Topics Started by wherehasmyhairgone

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The Operation Illustration
by WTWizard in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i can remember a fairly common illustration used in the kingdumb hells to justify jehovah allowing suffering.

it had to do with a child that had a disease that a painful operation was necessary to treat the disease.

it compares us suffering to that child.. here are the holes in that argument.
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Prayer a Waste of Time?
by WTWizard in
1. watchtower
2. bible
how often do you hear about prayer at the meeting that, if you should pray that if jehovah wills that he should do something?

to me, this is a total waste of time to pray if that condition applies.

you see, if jehovah willed something, why would he need to wait for you to ask him for it?
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Gospel of Judas
by wherehasmyhairgone in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i have been out of the wtc for a number of years, so i missed this comming to light throught the wtc eyes.. what have they said about it?

- sorry if this has been asked before.. .

steve.
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PROOF that the GB lurk HERE ???
by AlphaOmega in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a while ago, i posted this thread.... http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/135699/1.ashx.

in which i said.... this is strange, i read that in 1995 they did away with the "generation" teaching, yet the official watchtower website still says this, over 12 years later !.

thus, all the features of the last days must take place within the lifetime of one generation, the generation of 1914. so some people who were alive in 1914 will still be alive when this system comes to its end.
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Flood of Gilgamesh written long before Noahs flood. Look at how simular!!
by Lady Liberty in
1. watchtower
2. bible
dear friends,.

lately i have been re-researching some things i learned as i was leaving the borg.

for lurkers and newbies, i thought i would share this with you.. apparently long before the flood of noah, was a story told and recorded on 12 clay tablets, of a flood so simular to noahs that it will be shocking to you if you have never read about it.
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Gold Mine of Historical WT Documents: Bible Student Library 3
by cabasilas in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the folks over at www.heraldmag.org have outdone themselves!

researchers have used that site for many years to obtain files of older watchtower related documents from russell's day (and also including later bible student materials).

now, they have issued a new dvd with much more material on it.
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El vs. YHWH or El into YHWH. for those who've read "The Bible Unearthed"
by kwintestal in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i've been thinking about this for quite a while and i'm not exactly sure how the best way of putting it out there, so if it seems like i'm blabbering at points, i more then likely am and i'm sorry.

i'm kind of merging two different thoughts together, historical info i got from the book, "the bible unearthed" and personal research and discussions with others regarding "el".. el obviously played an important part in early hebrew language as it was their word for "god".

but, el was a caananite god, and to them the god of all gods, supreme god father of all things and humankind.
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OKM 09/07 (english)- Just another brick in the wall...
by metaspy in
1. jw
2. friends
ok guys and gals, i (being the assistant to the magazine counter) have acquired the newest okm.. i have uploaded it to imagevenue.com: here.

hopefully that works!.

by the way drew, your translation was very close.
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Is there anyone able to covertly provide publications from KH libraries?
by seatrout in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i recently contacted my local kh to get hold of a publication that i need (pay attention to daniel's prophecy).

i also asked in the letter to be provided with a watchtower cd (apparently it has all the old material on it).

however, they have not replied and i am left wondering if it is because i am a member of the general public (and they don't want me to see this material)?.
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A NEW Flock book has been released, with notes by a Presiding Overseer
by Elsewhere in
1. jw
2. friends
for several years there has been available a pay attention to yourselves and to the flock book in pdf and html format.

this book has proven to be extremely valuable in exposing the morally questionable activities of the watchtower society.

now we have a new version that is even more valuable because it contains the hand-written notes of a presiding overseer, some notes as recent as late 2005. these notes are frequently dictated to elders by a circuit overseer or district overseer in order to avoid liability (the wts can deny every giving such instructions).