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  BOE letter: New lights new changes

  by pixel in

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  re: adjustments to draw close to jehovah.

  dear brothers:.

  some changes involving our understanding of the meaning of gods name and what it re p- resents have been made to the first chapter of draw close to jehovah.

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  But seriously, this certainly highlights once more the absurdity of the grandiose claims the Governing Body makes about itself. So, not only did the faithful slave not known its own identity for nearly the past century (more, really), but they didn't know the proper/full/2.0 meaning of the divine name, either. If these basic things require updating, there is absolutely no basis to believe any of the other complex things were accurate, either. These are things that the channel of communication should logically be expected to know perfectly from the start.

  So God's all like, I can't tell you who you are accurately; heck, I can't even tell you who I am correctly!

  So this is like a 'hurry up and get this information out to update everyone' thing. This may perhaps be one of the most literal '1984' moments since they did something similar with the Revelation book. Or indeed with the New NWT itself. The past has been brought up to date. "B..B! B..B! B..B!"

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  BOE letter: New lights new changes

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  re: adjustments to draw close to jehovah.

  dear brothers:.

  some changes involving our understanding of the meaning of gods name and what it re p- resents have been made to the first chapter of draw close to jehovah.

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  sd-7

  OK what we need to do is have SD-7 write a complete new SD-7 version of the draw close to god book and send it out to dubs!

  SD-7 time to go to work.

  "(sigh) What do I look like, pest control?"

  

  --sd-7
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  Nugget's 2nd exhibition piece

  by cantleave in

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  sd-7

  That's spectacular. Great stuff.

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  Watchtower discusses Communist Indoctrination...hmm

  by pharmer in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  everywhere communist indoctrination was being pushed, in factories, offices, schools, hospitals, and in apartment blocks and streets.

  political committees organized weekly meetings to teach communist doctrine.

  the rectification movement was begun, designed to rectify wrong thinking and ways.

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  sd-7

  I'd highlight key phrases in that paragraph, but then I'd have to highlight the whole thing...

  Funny how the organization talks about how it's 'progressive'...has weekly meetings to teach doctrine...tells people to clear out their old spiritual or worldly views...adopt their ideas....spy on each other and report comments critical of the leadership...

  ...But hey, that's just coincidence..."As a detective, we're not allowed to believe in coincidences."

  

  --sd-7
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  Kim's call to HQ's...

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltqvpy6i0q.

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  sd-7

  Trying to trap him & make him look like a liar & an idiot is NOT a loving Christian thing to do. It is NOT something Jesus would do.

  --Actually, that's exactly the kind of thing Jesus would do. He did just that to the Pharisees, when he asked them if the baptism of John was from heaven or men. He was trying to get them to admit the truth to themselves, but they evaded an honest answer...because they were trapped. It wasn't hate that made Jesus do that, it was a desire to uphold truth and expose self-righteous behavior on the part of those religious leaders.

  This isn't the approach I would have taken, but then I've come to realize it's just not worth my time to do this sort of thing. I'd give this video a listen but I don't want to upset myself about it all. It just isn't healthy.

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  Kingdom Ministry Feb 2014 has a couple interesting statements

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i thought the kingdom ministry feb 2014 had a couple interesting things in it:.

  1. a short talk encouraging the jw sales force to publicize the jw.org website at every opportunity.. 2. do not put out bibles on your table displays keep them hidden underneath.

  i thought they were so p-p-p-p-proud of their new nwt??.

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  sd-7

  Well, guess if you want a free Bible with no obligations attached, better stick with the Gideons...

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  Are you excited about the next space race?

  by tootired2care in

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  for the last several years a number of things have been coalescing to make deeper space exploration and colonization possible and even feasible.

  it seems that the velocity of such endeavors has really increased the last couple of years.

  big things are in the works such as:.

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  Hey, that's cool. I'd love to be able to live to see the day man lands on Mars. If I can just live long enough to see first contact with the Vulcans, I'll be happy...

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  A story about Reggie and Reginald... and why it makes me cringe... more vomiting

  by confusedandalone in

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  2. experiences

  so i grew up in new jersey in a very urban part of the state.

  i literally only saw white folks if they were in a police car or if i went to the assembly.

  the funny thing is at the assembly there was still a level of segregation as well although it was self-imposed.

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  sd-7

  

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  governing body my bottom.

  by Captain Blithering in

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  2. friends

  sat on the sound again, listening to this twaddle about the governing body, hearing the parrotted answers and cursing my stupidity and ignorance for the decades in which i did the same.

  posting on here during a meeting is fun!

  you guys are a great support group.

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  "So, how should we feel about the Governing Body? Uh, Brother Stanton?" [pdpdm *mike being passed*]

  [needlessly loud] "UH, WE SHOULD FEEL, UH, THANKFUL THAT JEHOVAH HAS PROVIDED THESE SPIRITUAL MEN, UH...TO GUIDE US INTO THE NEW SYSTEM. SO UH, WE SHOULD FEEL THANKFUL."

  "Alright."

  Man, it's been awhile, but...the horror...the horror is vivid indeed...

  --sd-7
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  The 1914 generation is still going strong 100 years later - 2014 study article.

  by THE GLADIATOR in

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  january 2014 watchtower study article.

  let your kingdom comebut when?.

  this generation will not pass away.

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  The second group included in “this generation” are anointed contemporaries of the first group. They were not simply alive during the lifetime of those in the first group, but they were anointed with holy spirit during the time that those of the first group were still on earth. Thus, not every anointed person today is included in “this generation” of whom Jesus spoke.

  So, it looks like we actually have three groups here:

  1. Anointed who saw 1914.

  2. Anointed who got anointed before Group 1 died off.

  3. Anointed who got anointed after Group 1 died off.

  It sounds like they're planning ahead for when this one doesn't pan out, to shift three groups into one 'generation'.

  So I see that I haven't missed anything in my time away from this site. Inmates still running the asylum.

  --sd-7