Sea Breeze

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  Have you driven in a country that drives on the opposite side of the road?

  by FondaCox in

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  did you drive?

  if so, how nerve wracking was it for you?

  i'd be terrified i'd stop concentrating for a moment and out of habit make a right turn at a red light into oncoming traffic.

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  Sea Breeze

  Yes! Hong Kong picked up that nasty habit from the British. Took a lot of concentration.
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  Did you ever meet someone born in the 1800’s?

  by Fisherman in

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  i met freddie franz who was born in the 1880’s and many others from the 1880’s.

  but as a very small child i remember someone very old aged 106 and that person was born around 1856 which means that he was around people from the 1700’s..

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  I remember my Great Grandfather Turner. Would have been late 60's when I was about 7. He would have been born around 1880 or so. He gave me a pocket knife and was very patient in showing me how to open and close it... when it was safe and when it was dangerous. This was in rural Mississippi. I was spellbound as a spunky young lad.
  
  Late at night when I was supposed to be sleeping on the couch, I would crack an eyelid open and watch smoke from his pipe fill the air with sweet tobacco aroma. As he stared into space, I remember being curious about what he was thinking about as he infrequently took a draw. I have a guess now....Probably wondering where he went wrong since by then his daughter (my grandmother) was a JW as was my dad.

  He was a horseback Methodist preacher in his younger days. Definitely plan on seeing him in heaven.
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  A new generation of anointed that will not pass away.

  by Fisherman in

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  obviously, the older “ anointed ” from 1914 died.

  and because they were anointed, they hopefully went to heaven.

  in the first century though, a newer generation did not replace the old.

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  Sea Breeze

  yes, there is a lot of time to come until 2075

  That's the end of the final Jubilee Waton. (50 year period of the 2000 year period)

  The first time around Jesus came early in the jubilee and everything was wrapped up by 75 AD. Same for this time around? We will start seeing things snowball after 2025 I suspect.
  
  
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  Brother Ted, Theocratic Economics and Card Run-outs

  by Duncan in

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  dear all,.

  i nearly met up with brother ted f. the other day.

  i say nearly, because i arrived round my mothers house just a few minutes after he left.

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  Sea Breeze

  Hey Duncan,

  A lot has happened since you've been gone in the last 20 years.

  Scientists found out that cats thrive on vegan food.

  There is a new Noah's ark exhibit where millions of people have gone to Cincinnati to check it out. Flood evidence rises.

  Dinosaur soft tissue, protein, blood vessels are now regularly found and they, and lots of other stuff like diamonds date to only a few thousand years ago.

  The basis of light and matter has been found to be information in the form of mathematical probability waves. As a result, traditional Materialists are getting about as hard to find as CD ROMs.

  And more recently, it is looking like the Big Bang theory is in serious trouble with the recent findings of the amazing James Webb Space Telescope. Spiral galaxies are 10 times more prevalent in the early universe than previously thought and the linked to science paper starts with the word "Panic".

  Neanderthals are more closely related to humans than two chimps are to each other! So, they are fully human.
  

  And recently, Famed Cornell geneticist, Dr. Sanford lectured the prestigious Natl. Institutes of Health about the impossibility of evolution. He offers "rock solid" proof that even under the most generous circumstances of natural selection, an 8 letter genetic word would take many billions of years longer to evolve than the universe is currently imagined to have been here.

  Isn't all this great news?
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  Brother Ted, Theocratic Economics and Card Run-outs

  by Duncan in

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  dear all,.

  i nearly met up with brother ted f. the other day.

  i say nearly, because i arrived round my mothers house just a few minutes after he left.

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  Sea Breeze

  Thank God... I thought there for a minute you abandoned this post! Guess you just got distracted for a bit.
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  My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang

  by Sea Breeze in

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  a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.

  wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.

  that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.

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  @Anony Mous

  I held back many things when reporting on this issue because I realize how existentially many people are invested into their anti-Christian world-view, doubtless because of the incredible abuses we all suffered from the WT who presented themselves as "Christian", which it is definitely not. I know that it may feel hurtful and personal when presented with data contrary to a previously held belief, but I can assure this data is not personal toward you or anyone else.

  The reality is that the situation is really far worse than I reported. Even I couldn't have predicted the firestorm that is just now gearing up. Among cosmologists, we are starting to hear words being bandied around like "PANIC", UNPLEASANT SURPRISES", "JWST’s IMAGES ARE BLATANTLY AND REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THE BIG BANG HYPOTHESIS", etc.

