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  THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

  they will be published here:.

  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/.

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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/a-wicked-and-adulterous-generation-keeps-seeking-a-sign/

  Alternative Daily Text for Sunday, July 6, 2014

  “A wicked and adulterous generation keeps seeking a sign.” (Matthew 16:4)

  Who was Jesus talking about? God’s channel of communication answered this question a while ago: “What, then, is the ‘generation’ so frequently referred to by Jesus in the presence of his disciples? What did they understand by his words: ‘This generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur’? Surely, Jesus was not departing from his established use of the term ‘this generation,’ which he consistently applied to the contemporary masses with their ‘blind guides’ who together made up the Jewish nation. (Matthew 15:14) ‘This generation’ experienced all the distress foretold by Jesus and then passed away in an unequaled ‘great tribulation’ on Jerusalem.” – The Watchtower, November 1, 1995, page 14.

  Who make up the “wicked and adulterous generation” in our day? “Those without spiritual understanding … the modern-day John class … As a class, these anointed ones make up the modern-day ‘generation’ of contemporaries that will not pass away ‘until all these things occur.’” (The Watchtower, February 15, 2008, page 24) Like the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ day they are “blind guides,” and soon “great tribulation” will come upon them. However, in the first century some Jewish scholars survived the Roman assault. Thus we can reckon “that some of these anointed ones may survive the destructive ‘great tribulation.’” (The Watchtower, June 15, 1976, page 384) But we do not need to worry because “all such false religion will soon be destroyed forever by God.” – Awake!, November 22, 1974, page 6.
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  THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

  they will be published here:.

  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/.

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  processor

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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/he-brought-me-into-the-house-of-wine/

  Alternative Daily Text for Friday, July 4, 2014

  “He brought me into the house of wine.” (Song of Solomon 2:4, NWT 1984)

  Christian parents are given the advice: “Discuss with your teenager the fine Bible example of the beautiful young Shulammite maiden.” (Awake!, February 22, 1992, page 10) Her “dear one” brought her “into the house of wine” – and for sure they have not only watched the wine jugs there. Anyway, after some time the Shulammite said to her shepherd lover: “My breasts are like Watchtowers … I surrender myself to my beloved.” – Song of Solomon 8:10, Hoffnung für Alle.

  We do not know how thoroughly the shepherd “studied the Watchtower.” (The Watchtower, December 1, 2006, page 14) But in any case, young people of today should imitate the Shulammite and her lover by going to the places where “consumption of alcohol is at its highest.” (Awake!, March 8, 1986, page 3) This will help them ‘not to rely on their own understanding’ according to the Biblical advice. – Proverbs 3:5.

  When should children start drinking alcohol? The Shulammite’s boyfriend had begun at tender age. He remembered his early childhood and told: “I have drunk my wine along with my milk.” (Song of Solomon 5:1, NWT 1984) Thus Jehovah advises all Christian parents: “Buy wine and milk.” (Isaiah 55:1) Anyone who does not drink wine is not a true Christian; after all, Jesus commanded his disciples even to “keep” drinking. (1 Timothy 5:23; 1 Corinthians 11:24) And “no age is too early to begin.” – The Watchtower, July 1, 1971, page 395.

  See also: http://www.svhelden.info/pdf/ypc.pdf
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  New List of Watchtower Classes (simplified for the simple-minded)

  by Focus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1 less-senile men who 'specially advises' the president of the wtbts.

  2 the president of the watchtower society of jehovah's witnesses.

  3 jehovah god [as wtbts president interprets/'explains' all... ].

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  You forgot the cockroach class: http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/what-was-left-by-the-caterpillar-the-locust-has-eaten-and-what-was-left-by-the-locust-the-creeping-unwinged-locust-has-eaten-and-what-the-creeping-unwinged-locust-has-left-the-cockroach/
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  THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

  they will be published here:.

  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/.

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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/o-god-of-vengeance-jehovah-o-god-of-vengeance-shine-forth-rise-up-o-judge-of-the-earth-repay-to-the-haughty-what-they-deserve/

  Alternative Daily Text for Friday, June 27, 2014

  “O God of vengeance, Jehovah, o God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, o Judge of the earth. Repay to the haughty what they deserve.” (Psalm 94:1, 2)

  The Bible shows clearly that Jehovah is “a God of vengeance” who will soon be “taking vengeance on his enemies … Why so? Because it would clear the way for all persons who love God to be glad, to rejoice.” (The Watchtower, January 15, 1981, pages 4, 5) Indeed, the prospect of seeing God annihilate all his enemies is for Christians a reason “to be glad, to rejoice.” Will it not be wonderful to watch how “in the very near future all ungodly persons” – all who are not Jehovah’s Witnesses or did not have enough field service hours, including our neighbors, workmates, and closest relatives – “will suffer destruction at the hands of God?” – The Watchtower, November 1, 1985, page 7.

  People have really heaped a heavy burden of guilt upon themselves. Some have participated in political elections and so have opposed God. (John 15:19) Others live together in one apartment without being married, just because they cannot afford the administrative marriage. (1 Corinthians 6:9) Some children are “disobedient to parents” only because these want to abuse and mistreat them. (Romans 1:30) It goes without saying for true Christians that God can no longer sit and watch while such gross sins are happening on earth. “Jehovah is a God … taking vengeance; Jehovah is taking vengeance and is disposed to rage. Jehovah is taking vengeance against his adversaries.” (Nahum 1:2, NWT 1984) “God will come with vengeance, God will come with retribution.” – Isaiah 35:4.

