I'm reading 'Speaker for the Dead' by Orson Scott Card. Pretty good stuff.
I also sat down and started reading 'God's Kingdom Rules!' A stunning work of fiction, it captures the history of a hypothetical "true religion" with incredible detail.
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it will obviously make a difference to how jw's obtain their literatrash, they will have to download and print it all themselves before long.. it will make a small difference to the dtod work, they will now refer even genuine questions and interest etc to the site, not taking the opportunity to "witness" on the initial call at all.
this has been happening already to a degree.. the difference i am mainly interested in is the capture of new suckers in to the borg.. we will be able to see when we get 2014's figures, sometime next year, what the rate of increase was over the last ten years.. phizzy the prophet predicts that the rate of increase over the next ten years will not be significantly up.
probably down, but certainly, i feel, not so different from the last ten.. should i be around in ten years to do so, i will wish to ask jw's:.
I was just perusing the site last night, actually. There was an article in one of the recent Study Editions to reassure people in areas where they cannot access JW.ORG that they are not 'spiritually malnourished' or getting less 'spiritual food' than people who can go to the website. Just like the many Questions From Readers articles, it demonstrated how dependent JWs are on the literature and how insecure/immature they are in their faith if this question even needs to be addressed. The old JW persecution stories would have you believe you can be sustained by a matchbox-sized page of the Watchtower or something while in a labor camp, but they're worried about being 'malnourished' because they can't access the website?
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atlantis just rolled this stuff off the scanner and is eating right now, so i wanted to see if anybody wanted this junk.. 2014, what is the kingdom of god?
(tract).
https://www.sendspace.com/file/m3y1tg .
So I imagine the video "These Things Must Be On Your Heart" is on YouTube already, right? Well, you didn't miss much. A wife guilting her husband, a dad putting the burden of his own drunken manslaughter of his brother on his son, a worldly guy telling a JW girl he's okay with hooking up and gay marriage...a young JW who inconceivably ends up doing beats for a rap artist which seems completely implausible because the rap artist(s) are dressed like they're in a jazz band....
So maybe that's 2014 stuff you might not want...
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zechariahs prophecy light for all jehovahs witnessesreprint from the witchtower, 6/2010.
as for your fathers, where are they?
and as for the prophets, was it to time indefinite that they continued to live?
You know, this makes my satire look like it was written by a kid. Excellent use of visual aids. I'm going to go old school and mark you down with a 'G' on this point of counsel.
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this is a damning question to be asked of any loyal, active, devout jehovah's witness.. can you choose any year in the entire history of the org and say it is "safe from error"?.
if there is no single year ever free from error--in what reasonable way can jehovah being "guiding" the only "true" religion?.
what does it mean to be the only true religion if--at no time in your history--was what you were teaching actually true?.
But wait...given the retroactive changes like the 1935 date removal...and the 90+ years of not knowing who the 'slave' really was...never mind. There is no safe year, is there?
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this is a damning question to be asked of any loyal, active, devout jehovah's witness.. can you choose any year in the entire history of the org and say it is "safe from error"?.
if there is no single year ever free from error--in what reasonable way can jehovah being "guiding" the only "true" religion?.
what does it mean to be the only true religion if--at no time in your history--was what you were teaching actually true?.
Well, nice thread, Terry. By the way, I finally rented the 'Noah' movie this past weekend; I shall have to post my thoughts on your thread about that sometime.
How about 2001? Safe year? I know 2007, 2010, 2013 are not safe years for sure. 2000 isn't, 1995 isn't. But I can't remember it all...
Wow, this is a great question.
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the watchtgower has decided to drop most of it's old publications up to 1990 and it looks like the library cd will be a thing of the past soon .i have decided to save some of the old content especially the questions from readers like wordpress posts and add photos ,let me know what you think.here is one from the 1967 watchtower.
how old was abel when he died ?.
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Here is an honest question: How many other human beings were alive on Earth WHO WOULD HARM Cain?
A great number of small children, a la Lord of the Flies, first of all. A vengeful Adam. Possibly some of the adult women who were born after Abel and before Seth. That's about all I can imagine.
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the watchtgower has decided to drop most of it's old publications up to 1990 and it looks like the library cd will be a thing of the past soon .i have decided to save some of the old content especially the questions from readers like wordpress posts and add photos ,let me know what you think.here is one from the 1967 watchtower.
how old was abel when he died ?.
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What effect did NOT PRODUCING A SON for so long have on the multiplying of the population from just 2 people to the large populations in all the world in real history?
We would have to assume the Bible just doesn't mention every child--maybe Eve had nothing but girls for a few decades until Seth was born? Even if that was the case, it does create some major problems for population growth, especially if no one was taking multiple wives.
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is there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?
he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..
All I can think of right now is David crying, "Absalom, my son, Absalom!"
Hmm. So I wonder if that means yet another phone call from the chairman of my judicial committee? I guess I have to stop being civil and tolerant about it, because 'tolerance has the boundary of decency' as that cute JW girl said in the latest drama DVD. And it's just indecent to keep calling someone who's clearly opposed to your beliefs.
But you said 'inactive', so...maybe I'm wrong there.
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when i read about bethel experiences my mind go to the show locked up raw!.
why would someone subject themselves to this without commeting a crime.. the wife and i went to see bethel in broklyn a few years ago and it was unlike anything i expected.
very cold.. went the bosert hotel and was talking to a brother there and asked how long he had been there, he said 25 years...i asked how old he was.
why save for retirement?
Exactly. Why even have a job, since we know we'll never fulfill any career in the short time left in this system of things?
Only experience I had was the couple of times I visited--it was obsessively clean. Nice-looking place, really, but who wants to get up at exactly the same time every day? Not me. I had thoughts of wanting to go, but I didn't want to give up my individuality for a rigid schedule. So...I couldn't judge it one way or the other, really.
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