I see Israel, Egypt, and Assyria, three nations that no longer are in existence as they were constituted when the bible was written. Hope that helps.
AllTimeJeff
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Jehovah's people, Egypt, his sword, Assyria, and his inheritance, Israel
by EndofMysteries inthis scripture alone may not raise a flag in ones mind, combined with many other things i've been noticing, it surely does.
what are your thoughts on what this means?.
isaiah 19:24 - in that day israel will come to be the third with egypt and with assyria, namely, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 because jehovah of armies will have blessed it, saying: blessed be my people, egypt, and the work of my hands, assyria, and my inheritance, israel.
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PROVE these scriptures unrelated - also, EXPERIMENT: do you see a message here??
by EndofMysteries inwhether you believe in the bible or not, these are not completely separate books with nothing related.. this is the tip of the iceberg, but i wanted to demonstrate why i believe there is a deep hidden message in the bible, and that its books are linked.. does the bible itself reveal who the king of the north is?
(the whole world is trying to 'guess' and 'interpret' and treat all prophecies as individual).
(warning: this could set off a chain reaction and your searching the entire bible linking and getting better understanding of many prophecies ;) ).
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AllTimeJeff
PROVE they are related.
I mean, if you read "Romeo and Juliet" and then Google "Shakespeare", you will come up with similar references. Are they related in some cosmic fashion?
So, a local Jewish tribe keeps up written traditions for hundreds and thousands of years, with some common references. And this proves... what?
Again, your arguements lack compelling arguements. These are mere assumptions that you hope to be accepted so YOU don't have to prove anything. Big difference.
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Evidently . . .
by Mad Sweeney inthis has been a wt buzzword for a long time but has come up in several recent discussions here.
so, i just had to look it up on the wt library cd-rom.. the word "evidently" appears 1,439 times in the insight books alone.
that number is staggering considering that the two-volume set is supposed to be comprised of encyclopedic facts.
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AllTimeJeff
If one were to read the bible, it is apparant that the evidence evidently points to Christs brothers in modern times fullfilling bible prophecy. It is clear that a careful reading of the scriptures point to this. Are we not glad that the clear evidence apparantly points to the evident demonstration of realities not yet beheld. Evidently, this is what Revelation is all about....
(how much Charmin is needed to clean up THAT mess??)
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WT March 15, 2010 - Page 27
by St George of England inthis article to be studied in two weeks time, in paragraph 13, footnote says: "jesus is the mediator of that covenant, not a participant.
as the mediator, he evidently did not partake of the emblems.".
(note use of evidently again!).
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AllTimeJeff
Idiots. Their favorite word is evidently™. It should be followed with a *footnote that says
"Whenever, we, the all knowing Governing Body, uses the word "evidently", it is because we really don't know, but it fits our already way out their dogma, and rather then make the mistake of explaining it, we will hope that most everyone just nods their heads and accepts it, because it is so "evident". Good luck to all you fools who just take it at face value."
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AllTimeJeff
The elders will wait for the CO visit to blame it one a couple of their number. A couple of ministerial servants who are reaching out will blame these elders two. No one will notice the color of their noses.
When the CO visits, he will ask the pioneer sisters how long the lightbulb will be out. The PO's wife will get with the CO's wife and complain about the lightbulb and the two elders who are responsible for this condition.
The CO will bring this up at the Servant/Elders meeting Friday. The two hot shot ministerial servants will offer their coached replies in front of the elders, looking more and more like they will be appointed. After being dismissed, the CO will pull out 1 WT bound volume, 2 letters to the elders and the flock book, and read everything ver batim. Though none of it applies, at the end of it, because the CO says it applies, it will. It will all go in a supplementary letter to the Service Dept, nicely worded, which will "recommend" that the two elders no longer qualify for allowing the light bulb to get burnt out.
Once this report comes back, two elders will be deleted, two more appointed, and the light bulb will be changed by 2 elders sons, both in their late teens, who will be "reaching out" and appointed at the next CO visit because they don't have enough MS's now.
Moral of the story. Kiss a lot of ass.
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How Do You Feel Being Thought Of As An "Apostate"?
by minimus indoes it bother you if witnesses regard you as an apostate?.
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AllTimeJeff
JW's have their own vocabulary, always have. They call it "the pure language." We all call it "bullshit".
They say I "disassociated." I say, I resigned. I still want all my friends, I just don't try to reach out to them.... yet. I haven't disassociated myself from my friends. That is a term of legal convenience for the cult leaders.
