I think everyone should have a rest day. Big business doesn't think so. It sees everyday as $ day. I make it a point not to shop on Sunday--and to rest. But, most workers don't have that choice.
Kenneson
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whether the Jewish or SDA Saturday, or Sunday, the Pope has a point
by nonjwspouse ini keep liking what i hear from this pontiff.
he lamentes not keeping a day of no work to spend with the family.. .
campobasso, italy (ap) pope francis has lamented the abandoning of the traditionally christian practice of not working on sundays, saying it has a negative impact on families and friendships....... at one point, the pope, speaking off the cuff, encouraged parents to spend more time with children.
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A precious gift to all from Jehovah (channelled via Focus)
by Focus insome souls here may feel i was a little harsh.
if so, i am deeply sorry.
i was abused by a handful right from the start, presumably on the basis of the avatar picture (and 2001 vintage).. when visiting dubland, i often find that others start fights with me - for whatever reason, and i provide quite a supply of them - and when it doesn't quite go the way they expected, they cry persecution.
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Kenneson
Stealth,
I just saw recently at http://www.topix.net/forum/religion/jehovahs-witness/ someone who posted there as AlanMF. He is responding to Thirdwitness on a topic entitled "Evidence indicating Egypt's 40 Year Desolation." The title of this topic is approaching the end of the page you will be linked to. Click "Evidence, etc." Alan's response is on page 3. He has made some 3,800 posts or so at topix. I presume this is the same Alan F.
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IC 2014 talk: "A Century of Kingdom Rule Contrasted With a Century of Satans Rule"
by AnnOMaly ina discussion of this talk on friday morning deserves its own thread.
as i said elsewhere, it was a remarkable one.
the speaker was manfred vencebi (google him - he's a bethel bigwig) and some of his remarks are real gems.
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Kenneson
When you get to that page click on "Search for The Time Is At Hand." According to Russell, in the Foreward, inventions meant that the Millennium had BEGUN in 1873!
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IC 2014 talk: "A Century of Kingdom Rule Contrasted With a Century of Satans Rule"
by AnnOMaly ina discussion of this talk on friday morning deserves its own thread.
as i said elsewhere, it was a remarkable one.
the speaker was manfred vencebi (google him - he's a bethel bigwig) and some of his remarks are real gems.
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Kenneson
So, because there are abuses in technology, it is not a good way to measure progress? Compare that to what Charles Taze Russell, the founder of their Watchtower magazine and Society, had to say about inventions. He claimed they pointed to the Seventh Day or Millennium! LOL Read the foreward of "The Times Is At Hand."
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Neither the term "Watch Tower" nor the name "Jehovah's witnesses" come from Jehovah's Witnesses
by Kenneson inthe term "watch tower" originated with the second adventists and was a carry over by charles taze russell to his own religious periodical and society.
even the proclaimers book admits as much.
in the footnote we read: "the expression 'watch tower' is not unique to russell's writings or to jehovah's witnesses.
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Kenneson
That is correct. It's called "The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages."
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Neither the term "Watch Tower" nor the name "Jehovah's witnesses" come from Jehovah's Witnesses
by Kenneson inthe term "watch tower" originated with the second adventists and was a carry over by charles taze russell to his own religious periodical and society.
even the proclaimers book admits as much.
in the footnote we read: "the expression 'watch tower' is not unique to russell's writings or to jehovah's witnesses.
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Kenneson
Actually Ironside belonged to the Plymouth Brethren, which in many respects are similar to Jehovah's Witnesses. They were
founded by J. Nelson Darby in 1829.
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Neither the term "Watch Tower" nor the name "Jehovah's witnesses" come from Jehovah's Witnesses
by Kenneson inthe term "watch tower" originated with the second adventists and was a carry over by charles taze russell to his own religious periodical and society.
even the proclaimers book admits as much.
in the footnote we read: "the expression 'watch tower' is not unique to russell's writings or to jehovah's witnesses.
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Kenneson
That footnote in the Proclaimers book is found on page 48.
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Neither the term "Watch Tower" nor the name "Jehovah's witnesses" come from Jehovah's Witnesses
by Kenneson inthe term "watch tower" originated with the second adventists and was a carry over by charles taze russell to his own religious periodical and society.
even the proclaimers book admits as much.
in the footnote we read: "the expression 'watch tower' is not unique to russell's writings or to jehovah's witnesses.
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Kenneson
The term "Watch Tower" originated with the Second Adventists and was a carry over by Charles Taze Russell to his own religious periodical and Society. Even the Proclaimers book admits as much. In the footnote we read: "The expression 'Watch Tower' is not unique to Russell's writings or to Jehovah's Witnesses. George Storrs published a book in the 1850's called The Watch Tower: Or, Man in Death; and the Hope for a Future Life. The name was also incorporated in the title of various religious periodicals. It stems from the idea of keeping on the watch for the outworking of God's purposes.--Isa. 21:8,11,12; Ezek. 3:17; Hb. 2:1."
Nor was there anything divine or original about the name Judge Rutherford gave to the International Bible Students in 1931. H.A. Ironside in 1911 in "Lectures on Daniel the Prophet" when referring to the Jews (he didn't have the International Bible Students in mind) whom the promises of Isa.43 would be fulfilled, noted on page 152:
"These shall be Jehovah's witnesses, testifying to the power and glory of the one true God, when apostate Christendom shall have been given up to the strong delusion to believe the lie of the Antichrist."
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The Botchtower's attitude towards using the Internet
by Composer2005 inhas the botchtower discouraged or spoken against members using the internet?.
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satan / devils environment & all that j.w bs!.
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Kenneson
I think what they disapprove of is interaction with apostates on the internet. But, there are those who think think this is a generalization and it does not apply to them since they consider themselves "spiritually mature".
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Jehovah's Witness Tragedy - a series of installments.
by Julia Orwell ini'm working on a short story/novella about a jw family.
it's called the opal ring.
i will be posting it in installments, and would like some feedback on it.
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Kenneson
There is no doubt that it originally was "Millions Now Living Will Never Die."
See page 163 of Jehovah's Witnesses Proclaimers
of God's Kingdom.