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  What happens to marriages upon the arrival of Armageddon?

  by insearchoftruth in

  1. watchtower
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  a couple of paradise earth questions: .

  1) if you are a married, baptized witness couple (both people being baptized) and armageddon arrives, will the couple still be married on paradise earthtm?

  2) if you are married to an unbelieving mate (ubm) and armageddon arrives, will the witness be free to remarry on paradise earth?.

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  NeonMadman

  My understanding was that if a couple was married and survived Armageddon, they would potentially remain married forever, though childbearing would be stopped at some point. This, of course, was why JW girls were so doggone fussy about who they dated. If they married him, they could be stuck with him forever (you know, because Armageddon was so close), so he'd better be a real catch. Anyone who died and was resurrected would never again be able to marry. Single persons who survived Armageddon could probably still marry, but nobody seemed completely sure about that.
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  Brooklyn Bethel in the 1940 census

  by dissonance_resolved in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  prompted by another post, i looked up 124 columbia heights in the 1940 census.

  a few interesting things: all occupants are listed as having the profession of "sell- religious books," except rutherford who is listed as an "editor.

  " odd that they aren't listed as ministers.. also, all the educational levels of the occupants were provided- many had not even graduated high school and some not even grammar school.

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  NeonMadman

  At the end of page 27, it lists Rutherford as "Head". His age as 70. M for married... "Judge" Rutherford's schooling is listed as C3. (3 years of College) At the end of his line it says "Institution". So he was Head, and Editor of an Institution.

  Gotta wonder how he became a lawyer with only 3 years of college.
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  what is the answer to the old question about the immovable object and the irresistible force?

  by Hortensia in

  1. social
  2. current

  i know isaac asimov's answer, which makes sense to me.

  anyone else have any answer to the question about what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?.

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  NeonMadman

  It's always seemed to me that the question is not meaningful. If a force comes against an object, one of two things happens:

  1. The object moves.

  2. The object does not move.

  I can't think of any alternatives to these two options.

  If (1) is true, then the object was never immovable.

  If (2) is true, then the force was never irresistable.

  Therefore, the posited interaction could never happen. You could not have both an immovable object AND an irresistable force, even in theory. One or the other, maybe (in theory), but not both.

  By the way, several here have indicated that a force will cause any object to move, even if so slightly as to be undetectable. Maybe so, but I don't see that as being relevant. Either the object moves or not. The degree of movement makes no difference.
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  Do you believe there will be "Mass Suicides" within the BAC/JW community?

  by booker-t in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a "therapist trainee"(still have to take my license test) i worry about all of the religious people out there who might commit suicide if the rapture/armaggeddon does not materialize.

  what if the bible is proven to be "a big fairy tale" will born again christians(bac) and jws kill themself?

  i worry about some of my older jw relatives that have waited for armaggeddon for 50 years and are still waiting.

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  NeonMadman

  They new cult compound in Warwick does give me concern for those working at HQ. I think they will become more and more detached from reality.

  Why would that be any more true in Warwick than in Brooklyn? I think they are pretty detached from reality as it is.
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  2014-03-29 BOE CONFIDENTIALS PDF Adjustment to financing Kingdom Hall and Assembly Hall construction worldwide

  by WatchTower87 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2014-03-29 adjustment to financing kingdom hall and assembly hall construction worldwide.

  pdf version: http://adf.ly/juxnc.

  instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.

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  NeonMadman

  Stupid question: Why do they tell the elders to destroy the letter that was sent in 2009?

  Orwell: Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future.
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  Did you count the time for your "hour talk"?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi fellow speakers (sorry, brothers only!):.

  my first public talk, given in my early 20s, was actually a twenty-minute part of a symposium talk.

  my pioneer partner friend and i each had twenty minutes and a "servant" had the concluding part.

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  NeonMadman

  I counted an hour for a public talk, but back then they were 55 minutes long...
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  Supreme Court ruling- refusing to photo gay wedding is discrimination

  by SadElder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to bloomberg news:.

  http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.

  "the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.

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  1. If someone wants to hire a Muslim caterer to serve his wedding, does he have the right to demand that the Muslim caterer serve pork chops?

  2. If a black man owns a print shop and a KKK member walks in and asks him to print signs that say "Kill the N------s," does he have the right to refuse the business?

  Just wondering...
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  So I was letting my mind wander during the closing song tonight....

  by Shador in

  1. social
  2. humour

  .... and i noticed that you can take the melody for song 135 and plug in the words to "amazing grace" and it fits perfectly.

  odd..

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  NeonMadman

  There's no special significance to the fact that the lyrics fit, it's just that the two songs have the same meter, and the same pattern of syllables per line. The lyrics to Amazing Grace also work with the melody of the Gilligan's Island theme, for example. Hymnals take advantage of this factor all the time; indexes in some hymnals often show a named pattern that can be used with a particular hymn.
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  New Prince album quite interesting for JWs

  by JimmyPage in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you've probably already heard that prince is calling his new album "follow the slave".

  but a closer look at the track list raises even more eyebrows.

  check out these song titles: "100 invisible years".

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  NeonMadman

  Larry Graham and George Benson are on the album?
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  1st Century GB... Peter

  by leaving_quietly in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  was there a 1st century gb?

  jws say, it was centralized in jerusalem, and they use acts 15 to prove it.

  however, today's wt study shows something interesting.

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  NeonMadman

  Acts 15 describes a one-time church council to resolve a doctrinal issue. There is nothing either stated or implied indicating the existence of an ongoing "governing body"in the manner understood by JWs today. The elders and apostles came together, resolved a problem, and then went about their business again. Anyone who argues for the existence of a first-century "governing body" needs to find better evidence than Acts 15.