JWs are not the only ones going door to door. That's bull cookies!
They also like to say they're the only one's using God's personal Name. They're wrong in that too if you consider "Jehovah" to be God's Name. Many Protestants, Catholics and cults use the same form of the Name they are using.
It always surprised me when I would read in the yearbooks how missionaries would find a group of people that had never even heard of the JW's and they claim their message has covered the entire earth. Fuuuuu-eeeee!
Sorry if this gets double posted....something strange just happened to my internet
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31"We are the only ones going door-to-door" with the message
by OnTheWayOut ini wind up sitting next to a friend of my wife.
the hall, but has no idea why.
nobody is doing the worldwide work except jw's.
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"We are the only ones going door-to-door" with the message
by OnTheWayOut ini wind up sitting next to a friend of my wife.
the hall, but has no idea why.
nobody is doing the worldwide work except jw's.
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tfjw
JWs are not the only ones going door to door. That's bull cookies!
They also like to say they're the only one's using God's personal Name. They're wrong in that too if you consider "Jehovah" to be God's Name. Many Protestants, Catholics and cults use the same form of the Name they are using.
It always surprised me when I would read in the yearbooks how missionaries would find a group of people that had never even heard of the JW's and they claim their message has covered the entire earth. Fuuuuu-eeeee! -
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Do you use your PC to make phone calls??
by joebin inwhat are you currently using and how does it work and cost?
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What oompa said, and yes Skype can cost from pc to phone depending on your area. Skype does require a good connection. I travel a lot in our family's Winnebago and the connection can be bad sometimes and you lose the call.
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Mob informant put in JW protection program
by Gregor incheck it out.
www.theonion.com/content/node/80228.
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LOL
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Big News or rumor!
by Burger Time ina friend just informed me that the c/o in his hall will be instructing the elders that anyone with a child in college will be stripped of privileges in the hall.
i am not sure if this is true this is just what i was told.
it could be that it is only a campaign directed at him as he has some ties to ex-jw's and some how got found out.
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When I was in the organization I permitted my son to go to college after he was graduated from high school (about 1978) so he could get a degree in journalism which has served him well and has been a big help to my wife and I in our retirement years because I never got the chance to further my education out of high school because I immediately went into pioneer and then special pioneer service (very young age) - we were paid to "special pioneer" back then - but it was very hard work with 140 hours a month and 50 or more "return visits" (we called them "back calls" then).
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Questions concerning 607
by beavis ini am sorry to hash and rehash this old topic, but i have a friend that has continually asked the wt's chronology of 607 and that historians do not agree with their thoughts on their selection of this date to "fit" their ideaolgies.
could someone give me information from credible historians that absolutely prove that 607 is impossible?
this person has looked up information and what they have found so far is that most websites or some persons on this site do not show conclusively that 607 is not credible.
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tfjw
This has always been a fascinating subject to me personally.
I found it interesting how the Pastoral Bible Institute, a breakaway group from the Society around 1918 I think, favors the 588 date. This is referenced in their Herald of Christ's Kingdom magazine Nov. 1, 1921, July 1, 1922, August 1-15, 1925, March 1, 1926 and August 1, 1926 issues.
An excerpt from the Nov. 1, 1921 issue:
"It has surely occurred to all believers in the Present Truth that we are absolutely dependent upon secular history for our chronological measurements from the year B. C. 536 onward; that Bible chronology stops with the seventy-year period ending at the beg inning of the reign of King Cyrus, the Persian, and that the inspired Word has brought us forward -only so far as necessary, from which point we Will be able to search out the truth from such sources as are at hand, and which are considered to be quite reliable. Now what are the facts at hand concerning secular testimony cove I ring the period in question?
We find a very general agreement that the reign of King Cyrus began in the year B. C. 536, and as this is the date we have already settled upon, no discussion is necessary, believing that it should stand. If the 70 years ended in 536, then they began in 606. We do not want to change that date either. But here comes the test. If the severity years began with the close of the I reign of Zedekiah, then Zedekiah's reign ended in the year 606, and this is what we have believed, but there is not a secular authority. of any reliability which places the close of Zedekiah's reign so far back. The only authority (if such if may be called) the writer has ever heard of which so presents the matter is Josephus, but it is generally known that he is inconsistent with himself and unreliable. All the great I authorities found- in our libraries,, without exception, place the date of Zedekiah's overthrow from 589 to 586. We believe the correct date is B., C. 588, as that is the one which will sustain harmony in all the time prophecies..."
I also find it interesting that C.T. Russell did mention a different possibility in his sermon in 1910 at the Hippodrome: "There are some who claim that Zedekiah's dethronement should be dated B.C. 588. If this be true it could make a difference of but eighteen years and give the date 1932. My convictions, however, favor 1914." (See "Zionism in Prophecy" sermon, or if you have the book "Pastor Russell's Sermons", see page 480) -
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This is very interesting. I just requested a copy through a JW friend. It's gonnna be interesting through this monster to see what all this is about.
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Download your Theocratic Library
by RR inokay everyone, here is a partial listing of what you can download for your theocratric library.
not all the files are searchable.
the rutherford booklets are just scans converted to pdf.
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Thank you RR. There were some things here I was looking for, originals instead of reprinted type stuff. Thanks for all you do.
Just a note, it might be my connection today but some of the PDFs won't download. I have the latest Adobe Acrobat Professional but there's no go. For example, J.F.R's "The Kingdom" downloads as a html file instead of a pdf. -
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1972 The Bible in Living English--PDF--(Steven Byington)-by request!
by Atlantis inrequest from researcher: back last year, almost a year ago now, you posted in this thread .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/134073/2386444/post.ashx#2386444 .
if you do have it i would be very happy to get a copy.
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Thank you VERY much Atlantis. This is extremely helpful to have this in electronic version. :)
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Aposta-Library
by watson into all you guys that have an active spouse/family, where to you stash your "aposta-library.
" it has been said that "some" guys have a secret porn stash (me?
no, of couse not).
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Before I actually left the organization I had "apostate" literature in my bookbag and took it with me to the KH. My wife and I left almost the same time and she was aware of my thoughts before exiting so there really wasn't anything to hide from her. Now our house and Winnebago is full of "apostate" literature. :)