Posts by GLTirebiter

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Official Increase in the Number of Jehovah's Witnesses You Shouldn't Trust

by David_Jay in

reports are coming from witnesses that, once again, the number of memorial partakers has risen considerably this past year, 2016. while confirmation is still to come on the exact numbers, the current explanations given for this increase surely causes a dilemma.. imagine the roman catholic church publishing each year the number of members who it felt were mistaken about what they believed in, that this same number of members was likely suffering from problems such as pride or even mental disorders or something along this line.

this number, by the way, was in the thousands too and growing annually.

what would you conclude, therefore about the catholic church and its admission?.

GLTirebiter

I THINK that the catholic church teaches that once a person dies they can no longer help those on earth. It is those left on earth that can help the departed by asking God to remember their life...

The second part, yes. The departed not-yet-saints undergoing purification in purgatory can no longer help themselves, so the living should pray for them that they may be prepared to meet the Lord face-to-face (2 Mac 12 29-46, 2 Tim 1 16-18).

The first part, no. Once they arrive in the Lord's presence, i.e. become saints, they will bring prayers on behalf of the living to the Lord (Rev. 5 8, Rev. 8 3-4). We do not know who all the saints are, but we can know some who are because their intercession has been effective, demonstrating that they are in the Lord's presence and bring prayers to Him on our behalf.

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Studies in the scriptures AND bunch of Rutherford books available online

by NikL in

this may be well known here but i just discovered it.. lots of old publications are in the public domain and are available for download.

could be a great source of information for those that need it.. here are couple links.... https://archive.org/details/studiesinthescripturesvolumes1-7.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3a%22j.f.%20rutherford%22.

GLTirebiter

The Finished Mystery is available on Project Gutenberg. I'm surprised that they have none of the earlier volumes in their catalog.

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Did anyone vote yet?

by NewYork44M in

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i voted today in nyc.

a well organized process.

very busy and most of the people voting were african american.

GLTirebiter

I will vote on election day, at a polling place, using a paper ballot that I will personally drop into a locked ballot box. The ritual matters: it is our public display of the regard we have for the privilege of voting. If you will stand in line for hours to get a Black Friday deal but not to vote, please reconsider your priorities!

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Give my Cubbies some love!

by JRK in

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how many of you think the cubs deserve a world series championship for the first time in 108 years!?.

jk.

GLTirebiter

Cubs vs. Indians in the World Series: definitely a sign that The End Is Near (or at least that Hell has frozen over)!

The Cubs are an NL team, where pitchers are ballplayers and take their own at-bats. That is reason enough to say "Go Cubs!"

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Technological singularity

by Brokeback Watchtower in

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/technological_singularity.

the singularity" redirects here.

for other uses, see singularity (disambiguation).the technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity)[1][2] is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

GLTirebiter

Prophecies that assume endless improvements in computing machinery are assuming endless decreases in the size of electronic switches. State of the art designs now have feature sizes of 15nm (150 Angstroms, about 100 silicon atoms wide), which means the end of the road is in sight. Device density will hit the hard limit of single atom features if Moore's Observation continues for a few decades more, and practical considerations (including fabrication quality and connecting the bits together at an acceptable cost) must be overcome to get there. While quite not as unlikely as the Watchtower's 1975 prophecy, talk of "the singularity" is more science fiction than engineering reality.

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I need help, I'm falling in love with a JW girl

by nebula-- in

so i met her at my last job that i worked & we started off as friends.

i didn't know her faith at the time & i honestly couldn't have cared less, seeing as i'm agnostic.

after about a year, i began developing emotions for her & sure enough, we ended up dating for a little while.

GLTirebiter

I want to spend the rest of my days with her but I know I can't & she knows it as well... I'm falling in love with someone I can't have

Please listen to yourself. Your head is recognizing things that the heart prefers to ignore.

Here are some things to consider:

- Witnesses are not supposed to date casually. Dating among Witnesses is for serious appraisal of a potential spouse, not mere socializing or enjoyable company. Dating is to be done in groups, not one on one, to avoid temptations of the flesh.

- Witnesses are pressured to marry young, especially the young ladies.

- Kingdom Halls have an unbalanced male-female ratio. It's a sad twist on Jan & Dean's hit, Surf City ("Two girls to every boy!") There are not enough single Brothers to go around, so the Sisters must compete for them...or...

- Young ladies who find no worhty prospects in the Kingdom Hall often drift away from the religion long enough to find and wed a Worldly (i.e. non-Witness) man. Then, after some time in the Kingdom Hall's penalty box (sitting in the back row, being ignored for the most part), they will earn reinstatement. After that, it is their duty to try to bring their Worldly Non-Believing Mate to the Kingdom Hall, out in the never-ending the door-to-door pamphlet distribution campaign, and into the baptismal pool.

Don't put yourself or her through anything you are not willing to commit to 100%, with eyes wide open to what may lay ahead.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses and Disaster Relief

by mildren53 in

i'm looking for this brochure mentioned in god's kingdom book.

i've heard it's only for gubernamental authorities.

otherwise someone would have it in pdf format?

GLTirebiter

Disaster relief for Jehovah's Witnesses!? What a joke

That is not a joke, but a truthful commentary about what they are offering. They will assist only Jehovah's Witnesses (and perhaps some who are making progress down the recruitment pipeline.)

My ex-Elder-in-Law worked on a WTBTS relief crew after a major hurricane, and he was quite candid that they were there to help their own--not those most in need, regardless of creed.

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Necessary Family Business (NFB) is now acceptable according to the weekly WT Study

by Quarterback in

during the last decade i've seen so many articles, and top speakers try to downplay that nfb policy.

now, this weeks wt study mentions a positive experience of someone applying having, "contact and applying nfb with a df relative".

GLTirebiter

Unconditionally loving your parents, spouse, and children is Necessary Family Business. Forgiving them "seventy times seven" times for whatever they might have done is Necessary Family Business. Neglecting them because they don't go to meetings and the Kingdom Hall and spend every weekend peddling WTBTS publications is NOT family business.

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jws not only ones blind to what is in front of them

by blondie in

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html.

"i just don't see it," christie told cnn's jamie gangel in an interview tuesday, adding later, .

here's the key moment in trump’s speech:.

GLTirebiter

There is nothing really original or meaningful in either one. They are typical political speeches: a string of trite platitudes, phrases that only Scrooge would disagree with.

"Let's hear it for Motherhood! Apple Pie! Baseball!"

It shows how meaningless the party conventions have become: the outcomes are already known, so they look hard for something, anything, new to say about these quadrennial non-events.

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Words omitted from a Watchtower article

by Doug Mason in

a short time ago i sought information regarding a quotation in the watchtower of april 1, 2010, which did not identify the exact source of the quotation from professor oskar skarsaune.

my interest was heightened because words had been omitted from the source.. the wts provided a copy of the original 29-page article, which is in norwegian.. here is my very unofficial personal translation of the passage from professor skarsaune's article that the watchtower is quoting.

firstly i provide the text as it appears in the watchtower magazine, highlighting where the text has been omitted.

GLTirebiter

"Which writings were to be included in the New Testament, and which were not, was never passed by any church fashion or by any individual, but was the result of a process in which many churches in all parts of the church were involved..."

In other words, the New Testament canon is a doctrinal Tradition of the church. Since the WTBTS rejects Traditions as false teachings, do they reject the New Testament?