  ”Jehovah’s witnesses today merely proclaim the ‘day of vengeance on the part of our God’ … They do not execute vengeance [themselves].” (The Watchtower, November 1, 1972, page 660) They proclaim the good news “of Jehovah’s vengeance” from house to house, and they look forward to the fulfillment of David’s prophecy: “The righteous one will rejoice because he has seen the vengeance; his feet will be drenched with the blood of the wicked.” – Psalm 58:10.
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  The new phonograph

  by Pistoff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  way back in 20's or 30's, (someone correct me if i have the time frame wrong), the wt's strategy for witnessing was to give each publisher (or have them buy one) a phonograph to set on the householder's steps so they could play one of the judge's speeches.. flash forward and there was a testimony card that publishers handed to the householder, introducing them.. this gave way to the current model of the publisher being informed and able to discuss a subject with the householder.. .

  that seems to be giving way to the new approach being used by the wt: the website.. the wt realizes that slick content is more impressive that a publisher talking, one who can't or won't keep up with the insane doctrinal changes.. publishing books and magazines is taking the back seat; the wt and awake have less than half the content they used to, and are published half as often.. the wt's trolley cart method involves not getting into discussions with people, but using an ipad to play them a video.. .

  the past is the future!.

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  iPads and other Apple products are not for Christians: http://www.svhelden.info/witchtower/2012/05/questions-from-readers-can-microsoft-really-be-the-true-religion/

  Some claim that ... Apple would be the true religion. They point out that Apple’s products are used “to the most distant part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) But ... the website The Straight Dope says: “Early Christian scholars often took the forbidden fruit to be an apple.” So Apple is not the true religion; rather the products of this company are the ‘forbidden fruits,’ “something to be longed for to the eyes,” to distract people from true worship.
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  THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

  they will be published here:.

  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/.

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  processor

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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/that-is-enough-of-you-you-sons-of-levi-so-must-you-men-also-try-to-secure-the-priesthood/

  Alternative Daily Text for Friday, June 20, 2014

  “That is enough of you, you sons of Levi! … So must you men also try to secure the priesthood?” (Numbers 16:7, 10, NWT 1984)

  Moses had enough of Korah and the other wannabe priests. In our day, “such ‘sons of Levi’ correspond to the collective body of anointed ones today” who would like to serve “as priests under Jesus, the High Priest.” – The Watchtower, June 15, 1987, page 15.

  Back in Moses’ time, “the earth opened and swallowed them up, along with their households … So they and all who belonged to them went down alive into the Grave.” (Numbers 16:32, 33) Soon “the Greater Moses, Jesus Christ,” will make sure that the same fate will befall the antitypical Levites “who make up ‘the faithful and discreet slave.’” – Worldwide Security Under the “Prince of Peace”, page 10; Live With Jehovah’s Day in Mind, page 91.
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  Funny devices used by the Golden Age editors, or: Do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?

  by processor in

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  2. beliefs

  do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?revised reprint from the witchtower, july 2010. .

  in a family and in a house where it is available and used, this little all-purpose device surely will obviate the need for a doctor many times.

  das goldene zeitalter [german edition of the golden age], december 1, 1931, page 359. .

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  Give us a link to the English 'Golden Age' so we can download it!!!!!!

  http://wtarchive.svhelden.info/english/the-golden-age/
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  New online archive with older Watchtower writings

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  lots of older watchtower and watchtower-related publications can be found here now:.

  http://wtarchive.kilu.de.

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  Added most issues of Bulletin , Director , Souvenir Report , and The Messenger . Also further reduced the file size, and made some files searchable. Many thanks to Frederic from Watchtower Wayback.

  http://wtarchive.svhelden.info
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  Funny devices used by the Golden Age editors, or: Do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?revised reprint from the witchtower, july 2010. .

  in a family and in a house where it is available and used, this little all-purpose device surely will obviate the need for a doctor many times.

  das goldene zeitalter [german edition of the golden age], december 1, 1931, page 359. .

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  The German Golden Age also contained aggressive advertisements like these:

  HAVE YOU ALREADY RECRUITED ONE NEW SUBSCRIBER OF THE GOLDEN AGE?

  IF NOT, DO IT IMMEDIATELY !!!

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  DID YOU NOT FORGET SOMETHING? HAVE YOU NOT PROMISED TO RECRUIT TWO NEW SUBSCRIBERS FOR THE GOLDEN AGE?
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  Funny devices used by the Golden Age editors, or: Do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?revised reprint from the witchtower, july 2010. .

  in a family and in a house where it is available and used, this little all-purpose device surely will obviate the need for a doctor many times.

  das goldene zeitalter [german edition of the golden age], december 1, 1931, page 359. .

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  Did the American English version Golden Age contain similar articles ?

  The German edition consisted of some translated articles and some local content. The article about this apparatus appeared only in the German edition, it was written by Paul Balzereit. He was the editor of the German edition and I think also some kind of branch coordinator, but he was not really honest and used the Golden Age for his own purposes. Under the pseudonym "Paul Gerhardt" (with different spelling variations) he published articles advertising products sold by his affiliates (like Fritz Egle, the manufacturer of the head-sweating apparatus).

  For all the quotations in the article: I have all the English Golden Age issues, and all articles that I found there are quoted from these. So, all the quotes in the article that are translated from German did likely not appear in the English editions.