Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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WT Says Don't Contract with False Religion, But Does Just That

by Sea Breeze in

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let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.

dropoffyourkeylee

Here is a similar thread on this site from about 5 years ago when the Indianapolis Indiana assembly hall was sold to a church.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5122638494040064/mega-church-buys-jw-assembly-hall-property-indianapolis?page=4

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Larry Graham interview, last days quote

by neat blue dog in

we all know stephen lett's infamous quote that we're living in "the final part of the final part of the last days!

shortly before the last day of the last days.".

well, there is an interesting interview with larry graham and his family that has a variant on this, where he says that we're living in "the last of the last of the last days".

dropoffyourkeylee

I see on Wiki that he released a solo album in 2019.

I think he is still an active JW.

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WT Says Don't Contract with False Religion, But Does Just That

by Sea Breeze in

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let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.

Do You Tip At Eateries?

by minimus in

jw
friends

if you go to a restaurant, do you tip and typically how much?

if you were given a 90 minute time frame to eat at a restaurant, would that restriction limit your tipping to the waitress or waiter?.

also if you order a coffee and donut and pick it up, do you contribute to the “tip jar” that’s on the counter?

dropoffyourkeylee

Yes, absolutely. In the US it is expected and usual.

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The Mormons are building new Temples while Watchtower is downsizing.

by greenhornet in

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2021/4/4/22364730/president-nelson-unveils-plans-for-the-church-to-build-20-new-temples-mormon-lds.

A little curious about the Stirling video posted. I wonder if it is intended to portray some story from the Book of Mormon. I've watched a few videos recently in which the Mormon beliefs about the population of the Americas. Historically it is ridiculous; it is astounding the lengths they go to to find 'evidence' to support their previously-arrived-at conclusions.

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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

jw
friends

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.