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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 4-20-2014 WT Study (MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB)

  by blondie in

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  (john 1:36; 3:28, 29; rev.

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  After their marriage, Christ and his Kingdom associates will bestow untold blessings upon the inhabitants of the earth.—

  Well, let's see here...any 'Kingdom associates' mentioned in the cited scriptures?

  Rev 7:17: "because the Lamb,+ who is in the midst* of the throne, will shepherd them+ and will guide them to springs* of waters of life.+ And God will wipe out every tear from their eyes.”+

  No. Not there. Maybe it's in Rev. 21:1-4:

  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth;+ for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away,+ and the sea+ is no more. 2 I also saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God+ and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.+ 3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them.+ 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes,+ and death will be no more,+ neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore.+ The former things have passed away.”

  They mention New Jerusalem, but no 'Kingdom associates' bestowing blessings on anybody. Huh. Looks like God and Jesus will be the ones bestowing blessings, not anyone else. Well, that's odd. So how does that support the point here, that

  Christ and his Kingdom associates will bestow untold blessings upon the inhabitants of the earth

  ? Well, looks like it doesn't. Alright, then.

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  What TV Show(s) Do You Just Love?

  by minimus in

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  i regularly watch family feud.. homeland is a great show i watch every week, when it's in season.. metv has so many great programs---from taxi to the twilight zone.. what do you like watching?

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  LOL!! @ SD-7!! Ducktales rocked the house!!!

  Yup. I've got the whole set on DVD. Haven't watched those in awhile. Was playing Ducktales Remastered not that long ago, though. But I got TaleSpin, Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers, and Darkwing Duck, too. Ducktales and Rescue Rangers seem like they withstood the test of time best. Darkwing Duck always put me to sleep when I tried to watch it.

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  What TV Show(s) Do You Just Love?

  by minimus in

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  i regularly watch family feud.. homeland is a great show i watch every week, when it's in season.. metv has so many great programs---from taxi to the twilight zone.. what do you like watching?

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  sd-7 you like adventure time too?

  Oh, yeah, definitely! Shmowzow! I have the Finn hat and a giant Adventure Time coffee mug, in fact. Still working on getting the video games for DS and Wii U, though...

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  FYI, links to photos of jw.org signs on top of WT buildings

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  yesterday, on the thread i started on 4/15/14, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/279088/1/essay-by-barbara-anderson-whats-in-a-name#.u1e98jao7l9 that introduces a recent article i wrote which is posted on www.watchtowerdocuments.org , i thought i made an inaccurate statement in one of my posts about wt having a sign, jw.org, on the top of one of their buildings.

  i was sure i had seen a photo of such a sign but couldn't prove it until last night when proof was sent to me in an email and the proof is to be found in the form of links to photos of the sign.

  i was wrong in thinking the sign was on a wt factory building.

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  Nice. Okay, so this did actually happen, but just not over top of the old 'Read God's Word the Bible Daily' sign. Got it.

  I don't know enough about computers to know why, but when I type jw, JWN is the first site to come up. Is that because I frequent JWN, or would it be the same for anyone who inputs the letters jw? If so, anyone who tries to check out jw.org is going to get a lot of information from JWN that the Watch Tower cult doesn't want people to know.

  Well, if you Google "jw", only jw.org seems to come up. JWN doesn't even seem to be on the list. Curious. Definitely needs to be addressed...

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  Where were you? / How old were you?... during the Ray Franz witch trial?

  by Zoos in

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  i was 13yo and largely clueless to what was going on.

  i think i remember hearing something about an apostate being weeded out of bethel but really couldn't have cared less.

  i didn't start getting zealous until a couple of years later.. .

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  I wasn't born at that time. I always feel like the youngest person in the room for some reason. My mom hadn't even been recruited by the JWs yet. The only thing I ever heard said about it was that "an apostate wrote the 'Aid [to Bible Understanding]' book". I couldn't figure out how that made any sense, or what that was even supposed to mean. I assumed that meant that somehow stuff in the 'Aid' book couldn't be trusted. But I never gave it much thought for most of my life.

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  What TV Show(s) Do You Just Love?

  by minimus in

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  i regularly watch family feud.. homeland is a great show i watch every week, when it's in season.. metv has so many great programs---from taxi to the twilight zone.. what do you like watching?

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  That would be a long list, I suspect, but as far as current shows, I'd say: Arrow, Nikita, Adventure Time, and...Star Wars: The Clone Wars, though that one's over now.

  If we're talking in general: Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek (pick one, but I'm still working on DS9 and Voyager, TOS and TNG are my favorites), Smallville (at least when they weren't doing teen soap opera stuff), Ducktales, Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Garfield and Friends, The Powerpuff Girls, and the list goes on. I couldn't remember all of them if I tried.

  I do think Game of Thrones is interesting, but I've not gotten into the show much despite having read the books. Scandal seems interesting, too, but I've only seen a little of that and really like it. Marvel: Agents of SHIELD seems potentially good but I'm just not a Marvel guy, so...I'll get to it eventually.

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  Who is the mediator for the R&F now?

  by nonjwspouse in

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  has this been changed?

  i thought this might need a new thread.. the memorials i have heard about multiple ones noted the prayer ending with something like "jesus our mediator".. sams on another thread :.

  nonjwspouse: sahs, so has it now been stated that jesus is only the mediator for the fds, not all the anointed as was previously?.

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  The 'faithful slave' is the mediator for the R&F now. They've gone so far as to say that once they get to heaven they'll help apply the value of the ransom sacrifice to mankind's sins over the course of a thousand years. So they describe the 'other sheep' as being 'beneficiaries of the new covenant' while not being part of it. The only way said 'sheep' can get the benefits would be to 'remain associated with Jesus' anointed brothers'. So...no benefits unless you obey the WTS.

  Now probably if you say this to any JW, they'll think you're crazy, but if it's said in print in a WT, they'll be on the phone with their friends saying, "Oh, that was such a nice Watchtower this week! Yeah! Mmm hmm." Knowing they don't remember half of it, but they've got to make conversation about it, right?

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  Unsung Heroes of J.W net

  by new hope and happiness in

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  been on this site 8 months now, but not on a daily basis.

  recently discoverd a poster named processor, loved his tread on the life of jesus.

  anyway the guys posts never seem to make long threads.

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  Unsung Heroes of J.W net

  by new hope and happiness in

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  been on this site 8 months now, but not on a daily basis.

  recently discoverd a poster named processor, loved his tread on the life of jesus.

  anyway the guys posts never seem to make long threads.

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  HAPPY APOSTATES 2014 the Video

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpp2sdkgdgo.

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  That video was hilarious and heartwarming. I watched it last night. I felt both happy and sad. Happy for those folks who have found peace and yet sad knowing how much more sorrow there is yet to face, in my own life and in so many others' lives who still have tough choices to make. Or have yet to even find out and wake up. Anyway, it was nice to see their faces and all. Could be this video is a real mood-booster I can watch if I'm down one day in the future.

  --sd-7