined that, while we were selling wt & awake mags for 20 cents door-to-door, it was really only costing the society 4 cents per copy to produce.
that's a whopping 400% profit!.
obviously, things have changed... the paper is different, as well as the ink and printing methods in general.
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Ha, the cost of the materials for a CD is less than that of a book, I'd guess. There should be no comparison with a similar commercial product, because the publications aren't produced to maximise profit. And the Watchtower library is hardly an "encyclopedia". They don't have shareholders or creditors to pay and any profits they make go back into producing more literature. Actually, that makes me wonder: if the WTS did make a lot of profit, what exactly are they doing with that money?