Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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YHWH in Hebrew letters

by dropoffyourkeylee in

i thought i had seen everything, but i picked up a bible at goodwill yesterday that has the tetragrammaton in hebrew in the ot.

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it has the tetragrammaton in the nt too.. published in south africa apparently, 1998.. .

dropoffyourkeylee

I thought I had seen everything, but I picked up a Bible at Goodwill yesterday that has the tetragrammaton in Hebrew in the OT.

It has the tetragrammaton in the NT too.

published in South Africa apparently, 1998.

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What does the fact that WT baptism numbers are still high in the pandemic tell us?

by Vanderhoven7 in

i thought jiles grey response to this question was interesting:.

"i think that it demonstrates just how ineffective the jehovah’s witnesses’ door to door evangelising is.. in 2019 there were 303,866 people baptised.

this was during a year when the preaching work was in full swing.. in 2020 there were 241,994 people baptised.

The baptisms I have seen on zoom are kind of pitiful. Usually just one at a time in a pool in someone's back yard. One was in a large bathtub. No clapping or congratulations like the JWs are accustomed to.

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Those members who passed away

by Gorb in

jw
friends

who of those passed away jwd/jwn members, do we think of??.

oompah and the lady from australia, are there more??.

g..

dropoffyourkeylee

Leolaia's posts should be collected and printed in a book, they were that good.

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Is the Bible of extraterrestrial origin?

by Vanderhoven7 in

highly illuminating video.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkhdyhmolmw.

i thought these bible cryptologists were all nuts.

this guy changed my mind..

dropoffyourkeylee

Thanks for the link. I have an interest in such things, but I kind of lost it when he got to this:

Sigh

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C T Russell's pyramid monument gets taken away by the WTS.

by Rafe in

just recently the stone pyramid monument at c t russell's grave site was taken away by the wts.. six screens of the watchtower did a public discussion about the removal which may be still on that web site, that's where i heard about it.. it had been recently vandalized such the top head piece was removed and the carved christian cross on the monument was chiseled off.. since the wts owns that grave site, they have the right to do whatever they want to do with it.. my guess is that they will never put it back or redo the damage.. i think they will put it away in a obscure place and cover it, locked up somewhere.. the wts.

has never been proud or willingly open about that monument for obvious reasons such as being associated in false religion, which they claim they are not and they admonish other christian faiths are.. your thoughts ?

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dropoffyourkeylee

There has been a bit of discussion on this site already about this:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6214855408222208/allegheny-pyramid-desecrated

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If God exists, what would be a good reason why he never communicates or helps his creation by intervention?

by pistolpete in

you have probably heard all kinds of excuses why god doesn’t communicates with his creation or why he doesn’t intervene.. some examples.. no one can see god because he is a spirit.. but we can hear god---yet he chooses not to talk to humanity.. god only communicates with certain people.

moses, samuel, abraham, etc.

but there are many people today who also claim that god spoke to them yet we ignore them but believe god spoke to people who lived thousands of years ago and we can’t really verify if that was so.

dropoffyourkeylee

A little off topic, but this thread reminds me of a joke my mom used to tell:

How do we know there is intelligent life in outer space?

Because they haven't contacted us.

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Is the Bible of extraterrestrial origin?

by Vanderhoven7 in

highly illuminating video.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkhdyhmolmw.

i thought these bible cryptologists were all nuts.

this guy changed my mind..

dropoffyourkeylee

Most of what he says is pure bunk, in my opinion, but it is interesting. The only thing that maybe has some merit is that the scribes could have possibly used letters from certain words within the text in places, as mnemonic devices or simply to be clever. Some of the Psalms for instance are arranged that each phrase starts with a Hebrew letter in alphabetic order, supposedly so the singers could more easily remember the verses.

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Allegheny Pyramid Desecrated

by RolRod in

sometime within the last 2 weeks, someone took a sledgehammer to the pyramid monument in allegheny.

they stole the topstone, smashed the cross and crown emblem and removed the seal.. personally i'm surprised it lasted this long untouched.

although through the years russell's grave has been vandalized, it was always repaired by the bible students..

dropoffyourkeylee

Since they seem to have hauled the pyramid off with the pieces mostly intact, I wonder if they have plans to place it somewhere. They have museums now, so I could see them using it for that purpose. They also have a cemetery at WT farms that receives burials periodically, so I guess the monument could end up there.

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Interview with James Beverley on JWs

by dropoffyourkeylee in

i just watched a video of an interview with james beverley entitled 'why jehovah's witness are losing members'.

i thought it pretty good, although there are a few misstatements.

here is a link:.

dropoffyourkeylee

I just watched a video of an interview with James Beverley entitled 'Why Jehovah's Witness are Losing Members'. I thought it pretty good, although there are a few misstatements.

Here is a link:

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

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Allegheny Pyramid Desecrated

by RolRod in

sometime within the last 2 weeks, someone took a sledgehammer to the pyramid monument in allegheny.

they stole the topstone, smashed the cross and crown emblem and removed the seal.. personally i'm surprised it lasted this long untouched.

although through the years russell's grave has been vandalized, it was always repaired by the bible students..

dropoffyourkeylee

When did Russell go to prison?

The poster must have made a typo or misstated. Rutherford was in prison for a period, but never Russell.