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  Who’s gonna mow your grass

  by solomon in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xixc6aqrozq.

  what most jehovah’s witnesses don’t realize about their version of the new system is who’s gonna mow the grass?.

  after the system is destroyed who’s gonna make that nail your pounding with a hammer?

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  Sea Breeze

  One elder told our book study that in the new world our primary duty would be to tame the animals..... even fish. He actually said that no doubt we would be provided boats to go out into the water and tame the fish.
  
  He didn't say who would be building the boats nor did he mention any of the fish taming techniques that would be employed.

  New World WT article :

  These fine brothers had a wonderful time taming fish in place of field service. They took seriously the words of the Slave just as they would the "voice of God" in the old system and now have this great never-to-be-repeated assignment in the New System. What a wonderful provision from the Slave!

  
  
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  Young People Ask: Why Distribute WT Literature?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "so the visible congregation of god's people has $omething to do with the provision of salvation today.

  indeed, it has an important place in that provision.

  - watchtower 1967 aug 15 p.499.

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  Sea Breeze

  Picture #2 does actually show what the Big A Survivors are going to get themselves into.

  Definitely one interpretation. When I posted it, I imagined the image as an accurate representation of JW's digging their own graves, in this life.... Working for your salvation is such a foreign concept to the NT and much of Christianity:

  Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. - Romans 4: 4

  JW's live with a different rule in mind:

  "It is vital that we appreciate this fact and respond to the directions of the "slave" as we would to the voice of God, because it is His provision." Watchtower 1957 Jun 15 p.370

  In other words, "Dig those graves you good for nothing slaves"...
  
  JW's: "What a privilege to work for the "Slave"... probably we may be concealed in the day of Jehovah's wrath.

  
  

  
  
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  Did becoming a JW influence you to give up something you enjoyed ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i was a teenager a younger fellow workmate was involved in the sport of judo.i got interested and went along to a number of sessions and took to it like a sponge to water ,and as a sport i was happy participating in.. not that much longer another workmate was getting re-activated in the religion of jw`s.

  which i had never heard o before and then got interested in that .. conflict : was judo a sport that was compatible with j.w beliefs?

  sadly i decided it was not and stopped any further involvement.. to this day i resent that decision i made back then .and i`m 82 years old now.. it was a sport i was comfortable doing and i enjoyed it.and i gave it up because of the religion .who knows what i may have achieved had i continued with it.

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  Sea Breeze

  Yes! I had to avoid aluminum frying pans, sleeping on my left side, & inoculations. Chewing gum was to be avoided like the plague.
  
  

  *** The Golden Age, Nov. 12, 1929, p. 107 ***

  If the organs [of your body] are diseased, heal them by correcting your diet. Avoid the use of aluminum cooking utensils and alum baking powders as they are injurious to your health, poisoning your blood stream... Sleep on the right side or flat on your back, with the head toward the north so as to get benefit of the earth's magnetic currents. Avoid serum inoculations as they pollute the blood stream with their filthy pus.... Stop chewing gum, as you need the saliva for your food.
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  Did Jesus have a Y chromosome?

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  even in jesus’s day, humans had chromosomes.

  and so did jesus —because he was human.

  so let’s say jesus took a dna test, his mitochondrial dna would go back to eve but interestingly jc also would inherit dna from sinful adam on his mother’s side because his mother mary passed on to jc dna from both adam and eve.

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  Sea Breeze

  Actually a small section of the Y chromosome undergoes recombination with the X during meiosis, allowing for some of that paternal Y chromosome DNA to get transferred to an X chromosome that might ultimately end up inherited by a daughter.
  
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  Young People Ask: Why Distribute WT Literature?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "so the visible congregation of god's people has $omething to do with the provision of salvation today.

  indeed, it has an important place in that provision.

  - watchtower 1967 aug 15 p.499.

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  What we thought we were working for:

  
  

  What we were actually working for:
  

  
  
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  Young People Ask: Why Distribute WT Literature?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "so the visible congregation of god's people has $omething to do with the provision of salvation today.

  indeed, it has an important place in that provision.

