Indeed, how many "special" can you cram in, before the special becomes banal? Never could understand the "special assembly day" either... it was something regular, so why call it special?
Posts by teel
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19Special edition Watchtower / Awakes for the spring
by dozy inheard a few rumblings from my jw contacts that there are special public edition watchtower & awakes to coincide with the memorial / easter time 2010. the theme is very much jesus oriented - picture of him on the front cover etc.
publishers will be encouraged to order extra copies for the field.
i don't think there is any memorial invitation distribution planned - this seems to replace that.
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Special edition Watchtower / Awakes for the spring
by dozy inheard a few rumblings from my jw contacts that there are special public edition watchtower & awakes to coincide with the memorial / easter time 2010. the theme is very much jesus oriented - picture of him on the front cover etc.
publishers will be encouraged to order extra copies for the field.
i don't think there is any memorial invitation distribution planned - this seems to replace that.
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teel
Hmmm... sounds like they've been reading too many of us on JWN saying they focus far too much on Jehovah and leave Jesus in the background.
No, they do this every year. It's like Christmas for other religion. They mention Jesus a couple of times in a specific time of year, then they're free to forget him for the rest of the year.
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Logistical problems of the new system...
by highdose injust supposing that you belive in it... i used to always wonder, how on earth are we going to get from one country to the other?
i mean old type ships used to take months to get around!
what about land travel?
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teel
That antimatter stuff was almost as bad as the Radio Biola. Proof that the writers didn't go to college either?
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They have no idea! Fools in darkness
by Aussie Oz inbeen snooping around facebook and am amazed!
(although i guess i shouldn't be) that the ordinary jw has no concept of the 'organization' in control.. every thing is 'jeh' 'jah' that, every teaching they support is attributed to jah.
every action.
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teel
*smacks Aussie with a lump of fake wood* Hey, we were all there too!
Naming Antartica after himself? The christian quality of humbleness just screams at you.
As I kept saying to my wife, if you don't like the current life, you will hate the new one too. Considering the Bible verses the WT uses to depict the paradise, it would not be an "all your dreams come true" place, it will be essentially this Earth, without sickness, death, or wicked people. That is all, you will still have to do hard work (even harder than now), and dreaming of big wealth, doing whatever you want just doesn't fit into the picture. If now you have what to eat, where to sleep and what to wear, you are healthy, and you live a relatively peaceful life (you aren't robbed every day now, are you?) your life would barely change, except you will have to work much more.
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E-Watchman vs. Tim Kilgore Resurrection/Recreation Smackdown!
by Tuesday inalright so it's not as heated as i make it seem in my opening, but i said i'd keep everyone posted on this.
i would've posted the video here to get everyone's feedback but the response wasn't anything i hadn't dealt with a hundred times before, now it's just in video form.
in fact it was supposed to be an answer to my first tough question about resurrection vs. recreation but it didn't even answer the question at all, at least i feel.
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teel
Christians believe that the soul and body are seperate in that when we die our souls go to be with the Lord and when the day of reasurection comes, we're giving new glorified bodies for our souls to inhabit.
This. E-Watchman thinks this dilemma applies to other religions too, of being recreated in heaven. No it doesn't. In most other religions souls are not recreated, they are kept in their original form.
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untitled
by jam inmy brother, who is a elder, email my sister who is not a jw, to explain to her why.
he can not associate or speak to me.a little history, i have been out since 1987, have moved on.
with my life.the rest of the family( not jw) can not understand why after all this time they are still.
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teel
Their stand is not scriptural, it's purely "watchtowerorial".
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Hillarious "Counsel" from Platform -Classic
by lepermessiah ini got this from a close friend -.
this past weekend, the family attended the circus assembly.
i skipped it, and didnt get a hard time for not going, which was a first.. anyway, my family didnt want to tell me about a couple of points from the d.o.
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teel
Lol, thanks sacolton for posting that. Too bad they don't actually publish these kind of trippings.
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Jehovahs Witnesses are banned in Russia
by Quadraphoenix inhttp://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1385.
this is very exciting news for all of us, especially for the ones that want to leave that are in russia.. .
quadraphoenix.
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teel
From the articles it seems to me that the ruling only applies to the region of Rostov-on-Don. The court process started there, and the Supreme Court only upheld the ruling of the regional court. I don't think a regional court could make a ruling for all Russia.
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want proof that the GB votes on doctrine
by Aussie Oz ini would like to find proof of this without refering to ray franz's c.o.c.
material.. is there anywhere a charter, a letter, a document that states stuff like a majority vote needed etc?.
oz.
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teel
It's a tough one. As Ray mentions in his book, there were no outsiders allowed in the meetings, except to report, then they leave. Also the WTS is extremely careful of what they put in writing. So I think the only source of the voting system is Ray Franz.
You could plant doubts though, by asking them what they think how is a decision made? Can it be alway unanimous? If there's an old teaching that needs to be changed, does it stay until an unanimous vote is reached? Or do they think the Holy Spirit guides every member to vote in a specific way? If that is true, why is the need for so many members instead of a single one? More members is useful when you need different oppinions only.
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Pinatas?
by garyneal ini recall reading somewhere on this site that the pinata was originally used in worship of a sun god and that in spite of this, the wt society allows this tradition.
is this true?
i was presenting this conundrum to my wife and i wanted to verify this information..
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teel
As for the origins, see this article: History of the piñata . Yep, it's chok full of paganism.