Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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Watchtower's Art Department strange and hidden images

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

watchtower examination has a youtube video about subliminal images drawn by the watchtower's art department.

i'm not a professional artist but i see too many strange and hidden images in this drawing.

i have boxed four examples of hidden images.

dropoffyourkeylee

It's just a combination of bad art, blown up, reduced, etc to get to a certain print size, then printed with cheap ink and cheap paper. Nothing more than that, in my opinion.

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Letter read cong is now an association

by Yomama in

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what does that mean?.

What country are you in? I seem to remember that they are organized under different names in the various countries, usually for legal reasons. I think in Mexico they were a cultural organization for many years so they could hold title to property.

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Is this 2034 date actually something the cult put out?

by mickbobcat in

so i have heard this 120 preaching time and 2034 end date.

are they pushing another set time of is this something someone else came up with?.

dropoffyourkeylee

Funny, 2034 doesn't seem too far away anymore.

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Congregation Letter - 2021 Magazines Delayed???

by JWTom in

we had a letter read in our cong.

last week that said the public wt and awake would be delayed during the beginning of 2021. meaning we would just use the 2020 version into 2021 and there would be no new ones at the beginning of 2021 until an undetermined time sometime during the 1st half of 2021. at least that is the gist that i remember.

it was in what atlantis provided but there was no further detail....very brief.. any more intel or speculation on this?

dropoffyourkeylee

The ministry any more is pretty lame, at least in the US. My pioneer-wife spends a couple of hours most days writing letters out in longhand that are then mailed along with a tract in the US Mail. That, or an equal amount of time looking up addresses on the internet and trying to match names to the addresses. A good 20-30% of the letters come back as undeliverable, since the addressee has moved.

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Congregation Letter - 2021 Magazines Delayed???

by JWTom in

we had a letter read in our cong.

last week that said the public wt and awake would be delayed during the beginning of 2021. meaning we would just use the 2020 version into 2021 and there would be no new ones at the beginning of 2021 until an undetermined time sometime during the 1st half of 2021. at least that is the gist that i remember.

it was in what atlantis provided but there was no further detail....very brief.. any more intel or speculation on this?

dropoffyourkeylee

I'm looking at the jw app and it looks like the study edition of the WT for Jan 2021 is out there, which is for the WT study up to April 4, 2021.

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Listen Obey and Be Blessed

by Anna Marina in

thought i'd share if no one has done so already.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxf75u-xoji.

dropoffyourkeylee

This song is one of the few that doesn't use the name Jehovah, but does mention both Christ and Jesus, as well as God. So a non-JW editor seeking a song which may be palatable to evangelical Christians may have picked this song for that reason.

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The 1950s NWT (1984)

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

i did a video on this subject once but feel this is a noteworthy topic.

to be honest the old nwt has come under sonsiderable attack from fundie morons attacking it's nt which was translated with a few revisals in 1950.the truth is john 1:1 and 8:58 and other texts, though despite being odd, are within the translation rules as are the inclusion of the word {other} since this was stated in the forward as an interpolation.

jehovah in the nt is odd but certianly lacking as other translations have added more yhwh.. so the ot?

dropoffyourkeylee

The OT of the pre-2013 NWT was very literal, to the point of being overly tedious to read. I have an interlinear Hebrew Bible (Jay Green), which is laid out similarly to the NWT Greek interlinear. It has Hebrew to the right side of the pane with interlinear word for word and the Strong's number, and the Green literal translation in the left side of the pane. It reads very much like the NWT OT. Literal, wordy, long run on sentences and awkward verbs. It was a very formulaic approach that may be good for some study applications, but not for reading.

The NW NT was not as literal, with a lot more doctrinal bias.

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The Watchtower's Most Secret Book!

by Atlantis in

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the watchtower's most secret book!.

the truth that gives you eternal life, bethel edition.

the truth that gives you eternal life was published on watchtower presses, and is not to be confused with the truth that leads to eternal life published by the watchtowerbible and tract society.

dropoffyourkeylee

A relation of mine worked in the bindery about then, and for a time worked on the embosser, which was the machine which put the gold lettering on the book covers. They did have occasional times where they would make something special for themselves. For instance, he made me a personal copy of the bible with a special cover. I think it was light blue, the color of the old Aid book, but on a bible. I don't think it was that unusual for them to make souvenirs like that, but I wasn't aware of making copies of non-JW books like the one described here.

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