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  Brooklyn Daily Eagle-Old Brooklyn Photos-one is of Towers Hotel & in Comments is a link to 2002 Dateline program

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  surprise, surprise - see the 2002 dateline program exposing jws child abuse problem at the following link:.

  https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/04/23/iconic-eagle-photographer-from-1930s-to-50s-left-treasured-images-his-son-recently-discovered/.

  the first photo is of the old towers hotel.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  We stayed at the Towers Hotel once before the WT purchased it. It was kind of a dive at that time.
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  Zoom meetings to continue thru July

  by Wakanda in

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  co is coming and expecting to zoom it in july.

  also there is no talk about starting to slowly go back to the hall.

  like having 1 group at the hall and the rest on zoom, etc.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  My wife is doing all the zoom meetings, and I have seen enough of it to see that it isn't all that bad. It's interesting how people adapt to a new norm rather quickly. I think the biggest part missing is the socializing before and after meetings. They do some chatting while they are writing letters, but besides that there isn't much.
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  New DNA Study Confirms Noah

  by notsurewheretogo in

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  http://www.icr.org/article/9325/.

  amazing read...go on , have a laugh if you want to.. new dna study confirms noah.

  by brian thomas, m.s.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I guess that settles it then.
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  Coronavirus outbreaks at any Bethels?

  by careful in

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  does anyone know of any covid-19 diagnoses within any bethels/branches/remote translation centers?.

  it would be interesting to see what the gb's policy is when this happens.

  i suppose it's bound to happen sooner or later..

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  I have a family member at a bethel overseas, and to date they do not have any cases of COVID-19. They have been on lockdown the whole time.
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  Remember the Revelation book?

  by wozza in

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  i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.

  i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.

  who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Interesting, I never made the connection. There are some really intriguing theories about the Wizard of Oz book being allegorical. Not everyone agrees with it, but the theory is that it is a thinly veiled commentary on the US political scene in the 1890's. There are a lot of parallels, but one in particular is the abandonment of the gold standard being a big issue at the time, and Oz being the abbreviation of 'ounce'.
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  New scrolls

  by The Searcher in

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  in 1985 a new phrase was added to our vocabulary, "new scrolls", complete with an explanation as to how they will benefit those who inhabit the new world.

  the following five references are the only quotations of this new 'teaching', but incredibly, these two words have been indelibly stamped on most people's minds by repetition from platform speakers, and in general conversation.. w85 6/15 p. 18 par.

  21 "during this thousand-year judgment period, jehovah evidently will give additional instructions, unknown to us at present, as new "scrolls" are opened.

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  They have been using the words ‘new scrolls’ as ling as I can remember, 1960’s at least.
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  144000 who’s idea first

  by Tim207 in

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  hello this is my first post although i’ve lingered on this site before.

  i’m curious about a comment i read saying that rutherfords idea of only 144000 going to heaven was taken from the founder of the church friends of man.

  i tried looking up this church but could not find information on when they started this belief.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The 144,000 number being literal predates Rutherford. It was taught by Russell in the Studies in the Scriptures. Where he got it I don’t know, but I’m sure he wasn’t the source either.
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  Curious to know the Zoom attendance figures for for the memorial

  by joe134cd in

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  i’m just curious to know the local attendance figures for the memorial.

  my father told me they had an attendance of 140. not flattering for a cong of 100 pubs.

  i was sort of surprised at this considering the quarantine measures and everyone being forced to stay at home.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  At my home, my spouse was on the zoom and they had her enter somewhere on the screen how many were there listening, so I think she entered 2 (I was around enough to count I guess). She said they later announced the count at something like 190 where they usually have 210-220 or so.
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  Remember the Revelation book?

  by wozza in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.

  i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.

  who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Interpretation of Revelation has always been a thorn in the side of the WT. The trouble started with 'The Finished Mystery' (the supposed Volume 7 of Studies in the Scriptures) in 1917 that was attributed to Pastor Russell, but was really written by Clayton Woodworth and George Fisher. The book in '69 'Then is Finished the Mystery of God' was definitely a throwback to the 1917 book.

  The 1980's Revelation book was one of the most preposterous books they have ever published. I still believe that the only reason they studied it in the bookstudy multiple times was to use of the inventory that they had published in advance, and found they could not place them door to door.
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  Frederick Franz enjoyed wining and dining in Japan

  by yoko N in

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  a japanese sister living in kansai was asked by japan's branch office to take f. franz and his cronies to wining and dining.. her daughter left borg and are now publishing her experiences.. .

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I don’t see much of a story here.