  The new data from JWST is causing Alison Kirkpatrick, an astronomer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, to lie awake in bed at 3am in the morning "wondering if everything I’ve done is wrong.”

  This article from Mind Matters tells it like it is:

  JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE SHOWS BIG BANG DIDN’T HAPPEN? ... wait

  Subtitle: The unexpected new data coming back from the telescope are inspiring panic among astronomers

  As a side note:

  Coming soon is the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London (September 17–18, 2022) sponsored by the Institute for Art and Ideas (IAI), as a participant in the “Cosmology and the Big Bust” debate.

  The upcoming debate, which features philosopher of science Bjørn Ekeberg and Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan, along with Lerner, is premised as follows:

  The Big Bang theory crucially depends on the ‘inflation’ hypothesis that at the outset the universe expanded many orders of magnitude faster than the speed of light. But experiments have failed to prove evidence of cosmic inflation and since the theory’s inception it has been beset by deep puzzles. Now one of its founders, Paul Steinhardt has denounced the theory as mistaken and ‘scientifically meaningless’.

  
  

  Stay tuned!
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  the sounding of the trumpet

  by enoughisenough in

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  i will risk showing my ignorance but i had some questioning thoughts in my head lately...maybe those more scholarly than me have insight.

  jw teach that the anointed who now die go immediately to heaven.

  when lazarus had died martha said she knew he would rise on the last day.

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  from the dots I had connected it appears to me that even that first resurrection wouldn't start until the last day.( instead of an ongoing resurrection as soon as people die )

  Correct enough is enough. 2 Cor. 5: 8 says that believers are present with the Lord when they die and are absent from the body.

  But, this is not a resurrection. A resurrection occurs when the body is raised. The reason that the WT has to claim an "ongoing resurrection" is because they teach that nothing happens at death..... other than ceasing to exist and unconsciousness. This is a very ear-tickling teaching. Jesus says otherwise and the stakes are much higher. We will also by be conscious somewhere.

  "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul" - Jesus
  

  So where I am sitting, I don't think the first resurrection has started where in immorality is put on, let alone the second resurrection.

  Agreed, except for Jesus. He was bodily resurrected with a "glorified" body. After his resurrection, he was able to appear in rooms without walking in. Yet, he said that he was not a spirit and invited others to touch him. He was fully resurrected (reconstituted in body, soul & spirit) and went to heaven that way. Scripture says when he appears at the sound of the trump, "we shall be like him".
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  Reasons for doubting.

  by New day in

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  somebody mentioned in a recent topic that they had a conversation with a former elder whose breaking point was when the overlapping generation was highlighted in recent times and how he would never serve again until somebody gave him a scriptural reason to believe it.

  i am in a similar position.

  i have gone in the last 18 months from taking the wt study, leading fs groups, and doing talks on the mtngs to doing almost nothing, as i resigned a little over a year ago as an elder due to a combination of family responsibilities and huge doubts.

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  I left after the Nov. issue of the WT came out where they gutted the generation doctrine. I never looked back.

  That was almost 27 years ago. I'm surprised more didn't leave then. To me it was almost as big as 1975....which I remember as a 12 year old. Both failed predictions were very damaging to me. I learned my lesson... don't need a third time.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses resume sidewalk carts after pandemic pause, soon will do door knocking

  by Bangalore in

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  jehovah's witnesses resume sidewalk carts after pandemic pause, soon will do door knocking.. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2022/08/05/jehovahs-witnesses-resume-sidewalk-carts-door-knocking-next-list/10168175002/.

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  Sea Breeze

  Years and years ago I quit meeting after Sunday meeting for service-by the time everyone got their lunch and out into the territory ( miles away ) you only got a door or two and people were ready to go home.

  Awww the memories. Thanks for the reminder e is e. In the old days we would also do rural witnessing where we would take a sack lunch. Street witnessing in downtown Houston also comes to mind when I was a kid. We'd end up at James Coney Island for chili dogs on cold days.

  
  
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  the sounding of the trumpet

  by enoughisenough in

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  i will risk showing my ignorance but i had some questioning thoughts in my head lately...maybe those more scholarly than me have insight.

  jw teach that the anointed who now die go immediately to heaven.

  when lazarus had died martha said she knew he would rise on the last day.

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  Well, that certainly seems reasonable considering it seems to be just that -- a fairytale (sic).

  Only to those that have not researched the evidence for The Resurrection that changed world history forever.