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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

  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.
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  Joanie the Jehovah Witness Stripper

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  here's a video i had never seen of before.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnkm9xapswi.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Here's a video I had never seen of before.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnKM9XApswI
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  Mom's book

  by vienne in

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  mom's book, still only available on lulu, got its first review: .

  http://www.lulu.com/shop/b-w-schulz/separate-identity-organizational-identity-among-readers-of-zions-watch-tower-1870-1887-volume-2-culture-and-organization/paperback/product-24467519.html.

  "like topsy it just growed.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Seems kind of expensive at $44.50. The first volume was about $27.
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  Dead Sea Scrolls FORGERIES at Bible museum (scandal)

  by Terry in

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  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/ independent researchers funded by the museum of the bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s dead sea scroll fragments are modern forgeries.

  the museum ceo exclaimed, “we’re victims—we’re victims of misrepresentation, we’re victims of fraud.” the pieces are probably made of ancient leather, they were inked in modern times and modified to resemble real dead sea scrolls; all with the intention of deceiving for profit.

  the researcher's report’s findings raise grave questions about the “post-2002” dead sea scroll fragments, a group of some 70 snippets of biblical text that entered the antiquities market in the 2000's.

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  I read it to say that there were no ‘originals’ that were switched, but that the museum purchased the fabricated scrolls on the open market of unprovenanced artifacts. It is a story going back to about 2012.
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  The real Dracula?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  i'm a bit of a horror fan - i love horror movies and the novel dracula by bram stoker is a pretty good read - especially the first four chapters, with jonathan harker being in dracula's castle.. i've heard before that stoker based count dracula on a 15th century voivod (prince) of wallachia who went down in history as vlad the impaler - apparently, he was extremely barbaric and cruel, as his name suggests.. vlad's father was also called vlad.

  daddy vlad was apparently part of an order of crusader knights, the order of the dragon.

  this order was formed to protect christian europe against muslim ottomans/turks.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The Dracula/blood connections have come up a few times on this site, and I contributed one thread about it a few years ago, in which some of the literature on the subject equates the use of blood with repressed sexual imagery of the Victorian Era:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/124690001/connections-between-blood-transfusion-sexual-repression-victorian-age

  I took a literature class in college about the Dracula imagery that sparked my interest in the subject.
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  2019 JW Statistics

  by Attewc in

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  here is the updated chart based on jw.org provided statistics found here: link to 2019 statistics.

  anything that stands out to you ?.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I have two family members who are in a Bethel overseas, and when they come back to the States, they are given health insurance cards for their stay. They go to all the doctor visits they need to, completely paid for. The cost runs into several thousand each year, and they are relatively young without major health issues. Health care is a major expense.
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  2019 JW Statistics

  by Attewc in

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  here is the updated chart based on jw.org provided statistics found here: link to 2019 statistics.

  anything that stands out to you ?.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I’m sure a big part of the expense is health care.
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  Recommended Reading for ExJWs: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

  by Jehalapeno in

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  first off, this is a book you want to read.

  avoid the movie franchise at all costs.

  horrible movies.. here's why i recommend this book: its prime focus is using rational reasoning to form your life philosophy - whether that be relationships, career or faith.. it also gives insight into the mind of someone who survived the geopolitical equivalent of the jws - the communist regime of stalin.. the antagonists of the book are referred to as "collectivists".

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  I have read it, along with The Fountainhead. Both are thought provoking. I don’t agree with the premises of Atlas Shrugged, but I did find the book interesting and worth reading.
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  Evil Wind Chimes

  by Sea Breeze in

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  i remember going door to door in the late 60's with my mother as a 5 or 6 year old.

  one time she caught me looking at the wind chimes on a porch.

  she told me they had pagan origins, were evil, and were somehow connected to demons.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  What I seem to remember is that the wind chimes originated from the Orient (Japan) where the continuous sounds were thought to chase away evil spirits. So having the chimes implied you agreed with that belief. I haven’t heard anything about it for a long while, so I don’t know if the still say that.