Posts by StayedAliveAfter75

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PDF of Advice for Kingdom Publishers (1939)

by MrMonroe in

i'm hoping to obtain a copy of the 1939 booklet advice for kingdom publishers.

it's a 16-page booklet that was written, i understand, to help us publishers as they embarked on the very vigorous witnessing campaigns that were largely aimed at provoking police and governments to take action against them.

i'm particularly interested in what specific advice they were given about creating or avoiding situations likely to result in their arrest.

StayedAliveAfter75

I do, but it is just a PDF. No cover art, sorry...

Barney

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2014 Watchtower CD Library

by Calebs Airplane in

anyone have a good link to a 2014 watchtower cd library?

(i'll settle for 2013 link also).

i've googled it and have only come up with non-working links or links that fail to load completely.. please and thank you.

StayedAliveAfter75

PM me and give me your email address and I can send you a clean copy of the 2014 WT CD.

You will need a writable CD/DVD player on your computer and some new, blank CDs. Takes just a few minutes, but you will have to unzip the files before laying them down on the CD.

If you do not wish to share your email address with me - that's fine. This link provided by WiFi Bandit in an earlier post was still working the last time I checked. But you should have Gmail and Google Drive on your computer to access and download it.

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Wealth of Documents at Royal Commission Site

by StayedAliveAfter75 in

although i will continue to provide those of you who have subscribed to my distribution list with pertinent documents as they become available, there is a wealth of material just sitting there for you to pick over if you will just take the time and clear some space on your computer.

i suggest that you go to costco, amazon.com, or a local office supply store and pick up a couple of usb plugin storage drives.

i just bought a set of two 128gb 3.0 sandisk dongles for $19 usd at costco.

StayedAliveAfter75

Although I will continue to provide those of you who have subscribed to my distribution list with pertinent documents as they become available, there is a wealth of material just sitting there for you to pick over if you will just take the time and clear some space on your computer.

I suggest that you go to Costco, Amazon.com, or a local office supply store and pick up a couple of USB plugin storage drives. I just bought a set of two 128GB 3.0 SanDisk dongles for $19 USD at Costco. These are the cheapest and safest way to save your documents, rather than leave them on a computer harddrive that can crash or be accidentally overwritten at almost any time.

Where is this feast I suggest that you chow down on? The Royal Commission (Australia) website.

http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.aspx

This page will lead you not only to the daily transcripts of the hearings, but also to all the submitted and relevant documents that were required to be submitted to the Commission. There are statements, magazines, BOE letters, full publications (including the secret elder books).

I would also respectfully suggest that you also download all of the sessions recorded and available on YouTube. Christian Sparlock and WatchtowerDocuments (Barbara Anderson) are just two of our fellow ex-JWs who have recorded the sessions and made them available to the world at large. These videos may be too big a gulp to take all at once, but look at them one per day at a time and for god's sake pay attention. These are amazing and very revealing.

For those of you who have YouTube downloaders on your computers (there are several free programs - but be very careful and choose only those verified to be spam or virus free) that will allow you to make copies that you can save on a USB drive or on your computer for future reference.

Remember that many of our friends and family never see these things because they have no idea where to look. The Commission hearings were low key, well-prepared and non-atagonistic. And yet they reveal everything. The fraud, the back-peddling, the consistent avoidance of the facts by JWs and their representatives.

You may never have another opportunity in your lifetime like this one to collect documents and videos that really reveal the truth about the Truth. Don't let it slip out of your hands - do it now, even if you don't actually have the time to review and read everything at this very moment. If you are a student and somewhat dedicated to seeing the WT trip, fall and break its neck in the near future, here's your once in a lifetime chance - and it's all free!

[[ For those of you who still have not requested to be added to my documents distribution list, send me a PM with an email address that won't compromise you (I strongly suggest that you create a new @gmail.com address just for this purpose). ]]

"Barney"

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Reasoning on the New "1900 Years" JW Theology (from David Splane)

by FusionTheism in

inspired by the three recent threads on david splane's new video declaring, among other things, that there was no faithful slave for 1900 years, and there may not have even been any genuine anointed ones during those years, i decided to make this post.. here are the three previous threads on this topic:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/337200001/david-splane-address-bethelites.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/323160001/new-david-splane-video-no-1900-year-faithful-slave.

StayedAliveAfter75

Hold Me wroter: "The early Christians had the Bible. It was in the languages of the times."

Not to pick a fight (not my style at all), but that statement is not true at all. The early Christians had copies of letters written by other Christians explaining Jesus' life and teachings as they had heard from other writings and by word of mouth. Paul and others wrote letters to the Corinthians, Ephesians, etc., but those letters were not copied and sent to all other Christian groups. In Palestine, some Christian groups, being Jews, may have had some of the Torah scrolls or had access to them at local temples - but they did not have personal libraries available to them for study and research.

I suggest that everyone who truly wants to know how the Bible came together and what was available to early Christian educate themselves by reading Professor Bart Ehrman's books and listen to his lectures (most are available for free on Archive.org). The "Bible" as we know it was mostly combined and configured in the 3rd to 6th centuries C.E. But even then, the many components of the Bible were not combined into one book until well after the 12th century C.E.

The infamous Watchtower drawing showing early disciples going door-to-door with some kind of "book purse" over their shoulders is ridiculous. They are trying to convince JWs that early Christians knocked on Jewish and Roman doors, preached, and then handed out copies of scrolls (early "Watchtowers"). The truth is that all writing materials were in short supply and used only by the government or the local temples. No one other than political leaders and their slaves and the Jewish clergy were able to read and write. They did not go to the synagogue to read scrolls - they went there to hear the scrolls and commandments of the Torah read out loud to the attendees.

There were some scrolls available to smaller groups, but again these were letters sent from Paul or the apostles in Jerusalem. The Bereans would have had maybe a few scrolls available that they would read, discuss and argue about and then compare to other available documents - just as we do today when we go to a library.

Barney