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  Study WT June 2012 - we are living in the days of the 7th head!!!

  by Sapphy in

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  2. friends

  well, it's officailly in print now.

  the 10 toes of the statue have no significance.. that was worth going to last summer's covention to find out wasn't it!.

  i'm fading and still attend some meetings, so i'm still fluent in current theocrapic pure language, but read this quote from the new wt and see if it doesnt scream freaky deaky cult at you.

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  Sapphy

  Well, it's officailly in print now. The 10 toes of the statue have no significance.

  That was worth going to last summer's covention to find out wasn't it!

  I'm fading and still attend some meetings, so I'm still fluent in current theocrapic pure language, but read this quote from the new WT and see if it doesnt scream freaky deaky cult at you. (This quote is not edited).

  page 18 pp19:

  "We are living in the days of the seventh head. No more heads will appear on this beast before it is annihilated. The Anglo-American world power will be the dominant world power when false religion is eradicated. The prophecies of Daniel and John have been fulfilled to the smallest detail..."

  The truncated style of writing and the short sentences containing unsupported assertions made me check that I wasn't quoting from the WT for Kids who cant read good version, but no, that quote is from the 'normal' WT.

  :rofl:
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  Governing body members Nervous breakdown due to pressure from Rutherford/Knorr!!

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. scandals

  karl klien lifestory in the watchtower.. in 1934 karl had a nervous breakdown at bethel.

  baptized at 12 he didn't go door to door till he was 18....while serving as a teenage elder.

  is bethel life hard?

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  I wish you'd be more direct jookbeard.
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  When will they merge the BS, TMS, WTS, T into one meeting ?

  by mP in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it seems to me with all the times being cut from talks, you could save further time and simply smash all the meetings into one on the weekend.

  this would also save the need for those extra kingdom hall songs, and one trip to the kh.

  with all these savings, jws could easily double their ministry..

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  I can see them merging the WT into the mid week marathon and studying the WT insted of the current parade of paperback comics.

  Then 1 kingdom hall could serve 5 congos who could all have their public talk on Sunday...
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  Common JW phrases that aren't in the Bible

  by biometrics in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm interested to know common phrases jehovah's witnesses use, but don't actually apear in the bible (even the nwt).

  especially phrases most jw's would assume are in the bible.

  e.g.. "paradise earth".

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  antitypical

  modern day

  it is reasonable to conclude

  ...evidently meant
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  Are You A Screwed Up Adult Because You Were A Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  or did it not matter that you were ever a witness---you're a bit screwy, anyway?.

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  LOL, I'm in the process of unscrewing the bits of me that are screwed up.
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  KH and Gold Scam part 2

  by iamwhoiam in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  at our hall..we were given a 0% loan for remodel as long as we paid it back in a very short period of time.

  and even though the building has long been paid for by the congregation and yet our reserves were low, inorder to get that loan, we were to turn over hall ownership to the society.

  since the congregation had to vote on it, and no one is going to raise thier hand against, it got passed.

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  The yearly 'remember us in your will' article mentions you can leave valuables to the society, I'm not sure if they mentioned jewellry...
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  Aboriginal Australians Aren't Black?!

  by Philadelphia Ponos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's very rare that i visit this site these days and even rarer that i start a thread, but ever so often i see a comment so outrageous that i just have to respond.

  in a thread entitled "are black people more emotional than white people", the op made the following comment concerning the lack of "black people" in australia:"we have the australian aboriginal people butthey are a different race more related to white people i beleive.

  " the bad spelling and grammer isn't the only thing wrong with this sentence.

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  It's true, we're all 'out of Africa'! - Even the neanderthals, apparently, who left earlier than Homo Sapiens.

  Anthropology is fascinating.

  I think the current thought is that Aboriginal people are more closely related to e.g the Sri Lankan Vedda people...

  http://www.matt-gibson.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Sri-Lanka-Dambana-Vedda1.jpeg

  ...than a modern day African person e.g. a Yoruba man:

  http://www.languagesafrica.com/uploads/1/6/0/2/1602844/7727235.jpg?375

  Just as a side point caucasian does not equal white person.

  Indians, Pakistanis, Afghanis, Iranians are all caucasian.

  Open to new light, of course.
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  How to stump the atheists

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ask an atheist if he or she believes in the existence of aliens?

  if they answer, "no," then ask them how do they know that?

  the truth is that no atheist can reasonably deny the existence of alien life.

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  "How could 40 men, over an extended time period of 1,500 years, with differing personalities, from different nations, write 66 separate Books that all perfectly harmonize in meaning and Biblical prophecy? "

  They couldn't. They didn't.

  Really trying to work out what the OP means. God is an alien? If aliens exist, God exists?

  "For an atheist to profess believe is alien life, while simultaneously denying the existence of God, is utter hypocrisy and foolishness."

  Why?

  Surely a resonable position to hold is that it is more likely that life has evolved elsewhere in the universe than the biblical god exists?
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  Christians don't "warn" people of god's judgement, they "threaten" people with god's judgement.

  by JonathanH in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was reading an article recently where a street preacher is on trial for yelling at gay people that they will burn in hell.

  he's arguing for freedom of speech.

  whether or not that is within his rights is not really my concern here.

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  As the finest contempory social commentator, Homer Simpson, says:

  "God Loves You! He's gonna kill you!!!"
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  THREE MILLION 'Preppers' in the U.S. are prepared for for the end of the world

  by NomadSoul in

  1. social
  2. current

  three million 'preppers' in the u.s. are prepared for for the end of the world .

  read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099714/meet-preppers-up-3-million-people-preparing-end-world-know-it.html#ixzz1nelgbsej.

  one couple living in fortress with stockpile of guns and 25,000 rounds of ammunition (just in case!).

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• 'Survival' movement to be focus of new reality TV show

Hmm, I suppose it will be like watching 'Hoarders'. You feel bad for watching, but exploring how mental illness can express itself in extreme behaviour is facsinating!