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  2016-1-25-BOE on Applause or Clapping!

  by Atlantis in

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  just in case someone wanted this letter for their records.

  .. http://postimg.org/image/dn44a9m9h/.

  .. petra!.

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  Ooh! Does this mean that we can boo when somebody gets disfellowshipped? It's only fair.
  
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  2016-1-25-BOE on Applause or Clapping!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
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  just in case someone wanted this letter for their records.

  .. http://postimg.org/image/dn44a9m9h/.

  .. petra!.

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  "If the publishers choose to applaud, the elders should not discourage them from doing so"

  There's something wrong with the past/present tense in that sentence. How can the elders discourage you from doing something you already did? Or did they expect the elders to yell "Hey! Stop that! Hey!!" when people started applauding?

  I want to be the first guy to stand up and do the dramatic slow-clap when the next reinstatement is announced.
  
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  The Demons were messing with me last night!

  by olongapo joe in

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  so said my pops one morning.

  we were visiting my sister in eastern tennessee and the night before after everyone else went to bed pops was watching tv when all of a sudden and completely on it's own the tv changed to the tonight show, holy smokes!!

  must be demons cause pops didn't change it!

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  One time I heard scratching under the floor beneath my bed. It was a giant rat. I would have preferred a demon.
  
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  Using your car in service and still the GB asking for money

  by life is to short in

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  i listen to dave ramsey while i work.

  he is that financial guy who hates debt.

  i agree with 90 percent of what he says.

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  Every car I ever owned was never good enough. People griped non-stop about this car being uncomfortable, too low to the ground, no cup holders, no rear AC controls, too high to climb in, old van with only one sliding door, the sliding door isn't automatic, etc.

  I always kept field service in mind when buying cars like a good dubbie should, but I gave up eventually because the root of the problem is, the 'friends' were too snobby to ride in old vehicles. If it's not a 2015 honda then forget it. Well, how are we supposed to afford brand new cars when we're supposed to be poor? Hmm?
  

  Cars were always a touchy subject with me. I started to purposely leave things wrong with my car so I didn't have to drive. "Sorry brother, my car is acting up, can you drive?". I should have bitched about their cars, but I couldn't bring myself to 'return evil' to them.
  
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  A Seal Ring bearing King Hezekiah's found in Jerusalem excavation, with ankh symbol and winged sun

  by fulltimestudent in

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  from a story in the jewish press:.

  quote: "the city of david excavations of the jerusalem hebrew university on mount ophel, at the foot of the southern wall of the temple mount compound, have yielded a sensational discovery: a seal (bulla) with the name of king hezekiah (727-698 bce).".

  "king hezekiahs bulla was discovered in a garbage heap that was dumped during or shortly after hezekiahs time, from a royal building that was used to store food.

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  Why didn't Jehovah know the flood wouldn't work?

  by OverlappingGeneralizations in

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  this has been something that is bugging me lately-.

  jehovah is all knowing.

  he knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan.

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  That's what I mean- you'd think if he went through the trouble of killing everything and everyone, he'd take the extra step and go ahead and kill satan while he was at it.
  
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  Why didn't Jehovah know the flood wouldn't work?

  by OverlappingGeneralizations in

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  this has been something that is bugging me lately-.

  jehovah is all knowing.

  he knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan.

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  I know, right? "Sacre Bleu! Suddenly I speak French! I guess I will walk to France and colonize it for myself! If there is anyone already established there, God will kill them all for me so I can have 'the good land'!"
  
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  Why didn't Jehovah know the flood wouldn't work?

  by OverlappingGeneralizations in

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  this has been something that is bugging me lately-.

  jehovah is all knowing.

  he knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan.

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  This has been something that is bugging me lately-

  Jehovah is all knowing. He knows that to do away with evil, he has to do away with satan. So why did he wipe away all the bad people with the flood and leave satan alive? He had to know that wouldn't make much difference in the grand scheme of things.
  

  Additionally, confining satan to the earth in 1914 supposedly marked the a great increase in wars and overall evil. But, if we already posses inherited sin from Adam and Eve, what more evil could satan really do just by being here?

  Just feeling philosophical again...
  
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  Assembly baptisms/attendance - keep 'em coming!

  by freddo in

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  don't forget to post your reported assembly and convention attendance and baptisms and whether they are higher or lower than customary (if you know).. here's some detail passed to me of the last circuit assembly held at surrey (uk) assembly hall.. attendance 922 baptisms 3 (half circuit).

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  Ours was about 950 in attendance, and 1 baptism (child, probably 12-ish).
  
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  Crazy bible logic

  by OverlappingGeneralizations in

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  i was thinking the other day (i know, i know, bad dub, no thinking allowed!)...

  did you ever notice the screwy logic that we are led to believe is the truth?

  like ezekiel 33:8:.

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  I was thinking the other day (I know, I know, bad dub, no thinking allowed!)... Did you ever notice the screwy logic that we are led to believe is the truth? Like Ezekiel 33:8:

  -"When I say to someone wicked, ‘Wicked one, you will surely die!’ but you do not speak out to warn the wicked one to change his course, he will die as a wicked man because of his own error, but I will ask his blood back from you"

  This was always beat into my head that if I didn't preach, all the dead people would be blamed on me. I didn't kill them, God did. Yet he, of infallible justice, blames imperfect ol' me? I get to be God's scapegoat? (Wait a minute, is that a privilege? Usually crappy jobs in the bOrg are considered privileges...)

  Anyhow, so next time I feel like killing somebody, all I have to do is tell a 3rd party- "I am going to kill a random person at a random time with a totally random method". If they don't stop me, it'll be the 3rd party's fault. I'm off the hook. I'm imitating God.

  Lets hear all those crazy bible logic stories!