  - watchtower 1967 aug 15 p.499.

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  "So the visible congregation of God's people has $omething to do with the provision of salvation today. Indeed, it has an important place in that provision. - Watchtower 1967 Aug 15 p.499

  "You must be part of Jehovah's organization, doing God's will, in order to receive his blessing of everlasting life." - You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth p.255

  "If we stop actively $upporting Jehovah's work, then we start following Satan. There is no middle ground." Watchtower 2011 Jul 15 p.18

  

  Lest we forget.
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  Did Jesus have a Y chromosome?

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  even in jesus’s day, humans had chromosomes.

  and so did jesus —because he was human.

  so let’s say jesus took a dna test, his mitochondrial dna would go back to eve but interestingly jc also would inherit dna from sinful adam on his mother’s side because his mother mary passed on to jc dna from both adam and eve.

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  • those that are supposed to live forever after the gt will also have Adams perfected dna.

    Why would you think this?

    Is. 65: 20 -

    “No more shall an infant from there live but a few days,

    Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days;
    For the child shall die one hundred years old,
    But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

    
    

    He who dies at the age of a hundred will be thought of as dying young; even the sinner, dying before his time as the penalty of his guilt, shall live out the span of a century.

    The noticeable fact is that sin is thought of as not altogether extinct—as still appearing, though under altered conditions, even in the New World.
    

    
    
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  Did Jesus have a Y chromosome?

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  even in jesus’s day, humans had chromosomes.

  and so did jesus —because he was human.

  so let’s say jesus took a dna test, his mitochondrial dna would go back to eve but interestingly jc also would inherit dna from sinful adam on his mother’s side because his mother mary passed on to jc dna from both adam and eve.

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  That is very interesting that Jesus inherited sinful Adam’s DNA

  Not if sin is inherited on the Y chromosome. "by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men"
  
  
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  Shunning Disfellowshipped & Apostate family Members. Scriptural?

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anyone who is a witness or was previously a witness, is aware of the written & un-written rules concerning association with disfellowshipped family members.. there are a multitude of quotes through out the watchtower publications, but these 2 will suffice.. "are you proving yourself holy by not associating with family members or others who are disfellowshipped?

  "the clear instruction in the bible is: avoid them.

  that means that we have to stay away from them... the bible says that apostates are mentally diseased and that they use their teachings to make others think like them... what must we do to avoid false teachers?

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  "Are you proving yourself holy by not associating with family members or others who are disfellowshipped?" (WS14 11/15 pp.15-20)

  The title of the article is apostate because the bible says over and over: "There is no one righteous, no not one".
  
  
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  What did Jesus Teach the "Kingdom of Heaven/God" is?

  by truth_b_known in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the books of matthew, mark, luke, john, and the beginning of acts are filled with what the authors purport are statements of jesus.

  jesus is quoted as making several statements about "the kingdom of heaven" or "the kingdom of god".

  those statements are often given as parables that start with a phrase something like "the kingdom of heaven is like...".

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  The Parable of the Hidden Treasure – Matthew 13:44

  The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid; and from joy over it he goes and sells all he has, and buys that field.

  A study of the Mt. 13 kingdom parables is a fascination study. The characters remain the same throughout the various parables. Jesus is the "man". The world is the field. The treasure is Israel which is in the world.

  In order for Jesus to finally receive his throne in Israel, the one promised to him, he had to buy the whole world with everything he had... his life to get it. Once that was done, the kingdom existed in a mystery form in the hearts of believers.... a place not at first discernible, hidden in the "earth".
  
  Later, when Jesus returns, the kingdom will be visible, tangible, in Israel with Jesus sitting on the throne of David.

  During the church age, or since the days of the apostles, Christians teach a gospel of reconciliation. The gospel of the kingdom will be preached by Israel (144K male virgins) during the great tribulation after the church has be evacuated. It is an Israeli message, whereas the gospel of reconciliation is a directed to "whosoever".