Well, they could never know the real number of anything. After all, in testimony the GB member pretty much stated they aren't the only religious of God. What's the amount of "the others"?
Posts by Lieu
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54So... Are they done printing the number of partakers?
by thedepressedsoul induring the wt study yesterday i had a confused look on my face the whole meeting.
more of a, wtf, face.
one paragraph says, "therefore,the number of partakers does not accurately indicate the number of anointed ones left on earth.".
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Real Prophecy vs. Watchtower Prophecies
by Perry inwhile we had our eyes fixated on our "one-time" idol the watchtower and their false prophecies like the generation of 1914 that wouldn't pass away, 1975 etc.
; a number of real prophecies were unfolding.
we just weren't taught to look for them.
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Lieu
According to the Jews in Iran, (holders of the Babylonian Talmud and descendants of the Hebrew exiles) they aren't supposed to go back until the Messiah comes and restores the Temple. They refuse to leave Iran until such occurs.
I'll take their word for their ancestral religion. Everyone else is just guessing.
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Amazing Growth! Jehovah Is Blessing The Preaching Work!
by Divergent intoday's text:.
saturday, april 2. the little one will become a thousand.—isa.
60:22.. perhaps we live in an area where there are few witnesses or where we do not see a lot of immediate results in our preaching work.
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Amazing Growth! Jehovah Is Blessing The Preaching Work!
by Divergent intoday's text:.
saturday, april 2. the little one will become a thousand.—isa.
60:22.. perhaps we live in an area where there are few witnesses or where we do not see a lot of immediate results in our preaching work.
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The Christian GOD / Old Testament GOD , one and the same right? A GOD of Love ?
by smiddy inand god is the same today as he was yesterday and will be the same tomorrow.. in other words he is unchangeable.. what a bloodthirsty god he was in the old testament., at his command killing old men young men women and children by the sword , a two edged sword i might add in some cases.cutting both ways.. put yourself in that situation for a minute , either as a victim or the executioner.
can you imagine piercing some other human with a two edged sword ?
especially if they were a child ?
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The Christian GOD / Old Testament GOD , one and the same right? A GOD of Love ?
by smiddy inand god is the same today as he was yesterday and will be the same tomorrow.. in other words he is unchangeable.. what a bloodthirsty god he was in the old testament., at his command killing old men young men women and children by the sword , a two edged sword i might add in some cases.cutting both ways.. put yourself in that situation for a minute , either as a victim or the executioner.
can you imagine piercing some other human with a two edged sword ?
especially if they were a child ?
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Lieu
What most of us want and what goes on are 2 different things. It may be peaceful and prosperous where you are but the rest of the planet ... not so much. Everyone doesn't have a history of continuous warring around the globe for hundreds of years to compare a level of peacefulness with.
It's definitely a quiet time for peoples with a history of warring everywhere and all the time. It's not the history of the majority.
Crofty, if I could, I'd like the Americas before any colonists. Simple, clean, mostly quiet. No disdain for women, very minimal disease, natural food, thousands of herd animals wandering about, clean environment, no need for money, no bills, no lawyers, build a dwelling wherever. Peoples word meant something.
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The Christian GOD / Old Testament GOD , one and the same right? A GOD of Love ?
by smiddy inand god is the same today as he was yesterday and will be the same tomorrow.. in other words he is unchangeable.. what a bloodthirsty god he was in the old testament., at his command killing old men young men women and children by the sword , a two edged sword i might add in some cases.cutting both ways.. put yourself in that situation for a minute , either as a victim or the executioner.
can you imagine piercing some other human with a two edged sword ?
especially if they were a child ?
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Lieu
The sun kills because humans have weakened the ozone layer. Also, some humans don't have the melanin to be hanging out in the bright sunshine all day.
Some things are introduced by humans destroying natural environments. We're destructive like locusts. Some things were introduced because humans were filthy in habits. Medieval Europe, take a bath and wash your hands or get the plague.
Mining for minerals destroys habitat and clean water sources. Humans. Do you think before the Greeks that the Sahara was a dessert? Or do you realize the water was dammed up so that one of the largest salt deposits known to man could be mined? Salt was once more precious than gold. Similar to what happened to the Nile basin.
Humans made things uninhabitable.
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The Christian GOD / Old Testament GOD , one and the same right? A GOD of Love ?
by smiddy inand god is the same today as he was yesterday and will be the same tomorrow.. in other words he is unchangeable.. what a bloodthirsty god he was in the old testament., at his command killing old men young men women and children by the sword , a two edged sword i might add in some cases.cutting both ways.. put yourself in that situation for a minute , either as a victim or the executioner.
can you imagine piercing some other human with a two edged sword ?
especially if they were a child ?
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Lieu
Tell that to the people in war torn and developing Countries, Crofty. They may not share those sentiments.
Maybe you're thinking from a US perspective?
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There seems to be many jw's marrying outside of org recently.
by atomant inl was wondering if others have noticed this or is just my imagination?my sister whom has always been a fine example of a dub just got married to an outsider was a shock to everyone as no one knew she was dating an outsider.she seems happy.the elders are to shit scared of her to approach her about the matter.
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Lieu
What do you expect if you take a slew of eligible marriage aged men to Bethels? That's like China's one child policy.
If everyone around is of the same sex, who are they supposed to marry?
Contrary to popular belief, most young sisters don't want left over old men for husbands. They want someone young and fun to grow old with.
Now if you get a bunch of recent releasees in your Hall, you're looking at 25-30 yr olds who may have never paid a gas and electric bill in their lives, have no real world home skills, etc.
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Newspaper article: Why JWs Don't Celebrate Easter
by Sugar Shane insaw this article in the google news.
it seems like the comments section is being overrun by jw apologists.
would be nice if some of us leveled the playing field.
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2JWs don't celebrate.
They would make horrid Hebrews of old. All the Israelite festivals would be bastions of depression, focused on death.
Passover would be a wailing for slaughtered baby sheep instead of joy for said lambs blood saving people from death. Oh, and no one would celebrate the day because someone came along a thousand years later and named it Easter.
The Day of Atonement would mean a call from Bethel to PETA to stop one goat from dying for a nations sins. And one other goat from wandering over a cliff in the Grand Canyon. JWs don't like goats.
Festival of Booths, nope ...campout fun.
The Celebration of Pentacost ... well, NO celebrations! You get no fun. Besides, that's a thanks for the Mosaic Law fun time.
Abraham, Israelites, Jesus, the Apostles; they celebrated. They'd throw a huge feast (a party) just because a child was weaned. A culture which loves to dance, sing, joke, and celebrate. David was basically naked dancing and singing in the streets. Lol Its not the Lord's Evening Meal, its the friggin Passover Celebration.
These things would get you labeled unspiritual in the JW world.
Now to actually celebrate Christ's death, feeling joy at what his sacrifice did for everyone, talking about the kewl things he did and said? Being thankful that Jesus CHOSE to die for mankind, when he could have chosen otherwise? He had a choice, just as Satan and the others gone rogue had a choice. Unheard of, preposterous! He gets a mention at the end of a prayer, that's it.
JWS don't celebrate. They're Jonah and followers of Paul.