The fact is, only the GB and loyal teet suckers at Bethel view me as an Apostate. Others view me as sad, they might miss me, and yeah, I no longer believe JW dogma.
The real irony is this: Jehovah's Witnesses are a religion whose primary function, (what they are best known for, the door to door preaching work) is a work designed to make apostates out of people from other religions, to demonize in their mind their current religion in the hopes that they will apostasize from that religion and join JW's.
Jehovah's Witnesses are a religion full of apostates. The fact that they don't realize that hypocritical irony shows that they are around the stench of their own dogmatic bullshit so much they can't tell the difference of the smell they generate.
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Social Networking Media to Hasten the Demise of Watchtower
by Scott77 inthe social networking media technologies like facebook, will over the years, continue to present insurmountable challenges to the growith, stability and eventual demise of the watchtower as an organisation.
realizing this inevitabilty, its therefore easy to predict that over the coming years, more and more talk about the perceived 'threat' of internet will be part of standard talks in kingdom halls, assemblies and convections.. what do you think about that?
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AllTimeJeff
I agree with those who predict a generational transition affecting the WTBTS. (boy, I think the GB is going to end up hating the word "generation" soon)
For every year that passes in the information age, more and more, people in the West esp are going to view suspiciously any person or group that tries to demonize the internet. Too much work is done, too much of our economy is tied on the ability to get on the internet. It is in school. Hell, emails rule, IM's rule.
So every generation (there's that word again) from here on out will be less and less inclined to believe what the GB says about the internet. There is a group that is current and that the GB has in its control that they probably don't worry about too much.
Where the internet and Social Networking is going to hurt is in future growth prospects. We are already seeing evidence of that with their move from Brooklyn to rural NY State, and the fact that 3rd world countries are growing at a far greater rate, while Western countries, even Japan, are regressing, exactly because they go online and see the lies.
The fact is, that when a believing JW dares go online to see what is said about JW's, and they see us "apostates", they know that it is true. And they aren't peeking on the internet just for the hell of it. They know something just isn't right about what is going on, and they can sniff the paranoia of the GB, and they want to know why they can't see what others are saying about JW's.
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Obama AG Critical of a Law He Admited He Had Not Read!!!
by XJW4EVR instand alone video is not available as of this posting.
however, if you skip ahead on this cspan video to 2:45:05, you can see for yourself how ag holder came to the opinion that sb1070 was unconstitutional.. so when ag holder was on meet the press saying that sb1070 "has the possibility of leading to racial profiling" he really did not know what he was talking about, because he had not read the law.
when ag holder called law's passage "unfortunate," and questioned whether the law was unconstitutional because it tried to assume powers that may be reserved for the federal government he really did not know what he was talking about because he hadn't read the law.. in the above video, holder said that he was basing his comments on what he had heard from the media.
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AllTimeJeff
You don't have to like Holder or the law, but it is clearly understood by all. The media has correctly pointed out the potential for racial profiling.
The AG doesn't have time to read every law. In this case where a law specifically allows for racial profiling, (which it does) and Holder alludes to the many sources that have illuminated this and reported it, what does it prove?
Are you saying that Holder is in ignoramous that gets his opinions on laws from the local news? Ok. Thats your right. I sincerely disagree.
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AllTimeJeff
Uh yeah. Not really.
Well, the Pens better use the off season to rest up and find some defensemen who actually play defense. Maybe a winger for Crosby that can shoot.
I say we trade Malkin.
Les Habitants better enjoy this, cause it isn't happening next year. They caught lightening in a bottle this year, so congrats to their holding, clutching, slow as an oil slick game. Rocket Richard is rolling in his grave.
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Would Witnesses REALLY drink the "Kool-aid" if the faithful slave told them to? Yes or no?
by Witness 007 ina "spiritual leader" tells his followers the must put on rebok running shoes and "drink the cool-aid" to join a ufo in the tail of a comet and "go to a better world" so, afew dozen young people do just that to get "beamed up" to the mothership.
heavens gate cult 1990's.. my mother says "she is faithful to the organisation till her death" which makes me wonder if they ordered a mass suicide like the reverend jim jones did to escape a "great tribulation"....how many witnesses would really drink the cool-aid?...
without a gun pointed at their head of course!.
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AllTimeJeff
I know, Mad Sweeny. And I think that many would if told, do that. But I personally see that hypothetical number as I said before, is broke down by being an educated (less supertitous) westerner vs a more isolated (and more superstitious) 3rd worlder.