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  If Jesus was the" Greatest Teacher" the" Son of God" then why ?...........

  by smiddy in

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  why did he not put pen to papyrus, all the wise sayings that are attributed to him by others.?.

  he is supposed to be the greater moses , at least moses is credited with writing the first five books of the bible , admittedlly some centuries later .

  jesus never wrote anything at all .. if jesus is the greater moses ,what writings has he done ?...zilch.

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  And, YES, Jesus wrote things down:

  John 8:8 - "And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground."

  Revised Standard Version (RSV)
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  Old time JW's did some very devout JW's refuse to eat pizza with pepperroni because they believed "blood" was in the pepperroni?

  by booker-t in

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  i have never heard this before until i read a life story of an ex-jws and how some jws in the past refused to eat pepperoni pizza because they thought blood was in pepperoni.

  i do know some elderly jw sisters would complain about eating steak if it bled while cooking.

  has anybody else heard of this pizza nonsense?.

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  In the 60s & 70s they wre all hyped up about red wines. - ox blood was in it.

  Disrespect for God’s law is so rampant that whole blood, blood plasma and blood fractions are used freely in numerous products that are sold for food. For example, it is reported that some meat packers include blood as a part of their regular recipe for wieners, bologna and other cold-meat loaves. They may not all call it blood; but, regardless of what they call it, if it is blood or part of the blood it is wrong. Not all meat packers do this by any means, but some do. In certain localities it is also known that hamburger is made up largely of fat with blood added. In Russia blood bakeries were put in operation years ago where seven parts of rye flour are mixed with three parts of defibrinated ox blood in the bread. In other lands some bakers use dried plasma powder in pastry as a substitute for egg white. And various tonics and tablets sold by druggists show on their labels that they contain blood fractions such as hemoglobin. So it is necessary for one to be alert, to be acquainted with the practices in his community, to make reasonable inquiry at places where he buys meat and to read and understand the labels on packaged goods. As the old world becomes more careless in its attitude toward God’s law on blood it is important for Christians to exercise increased care if they are to keep themselves “without spot from the world.”—Jas. 1:27.

  The Watchtower 1961, 9/15, page 557 par. 14

  

  Due to illegal adulteration of a number of Italian wines, for example, many persons have in recent years and months unknowingly purchased concoctions made from apples and molasses, animal feed, figs and dates, synthetic alcohol and dried ox blood. The Italian police reportedly tracked down about ten million gallons of adulterated wine in 1970 alone. This would suggest that anyone buying wines, especially travelers, must exercise care.

  Awake! 1971, 8/22, page 25
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  Congregation’s Publisher Record (S-21) card: What if ...

  by bats in the belfry in

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  the publisher refuses to put his signature on the piece of paper.

  will they still accept him/her as such?.

  also, the very first publisher recordtm card autographed seems to be retained indefinitely.

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  Perhaps, meanwhile the instructions were abandoned/shredded.

  
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  Congregation’s Publisher Record (S-21) card: What if ...

  by bats in the belfry in

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  the publisher refuses to put his signature on the piece of paper.

  will they still accept him/her as such?.

  also, the very first publisher recordtm card autographed seems to be retained indefinitely.

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  . . . the publisher refuses to put his signature on the piece of paper. Will they still accept him/her as such?

  Also, the very first Publisher Record™ card autographed seems to be retained indefinitely. The same is true of the last record card of an inactive publisher.

  Is this corporate function still practiced? Does it jive with any data protection act?
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  1914 - It was the end of the world as we knew it - things got much better!

  by TheStumbler in

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  i was having a conversation with a jw relative recently i casually mentioned how much better the world is than a few centuries.

  obviously the jw was incredulous.

  the next day i found an email in my inbox listing a few qoutes from notable people saying how the world has gotten much worse since 1914 and that 1914 was a pivitol year.

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  LisaRose >> Where there is a ying, there is also a yang: The Good News Network or World Good News
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  Governing body member engaged... Again!

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  just found out that the australian governong body member known as geoffrey jackson got engaged to a sister about two weeks ago.

  it really shocked me at first but then i remembered how other members of the gb have remarried in the past like daniel sidlik.

  what made me say "woah" was hearing that the holy bride to be is really young!

