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  German Files that Arrived Today!

  by Atlantis in

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  german files that arrived today.. .

  https://docdro.id/ju5bmo0.

  https://docdro.id/njqydah.

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  ... das Zweigbüro verfolgt die Entwicklung des Coronavirus weiterhin aufmerksam. In Anbetracht der aktuellen Situation, möchten wir euch darüber informieren, dass unser Bethel ab sofort für Besucher geschlossen bleibt. Dies gilt zunächst bis zum 4. Mai 2020. In dieser Zeit können leider keine Führungen stattfinden.
  
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  ... the branch office continues to closely monitor the development of the corona virus. In view of the current situation, we would like to inform you that our Bethel is now closed to visitors. This initially applies until May 4, 2020. Unfortunately, no guided tours can take place during this time.
  
  
  They are are so afraid of catching a virus from their visiting "brotherhood" that they shut down Bethel until May 4, 2020 so they won't get infected.
  
  But it's o.k. to meet with hundreds of that "brotherhood" during the Memorial - go, figure how much they care about your personal health.

  
  
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  The Holy Spirit

  by Acer21 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if the holy spirit is an "active force", how can it be grieved (ephesians 4:30)?.

  in other words, according to the jw's, one can make jehovah's "force" sorrowful?

  this is an example of how the jw leaders have perverted the gospel in translation, and have put the jw's in a position in which they must perform intellectual gymnastics in order to maintain their false position.

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  bats in the belfry

  Acer21 > Have a look at blondie or Mary comments here:

  WT Jan 2011 - Grieving Holy Spirit Defined?
  

  
  
  
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  Will you attend the Memorial 2020 ? - Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ... or rather listen to the advice on their jw news website:.

  show love to others.

  while we all know the importance of attending christian meetings and participating in the public ministry, if you are sick, it is best to stay home to avoid infecting others.

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  Fadeaway1962:
  What if you attend and refuse to handle the glass and the plate because of the virus being transmitted?

  Perhaps they will hand out disposable gloves to everyone in attendance.up front.
  

  
  
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  Will you attend the Memorial 2020 ? - Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ... or rather listen to the advice on their jw news website:.

  show love to others.

  while we all know the importance of attending christian meetings and participating in the public ministry, if you are sick, it is best to stay home to avoid infecting others.

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  bats in the belfry

  ... or rather listen to the advice on their JW News website:

  Show Love to Others. While we all know the importance of attending Christian meetings and participating in the public ministry, if you are sick, it is best to stay home to avoid infecting others. This shows brotherly love and protects our brothers and sisters and our non-Witness neighbors.—Matthew 22:39.

  Follow Government Recommendations and Directives. Local authorities often implement precautions or restrictions for public health. It is good to keep informed and comply with the government’s directives.

  Your thoughts, please.

  
  
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  2020-02-27 German Coronavirus Letter!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2020-02-27 german coronavirus letter.

  i will have to wait and see if we can also get the s-147 in german.

  (announcements and reminders).

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  bats in the belfry

  
  By the way, aren't those the same folks who opposed vaccinations?
  
  "Spiritual guidance" doesn't do anything to protect you; they should have referenced to the expert information by listing it in the letter. Their information is just regurgitated thirdhand information from the proper sources.
  
  https://www.rki.de/EN/Home/homepage_node.html
  https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/en/press/2020/coronavirus.html#c17363
  https://www.infektionsschutz.de/hygienetipps/hygiene-beim-husten-und-niesen

  
  
  
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  We pray for the governing body

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since when has it become cool to pray for the gb?

  i noticed that at the begining of my fade back in 2015, it had already been there for a good while and was already getting on my nerves.

  i means, i grew up in it, but can't remember much further than the 90s and i don't remember this being always in the payers.

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  bats in the belfry

  Definition of "Sister":

  1. a female "Brother"

  2. a "Sister" with brotherly teaching qualities
  
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  Approximately 40 authors wrote the Bible considered as GOd`s inspired word .Jesus never wrote one sentence in the bible.

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the bible from genesis to revelation and some apocrypha books are considered "god`s inspired word" written by imperfect men over the centuries.. yet jesus christ who never wrote a single sentence yet claimed to be the son of god and changed the history of the world not by what he said and did ,but by what others claimed he said and did.. moses wrote five books jesus wrote none .. how can jesus be considered greater than moses ?.

  did the political powers that be in those days see an advantage of making jesus and christianity an opportunity for power and authority over the population of the time ?.

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  All he ever managed was to doodle something in the sand.
  

  And bending over again he kept on writing in the ground.- John 8:6,8
  
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  New Armageddon date?

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  looking at the most recent wt the study article focuses on the jubilees.

  the made a separate box in the article to highlight the math behind jubilees, and i'm wondering if they're trying to get people thinking and stir up the pot without actually making a false prophecy.

  for instance: jubilees happened every 7 times 7 years.

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  nkelstein

  Jesus says ... " Why dont these fuc..g idiots obey and listen to me when I said no one knows of the time ? "

  Because they have been made to believe GoD that Jesus knows time and date by now.

  
  

  
  
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  The J.W fishpond of marriage mates! How many of us married a idiot!! No choice.

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
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  what a horror.

  instead of there being "more fish in the sea" our marriage mates came from the small and crapy witness pond.

  anyone got burned by going with mr or mrs you will have to do?

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  If you marry one that doesn't do a sentence without the word "Jehovah" in it . . . then you know you've hit the jackpot of constant tribulation in the flesh.
  
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  A Manufactured example? (Morning Worship, by Kenneth Flodin: Beware of Deceit)

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the only 1910 watchtower i ever came across are the wtbts reprints.

  has anyone ever seen the original 1910 watchtower scan online?.

  flodin's story line does not add up.

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  The only 1910 Watchtower I ever came across are the WTBTS reprints. Has anyone ever seen the original 1910 Watchtower scan online?

  Flodin's story line does not add up. If Kenneth compared the original (which may reside in the WTBTS library) to the photocopy sent in by the lady, then her's must have been from the reprints.
  

  From that point onward his story line appears fabricated. At 06:30 minutes into his ramblings he says:

  One example I came through in my stack of letters. It was a sincere older lady it seems by the look of the scrawl or handwriting; it was probably an older woman.

  And she sent in a photocopy from a page of a 1910 Watchtower.
  

  And her question is "Why did your Mr. Russell say that you only need to read his "Book Studies in the Scriptures" instead of the Bible?
  

  I read over the photocopy and it looks like that is exactly what it said.
  

  But then I got an original of the 1910 magazine and compared, and very quickly you could discern the deceit, the trickery that was involved.
  

  When photocopying that page they put a piece of white paper over the bottom part of the page so you didn't see the bottom of the first column.
  

  And they are very tricky, they placed it exactly on a line where it sounded like when reading down the first column that the sentence completed on the second column.
  

  But what was in the first part of that column that they had made invisible with the paper?
  

  It was a subheading "SCRIPTURE STUDIES NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE". And here is what it said in that text that disappeared with the photocopying...
  

  Besides, the whole thing is about omission, which the WTBTS can be accused of many times over. Would they call themselves apostates for doing do?