Posts by oscartheduck

yes the sun revolves around the earth....it moves from east to west.. this is why galileo a 15th century noted inventor, astronomer and mathmetical genius was excumminicated by the catholic church.

the scriptures state that joshua commanded the sun to stand still!

if the sun doesn't revolve around the earth then this command would be really stupid!.

oscartheduck

"the bible didn't change....just the understanding of it changed"

Does this mean we can re-interpret scripture as much as we want as our understanding of anything else alters?

If not, then we're inflexible.

If so, then that gives us license to write pretty much what we want. Think of the debates over the word "chugh" for example...

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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if revenues for brooklyn bethel per year alone are equivalent to 951 million dollars, then this is about 158.5 per witness(given six million witnesses).. there's more money than that coming in worldwide, because of the other bethels in the world.. .

so, where does the money come from?

i think that should be checked into...or my maths should be checked into.. .

oscartheduck

Hmm..interesting stuff. Makes you wonder why pioneers aren't given enough money to at least make up their earnings to a reasonable minimum.

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God is editor of the WT

by Earnest in

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friends

in an earlier thread reference was made to a court case in which fred franz stated that jehovah god was editor of the "watch tower".

as this quotation is often used to support the allegation that jws believe the wt is inspired of god i thought it would be of wider interest to provide the relevant court record for general consideration.. the court case itself was in 1940 and was olin moyle against fred franz and others and the wtbts.

just so that you know who is who, hayden covington was attorney for the defendants and walter bruchhausen was attorney for the plaintiff.

oscartheduck

I'm just posting so that I can get email updates of this thread.

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watchtower finances

by oscartheduck in

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friends

if revenues for brooklyn bethel per year alone are equivalent to 951 million dollars, then this is about 158.5 per witness(given six million witnesses).. there's more money than that coming in worldwide, because of the other bethels in the world.. .

so, where does the money come from?

i think that should be checked into...or my maths should be checked into.. .

oscartheduck

If revenues for Brooklyn Bethel per year alone are equivalent to 951 million dollars, then this is about 158.5 per witness(given six million witnesses).

There's more money than that coming in worldwide, because of the OTHER Bethels in the world.

So, where does the money come from? I think that should be checked into...or my maths should be checked into.

Either way, some reassurance is necessary here, because the figures look odd to me, given that most of the witnesses I've known aren't putting anywhere near that into the congregation coffers per year.

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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Masturbation is GAY

by expatbrit in

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yes that's right, you heard me!

at least, according to this website: http://www.goodmorals.org/sterile.html , which explains that masturbation is sex with someone of the same sex, namely, you!

chalk another one up on the christidiocy scale.. better lie down, i'm starting to feel a bit queer now.. expatbrit

oscartheduck

The above reminds me of a joke.

When do you know that you've had a thick *ahem* cum?

When she has to chew before she can swallow

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CO visit...Expect big increase!

by target in

a friend from back home wrote me a letter.

they just had the co visit.

she asked him about the un thing.

oscartheduck

Just with regard to Will (above), this has been going on for ages. My congregation had a foreign language secretary, London has a couple of french congregations, Spanish ones, there's a Cantonese congregation in Liverpool etc

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The Great '75 Fiasco: Pantsuits

by TMS in

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being the host congregation for the district assembly, we were privileged to hear several talks from the convention administrative staff wetting our appetite for the 1975 convention held at barton coliseum, little rock, arkansas.. one short-statured brother from the southern part of the state kept exhorting the sisters: "now, pay attention!

there's going to be a dramatic announcement at the assembly that will just thrill you sisters!

" as much hype as this was getting, the only speculation that i could conjure up was that sisters might be allowed to speak directly to the audience in the tms.. after the meeting, the vertically-challenged speaker could not restrain himself in conversation with brother p. and myself.

oscartheduck

Is this going to contain another reference to the surely infamous 1931 Watchtower, which, after the article about cats goes onto an article regarding the do's and don'ts of fashion?

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can you infiltrate it?

by oscartheduck in

http://greatcrowd.net/index.html .

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oscartheduck

http://greatcrowd.net/index.html

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