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is it still common for jws to go right up to a church to share their message?
one of my fb friends who's a pastor posted today about receiving a visit while he was in his office at his church.. can protestants likewise go up to kingdom halls to call on jws?
In my experience the JW's walked right by churches, and even the Vicarage or residence of a Pastor, they used to leave those for me to do for some reason.
Any Catholic priest or protestant pastor could give JW's a run for their money, if he could only get them to listen and to reason, in the case of 99.99999% of JW's getting them to do either one is impossible, to do both, never.
i was watching "the nostradamus effect" episode - "doomsday hieroglyphs" the other day.
i was shocked when they began speaking about (no names mentioned) of those who believed that measurements of the giza pyramid to predict the end of the world.
they showed charts and how that scenario hit 1914 to a certain part, then the entire measurements end at september of 2011. .
Russell was late in the game of Pyramidology,others had outlined the idea long before he picked it up.
He was most impressed by that old fraud Piazzi-Smythe, who styled himself Astronomer Royal for Scotland, when there was no such position.
Chazzer wrote to Prof P-S and received a letter back which Russell proudly published in Studies in the Scriptures (the vol. about the pyramid), if you read it Piazzi-Smythe is actually very non-commital.
I kinda think it is no worse a theory than the latest overlapping generation tosh.
do any of you recall seeing a photograph in one of the society's publications of fred franz where he is giving a public talk at an assembly and has his left arm stretched out and on his left hand is a masonic ring.
it may have been in one of the special international assembly brochures.. with this great group of sleuths i thought some may have come across it..
I dunno about Masonic, but he has got lizard eyes.
i am confused, so was it constantine who created the first canon or was it athanasius throught constantine, or was it just athanasius before constantine?.
Good articles on Wiki , interesting that the canon that JW's accept was decided by the Catholic Church in around 381AD( from memory) at atime the JW's claim the church was Apostate, so theirs, the infamous NWT, is an Apostate Bible !
this has possibly been posted before (i hadn't seen it) - i found it a fascinating read - well done alanf for fronting it up..... it can also be found online at http://www.reexamine.org/wtobserver/apps/pbcs.dll/article86c8.html?aid=/20040309/history/204007.
interview with a watchtower society author on wednesday, 27 august 1997, i met with harry peloyan for about 1 1/2 hours in the lobby of the 25 columbia heights bethel office in brooklyn, new york.
my purpose was to discuss problems with the creation book with him, since he is its main author.
BTTT
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[endif]november 25, 2011. discussion with joe hoover and agreed that, i will be check-in the code in new gbplanmemberui and joe will be building and deploying the changes in sit5.".
If you stand and watch this guy, are you a Hoovers Witness ?
i have a 10 year old.
been to the kh once, at about 3 years old, for a relative's funeral.
lately, my 10 year old and her bff are talking on the phone alot.
What a joy your lovely daughter must be to you ! You can see a caring compassionate character forming in her already, boy do theu grow up quick !
We as JW's were, as you say, not encouraged to grow up and take responsibility for making the world a better place.
Give your daughter a hug from all on JWN !
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/search?cx=partner-pub-4963413421914369%3ag5in7s-4bz3&cof=forid%3a10&ie=iso-8859-1&q=overlapping&siteurl=www.jehovahs-witness.net%2fsearch.
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many threads on the overlapping generation...how do you explain it briefly to a ex-jw or jw on the edge?.
"And I will just show you where Jesus clearly says this in the Bible, oh ..er... well Jesus evidently meant to say that if your Granny was ..... er I forgot, what was the question ?"
the christ hymn in philippians 2:6-11.
(the authentic letters of paul, arthur j. dewey and others, pages 194 -196).
several of the terms used in verses 6 to 8 echo the terminology found in the story of the creation and fall of adam in genesis 1 and 3 in the greek translation of the hebrew bible (the septuagint) that paul and all of the authors of the writings that comprise the new testament knew and used.
Thanks Doug, interesting to see a decent translation of the passage, so different from Freddie Franz's mangled version as in the NWT that serves to hide the writers real message.
do any of you recall seeing a photograph in one of the society's publications of fred franz where he is giving a public talk at an assembly and has his left arm stretched out and on his left hand is a masonic ring.
it may have been in one of the special international assembly brochures.. with this great group of sleuths i thought some may have come across it..
I remember one of him wearing a check shirt, trying to look like a good ol' country boy, he still looked strange.
