Posts by ElderEtta

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BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.

ElderEtta

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Copy and pasting might overcome the tracking code trap but not the canary trap. With the Human Resources available at Washtowels modern day slavery camps- I wouldn’t put it past them to slightly alter the wording of each boe letter to catch the leakers.

Current day word processors even the free ones have infinite ways they can vary a document without you ever noticing with your eyes, line spacing , font type, font size, kerning, and so forth and so forth and all under automated macro / program control.

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Shunning: Reasoning With JW's

by The Fall Guy in

perhaps this line of questioning could agitate a jw's thinking.

it can't hurt.. you: is shunning a biblical teaching?.

jw: yes.. you: so it must be god's law?.

ElderEtta

Papal dispensation. Papal dispensation is a reserved right of the pope that allows for individuals to be exempted from a specific Canon Law. Dispensations are divided into two categories: general, and matrimonial. Matrimonial dispensations can be either to allow a marriage in the first place, or to dissolve one.

Watchtower governing body dispensation. Watchtower governing body dispensation is a reserved right of the 7 men that allows for individuals to be exempted from their shunning policy. Since exemptions to the shunning policy is not biblically defined the seven men have lovingly added to scripture by providing for family members to associate with disfellowshipped members of their family as long as such ones are living under the same roof.

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Shunning: Reasoning With JW's

by The Fall Guy in

perhaps this line of questioning could agitate a jw's thinking.

it can't hurt.. you: is shunning a biblical teaching?.

jw: yes.. you: so it must be god's law?.

ElderEtta

YOU: Well, according to your religion, if a JW who lives at home with their parents and siblings gets disfellowshipped, their family association continues as normal. But if that individual later moved into an apartment next door, they would be regarded as if they were dead. Can you show me in the Bible where this discriminatory "law of God" is laid out?

A great unexplainable paradox that I have never heard before

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My Personal Atheist Manifesto?

by dubstepped in

so, i have a guy that is emailing me after listening to my podcast series "this jw life" about my life story before, during, and after being a jw.

this guy happens to be an elder and pioneer serving where the need is greater.

i love this guy.

ElderEtta

Excellent dubstepped

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I think you should know about this man. After all, he changed your life!

by Terry in

william miller.

do you know how important this man has been to your life?.

do you know your life would have been entirely different (without a doubt) had he not lived?.

ElderEtta

ScenicVierer:

Here's a link to that father Miller reference here from several years ago here it is

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/186678/russell-re-millerite-founder-father-miller-no-less-4-times

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Cancer in Animals

by Normalfulla in

we were taught sickness and death is a result of the sin inherited from adam and eve, so why do animals get cancer?

they are supposedly still as big j intended, so therefore cancer is a creation by the big fella himself?.

just an exercise for one's who believe in the whole bible story thing.. (not me)... any others anomalies you can think of ?

ElderEtta

Purrpurr

I enjoyed your humor

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Gloom and Doom from 100 years ago -- Watch Tower 1918

by FatFreek 2005 in

i thought it would be enlightening to see what jws said 100 years ago.

it's no different as we check out the jan 1, 1918 watch tower and herald of christ's presence.. .

ElderEtta

And how does one get more shares than the next person it certainly wouldn't have anything to do with money wood it

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Gloom and Doom from 100 years ago -- Watch Tower 1918

by FatFreek 2005 in

i thought it would be enlightening to see what jws said 100 years ago.

it's no different as we check out the jan 1, 1918 watch tower and herald of christ's presence.. .

ElderEtta

Hmm mm ..... let's do some math here

1,142,980 / 7 = 163,282

The first number is the number of votes cast divided by 7 equals that final number of 163,000 and some change. I have my doubts that Watchtower membership was at that level in those years but I don't know that for a fact.

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Gloom and Doom from 100 years ago -- Watch Tower 1918

by FatFreek 2005 in

i thought it would be enlightening to see what jws said 100 years ago.

it's no different as we check out the jan 1, 1918 watch tower and herald of christ's presence.. .