Running into someone from work at their home while canvassing door to door. Their puzzled looks and the talk at work that would follow, that gave me nightmares as a new publisher. With time and practice, and meeting anxieties head on, it got better, even witnessing at work and doing business territory. But even decades on there was always that relief when no one answered the door and you could write NH on your door to door slip.
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Door to Door Witnessing Anxiety
by NotFormer init's not only the jws who do door to door witnessing.
the independent baptists for the most part have "soul winning", mainly door to door witnessing and leaving tracts, as a tennet of their faith.
this discussion is interesting:.
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The Governing Body - Both sides of their coin
by Ron.W. inhow many can you think of.... they speak for god.. it would seem presumptuous to say they speak for god,.
they are neither inspired nor infallible.. they are god's only channel for issuing truth here on earth.
they won't be apologising for any errors/falsehoods they have promoted in the past that fail.. congregation members must be quick and apologise for their errors to avoid harsh discipline/disfellowshipping.. when they change a major belief/doctrine you must not complain or criticise them.
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iloowy.goowy
This morning I had a toasted bagel with cream cheese and marmalade jelly for breakfast and realized how good life can really be !!!!!!!!!
Amen! One JW friend of mine used to work in the Kitchen at Brooklyn then at Wallkill for years. Every time I'd question the WT's viewpoint on some things saying they seemed disconnected from the reality we are living in the real world, he'd excuse them by saying that they were living in an institutionalized and controlled system and so that guided their perspectives. He saw it as a protection for those in Bethel; I saw it as narrow-mindedness and he'd just shake his head.
How freeing it is to be able to decide what you want to do, to eat, to drink, to wear. Uniformity at Bethel is only about control and conformity. And my friend would say living at an "Institution" is not good for some people. After a few years he married and had to leave Bethel, when their first child came along. I can't imagine how it would be for children growing up inside that type of institutionalized atmosphere. And yet we know some families did, such as the medical doctor's family and others with specialized skills.
The WT is all about control.
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How Saturnalia became Christmas
by BoogerMan inthe transition from ancient to present and pagan to christian: .
4th century ce, after which a new winter holiday began to be celebrated in rome: christmas.
but how was the pagan festival of saturnalia celebrated, and how did it influence and morph into the christmas celebrations that we know and love?.
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iloowy.goowy
The bit about Christmas being a re-worked Saturnalia by the Catholic Church is quite bogus, Boogerman.
Today is the celebration of the Immaculate Conception and also the first day of Hannukah (The Festival of Lights)Listen to this Podcast about the Origin of Christmas, it has little to do with Saturnalia and more to do with the Announcement to Mary that she would conceive a child by Holy Spirit, and this child would be the Light of the World. If you are a believer then it's very interesting that the Christmas holiday celebrates the conception of Jesus by the virgin Mary, and that the baby was born 9 months later in September as another talk by Dr. Michael S. Heiser brings out.
Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiURApsC1rc
How does Revelation help pinpoint the birth of Christ?
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How's the 14,669 New Zealand brotherhood reacting to Steve's MIT talk?
by was a new boy inthe latest.
stkirsch24 minutes ago.
there is no question: the leaked data shows the vaccines have killed over 13 million people worldwide.
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iloowy.goowy
There is no question: the leaked data shows the vaccines have killed over 13 MILLION people worldwide
Oh, but there is a question. A big question, and that is why continue propagating nonsensical conspiracy theories and blatant misinformation?
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Edgerton Gospel
by peacefulpete inregarded as likely the oldest (or tied with oldest) gospel fragment we have is that named the unknown gospel or the edgerton gospel.
sadly it is very fragmentary.
debates regarding it's relationship with the 4 canonical gospels have continued since it was found.
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iloowy.goowy
@Peacefulpete,
Audiences are still gullible today. In modern days not perhaps in an agrarian way, but in the trappings of modern stories which turn out to be only fanciful conspiracies. Thousands, millions, tens of millions fall for stupid stories based on nonsense. (Recall Q-anal, I mean Q-anus, no wait, it was Q-anon).
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BREAKING NEWS | Highlights of 2023 Worldwide Service Year Report
by Drearyweather inbreaking news | highlights of 2023 worldwide service year report.
on november 15, 2023, the service committee of the governing body shared highlights of the 2023 worldwide service year report with the bethel family.
the following exciting increases were announced: baptisms: during the 2023 service year, 269,517 persons were baptized.
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iloowy.goowy
The surge in numbers after high Covid-19 days isn't so surprising. Some may have held on in baptizing their kids until the pandemic fizzled. Also pioneers had their time requirements suspended for a while, and it was easy to pioneer counting time writing letters.
What will be surprising is the decreased they didn't.annouce yet, and the down trend due to follow in the coming years, I believe.
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2023-October-Spanish-Elder Manual!
by Atlantis in2023-october-spanish-elder manual.
elder manuals in different languages are coming in slowly because elders are a little afraid to go into the watchtower inbox, and grab 10 or 12 elder manuals in different languages all at the same time.
so the elders are taking elder manuals out of the inbox a little at a time so they do not bring too much attention to themselves.. spanish elder manual--2023-octoberhttps://www.filemail.com/d/lpfrjurfljtxkmi grandpa!
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iloowy.goowy
Muchas gracias, Atlantis.
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the name Jehovah: magical?
by enoughisenough indidn't know the best subject area to put this question under....i was listening to a discussion on youtube the other day while working, so not getting every point ....part of what was talked about was the word jehovah, ( not being the most accurate translation of yhwh ) was however pushed by illuminati /secret societies for its use in magic.
(as i informed, i wasn't getting the whole conversion as i also had attention elsewhere and some of the conversation was hard to follow.
) so i am wondering if anyone on here has more information on the subject they care to share.
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iloowy.goowy
Jehovah is English tradition for the Deity in the Old Testament. Likewise, Jesus is the English traditional name for the Messiah in the New Testament. Neither of their pronunciations is exactly as it would have been pronounced in Hebrew. To insist on Yahweh and Yeshua is sort of scholarly pedantic, or ignorantly presumptuous. If you want to speak Hebrew, fine go ahead. But why only pronounce names in Hebrew, did the early Gentile Christians pronounce names Greek fashion?
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Need Vocal Renditions of Sing Praises to Jehovah
by cybernyben101 ini am looking for vocal renditions of some the kingdom songs in this old songbook: sing praises to jehovah.
most of my favorite kingdom songs are from that songbook and i would love to download them on my phone.
i enjoy listening to vocal renditions of kingdom melodies.
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iloowy.goowy
The Watchtower released a cassette with some of the songs as sung, with the lyrics, by a brother with a nice deep and powerful voice back in the days of the songbook you mention above with that illustration.
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So, did the egg come first?
by iloowy.goowy indoes a look at dna show intent in existence and is infinity a mere observation of reality?
this article is a quite a bit of a mindstom.
what are your thoughts?.
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iloowy.goowy
Does a look at DNA show intent in existence and is infinity a mere observation of reality? This article is a quite a bit of a mindstom. What are your thoughts?
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/02/24/the-peculiar-schema-of-dna-codons-second-letter/