Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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"New light": how and when did this idea start?

by psyco in

how and when did the "understanding" of the progressive ("new light") understanding start?.

anybody knows?.

thanks!.

dropoffyourkeylee

Proverbs 4:18 was the theme text for The Divine Plan of the Ages in 1886

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Request--When The Watchtower Was In Business With The Klu Klux Klan!

by Atlantis in

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to the person who requested the files and documents on the watchtower doing business with the klu klux klan, i will need to send you that in a file folder.

it would be easier if i could send everything to your email.. bottom line was, the canadian branch of the watchtower had a radio station in canada named "chuc" in the 1920's.. i am giving jeff and alan credit on this.

they did a wonderful video about it.

dropoffyourkeylee

I've always thought that the WT choice of the name 'Birth of the Nation' for a Watchtower article was a little too close for comfort to 'Birth of A Nation', the 1915 silent film which was hugely popular in the US and reflected widespread support for the KKK and its ideology. Surely it wasn't a coincidence.

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Cities of Refuge

by menrov in

i was for no particular reason thinking about this topic.

i search on google if the concept of cities of refuge is also documented outside the bible.

i did not really find it.

dropoffyourkeylee

I've read somewhere that the cities of refuge, though spoken about in the Bible, were never used much in Israel, or maybe not at all. I'm not sure where I read that, maybe in BAR or someplace like that.

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

dropoffyourkeylee

V, good observation and deduction about the door-to-door records being kept for support of non-profit status. I've always believed that major reason for the institution of keeping records was to provide legal support for the brothers facing the draft to support their claim of a minister status. The testimony of the 1954 Walsh case (I used to have a copy of it but gave it away a few years ago) seemed to support this notion.

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

dropoffyourkeylee

The door to door work has been less prominent in recent years, I do agree. At least in the US, I haven't seen JWs out door to door for years in the neighborhoods around me. I have also observed fewer door-to-door salesmen, for instance, or just about anything else.

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

dropoffyourkeylee

Other places he is identified as Robert J Hendricks III. I'm not sure, but I think the news outlet in the O.P. is incorrect in giving his name as David.

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

dropoffyourkeylee

In the video he seemed to leave it open for the future, but I think they will wait a couple of years before they will give the OK again for door-to-door.

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Jehovah's Witnesses are a breakaway

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

let me follow the trial.

in 1931 rutherford started jehovah's witnesses.

be before that.. bible student and they merged before 1917 with russelites and they merge with adventists, and then miller in 1844.before that be disperse into baptist and other denominations.

dropoffyourkeylee

In complete agreement, Phizzy.

One comment to add, that is that Knorr's business model moved him to push it out to other markets outside the US. The fact that the US is not where the majority of JWs live has its foundation in Knorr's business expansion.

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Questions I have about the "Ministry School".

by Pallbearer in

i remember that jehovah's witnesses used to have a 2-hour, 2-part mid-week meeting which included a 1-hour "ministry school" followed by a 1-hour "service meeting".

please correct me if i am wrong in any respect but to the best of my memory the ministry school was composed of 4 parts, as follows:.

part 1: an "instruction talk".

dropoffyourkeylee

As much as I despised the meetings, I have to admit that giving a 5-6 minute speech in front of an audience was a useful skill to develop.

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Avatar (2009) - a mixed-bag but entertaining movie

by LoveUniHateExams in

so a few months ago i saw avatar (2009) from beginning to end for the first time.. if i'd seen this when i was ten, i'd probably have loved it.

i find the film entertaining but i do have issues with it.. the movie is beautiful to look at, and there's definitely some interesting concepts.. but star wars it ain't.. first issue, the na'vi: these are blue-skinned humanoids with tails.. my first question is: why do blue monkeys who live 5 light years away on an extrasolar moon have african accents?!.

i know what writer/director james cameron is doing in this film.

dropoffyourkeylee

I have not seen the film, and looking briefly at the previously posted clip, I don't really want to. Concerning the 'tribal' look and accents shown, it is a typical portrayal that comes up repeatedly in stories. A variation of the noble savage myth which has been popular and retold in numerous context for centuries. I am reminded of the Tasaday peoples story from the Philippines, which was reported on in various news outlets and later in the Awake back in the '70's as a sort of Stone Age tribe which was supposedly so peaceful and happy they didn't even have a word for murder. Later it was discovered that the whole thing was a hoax.