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  Anyone interested in sending your name to Mars.

  by James Mixon in

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  nasa will upload the registered names to a dime-size chip and secure it to the insight lander deck, the last day to submit your name nov. 1st 2017.. enjoythesilence.today/2017/10/03/nasa-offers-program-send-your-name-mars/.

  yes i will send in my name and when i get to paradise i can tell those that are resurrected, you see that planet there my name is up there.i know it's hard to believe but our buddy adam didn't have a clue what was out there,the poor guy didn't realize there was a large village two miles down the road.. ok maybe i won't make it to paradise but a guy can dream crazy thoughts.....but seriously you can send your name to mars..

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  Thanks, James Mixon. for the invitation. I've been and back and have quite a story to tell.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5765264706633728/conquered
  
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  Paradise? Was it?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
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  paradisewas it really paradise to be in paradise?adam and eve never were held by a mother, never cuddled and sung to with a lullaby nor nursed or coddled with tenderness or any human familial embrace.

  the first humans (adam and eve) never learned to toddle surrounded by brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles and grandparents cheering them on.

  the entire experience of childhood was excised surgically like a trauma patient awakening from an accident with amnesia.adam and eve were never in a neighborhood with other kids forming friendship bonds for life and exchanging dreams and hopes for a future they were building in their community.

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  Visions of Paradise, Watchtower Style:

  https://web.archive.org/web/20070612092219/http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/icon.html
  
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  At the annual meeting right now . . .

  by neat blue dog in

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  i'm at the recorded meeting right now.

  trying to hide my disgust sitting up front listening to geoffrey jackson quibble about the pharisaical minutai of sanctification vs. vindication.

  the audience is thrilled that they now have 'permission' to say god's name can be vindicated.

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  pale.emperor:

  w95 5/15 p. 25 Flashes of Light-Great and Small (Part 2) ***

  Similarly, for a long time, Witnesses spoke of the vindication of Jehovah's name. But had Satan called Jehovah's name into question? For that matter, had any of Satan's agents done so, as if Jehovah did not have a right to that name? No, not at all. It was not the name of Jehovah that was challenged and that needed to be vindicated. That is why the Watch Tower Society's recent publications do not speak of Jehovah's name as being vindicated. They speak of Jehovah's sovereignty as being vindicated and of his name as being sanctified. This is in keeping with what Jesus told us to pray: "Let your name be sanctified." (Matthew 6:9) Time and again, Jehovah said that he was going to sanctify his name, which the Israelites had not challenged but had profaned.-Ezekiel 20:9, 14, 22; 36:23.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5740527253192704/memory-lost-doctrine-vindication-jehovahs-name
  
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  Just overheard this after meeting . . .

  by neat blue dog in

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  the annual meeting just finished, and here's a conversation i overheard from two gushing jws:.

  sister:.

  they said we're so close!.

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  January, 1989

  The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our 20th century." (w89 1/1 12 "The Hand of Jehovah Was With Them" [as originally published in the Watchtower magazine]).

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  "The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our day." (w89 1/1 12 "The Hand of Jehovah Was With Them" [as it appears in Watchtower bound volumes & CD-ROMs])

  [bold added]

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/40630/changes-watchtower-literature -- Frank Raven
  
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  The Watchtower's Real Crisis

  by JeffT in

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  when discussing the watchtowers financial problems, i've generally been of the opinion that they probably are not in a real financial crisis.

  i've come to believe that money may be something of an issue, but its wrapped up in a much larger problem.

  this came to me this morning when reading about the annual meeting.. i think the society's leadership is just plain out of ideas.

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  Running out of money may be connected to running out of ideas in another important way. It's a well known facet of psychology that material difficulty adversely affects cognitive and creative abilities. In other words the stress of money trouble is probably occupying so much of their thoughts that it's difficult to focus on other things, such as producing coherent and interesting content for their literature. -- SBF

  True. While adversity, sorrow, and suffering, are grist for the writer's mill, his empty stomach and inability to pay the rent for his filthy, cold-water garret preoccupy him in the present moment.

