I've got a pretty good set of WT's from the 20's... The oldest I have is a Golden Age from 1919. Anyone interested?
gubberningbody
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Watchtower library for sale
by cherry inwe have been clearing out my j.w.s mothers house and have extensive library dating back to the 1940's and prior.
we would like to sell these as we must fund her deteriorating care.
anyone interested or have any idea who may want these.
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WHO WROTE THE BIBLE??? RESPONSE TO THE NEW PUBLICATION.
by whereami infor those whow believe god authored the bible , this info will make you question your faith.
very well done.. i would love to see how the wts would respond to this, especially after the new publication on the bible was just released at the convention.. maybe one of our inhouse scholars (narkissos/leolia) can back up this info.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2061773048178434620&hl=en.
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gubberningbody
You know I was thinking that there were canonicity issues in the 1st century w/the Pharisees accepting all manner of scripture and the Saduccees only the 1st 5 and if Jesus had been interested in clarifying these things he might have, however he didn't.
In the case of the questions on levirate marriage w/the saducees in dealing w/the resurrection (which they didn't buy into) he quotes a passage from Moses and emphasizes a verb tense to make his point. "I AM (present tense) the God of Abraham..." and later w/the Pharisees he uses an illustration w/Lazarus & the rich man w/the concept of immortality of the soul and hellfire doctrine embedded to make a point (because the Pharisees believed both).
It seems to me that he was unconcerned with the doctrinal truths and canonicity issues and more concerned with the moral truths w/regard to people's behavior and their hopes for a possible better future and used whatever scriptures or evidence they accepted to make his points.
If this is really representing Jehovah's view of the matter, it would seem that he too is mostly concerned w/our behavior and treatment of each other than if we've got it "right".
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Have you noticed that JW's who've been "raised in the truth" are crappy spellers?
by gubberningbody ini hate that..
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gubberningbody
All I have to say is "Israel", not "Isreal".
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Have you noticed that JW's who've been "raised in the truth" are crappy spellers?
by gubberningbody ini hate that..
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gubberningbody
I hate that.
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Forget all of the stages: Denial, Anger, Sadness - Don't you sometimes just feel STUPID for having believed in the Organization?
by BonaFide ini know i have been through all those stages, i denied it, then i got angry, definitely sad.
months and months of this, and i still am in for my family and friends.. but sometimes i just feel stupid.
why did i ignore basic common sense for so long?
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gubberningbody
No. I did all the investigating I could before becoming one. The internet wasn't a resource then, there weren't any books around besides what looked obviously slanted, like "Kingdom of the Cults" whose author was pushing mainstream Christianity which seemed obviously wrong and stupid. Later after spending a significant amount of time observing JW's I felt convinced that they were convinced. I wasn't giving them any money. They seemed unconcerned about my joining. They didn't vote, salute the flag, go to war or have paid clergy that I was aware of. Later after I requested a study it seemed that all the answers came from the bible. When I later became a pioneer, I spent a lot of time with people whose goal it was to prove them wrong (and all they focused on was the trinity, hellfire and the immortal soul doctrine, all of which seemed unbiblical and stupid). No one effectively dealt with the 1914 issue, and the organization as vicar of Christ or that Christ wasn't my mediator, so all I felt I had was confirmation when I finished arguing with them.
Actually, many of the people I knew who were the most active and vocal were the most intelligent. Now, after reading the book "Why smart people believe stupid things" I believe it's because when you are effective at arguing a position, you can easily come to imagine that you are likewise correct.
How wrong I was. (I suppose also having a high level of self esteem from acing tests in school and generally outperforming almost everyone I came in contact with made it that much more difficult to see how a person with poor argumentational skills and no knowledge of how an argument ought be conducted, could in point of fact be correct.)
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I love my wife...her idea of a letter if she were to write one would be simply
by gubberningbody indear john,.
need i say more?.
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gubberningbody
This would be to the WTBS, not me!
She knows if she tried to run it would end up with her in a hole and me saying "it puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again"
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I love my wife...her idea of a letter if she were to write one would be simply
by gubberningbody indear john,.
need i say more?.
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gubberningbody
Dear John,
Need I say more?
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New Witness Songbook 2009...any song title suggestions?
by Witness 007 inthis year see's a new songbook but.....which songs do you think would be apropriate?.
song 28.
"whats love got to do with it?".
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 05-24-09 WT Study (UNITED PRAISE)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 05-24-09 wt study (march 15, 2009, pages 20-24)(united praise).
review comments will be in red.
"praise jah, you people!"--ps.
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gubberningbody
FYI - Q4's reference is from :
The Book of psalms; a new tr., with notes by J.J.S. Perowne, page 317 (printed in 1882)
Do an advanced google search on the exact phrase "objects of earnest and devout meditation"
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What code of conduct do "atheists" live by?
by The Berean inwho or what are we acountable to for our actions?.
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gubberningbody
"For example, whenever people who don't have laws from God do by nature the things that Moses' Teachings contain, they are a law to themselves even though they don't have any laws from God." - Romans 2:14