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Ramapo project approved
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
news is that the ramapo project has been approved by authorities and can move forward..
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The Great Pyramid - a new (to me) theory on its use and purpose
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
with the jw connection to the great pyramid, i thought this audience might find this video interesting.

i find it very reasonable in presenting a new (at least to me) theory that the pyramid was designed as a place of pharoah-worship and the seemingly convoluted design of the passages, with granite blockes, etc, was mainly to prevent looting of the pharoah's tomb.. interestingly, there are several photos (32:36 and elsewhere) presented which were sourced from john and morton edgars' 1909 pyramid passages book, which authors were bible students from scotland who wrote and lectured about the pyramid and the early bible student beliefs on the pyramid.

i think they left the wt after rutherford ditched the pyramid beliefs, but maybe someone can fill in the blanks on that.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itaqsrlg9wq&t=1s.
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JE-sus making a comeback at the 2024 Convention
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. jw
2. experiences
attended the friday sesson of the 2024 summer convention.. july 5, 2024 summer convention crowd photo; they invited quite a lot of empty chairs.. .

the facility usually has 5500-6500. they spun it saying that fewer congregations were assigned.

there were 6 of the smaller, more distant sections blocked off with tarps to lessen cleaning, which i understand.
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Visited the Russell gravesite yesterday
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. jw
2. experiences
wife and i visited the russell gravesite in allegheny (pittsburgh) pennsylvania yesterday.

i’ll post photos if i can get them to upload on the hotel wifi..
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JWs kicked on Monty Python
by dropoffyourkeylee in
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2. humour
just ran across a mention of jws on a '70's monty python sketch.. at about the 1:05 mark:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiba_3ak0hg.
Max Hollweg, JW survivor of Nazi camps interviewed in 1996
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. watchtower
2. bible
max hollweg, in an interview in 1996, was a nazi concentration camp surviving jw and is interviewed for this documentary on himmler:.

the video link here begins discussion of hollweg at about 33:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk68tda_lue.

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Dropoff joins the Mormons for a day!
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. jw
2. experiences
pretended to be a mormon for a day so as to visit their holy site hill cumorah.

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photos of some signage and monument of angel moroni giving a revelation to joseph smith:.
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Original Gilead Building
by dropoffyourkeylee in
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2. experiences
recent photo:.

near ithaca ny.
Cheesy Mormon videos
by dropoffyourkeylee in
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2. beliefs
i just ran across a series of youtube videos put out by mormons (not sure if it is the official church or a subgroup) which are much like the wt drama videos.

i don't know who is copying from whom, but the making of cheesy religious videos is catching on.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4szaxqpq9uc&t=12s.
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Supreme Court Decision on Free Speech this week
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this week's first amendment case has a slant that may sound familiar to jws.

most are aware that the wt won a number of supreme court decisions in the '40s related to free speech (the first amendment of the us constitution).

in particular, the flag salute case in '39, which they lost, tried to argue that not saluting the flag was a religious issue.