  Later, when the scene changes for the better, he will reflect objectively upon past difficulties, putting an inspired mind and skillful hand to pen, and that to paper.

  The writers I work for are, in general, living off an outside income. Despite some past lucrative sales from a book that sold well, they are writing and writing and writing . . .

  What's of interest regarding the Faithful and Discreet Slave is that Jehovah has, apparently, cut off the spirit that should inspire a perpetual outflow of food for the sheep.

  Jesus admonished Peter to feed his lambs.
  
  
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  The Watchtower's Real Crisis

  by JeffT in

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  when discussing the watchtowers financial problems, i've generally been of the opinion that they probably are not in a real financial crisis.

  i've come to believe that money may be something of an issue, but its wrapped up in a much larger problem.

  this came to me this morning when reading about the annual meeting.. i think the society's leadership is just plain out of ideas.

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  Greetings, JeffT:

  Agreed. We older ones fondly remember the "richness" of the spiritual food we received; it was more than we could digest in a sitting, there being simply too much food upon Jehovah's festive board. Some of us knew personally the "minds" at Bethel and what they produced for publication. It was exciting; it was intellectually stimulating.

  No wonder we thought we had The Truth. Those receptive to the Kingdom Good News, as proffered by the Society and us, as spokesmen, were amazed at our knowledge of the Scriptures.

  Pretty heady stuff, but now we know better. Sadly, the balloon has been deflated.

  Thanks.
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  2017 Annual Meeting

  by Jules Saturn in

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  this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

  1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

  6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.

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  Psalm 68:11:

  Jehovah gives the command; those telling the good news are an army of large women.

  Something like that . . .

  Another thought:

  With the decrease in printed magazines -- Awake!, in particular -- where will the up-and-coming generation of malleable young minds get their university education?

  On the internet?
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  Bye, Bye Love

  by compound complex in

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  heavy, heavy upon my failing heart weighs .

  your aching need for my full and loving devotion.. i spend myself willingly on your behalf because,.

  truly, your needs and wishes outstrip my own.. if i were young and wiry man, for you .

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  A NEVER LOVE

  
  

  Theresa loved Edmond more than life; her sentiments did not remain secreted away in the cloisters of her heart. A writer of no little renown, she put her mind and that overflowing heart to paper in order to give life to true love's expression:

  
  

  O love of mine, you take no note of the one who loves you so,
  You whose wandering heart takes flight while vacant eyes fix on
  A chair, a book, but not upon the heart that beats so fiercely for you.

  
  

  No matter her passion, her proffering of gifts and attention upon the man she was enamored of, he paid her scant heed. An unrequited love, to be sure, an admiration from afar, though Theresa was ever in Edmond's company. His attention, his heart . . . both were in a far off place, a land she could never inhabit.

  
  

  She told her impassioned story through the vanity press. The books -- delivered to her cottage on Hollands Drive -- remain, to this day, in boxes gathering dust . . . eaten through by rats. . . .
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  Bye, Bye Love

  by compound complex in

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  heavy, heavy upon my failing heart weighs .

  your aching need for my full and loving devotion.. i spend myself willingly on your behalf because,.

  truly, your needs and wishes outstrip my own.. if i were young and wiry man, for you .

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  Your beautiful, appreciative thoughts mean so much, dear Muddy Waters. I am glad that, despite pain and suffering, your heart is in a happy place.

  Love,

  CoCo
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  Were your English WT publications in the American "dialect"?

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  greetings, friends:.

  the opening query is presented, loosely, in the past tense, assuming that you are not currently a reader of watchtower publications.. not that i'm already rather certain of your reply, it's just that i would like to know if in your english-speaking country (or esl [english as second language]) the society deigned to tailor the publications to your spellings, expressions, idiomatic renderings, etc.

  as you will read below, so-called american english is a dialect of english.. i found this online under american english vs. british english:.

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  Thanks for the education, my over-the-Pond friends!

  pants = trousers/slacks here.

  undershirt = vest (?) = "wife beater"

  suspenders = garter (?)

  COMMENTS? EXPLANATION?