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  WT “Study” for 11th Sept 2016 – “Why Must We ‘Keep on the Watch’”?

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was really puzzled when i opened this edition of the wt magazine at the above “study”.

  what on earth has this picture at the top of page 13 got to do with christian watchfulness?

  i wasn’t making a connection at all.

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  freddo

  Classic comment at our hall from an 80 year old:

  "70 years ago we were told to keep on the watch because the end was close; and 30 years ago we were told the same ... so now we know it must be really close don't we?"

  
  
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  Handels 'Messiah'

  by zeb in

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  i had been watching handels "messiah' on computer.

  i mentioned this to my wife (uber) and got a "oh oh!

  " reply so it looks like this most wonderful work of choral music is proscribed.

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  freddo

  I had similar with "All things bright and beautiful" a hymn that was a favourite with small children in English schools. Hymn of Christendom? Big No-no.

  However I reasoned that "If God chose His Organization in 1919 (I know ... I know ...) then stuff written prior must be OK especially if there is nothing unscriptural about the words."

  Now no-one started singing non-jw hymns around me but it does put another perspective on the Hallelujah chorus doesn't it?
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  Anthony Morris III Autobiography ... The Real Truth

  by Wild_Thing in

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  the watchtower published anthony morris iii's autobiography last year ... "remembering my first love has helped me to endure" by anthony morris iii.

  i absolutely cannot believe how quickly he became a jehovah's witness.

  in the span of less than a year, he attended his first meeting, studied, got baptized, became a pioneer, and married a jw girl.

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  freddo

  I'll not forget the line in his autobiography Watchtower; something like "My boys make me look good".

  And that is what it's all about isn't it? Looking good on the outside.

  Whitewashed Grave at its best.
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  Japan's branch office. began to crumble?

  by nakanozzi in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ebina assembly hall, where the japan’s branch office is located,need to be fixed all over inside, but they have no money.

  ameblo.jp/c00-c00/entry-12198348850.html.

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  freddo

  I dunno "dropoffyourkeylee" that does look like a dried up baptism pool and if you go down far enough in the linked site there is a jw.org symbol and the look of a Japanese jw discussion type website.

  I'll take it at face value but with a helping of Berean investigation needed to confirm.
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  Melita Jaracz

  by hirotaka in

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  don't read or post here very often anymore.

  have moved on from all things jw from my former life it seems.. just an announcement to whomever it may concern that melita jaracz, surviving wife of form governing body member theodore jaracz, has finished her earthy course passing away yesterday.. simon, i don't know if you're still involved, but this site was invaluable to me when i was leaving the org.

  some years back.. thank you and all the others who have me guidance that i needed at the time.

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  freddo

  Please post occasionally hirotaka ... it all helps.

  So Melita has gone to the great Hairdressing Salon in the sky eh? Perhaps she'll give Teddy J a big slap around the face now he's not her spiritual head anymore!
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  The 1914 doctrine: How long it will last?

  by opusdei1972 in

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  2. bible

  one hundred years have passed and the society still supports this lie, which of course, is the basis of their other lies, like that of the unfaithful and not discreet slave appointed in 1919. however, i wonder, what will happen after 50 years, when the overlapped generation will pass?.

  and if you want, what will happen with this religion in 2100?, could it survive with the same lie??

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  freddo

  Look. There are idiots with an agenda who have followers believing that the Holocaust didn't happen; if the GB told the JW's that WW1 didn't really happen and to ignore any evidence for it because Satan changed the words in the newspapers and the images on the cine films some of them would believe it and even more would go along with it.

  Their brains would fry as they "waited on Jehovah" and they continued to trust "imperfect men", but they'd accept it and bob their heads and answer up in the Watchtower study.

  Just like they will bob their heads (including those that preached it and who lived through it) and answer up when they study the overlapping generation change bollocks in the "(Obey) God's Kingdom Rules!" book later this month at the CLAM meeting.

  RANT Over!
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  Lets be honest we will never expose the danger to the world of JW.org

  by James Mixon in

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  2. bible

  i thought, ok the case in australia would open the eyes of the world about this dangerous cult.. well that passed without a ripple.

  we talk about the un and the wt link, none jw's don't.

  understand the significance.

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  freddo

  Depressing isn't it?

  Especially when you've been brought up in it - brought kids up in it yourself and/or married in it and none of them are on the same page as you.
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  Genesis 6 verse 3 - "man's days will be one hundred and twenty", so explain this.............

  by cantleave in

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  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/worlds-oldest-person-man-mbah-gotho-indonesia-145-years-old-a7213191.html.

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  freddo

  As LUHE says: Are the records verifiable? If he was born early 20th century Indonesia he would have been registered under Dutch Colonial control and that would give a semblance of credence to any record he has.

  But in 1870 the Dutch control was tenuous and only in coastal areas would their records be reliable.

  Then there was Japanese occupation and the fight for independence in the late 1940's where things would have been more fluid and records lost.

  If it was a woman and the age 120 or even 125 I might believe it possible but I reckon 110 - 115 tops. which makes me think he may have his father's or older relatives birth records.
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  The Real Reason why the WT predicted Armageddon in 1975

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am of the opinion that the wt doctrine is influenced more by external factors that it is by internal ones.

  one of the doctrines that has puzzled me for some time is the armageddon prediction of 1975. why would the wts make this prediction?

  what was their real purpose?.

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  freddo

  @Orphan Crow

  Sorry. As other posters pointed out - when I posted "Mad Freddy" I did mean Fred Franz.

  As in he was the chief architect of 1975 and all it's life-wrecking ripples.
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  This week's WT study article "Keep on the Watch" - the latest dumb article from the Gang That Couldn't Think Straight

  by sir82 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok so this week's wt study article is entitled "why must we keep on the watch?"..

  it is filled with statements on the importance of "being watchful" for the beginning of the "great tribulation".

  paragraph 2: “keep looking, keep awake, for you do not know when the appointed time is.”after that, jesus admonished them repeatedly: “keep on the watch.”.

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  freddo

  Luke 21 v 8 anywhere in that article? No? Thought not.