Posts by compound complex

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What's Artwork Question

by JustVisting in

why does wt artwork always have one person that is looking at the reader when depicting a group of people?

whether it's the little girl in the sermon on the amount scene or the woman in the armagedon scene.

what is the psychological and/or subliminal effect of this one the reader?

compound complex

Re: mana's post and the picture of the fully-dressed woman in the chair.

Originally she was dressed in night clothes and "awaiting" her husband. He must have been dressed accordingly, but I don't remember. The text dealt with the marriage "due."

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When did the WTS begin to require baptismal candidates to answer 2 questions. What were they?

by AndersonsInfo in

i need some research done so if anybody has the time, please see what you can find on the subject as stated in the title.. i clearly remember attending my first circuit assembly.

on october 30, 1956, i definitely answered two questions, along with about ten other people including my mother, not at the assembly, but we were standing at the side of a small baptismal pool that was in the basement of a kingdom hall in ronkonkoma, then a small hamlet on long island in the town of islip, suffolk county, new york, united states.. i know for a certainty that in 1945 candidates for baptism were not asked any questions but they were informed through their congregation that there would be a baptism and told where and when it was to be held.

usually the baptism was done at a beach and when candidates showed up in bathing attire, they were dunked, no questions asked.. so sometime between 1945 and 1956 two specific questions began to be asked of candidates.

compound complex

Hi Barb:

Somewhat after the barn door was left open and the horse got out . . .

Apparently the baptismal candidates were not sufficiently versed in Bible/WT teachings prior to 1975. Brother Knorr announced that the "Lamp" book and its coverage of JW articles of faith (my words) and the follow-up questions would help stem the ongoing problem: 'People are coming into the Truth through the front door and then leaving through the back door.'

Just a side point I recalled after seeing your question. Were you at Bethel prior to that book's publication? I was there circa 1970.

Best.

CoCo

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GB Doesnt Believe in 1914 Anymore My reasoning

by thedepressedsoul in

i have heard a lot of talk over the last year or so if the gb will eventually ditch 1914 and some have even made the claim that most, if not all of the gb do not believe in 1914. ive given this some thought and in the past i wasnt sure.

this annual meeting puts 100%, without a doubt in my mind that the gb do not believe in 1914. id even go as far to say that they talked about that date and have a game plan in mind.. here is why i feel this way:.

there were a lot of changes with the parables at this annual meeting.

compound complex

From the other "1914" thread about Brother Knorr and Mouthy:

NONE of us shoule EVER forget about this horrible hypocrisy on the part of the so-called Governing Body.

I personally cannot think of a single other religion that has totally changed (and largely negated their old) doctrines every 25 years throughout their history the way the Watchtower Society has.

This is a tacit admission that things were so wrong that they needed periodic major overhauls, and there is no sign that the overhaul process is stabilizing.

Hence the need to throw away all the old literature. Much of it reads as far from today's JW dogma as something from Scientology would.

james_woods

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/126663/2/Knorr-on-1914-I-dont-know-Mouthy-Alert

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Knorr on 1914: "I don't know." - Mouthy Alert!

by compound complex in

dear mouthy and other denounced ones,.

you may find this double standard $%^@#@*&!

"in 1975, knorr made a remarkable and candid statement to the governing body, which confirmed his growing disillusionment until his death two years later: ["]'"there are some things i know --- i know that jehovah is god, that christ jesus is his son, that he gave his life as a ransom for us, that there is a resurrection.

compound complex

Thanks, Listener!

You are too, too kind, but you are correct! My avatar is as fresh as the day I posted it!

Likewise re: James' comment. I'm going to post it on the other 1914 thread.

CoCo

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Knorr on 1914: "I don't know." - Mouthy Alert!

by compound complex in

dear mouthy and other denounced ones,.

you may find this double standard $%^@#@*&!

"in 1975, knorr made a remarkable and candid statement to the governing body, which confirmed his growing disillusionment until his death two years later: ["]'"there are some things i know --- i know that jehovah is god, that christ jesus is his son, that he gave his life as a ransom for us, that there is a resurrection.

compound complex

Seems appropriate now . . .

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Opps! 2015 Calendar with errors

by pixel in

to all congregations in the united states branch territory.

re: 2015 calendar in english.

if many publishers in your congregation have requested the 2015 calendar in english,.

compound complex

I used to work on calendars at Bethel when they were so much simpler. Our main concern was the artwork colors being off-register. This was the beardless Jesus days.

CC

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