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  notjustyet >> Indeed, an awkward position to be in. On the upside, the FDS/GB are washed clean of any wrongdoings.

  Because of such divine goodness to them in their restored spiritual estate, the members of the anointed remnant feel a loathing of themselves when they look back at what they were in the past, taking note of their errors and bad dealings that were not glorifying to God’s name. It makes them ashamed, it makes them feel humiliated, just to think about it. This attitude takes away from them any inclination to engage in spiritual and immoral impurities once again, willingly. Thus, because of the effect that Jehovah’s undeserved kindness has upon them in their restored estate, he saves them from all their impurities.

  “The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah” - How? (1971), chapter 17, pp. 327-328, par. 36
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  Governing body member engaged... Again!

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  just found out that the australian governong body member known as geoffrey jackson got engaged to a sister about two weeks ago.

  it really shocked me at first but then i remembered how other members of the gb have remarried in the past like daniel sidlik.

  what made me say "woah" was hearing that the holy bride to be is really young!

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  . . . many sisters will envy her for sharing a box-springed king-size bed with a king-elect.
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  What's so Special About FREE Home Bible Studies?

  by Ethos in

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  continuation of this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/242543/2/free-home-bible-study.

  newyorker: the familiar observation that the bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year.

  calculating how many bibles are sold in the united states is a virtually impossible task, but a conservative estimate is that in 2005 americans purchased some twenty-five million biblestwice as many as the most recent harry potter book.

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  . . . the specialty is to get you to go to the Kingdom Hall, just like Paul asked the jailer to do.

  Thousands begin to worship Jehovah each year. Yet, must Bible studies be conducted with interested people for a long time, or is it possible for honesthearted ones to come to the point of baptism more quickly? Well, consider what happened in the case of the jailer and his household mentioned at Acts 16:25-34. Paul and Silas had been imprisoned at Philippi, but in the middle of the night, a great earthquake opened the prison doors. Thinking that all the prisoners had escaped and that he would be severely punished, the jailer was about to commit suicide when Paul told him that they were all there. Paul and Silas “spoke the word of Jehovah to him together with all those in his house.” That jailer and his family were Gentiles who had no background in the Holy Scriptures. Yet, in that one night, they became believers. More than that, “one and all, he and his were baptized.” Those were unusual circumstances, but new ones were taught basic truths and then learned other things at congregation meetings. Something similar should be possible today.

  1996 The Watchtower, January 15, page 13, par. 13
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  Are They Cynically Shutting Down The Organization?

  by metatron in

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  i've raised this idea before but recent events seem to support it.

  changes in the watchtower may be guided by more than a need for cash flow: they may simply be liquidating/shutting it down as discreetly as possible.. of course, this doesn't mean they stop working on their upstate ny country club - but it could mean that the throrough going exposure and disproof of their beliefs on the internet, when it emerged, took many of them by surprize, as it did many of us!

  after awhile, they generally gave up trying to make any sense of their doctrines - and coupled with cash flow issues - moved towards a quiet retreat.. take a look at a few things:.

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  metatron >> Why not get rid of all printing?

  Would you go to a summer convention with no releases to be picked up?

  . . . and perhaps that is just the reason for having scheduled the majority of the 2013 DCs into their very own assembly halls (at least in Germany).
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  New Light on the GB's new elite status still NOT AVAILABLE on JW.org in other languages (8 days later)

  by Calebs Airplane in

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  2. beliefs

  so far, available in english only... i guess there is a lead time for the interpreters.... this presents an opportunity for those who attend non-english congregations to ask their jw friends important questions on this subject, have them research the wt cd and then present this new light as a "possibility".... for example, you can ask them questions like:.

  what would you say if i told you that the governing body no longer represents the annointed (a.k.a the fds)?what would you say if i told you that charles taze russell is no longer considered a part of the faithful & discreet slave?what would you say if i told you that, even though the publications say the fds started in 33, they have only been around for 94 years?i'm pretty sure you will be viewed as an apostate... until this news on the annual meeting shows up in their language.

  just a thought.... .

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  . . . that celestial chariot is not on the data highway.

  At Brooklyn Headquarters ... "you feel the pulse of Jehovah’s visible organization; here the spiritual food is prepared and then sent out to the four corners of the earth".

  1987 The Watchtower, 7/1, page 31