anybody know something about vat 4956?.
nebuchadnezzar's 37th year matches the year 588 bc?
any independant astronomer can test it and it only matches 568 bc.. .
I think the original quote above is probably from the Oct/Nov 2011 WT which was a two part discussion "proving" 607 BCE. As I recall it was written by Rolf Furuli whose academic work has long been discredited.
A couple of years ago he saw through the GB and wrote a book exposing them for which he was disfellowshipped.
There is a YouTube video that shows how to calculate Jerusalem's destruction was 586/7 using only WT sources.
George
so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.
and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.
Who made the announcement above? The latest GB Update #4 didn't give that impression at all. It said that Bethelites had received the vaccination but it was a personal matter. Over 17,000 JW's have died of the virus. No mention of normal activities.
George
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
The only Arabic words I know are "shufti" and "bint". Both words were in common use when I was at school.
My FIL used to say that when he was in North Africa during the war, kids would would try to sell the soldiers photos of naked women. They would show a couple of cards and say shufti bint (look at the girl) but when they had the soldier's money and they handed him an envelope of photos they only contained photos of local sights, pyramids etc.
George
I know an elder who is very much into this kind of thing. He is a regular visitor to RAF Scampton where the 617 Squadron (Dambusters) museum is located. He attends all the air shows he can manage as he is very old now. I don't know if he was in the RAF when he was younger, he became a witness in the 1950's. Actually a very nice guy.
George
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George
in retrospect, for lurkerking fence sitters.
, today's( may 30 ) study article.:.
a mother un lovingly, on "apostate" advice, does everything, right and wrong to keep her daughter from becoming a wt slave.
I doubt that many of these "experiences" are genuine. I suspect the majority are made up to fit the current article agenda.
George
are you sometimes dumbfounded at the direction the governing body takes?.
thousands of documents proving 607 bce is wrong, yet the gb sticks to the date, why?.
the generation that would not die, yet they continue by introducing an overlapping generation.. disfellowshipping at a time when everyone is leaving, not a good idea, yet they continue to disfellowship.. here is a video that addresses these questions.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgeqhp9o9i.
I think most of them would really struggle in the "real world". Few of them are well qualified to find well paid employment, so it would be low paid jobs. Trying to find affordable accommodation, paying the utility bills, running a car and then getting ready and travelling to the KH for the meeting.
They have none of these problems, they never have to wonder if they can afford to have the heating on, save up for travel and accommodation for assemblies......
The list goes on.
They would have to be desperate to give up what they currently have whatever they believe deep down.
George
are you sometimes dumbfounded at the direction the governing body takes?.
thousands of documents proving 607 bce is wrong, yet the gb sticks to the date, why?.
the generation that would not die, yet they continue by introducing an overlapping generation.. disfellowshipping at a time when everyone is leaving, not a good idea, yet they continue to disfellowship.. here is a video that addresses these questions.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgeqhp9o9i.
i never remembered a governing body..just knorr.
That's because when we young there wasn't a GB. The organisation was run by Knorr, Franz and a Board of Directors. The GB as we know it came in 1971 I think.
There was a WT a few years back that showed a photograph of "the governing body mid 1950's". Trying to rewrite history, that same photograph is in the "Proclaimers" book as "board of directors mid 1950's". In the WT caption it is noticeable they did not capitalise governing body! Very sneaky that.
George
i just read that watchtower pennsylvania and bmg music ave agreed to a confidential settlement .
about "listen,obey and be blessed" by aled jones ?
anybody have more information ?
I downloaded the letter but it was blocked as potentially dangerous to my device. Anyone ideas please?
George
i’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.
i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.
anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.
Well here in the UK Armageddon is not coming today.
It's already tomorrow in Aus and they would have told us by now.
Seriously, when my parents were baptised in the 1940's, they were told that their Little George would not have to go to school in this old system. Well, they were wrong. George did go to school, work, married and been retired many years now. It's all just a dream.
George
