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  "Mailing Tracts" from 1919

  by vienne in

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  for a research project, i need clear scans of all of the 1919 small-sized tracts meant for through the mail witnessing.

  can you help?

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  Anony Mous

  You mean these: https://www.ebay.com/itm/116414079420

  Try archive.org, Library of Congress may have them as well, although you may have to physically find them or ask a librarian.
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  The King of the North as you Never Heard ity Explained Before

  by raymond frantz in

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  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/w32nome-k20?si=a8bhxh5tjrkomgzq.

  rather than seeing the king of the north as the final opponent of god’s people, i propose that daniel 11 points to a completely different figure.

  while the watchtower society focuses on the struggle between these two kings, they overlook a third entity mentioned in verse 40, but let’s ready this verse first from the new world translation.

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  How about this: The King of the North has been Trump, it was Trump this whole time. Think about it: he has been a celebrity rich person with tentacles into the UN through his NY and and worldwide real estate holdings pretty much since the ending of the Cold War. He’s a singular person and not a list of ever changing figure heads like the US Government. He is about to bring about real peace and security and he has supernatural protections from bullets and assassinations.
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  Just because Jehovah had to prove His Right To Rule? I don't think so!

  by liam in

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  2. beliefs

  we get old because jehovah had to prove to all the angels that his way of ruling was the best?

  that's the sorriest argument the watchtower has come up with.

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/11hz_jqjkjo.

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  I think the problem in (many) Christian religions is to attribute omnipotence to God, as if he has the capacity to solve the problem of evil and the second problem is an afterlife that is always good, regardless of your choices.

  The Jewish view and some Christians also believe that evil only exists within us (humans) and it is a choice we make and the stacking of evil things brings about misery for many. And there is only 1 life and you have to live it to the best of your abilities.

  Yes, that places "God" as an omnipotent self-absorbed bully outside of the realm of religion and puts God more as being the collective idea of what we consider to be good, which can only come in hindsight. I like this idea better that God exists in our history, but it evolved from within our societies and worshipping a god is living up to the ideals of that society. Hence why the Bible is really a mis-mash of various Gods with different personalities over the ages.
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  serena williams

  by FreeFallin in

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  2. scandals

  not really a scandal, but serena williams doing the crip walk on national tv wtf .

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  Sounds like Liam is in a spiritually weak congregation. Just needs 1 shakeup from a strict CO and how many people would fall in line? That's what the GB is most concerned about, they don't care you have 200 people in your congregation, they only need the ones that are contributing and those are the strict ones that lay the heavy load on others.

  Read some of my and other stories here from the past. Not even that long ago, my two eldest wear the scars and one of them is not even an adult yet, the other just barely. You think that doesn't happen in your congregation? You have blinders.
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  serena williams

  by FreeFallin in

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  2. scandals

  not really a scandal, but serena williams doing the crip walk on national tv wtf .

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  @liam: your experience depends strongly on your congregation. Even back in the day, the foreign language congregations were like that, but there are plenty of others that are still very strict.

  Also, you are speaking as an inactive youngster, once you get deeper into it, get older, speak against the organization, commit a “sin”, your experience will change quickly.
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  serena williams

  by FreeFallin in

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  2. scandals

  not really a scandal, but serena williams doing the crip walk on national tv wtf .

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  Anony Mous

  If you don’t see what the problem is (according to JW) perhaps read the lyrics:

  https://www.justjared.com/2025/02/10/not-like-us-lyrics-kendrick-lamars-drake-diss-track-goes-viral-again-after-super-bowl-2025-performance/
  
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  Jehovah provides Javier a part-time job

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  the watchtower—study edition | march 2025. keep walking by faith.

  7 note how javier, a brother in south america, saw the need to walk by faith.

  he says: “i had applied for a prestigious job that would double my salary and provide considerable personal satisfaction.” however, javier had the deep desire to pioneer.

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  Anony Mous

  The thing with part time jobs is that they are very few and far between and often unstable. It’s for companies that don’t need a full time person to do some menial task. It’s mostly intended as a “side job” like Uber/Lyft to complement your full time job and work a little harder to make some extra money while you are young, so it often doesn’t have the same benefits and protections, especially outside the US.

  As others have said, most of the “millions now living” from the cover of that magazine have already died and if you were a child like me when that magazine was published, you’re now having children of your own entering the workforce and maybe you even have grandchildren. If I had done that, worked part time for all these years, I couldn’t afford kids, I couldn’t afford a house, I couldn’t afford savings for pensions, I wouldn’t have learned on the job as I have. Keep em poor and stupid.
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  Miscarriage myths amongst JW

  by Anony Mous in

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  so i am having these discussions about children etc and there are witness ties and family history in these discussions.

  i got the feeling having this discussion that they seemed to imply somehow it was ‘the parent’s fault’ for having a miscarriage.

  whether it was domestic violence, or the mother did something wrong themselves.

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  @biahi: this was official doctrine because you run into logistical issues resurrecting the pre-born into the womb. They changed that to “we don’t know how but Jehovah may come up with a solution” pretty recently, I would say late 90s, early 2000s after test tube babies and frozen embryos were common.
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  Trump 'spiritual advisor' says Jesus never broke immigration laws

  by SydBarrett in

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  2. friends

  paula white said, “yes, jesus did live in egypt for three-and-a-half years.

  but he was not an illegal immigrant.

  if he had broken the law then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our messiah.” well, there you go.

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  Anony Mous

  Well, yeah, Rome was pretty well known for its open immigration:

  But in the fifth century the Romans lost control of the immigration process. Armies were sent to the Middle East to counter a hostile, newly invigorated Persia, leaving the West open. The Germanic tribes were allowed in, but once inside the empire they were not assimilated but retained their cultural and political identities, eventually combining to form armies within its borders that the Romans could no longer overcome.

  (Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Pan Books, 2005, 158ff.)
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  Miscarriage myths amongst JW

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i am having these discussions about children etc and there are witness ties and family history in these discussions.

  i got the feeling having this discussion that they seemed to imply somehow it was ‘the parent’s fault’ for having a miscarriage.

  whether it was domestic violence, or the mother did something wrong themselves.

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  Anony Mous

  Forgot all about the Bathsheba story, or the story where the priest gives basically an abortion (magic potion) to people that are under suspicion of adultery and if you are an adulterer, you have a miscarriage, if not the child survives. These weren’t backwater witnesses though, this is educated, relatively middle class in the city.

  But looking through some of the articles, I can see where people may get the impression:

  Divorce, unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, loss of trust or respect​—all of these may be the sad, unavoidable consequences of sin. Recall that even after forgiving David for his sins in connection with Bath-sheba and Uriah, Jehovah did not protect David from the disastrous consequences that followed - 2 Samuel 12:9-12

  Note here that the extended story then basically says God killed the baby

  And Jehovah struck the child whom U·riʹah’s wife had borne to David, and he became sick …

  On the seventh day the child died

  Or how about this gem:

  In this particular case of David and Bath-sheba neither of them had a right to the child and so there was no injustice in their being deprived of it. Besides, as an uncircumcised, unnamed infant it had not as yet developed any personality pattern or consciousness so as to appreciate life.